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RECAP
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BOX SCORE
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- The Washington Redskins didn't blow
a 21-point lead this week. They just poured it on and handed the
New York Giants their worst loss in 33 years.
"Offensively, we were almost flawless," Johnson said after the
Redskins (1-1) produced 395 yards in total offense, while neither
turning the ball over nor yielding a sack in a 50-21 victory
Sunday.
|  | | New York's Charles Way can only watch as the Redskins' Shawn Barber intercepts a Kent Graham pass and breaks away to score a second-quarter touchdown. |
Stephen Davis ran for touchdowns on Washington's first three
possessions, and Brad Johnson threw three touchdown passes as the
Redskins had their biggest offensive explosion since their 1991
Super Bowl season.
The points were the most for the Redskins since a 56-17 victory
over Atlanta in 1991 and the most given up by the Giants (1-1) in
any game since a 72-41 loss at Washington in 1966. It was also the
most points given up at home by New York since a 52-21 loss to
Cleveland in 1964.
"Defensively, we just got pushed across the field like rag
dolls," Giants cornerback Phillippi Sparks said. "We were just
terrible out there. This is just a very, very humbling situation."
"I can deal with a loss, but to get beat by 29 points and give
up 50? We just couldn't do anything right," Giants safety Sam
Garnes added.
The win could not have come at a better time for Redskins coach
Norv Turner. He came into the season on the hot seat after failing
to get the team to the playoffs in five years, and his job seemed
in question after Washington blew a 21-point lead in losing the
season opener 41-35 to Dallas in overtime.
"We had a taste in our mouths that nobody likes after a loss,
especially after losing to rival in that fashion," Redskins rookie
offensive tackle Jon Jansen said. "We wanted to go out and prove
something, and I think we did. That game last week will stay with
us for a while."
Washington never stopped lighting up the scoreboard in this one
while playing against a Giants defense that last week scored two
touchdowns and forced five turnovers in a 17-13 win over Tampa Bay.
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GAME NOTES |
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Despite the lopsided score, the Redskins only outgained the
Giants by 22 yards -- 395-373.
Brad Johnson was poked in eye late in
the second quarter, but he didn't miss a series. Rodney Peete
warmed up just in case.
Kent Graham had thrown 131 passes without
interception before Shawn Barber's TD return.
Giants DE Cedric Jones
sprained a knee. It will be evaluated Monday.
The Giants are
3-of-24 on third-down conversions in the first two weeks of the
season.
Ike Hilliard led the Giants with eight catches for 114
yards.
Teammate Amani Toomer had five catches for 105 yards.
Kent Graham finished 20-of-31 for 268 yards and an interception.
Kerry Collins saw his first regular-season action for New York,
completing 3 of 7 for 44 yards and an interception.
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Davis scored on runs of 1, 1 and 19 yards, while Johnson threw
touchdown passes of 1 and 27 yards to tight end Stephen Alexander
and 15 to Michael Westbrook. Linebacker Shawn Barber scored on a
70-yard interception in the second quarter, a play that may have
broken the Giants' backs, trailing 21-7 at the time.
"If you score the kinds of points we're scoring, then you have
to say you're surprised," Turner said. "But throughout training
camp there was no doubt in my mind the parts were there."
Charles Way scored on a 7-yard run, LeShon Johnson scored on an
11-yard run and Kent Graham threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to Ike
Hilliard to account for the Giants' scoring.
Johnson, who finished 20 of 28 for 230 yards, hit his first
eight passes in leading the Redskins on scoring drives of 68, 88
and 54 yards. He was 5-for-5 on the first drive for 67 yards. The
second drive featured a 20-yard pass to Alexander and a 35-yard
pass interference call against Jeremy Lincoln, one of two calls
against him that set up Redskins' scores.
A 15-yard roughing-the-passer call against Michael Strahan
helped set up Davis' third TD run, a 19-yard run in which he
bounced off the center of the line and then turned the corner and
scored as the Giants' defense seemed to stop, thinking the play was
over. Davis finished with 126 yards on 23 yards, his second
100-yard game this season
New York tried to pull a Dallas-type comeback, closing the gap
to 21-7 on Way's TD and then moving to the Washington 25. On a
second-and-7, Graham attempted to throw a screen pass, but Barber
picked it off and scored untouched.
It was one of four turnovers on a day Washington did not cough
up the ball.
Washington put the game away with three straight scores bridging
the end of the second quarter and the start of the third. Johnson
hit Alexander on a 1-yard TD after another Lincoln interference
call gave the Redskins a first and goal.
Brett Conway added a 48-yard field goal early in the third
quarter, and Westbrook scored to make it 43-14 on the next series.
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