Rookie gives 4-6 Redskins passing shot of perfection
WASHINGTON — The numbers posted by Matt Schaub, Andre Johnson and Chad Henne in the Jaguars-Texans game Sunday were like something out of a video game.
Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III didn’t match that in quantity, but in quality, you couldn’t get better.
Griffin had a perfect passer rating of 158.3, the league’s first perfect rating in almost two years, completing 14 of 15 passes for 200 yards in Washington’s 31-6 rout of the Eagles.
Griffin threw four touchdown passes — 6 yards to Darrel Young in the first quarter, 49 to Aldrick Robinson in the second, 61 to Santana Moss in the third and 17 to Logan Paulsen in the fourth — and had no interceptions.
The second overall pick in this year’s draft and reigning Heisman Trophy winner also ran 12 times for 84 yards and was serenaded with chants of “RG-3” in a win that kept alive the playoff hopes of the Redskins (4-6), who hadn’t won a game in more than a month.
“I’m tired of talking about Robert,” Santana Moss said. “Nothing’s going to change; Robert’s going to go out there and be special. That’s the gift that he has. He’s a special guy. He brings that kind of ‘specialness.’ I don’t know if that’s a word, but he brings it to our offense.”
Griffin completed passes to nine receivers and has only three interceptions in 277 attempts this season.
The league’s last perfect rating was by the Patriots’ Tom Brady, on Nov. 25, 2010.