After the ‘Skins’ win over the Cleveland Browns in Week 15, fans knew that their team was capable of winning without Robert Griffin III. They kept winning when the rookie starter returned.

In beating the Eagles in their nest last night, there were a number of plays you could point to as being critical–not the least of which was Laron Landry’s game-ending decapitation of Philly wideout Kevin Curtis to seal the deal. But if you were a fan looking for something a little defining or divining, the Skins offensive series to end the first half was probably the stretch of play that gave you that first tingle…

Earlier this week, Washington safety Pierson Prioleau spoke about his own season-ending knee injury as an ominous sign of setbacks to come. He seems prescient now. On Sunday afternoon, the Redskins took themselves out of contention early and often as the Philadelphia Eagles turned the match into a low-effort rout. Along the way, Washington gave up big plays, took the business end of a throttling fluke fumble, and, in the snakebitten way Prioleau described, suffered…