After further review: Redskins-Bucs second half

[caption id="attachment_1894" align="aligncenter" width="270" caption="Hall's third-quarter interception got things going for the Skins"][/caption] Third quarter LaRon Landry got a crunching block that let Hall gain another ten yards on his interception return. There’s a lot of talk about Campbell’s nice scramble that preceeded his TD pass to Cooley. But another one was huge. After Hall’s pick the Redskins were on the verge of going three and out but Campbell stepped up and made a stutter step while some bodies flew past him. A defender made contact two yards shy of the marker but Campbell dove and landed two yards past it. That set up the Redskins’ first score on a Suisham field goal. On one Bucs running play I saw a DT push his blocker into the backfield and grab the runner with one arm and make the tackle for a one-yard gain. Thought it must have been Haynesworth but when I got a clear view of the number it was Cornelius Griffin, not Albert. On the next play, Haynesworth got his man on roller skates and pushed him back towards Johnson, collapsing the pocket. The QB eluded him but ended up getting tackled by Fletcher for a loss of a yard. The line had some leaks in pass protection, but they were a solid wall on the bomb to Moss, allowing Santana to execute the double move and Campbell plenty of time to throw an on-the-money pass. Fourth quarter One thing that hasn’t been talked about much is the sequence after the Bucs attained first and goal at the seven with the score 16-10 and less than seven minutes left. It looked like that blocked conversion might come back to haunt them.

• On first down, Haynesworth held off his blocker with one hand and blocked Ernest Graham’s path after a gain of two. Griffin either suffered or aggrevated his elbow injury on this play, he went out and Golston came in.
• On second down from the five, Landry sniffed out the play, streaked into the backfield, and tackled Williams for a loss of three before the back could get moving.
• On third down from the eight the quarterback draw fooled nobody and Johnson had to take off to the left. Tryon’s speed again proved valuable as he was on him in a flash to make the tackle.

With the Skins trying to kill the clock Portis took a handoff on a draw play on third and five. He said after the game that he should have bounced it outside and it does look like he had wide open spaces out there. But he wanted to make sure that he got the first and he darted into an opening inside. He stumbled as he cut, though, and he came up short. On the play before the game-clinching fumble, Doughty had Johnson after a scramble but it appeared that the QB would be able to lunge for a first down. But Tryon came flying into the picture and finished off the tackle, setting up the third and one. The forced fumble was a great individual effort by Jarmon. He spun out of his block, reached out, and pawed away the ball. Chris Horton, who has a nose for the ball, pounced on it to end it.