Redskins’ comeback falls short in 23-21 loss to Texans, after Alex Smith is lost for season
Late on Sunday afternoon, Washington Redskins Coach Jay Gruden emerged from the back of the team’s locker room and began walking down a FedEx Field corridor. Outside, the scoreboard said his team had lost, 23-21, to the Houston Texans. Inside the room behind him, doctors had told him his quarterback, Alex Smith, had fractured the tibia and fibula in his lower right leg and would be headed to immediate surgery.
As Gruden walked, his eyes stared at nothing in front of him. He let out a deep breath. Smith had gone down midway through the third quarter on a sack from Houston’s Kareem Jackson, his leg breaking in such a grotesque manner that it provided an eerie reminder of another Redskins quarterback, Joe Theismann, 33 years to the day since his own gruesome leg injury. Anyone who watched Gruden making this postgame walk had to wonder whether the season was crumbling before him
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