Soooooo bad.

31 flavors of suck - that's what the Redskins have been serving up this year. If it weren't so soul-crushing, the variety of ways the Skins are able to lose and underperform is an exciting display of diversified ineptitude. Against Carolina, who seemed determined to gift wrap this one for Washington, the team reached deep into its bag of fail and brought up some truly unique awfulness.

Let's review some of the new tricks on display for this one:

• DeAngelo Hall, 25 years old and employed in a position that involves speed, agility, reaction time and tackling, getting juked by a 34 year old, immobile quarterback. When the game was on the line.
• Devin Thomas getting a chance to redeem the last two years of fail on the Skins' only deep ball of the game, but instead opting for a spot-on impression of Carlos Rogers' slippy hands.
• Mike Sellers running laterally in the end zone for a safety. (OK this wasn't a new trick, but he hadn't tried it in his own endzone before).
• Byron Westbrook's obvious crush on Randle El was revealed to the world. How embarrassing.
• Special teams helped lose a game - I think they thought the offense looked lonely.
• Chris Samuels was revealed as the Atlas of this team, holding it on his shoulders - when he went out, three players (Batiste, Cooley and Portis) were summoned to try to stand in for the rock of the line.
• The Orakpo in coverage experiment is less successful than Jordan in MLB. Why retard a brilliant defensive end career with this crap?
• The we-don't-need-second-half-timeouts strategy was unveiled in all its glory.
  

You can't say they aren't innovators.