By Lewis Gould
Says this about the Redskins and Niners:
At least their stinker of a game yesterday was short enough so that the announced crowd of 61,459 could get out of the rain and cold.
The Niners ran their record to a perfect 6-0 in the 9-0 victory.
At 2 hours, 36 minutes, it tied for the quickest game since Week 16, 2009, when the Jaguars & Patriots equalled the feat.
The teams combined to run 103 plays — 41 by the Redskins! — and 70 of them were either runs or sacks. That’s how you get the clock to keep running. Another way is by having a game with only 12 incomplete passes.
Additionally, there were only nine penalties in the game. The league average entering Sunday of Week 7 was 14.8 combined per game, per nflpenalties.com.
Both teams also had unused timeouts left in their pockets at game’s end — a serious hat tip to the head coaches, Kyle Shanahan and Bill Callahan, for not extending the misery. Good work all around, everyone.
How short is this? Well, we had an overtime game between the Arizona Cardinals and Detroit Lions — a tie, no less — approach the four-hour mark in Week 1 (3:58) and one between the Carolina Panthers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers approach that four-hour threshold (3:51) in regulation. We’ve had 15 games so far this season last more than three hours, per Pro Football Reference.
So if you’re a Redskins fan, you can complain about the quality of the team’s product. Or, if you’re a bright-side person, maybe you realize that the pain was rather quick by NFL standards and a chance to dry off at home sooner than normal.
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