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Jason Campbell had a nice game, completing 28 of 42 passes [66%] for 281 yards, 2 TD and 0 turnovers. He moved well in the pocket and avoided several sacks, though he did miss open receivers. In many ways, the game was a microcosm of the season: Campbell made some plays, missed a few and struggled to find receivers who could get open. Campbell finished the season with career highs in completion percentage [64.5%], touchdown passes [20], interceptions [15], passing yards [3618], yards per attempt [7.1] and passer rating [86.4]. The fact that he did this behind one of the three worst offensive lines in the NFL, running backs who couldn’t make big plays or stay healthy and a sub-par receiving corps is impressive. Nevertheless, Campbell couldn’t lead his team to victory today and that also is pretty much like the rest of the season. Jason Campbell continues to improve, but the team just gets worse. What responsibility does Campbell have for his team’s awful season? Some, of course, but far less than a dismal coaching staff, a terrible front office and a roster long on salary and ego and short on over-achievers. Campbell might have just played his last game as a Redskin, though it isn’t clear where the team will go to improve the position.

The season is over. Redskins Nation: Your long national nightmare is over. The Redskins have come to exemplify dysfunction in the Dan Snyder era and this team plumbed new depths, with the head coach being stripped of play-calling duties and being dared to quit and the worst season record since 1993. Apart from the development of Brian Orakpo into a pass-rushing star, the only good thing about this season is that it was so unbearably horrible that team owner Dan Snyder may have finally been convinced that the team could do without any more of his bright ideas. This was the year that Redskins fans finally stopped blaming Vinny Cerrato for the team’s problems and started blaming the man who hired Cerrato in the first place — the only man who would have ever hired Cerrato for such a position in an NFL front office. Fan revolts, empty seats in previously-full FedEx Field and paying customers being kicked out for arriving on game day with banners and t-shirts devoted to insulting the little rich man in the owner’s box. It’s a sign of the times for this once-proud franchise that the best thing about this season is that it might have been sufficiently ghastly to convince the owner to butt the hell out of his own team.

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