Making The Grades – Patriots at Redskins

By Jeremy Gottlieb, Patriots Daily Staff Well, here we are again, class. We’re faced with the usual conundrum. How do we judge the latest Patriots victory, a 34-27 win over the Washington Redskins which was their fifth straight and 10th of the year (the ninth straight time they’ve accomplished this feat, and 10th in 11 seasons)? Do we look at it as solely what it is, a win? Or do we nitpick? Because if we want to do the latter, there’s plenty of material to work with, starting with yet another barely JV performance by the league’s worst defense, which allowed season-highs to a mediocre offense up and down the stat sheet for what seems like the umpteenth time this season while making still another mostly incompetent quarterback look like some sort of mutant hybrid of Dan Marino, Johnny Unitas and Otto Graham. But instead, this week, we’re going to stick to what the script should be, which is that the Pats won the game. They didn’t do it flawlessly but they won it anyway, and nothing ...