{"id":847608,"date":"2019-09-29T19:04:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T23:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=847608"},"modified":"2026-07-25T20:42:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:42:48","slug":"redskins-third-down-defense-still-costing-them-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=847608","title":{"rendered":"Redskins&#8217; third-down defense still costing them games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EAST RUTHERFORD \u2014 On the surface, the Washington Redskins&#8217; defense looked better than they had to start the season in Sunday&#8217;s 24-3 loss against the New York Giants. The unit forced four turnovers, two interceptions and two fumbles. They limited rookie Daniel Jones to 225 passing yards.<\/p>\n<p><span>But &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/sep\/29\/redskins-third-down-defense-still-costing-them-gam\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/sep\/29\/redskins-third-down-defense-still-costing-them-gam\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Redskins&#039; third-down defense still costing them games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST RUTHERFORD \u2014 On the surface, the Washington Redskins&#8217; defense looked better than they had to start the season in Sunday&#8217;s 24-3 loss against the New&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-redskins","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-87-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=847608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906202,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847608\/revisions\/1906202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=847608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=847608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=847608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}