Redskins Manhandle Bills 42-17: The more things change the more they stay the same. The Bills hadn't played a football game in eight months and have a new coach but it looked like the same old Bills if not worse. At least it was just preseason. Terrible penalties on both sides of the ball, miscommunication that cost them to burn timeouts, and a bad turnover all led to the Redskins opening up a 21-3 halftime lead enroute to a 42-17 rout of the Bills. The Bills had a promising opening drive cut short by a penalty and Rian Lindell hit a 38 yard field goal to give them a 3-0 lead before the Redskins reeled off 35 straight points. The starting defense played into the second quarter and gave up two touchdowns.

Who Helped Themselves: Every year in the preseason we tell you who helped themselves and who didn't in each game. Two lower rung running backs made big plays in the second half as Chad Simpson had a 43 yard run to set up the Bills first touchdown, a five yard pass from Ryan Fitzpatrick to David Nelson who also played well in the game. Joique Bell had a 28 yard touchdown run minutes later. Simpson finished with 67 yards on 7 carries while Bell had 52 yards on five carries. Nelson led receivers with five catches for 47 yards and his score. John McCargo had a solid game up front.

Who Hurt Themselves: Trent Edwards played all but the final 3:40 of the first half and struggled after leading the team to a field goal on their opening possession. His next three series were three plays each and included a terrible interception where he telegraphed his throw. He finished 6 of 12 for 58 yards. Reggie Corner looked awful as he dropped in an interception that would have been an easy touchdown and then was very late to the ball on Washington's third first half touchdown. He also was beaten deep along with George Wilson on Washington's 5th touchdown a 44 yard reception by Devin Thomas. Aaron Maybin hurt himself with a big penalty for roughing the passer. Josh Stamer had a bad illegal block that short circuited Buffalo's first drive and forcing them to settle for a field goal. The special teams were far from special as they gave up a punt return for a score and Ellis Lankster fumbled a punt.

Jackson, Lynch Hurt: Fred Jackson and Marshawn Lynch each went out of tonight's preseason game after the first series. Both walked to the locker room with injuries that appear minor at this time. Lynch hurt an ankle while Jackson banged up a hand. Both returned to the sidelines in street clothes for the 2nd half. Lynch didn't appear to have a wrap on his ankle but Jackson had a cast on his hand. This gave more playing time to rookie C.J. Spiller. Alex Carrington also went off as he was very slow to get up after a play but walked off and looked ok. Injury Page.

14 Players Sit: 14 players are not playing in tonight's game against Washington. Paul Posluszny, Ryan Manalac, Keith Ellison, Danny Batten, Eric Wood, Ed Wang, Cornell Green, Demetrius Bell, Derek Schouman, Marcus Easley, James Hardy, Chris Kelsay, Spencer Johnson and Jon Corto who is still on active PUP. The one surprise here is Kelsay as it was thought he would play after practicing this week but they decided to hold him out as a precaution to rest his shoulder. He hurt it early in camp. Brian Brohm is also not expected to play too much as Ryan Fitzpatrick will get the work with the twos and Levi Brown is expected to get a long look. Brohm will likely get a good look with the twos in Toronto on Thursday night.

Bills In DC: After a delayed plane because of storms in the nation's capital, the Bills arrived in Washington last night for tonight's preseason opener against the Redskins. The starters normally play about a quarter in the first preseason game but Chan Gailey told his starters to be ready to play more possibly. Trent Edwards will start at quarterback and likely be followed by Ryan Fitzpatrick who took the 2nd team reps in the last practice of the week.