Santana Moss Would Like More Touchdowns, Please

Talking during today's open locker room media session, Santana Moss expressed a few of the same basic ideas as LaRon Landry and London Fletcher, about working harder and finishing plays and so on and so forth. Here, for example, is how he suggests that the team recover from Sunday's dispiriting loss:

"Just keep working," he said. "You know, the season ain't made in three games. It feels like some of the things that we did on the field alone so far this year have shown us that we can be a good team. I feel like on offense, we just have to finish a couple'a plays here and there. One or two mistakes less, this drive, that drive, and just clean some of the little riff-raffs up."

But Moss went further than the other two in assigning primary responsibility for the two losses. And he didn't blame the defense, despite their league-low rank and consecutive games with thirty points given up. Instead Moss -- coming off a 6 catch, 124 yards, 1 touchdown game and sitting tied for fifth in the NFL (with Brandon Marshall) in receiving yards -- put the blame squarely on his offensive unit.

"We move the ball so well at times, I feel like we could score any time we have the ball in our hands," Moss said. "I feel like we just HAVE to score, though."

And settling for field goals, Moss made clear, is not acceptable. "Sometimes those three points, -- they help -- but that also's giving that defense, that's like them saying, 'Okay, they didn't get seven on us,' you know? So we have to just find a way to not put it on our defense to try to hold these teams and just go out there and score seven points. I feel like one or two touchdowns in that game could've stopped those guys from even trying, and we just let 'em stay around and didn't really put it on them the way we should have, and that's how they ended up winning the game."

Hard to argue with any of that. Moss also addressed the idea that the loss in St. Louis is an echo of the loss in Detroit, or that it portends a similarly down season.

"Every year's gonna be different," Moss said. "You can't dwell on what happened in the past, and you can't look back, and I feel like right now it's a whole different team and a different era, and we'll find our way out of it."

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(redskins.com)