From: swilliam@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steve Williams)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro,dc.redskins
Subject: Washington Redskins News - Nov. 9, 1992
Date: 13 Nov 92 16:11:21 GMT
Reply-To: swilliam@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steve Williams)
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		      Washington Redskins News
			  November 9, 1992

The headline of the sports section of the Washington Post, Nov. 9, says,
"Seahawks a Pain, but Injured Redskins Prevail."

That headline summarizes it up.  With 12 Redskins wounded, it was scratch
and claw.  Mark Adickes, Jeff Bostic, Ravin Caldwell, Monte Coleman,
Andre Collins, Danny Copeland, Kurt Gouveia, Darrell Green, Stephen Hobbs, 
Jim Lachey, Bobby Wilson.  That's eleven Redskins who didn't play at all,
or played a teeny-weeny bit against the Seahawks at Seattle last Sunday.

If you count Joe Jacoby, who shouldn't have played, but played anyway.
That's an even twelve players injured.

With those twelve players, the Redskins were the Super Bowl champions. 
Without them, the Redskins are struggling to keep from becoming just
another team.

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It looked like another bad day for the Redskins at first when they fell 
behind the Seattle Seahawks, 3-0.  However, the Redskins rallied to a 
16-3 victory.  The Redskins also ended a touchdown drought of 14 quarters 
when Terry Orr caught a 26-yard touchdown pass from Mark Rypien.

The Redskins are now 6-3 and tied in second place with Philadelphia Eagles
in NFC East.

The Redskins went to the locker room in a 3-3 tie at the halftime.  They
went back into the game and put together three straight scoring drives and
controlled the ball for 21 of the final 30 minutes.  They got the second
of three field goals from Chip Lohmiller, a 33-yarder, to take a 6-3 lead 
with 8:15 left in the third quarter and a 37-yarder with 1:04 left in the
quarter.

Orr's touchdown broke it open with 10:28 left in the game and ended a 
string of 14 quarters without an offensive touchdown.  In the end, their
numbers looked decent as the Redskins had 330 yards of offense and held 
the ball for almost 34 minutes.  With the running game stuck, Gibbs turned
to Rypien who snapped out of a bad first half to complete 21 of 30 passes
for 248 yards and a touchdown.

Orr's touchdown happened when Ricky Sanders cleared out the right side of 
the field by drawing coverage, and Orr came over the middle to catch the 
ball at the 21.  He broke one tackle, then flipped over another defender 
to get into the end zone for a 16-3 lead.

The Redskins were forced to throw a pair of young waiver-wire linebackers,
Tony Barker and John Brantley, into their first NFL starts and still
come up with a big day on defense as linebacker Wilber Marshall led an 
effort that limited the 1-8 Seahawks to 183 yards.

However, the Redskins lost another offensive lineman when Mo Elewonibi
suffered a right knee sprain.  His injury led to another shuffling of the
offensive line, with Ed Simmons moving from right tackle to left tackle,
and injured Joe Jacoby coming off the bench to play right tackle.  Jacoby
wasn't supposed to play because of a pinched nerve in his neck, but he 
stayed in for the entire second half even after his right shoulder went
numb the first time he got hit.

When Elewonibi got hurt, their last experienced lineman, Ray Brown, was 
already in the game as a replacement for Jacoby, so Gibbs asked Jacoby 
to give it a try.

"Joe Jacoby is a hero," said Redskins Coach Joe Gibbs.  "Ed Simmons is a
hero.  It's hard for us right now.  I've never seen it this bad and you 
get frustrated.  You're used to doing certain things and you're just not 
able to do them.  Our offensive line and linebackers are wiped out.  You
go into a season thinking you're going to be prepared for certain things,
but there are certain things you can't prepare for."

"This is the worst I've ever been through," Redskins trainer Bubba Tyer 
said.  "We've had times when we've gotten six or eight players hurt in a
game, but then you get several more weeks without one.  We haven't been 
able to catch up."

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Offensive lineman Mo Elewonibi appears to be out for several weeks after 
suffering a sprained medial collateral ligament in his right knee during
the Redskins' 16-3 victory over the Seahawks.  He was injured with 2:22 
left in the first half and didn't return, and trainer Bubba Tyer said
he doesn't expect him to be back for a few weeks.  He'll undergo a 
magnetic resonance imaging exam Monday to determine the extent of the 
injury.

The Redskins are already scouring their list of free agent offensive 
linemen looking for a replacement.  They should know the list well since 
earlier injuries forced them to sign Mike Haight.  He and rookie Matt 
Elliott finished today's game as the only backups, and since the 
beginning of training camp, the Redskins have lost three linemen -
Mark Adickes, Jeff Bostic, and Jim Lachey - that they expected to play 
regularly this season.  Guard Russ Grimm retired in the offseason.

The Redskins drafted two other offensive linemen, Paul Siever and 
Darryl Moore, but both are on the physically unable to perform list and 
out for the season.

Source:  The Washington Post, November 9, 1992




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 Steve Williams                           swilliam@oasys.dt.navy.mil
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