Perhaps he had good protection because most of his passes were of the short dumpoff variety... those wide receiver hitches don't even require 2 seconds of pass protection...
Like I said, as the game went along, it began to appear to me that Saunders was trying very hard not to expose Brunell to any kind of rush, and that meant lots and lots of dump passes... even at the end, where a TD would have won the game for them, the Skins called a short pass on their last 3 plays-- a 4 yarder to Randle El, a short incompletion to Brandon Lloyd, then the final insult, a 5 yarder to Randle El again, on 3rd and 6... this is a rather bizarre sequence of play calls, for a team in dire need of a score in the waning moments of the game...