Yesterday, I found it difficult to write about Washington’s loss over the weekend to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It had nothing to do with the play on the field, which amounted to a carbon copy of the previous week’s loss. Jason Campbell strove mightily to lead the team past their mistakes, only to be done in by mistakes of his own. A game changing moment came when the offense failed to obtain some badly needed short yardage in the shadows of their opponent’s goal line–something that had already happened twice before this season. And a golden opportunity to improve their playoff standing, offered up by losses over the long weekend from Detroit, New York, and Arizona, was missed.

Obviously, what made even thinking about this stuff yesterday was the fact that Redskins safety Sean Taylor lay in a Florida hospital with a grievous wound to his femoral artery, a wound which proved mortal overnight.

Let’s get on with the clumsily written part of this, then.