The Washington Redskins performance against the Philadelphia Eagles has not only earned them the Bitch-Slap-of-the-Week, but also their place in the NFL annals as the team that gave up the most points ever in the history of Monday Night Football; and they did it on their home field. By the time the first quarter was over, football fans across the country must have been pulled out those classic nicknames the team had earned over the years like The “Foreskins” and The “Deadskins”.

Roughly 15 seconds into the second quarter, Michael Vick had led his Eagles to a commanding lead amassing 328 yards and five touchdowns in only 18 plays. For those of you without a calculator that’s more than 18 yards per play. I didn’t know an NFL defense was even capable of giving up those kinds of yards on purpose.

But after that “warm-up” Vick the Eagles would finish the game with 592 total yards, 58 points and a bittersweet feeling wondering whether things would have been different had he not been knocked out in their first meeting.

This time around, the Eagles left little doubt as to who is the better team heading into the second half of the season. The game started off with an 88-yard touchdown pass to DeSean Jackson and within 15 minutes the Eagles had put the game well out of reach. Just for statement purposes, they decided to keep their foot on the gas and run up the points against ‘Fat’ Albert and Shanahan’s squad.

Never has a Shanahan defense been Bitch-Slapped like this night, ever. Vick walked all over the Foreskins’ secondary; straight to the house the entire game. By the time the final whistle blew, Vick 2.0 had put up 333 passing yards, 80 rushing yards and six touchdowns. It was a career day for Vick as he made the Deadskins look like the Hoosiers’ defense this past week against Wisconsin.

If it wasn’t a Washington lineman failing to wrap up the tackle, or Fat Albert caught on video laying on the ground for several seconds totally quitting on a play, it was a cornerback getting burned. 

At one point, there was literally nothing being said because the Redskins defense left Jon Gruden and the rest of the guys in the booth speechless. When the person getting paid to talk about the game can’t even come up with a way to describe it, well, you get the picture, it’s a Bitch-Slap.

If this game taught us anything, it’s that the Redskins more than likely would have lost had Vick played in that first game, and that they probably shouldn’t have invested so much in Donovan McNabb.

Instead of signing McNabb for $40 million, Washington should have saved some of that money for their defense because it doesn’t matter how good your quarterback is if the offense is barely on the field or if your team is down by 31 points at halftime. The Redskins basically just paid McNabb $500,000 to play an impossible game of catch-up and throw three interceptions in the process. I guess it could be worse though; they could have given Rex Grossman the contract extension.

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Logan Rhoades is a Los Angeles-based writer and the Associate Editor of Jocks Behind Bars. With an extensive knowledge of ESPN topics and celebrity gossip, he is known for mixing sports and pop culture. Check out his “Skip to My Logan” blog and Follow him on Twitter @loganrhoades.

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