Most of the commentary today is "our Defense Sucks, TO is imploding, Romo will never be good enough..." Then, their will be countercommentary (probably from Spagnola) that will remind us (of the irrelevant fact) that the Skins swept us the last time we won the Super Bowl. I come as a hopefully realistic voice.

1) Since last year's Green Bay game, teams have decided to take TO out of the game, keep Romo in the pocket, and make us sustain very long drives. With TO in the lineup, we are 5-3, and TO has eight consecutive games without 100 yards.

2) The media is really tendentious. TO makes a fairly innocuous comment that he wasn't getting the ball in the first half (true), and they make it sound like he was saying he didn't get the ball in the whole game. Our best drive of the game was the first drive of the 2nd half, and it was TO-centric.

3) Romo has quieter feet in the pocket, and that's good when he's in the pocket. But he's not leaving the pocket as much, and that was where he used to make a lot of our big plays. There's a balance there, and I'm not sure he's found it yet.

4) I get it that a zone pass defense isn't going to get a lot of picks. But doesn't it seem like certain teams with a good short passing game can just play keep away against us? This reminded me of the New Orleans and Philly games in late 2006, the Washington and Pats games at home last year. Our defense has some good games (GB last week, GB last year). But I'm not at all confident that this is a Super Bowl Defense. I'm really not.

5) Wade and Jason both got outcoached yesterday. But beyond scheme, Shawn Springs outplayed TO, and Santana Moss outplayed Terence Newman. Our supposedly most elite edge players got outplayed by the supposedly less elite Redskin edge players. Our guys need to step it up.