DCist is happy to announce that Jason Linkins (aka The DCeiver) has agreed to take over our football coverage and bring his weekly “Passion of the Gibbs” column over to our bandwidth.

I gotta tell you, DC…we was robbed! Defeat was snatched from the jaws of victory this weekend at “Snyders of Landover” (as my buddy Josef V. calls it) when the seemingly miraculous Clinton Portis touchdown was called back on an illegal motion penalty that required an electron microscope to perceive. The puzzling call was made on James Thrash, who had come in motion behind center, did not, apparently set himself prior to the snap of the ball. Having now seen this play on the superset of slo-mos, I just do not see it. But I can see what it says in the Post. We lost.

Brett Favre began the game with a surgical precision, mixing passes, runs, swing outs and screens in three drives that built a 17-0 lead. Timely turnovers and a twelve yard TD toss from Brunell to Rod Gardner made it a 17-7 game at the half. The defense’s fortunes seemed to turn after Favre reaggravated his hand injury smashing it on Marcus Washington’s helmet. After that, the Pack’s offense suddenly got mortal—a lucky thing, too, because it seemed like our defensive backfield, already missing Sean Taylor, were getting jacked up on nearly every play. At one point, we had Clark, Jimoh, Dennis, and Franz—hey! It’s our NYPD Blue Nickel Package!—out on the field at the same time.