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Washington's defense has featured zone coverage with an emphasis on protecting the deep parts of the field and preventing big plays. This is understandable, given the number of big plays given up by this defense last season, but on Thursday night, the Giants found a way through the Redskins' zone coverage.
"He should have never thrown the ball across the body like that on first and 10 in the red zone area, fringe," Gruden said. "We're just going to have to continue to harp on him and coach him up and there's too many good things going on with Kirk and his progression for us to pull the plug right now because he threw an interception or two.