The Washington Post Floods the Zone on Yesterday's Debacle

Perhaps they saw it coming. Perhaps it was a coincidence of stellar game reporting and insightful commentary. Either way, today's Washington Post coverage of the Redskins' loss to Detroit parallels that loss in that it is one for the record books.

First, let's start with the headlines. The Washington Post copy editors channeled the New York Post's with these two zingers: On A1 "Washington Bails Out Detroit" and on D1 "Fail to the Redskins."

Boswell's opinion column on the game was spot-on in indicting the Redskins' culture of thinking that they have talent that is better than their record.

...they may have to fight through an incredible amount of self-delusion about the talent level on their team. This week, Clinton Portis said he thought the Redskins had the most talent in the NFL. Comments like that have been common in the Redskins' locker room for the past 10 years -- regardless of all available evidence. Not only is the view tolerated at Redskins Park, it is encouraged and marketed. Where does this fallacy arise? In the owner's suite, where the price of players is equated with their performance?

They refuse to define themselves by the final scoreboard but, instead, cling to their own private view of themselves and their far higher value -- sometimes based on their performances in other years or even on other teams.

After a wonderful 10-catch, 178-yard game, wide receiver Santana Moss fell into the deepest and worst snare -- and one that constantly catches the Redskins. Moss said many reasonable things after this defeat. But he also said the magic words that always make my skin crawl in a locker room. "We are the better team," he said.

No, Santana, the better team wins, and Detroit won. Coach Jim Zorn's press conference today did nothing to refute Boswell's observation and in fact confirmed it.

Mike Wise also had a great column that opened with this:

If you lose to the worst team in pro football, does that make you the worst team in pro football?

When you lose to the team that has the worst owner in football, does that make your owner the worst owner in football, your general manager the worst assembler of talent in football?

Just asking.

Because if Jim Zorn has to answer one more question about his job security, it's time to also hold the coach's players and his superiors accountable for this dumpster fire -- this abomination of a loss.

I could not say it better. This is not just about Jim Zorn, but is also about ten years of Danny Snyder, who appears to hold the throne of the worst owner in the NFL.

But the best gem in the Post was Riggo's tweet on the game.

There are team specific issues for sure and some individual issues for sure but the owner ultimately is a loser and you can't fix that...as the owner alot on the line in Detroit u invite Tom Cruise to the game and he is chatting up your Coach! what does this tell us about YOU!....u r Zorn..Head Coach..in Detroit...alot on the line....and u r chatting up TomKat before the game...what does that tell us about YOU!!!

I would love to hear the answers to Riggo's questions.