Written by DCist contributor Rob Birgfeld It was just the Cardinals. No doubt about it. But these Cardinals came in confident and 2-0 for the first time since 1999, and no one had any idea what to expect from our Redskins. The Week 1 portrait of ineptitude or the Week 2 team that showed offensive promise? Well, the Redskins gave fans a little of both yesterday at FedEx Field on their way to a…

At first, it looked like a laugher in progress. It ended as a nailbiter. In a slogging game punctuated by missteps and flukes, the Washington Redskins escaped with a win at home against the Arizona Cardinals. How’d Washington pull out the win? On balance, they just reaped slightly larger benefits from the errors, but credit some missed kicks and the strangest two-point conversion call I’ve ever seen for the victory. By and large, scoring opportunities…

After the Washington Redskins and the Arizona Cardinals slogged their way through a first half that made an outright joke of the notion of professional athletics, Washington got even and then got over by a 17-13 score in a game that kept their razor thin playoff hopes alive. The first half was largely given over to a surreal orgy of turnovers, mutually engaged in by both squads. Mark Brunell offered up a trio of…