In this Redskins news and rumors update, you'd have thought the Washington Redskins' offense had dominated the Houston Texans in Week 1 had you just looked at the box score for the game and nothing else.
However, despite QB Robert Griffin III completing 29 of his 37 passes (78.4%) and the Washington run game picking up 131 yards on 23 carries, the Redskins somehow fell to the Texans by a count of 17-6.
Per Michael David Smith of NBC's Pro Football Talk, "according to FootballPerspective.com, Washington was the first team in NFL history to score fewer than 10 points while completing at least 75 percent of its passes and rushing for at least 125 yards. From 1940 until Sunday, there had been 615 teams in NFL history to rush for 125 yards with a 75 percent completion rate, and all 615 of them had scored at least 10 points in the game in which they reached those benchmarks."
The problem? Yards-per-pass. While Griffin ranks second in the NFL in completion percentage after Week 1, he finished just 16th in yards per completion. The Texans' secondary smothered the Redskins' skill position players, keeping YAC to a bare minimum while forcing the Redskins into a ton of third-and-longs.
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