And so we can end that discussion for this week, and move on to more pre . . . oh. Right. Nope!

People still want to talk about that failed third-down fade route to DeSean Jackson, in which Washington’s small and fast receiver was covered by Arizona’s best cornerback. It didn’t work.

“I was dumbfounded by the play,” former wideout Santana Moss said on CSN’s RedskinsTalk. “I expected a little more of using [Jackson’s] abilities. I remember in 2014 seeing DeSean have a good matchup against Patrick [Peterson], running slants, being able to be cat-quick with his ability. And to see him sit there and have to run a fade, it just seems to me when they get down there they have no solution. They have nothing else but to say, ‘Hey, let’s throw a fade to someone, and hopefully we’ll get lucky.’ So they’ve got to come better with some better plays down there.”

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The fade has been something of a dirty word in Washington since the Week 2 loss to the Cowboys, when the Redskins attempted approximately 734 goal-line fades without scoring.

“Coach, why do people fall in love with the short fade down at the goal line?” Jurgensen asked Gruden after that loss. “We tried it three times!”

“Yeah, we tried it three times, and we’ll try it again three times next week if we have to,” Gruden responded.

There hasn’t been a good fade outrage since then, but neither has there been much red-zone success. Sunday’s dalliance came on a third-and-one play near the end of the first half, with the Redskins desperate for a touchdown. It went toward Jackson, one of Washington’s smaller players. It didn’t work, leading to a field goal. And that kicked off yet another round of questions about Washington’s goal-line offense, starting with Washington’s radio crew.

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“I’m gonna leave that one to you, Sonny,” Chris Cooley cracked.

“There’s Sonny’s fade, his favorite play, and it’s incomplete,” Larry Michael added.

“It’s not my favorite play!” Jurgensen protested.

“You know, it’s not my favorite play, and I also don’t like challenging Patrick Peterson in that situation,” Cooley said. “You throw the fade at their best player? I really don’t like that decision. And I don’t know if that’s a Sean [McVay], a Jay [Gruden] or a Kirk [Cousins] decision, whether you work somewhere else, but I don’t work at Patrick Peterson on the fade.”

“You’ve got to see something different; you’ve got to see something more,” Moss said. “The fade just threw everybody off. Right now I’m still lost, because I don’t have more to talk about it. And I’m still wondering why, especially on Patrick Peterson.”

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“Not only is there a failure [to run it in], there is not an attempt to run it in,” Clinton Portis said on ESPN 980. “That’s the worst part. We don’t attempt to run it in.”

“Other people run slants on us consistently; we seem to refuse to want to even entertain that idea,” Doc Walker said on ESPN 980. “And that’s confusing to me.”

“I remember someone on this team — the owner — who left some vanilla ice cream on a desk of the defensive coordinator,” Brian Mitchell said on CSN. “Well that’s what they should do to this offense. They run the same plays in the same rhythm every damn time, until they get into the red zone, and then they don’t know what they’re doing. So for me, the coaches have to do things a little better so when the players go into games, they’re given the best opportunity to win.”

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“For me, inside the red zone is all I’m really concerned about, because from 20 to 20 this team is the best team out there,” Mitchell later said on ESPN 980. “Someone says [offensive coordinator] Sean McVay is a genius. Well the only genius I know is ones that score touchdowns on a regular basis. Not the ones that can’t get in the end zone and have to keep kicking field goals. So for me, they’ve got to figure out a way in the red zone to take chances. . . .