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[QUOTE][B]THUMBS UP[/B] [B]Ladell Betts[/B] hasn’t gotten many chances to run the ball, due to the team’s obsessive compulsion to make [B]Clinton Portis[/B] the center of everything they do on offense. With Portis’ injury, though, Betts is finally getting his chance and he’s making the most of it. After rushing for 70 yards and 1 TD on 14 carries last week against Atlanta, Betts rushed for 114 yards and 1 TD on 26 carries [4.4 ypc].
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thumbs up to hunter smith for that td pass,that play was beautiful
thumbs down to the denver off lineman who tried to chop block haynesworth on the play AH got injured on

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Thumbs up: Offense getting it together. Hunter Smith for being Hunter Smith. The two Sherm's for getting the rookies involved. Portis for being injured.

Thumbs down: Suisham for not being able to kick inbounds twice, Well. I think that's really the only thing I didn't like about today's game.

Nice.

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Yea I gave Suisham a pas because he has been one of the only bright spots this year and I 'm sure that he was told to kick away from whats his name.

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^^ Agreed on Suisham not being able to kick the ball in bounds.

Thumbs Up: The Oline. After the bashing that the oline has been taking its good to see a unit that was punching the Denver Dline in the face. We got real nice penetration into the Denver Defense. Nice Job!! It's good to see some domintation up front in the run game.

Thumbs Down: The Redskins secondary on the 2 plays in the first half to Marshall. I mean come on guys. You need to fear Denver's T.O. ;)

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Thumbs up: 1. Oline looked f*ing great compared to what we are used to. 2. Betts and Rock did a good job running today

Thumbs down: 1.JC, Jason played horrible in the first half 2. The defense played like a$$hole the first half

About the thumbs down which impressed me is both mention the first half, for the second week in a row we came out at half time with adjustments and a better game plan played great. Sooooo that is reassuring that progress is being made

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Unsung heroes who made plays today were Kelly,Thomas, and Ganther. Jones gets his due but, Heyer deserves some too. He's good to be as young as he is.

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mmm another week of sensationalism

thumbs up: team effort, intensity, etc
thumbs down: secondary

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Biggest thumb up: Buges
Down: Carlos Rodgers. Apart from routinely sucking, he can't even pay attention and cheerlead when benched?

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Ups: Betts, Oline, Hunter Smith, Danny Smith

Downs: Secondary, Greg Blache

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Thumbs up: The entire offense line, Ladell Betts and Rock Cartwright. The offensive line did a very good job. Campbell had time to make plays. The running game wore out the Broncos defense. They were gasping for air in the fourth quarter.

Thumbs down: The secondary. I've never seen so many wide open receivers in my life. What ever was said or done at half time, corrected the problem.

Honorable mention to the two Shermans. A very well balanced play calling. Once they had the Broncos against the ropes they kept punching them in the mouth. The Skins for once looked like a professional football team.

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thunbs up for the tough attitude today thumbs down for not doing it earlier(Portis sucks)

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[quote=diehard;625781]Unsung heroes who made plays today were Kelly,Thomas, and Ganther. Jones gets his due but, Heyer deserves some too. He's good to be as young as he is.[/quote]

More cowbell and more Ganther! That boy is hungry and desperate to make good things happen.

And how about Devin Thomas, who finally began to look more like the playmaker that we thought we had drafted. Let's hope he keeps that up.

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Lorenzo Alexander
Ladell Betts
Yoder
Fred Davis
Devin Thomas
Orakpo
Hunter Smith
Rocky McIntosh

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[quote=Lotus;625877]More cowbell and more Ganther! That boy is hungry and desperate to make good things happen.

And how about Devin Thomas, who finally began to look more like the playmaker that we thought we had drafted. Let's hope he keeps that up.[/quote]For the first time since he was drafted, DT actually made me smile today. It was a pleasant change of pace from the painful grimmace that watching him usually brings.

I don't think he has a chance in hell of living up to his draft status, but he's come so unbelievably far since Week Two of the preseason that I can't really ever question his character again.

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Thumbs Up:
*The offensive line. Especially Levi Jones
*The RBs for running hard. Especially Betts
*The trio of Davis, Thomas and Kelly
*Hunter Smith
*The Shermans playcalling
*Phat Albert for playing hurt and leaving it all on the field. Our new leader on defense?
*A win is a win is a win :)

Thumbs Down:
*Carlos Rogers for playing like crap and acting like a punk
*Blache. Your run defense has turned pathetic and overall the defense is underperforming. You were given way more talent than the offense over the off-season, especially w/ the likes of a 350 lbs phenom to stop the run and a young stud LB. That talent easily exceeds what you lost in Jason Taylor, Springs (who has little to do w/ the run defense anyway) and Marcus, yet your unit is worse than last year's.

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Thumbs up: O-line, Betts and Cartwright for running hard and punching it in on the goaline, Hunter Smith for selling that fake FG, and forcing two turnovers and not having any.

Thumbs down: Secondary on the 3 plays were WR were left wide open, Randle El for costing us field position on the punt he didnt field.

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[quote=redskins5044;625882]Thumbs up: O-line, Betts and Cartwright for running hard and punching it in on the goaline, Hunter Smith for selling that fake FG, and forcing two turnovers and not having any.

Thumbs down: Secondary on the 3 plays were WR were left wide open, [B]Randle El[/B] for costing us field position on the punt he didnt field.[/quote]

Yeppers thanks for the reminder. ARL returning punts has become almost comical...pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaase kick this dude off special teams.

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Thumbs up for Jarmon. I hope no one is griping at the draft about how we don't have a 3rd round pick, because this kid has played good, and can only get better

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Thumbs up- OLINE OLINE OLINE, Betts and our new trio of targets for JC.

Thumbs Down- CR,he is a punk who we dont need. Our defense overall.Last yr we were solid and had no pass rush, now its reversed. I hope you guys who complained about our lack of sacks are freakin happy :) lol.

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Thumbs up to the whole damn team for giving us something to smile about, even if it's just for a week.

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Thumbs up: For a little creativity and design in the area of ST's. For the running of both Betts & Cartwright behind a much maligned OL. The play of Levi Jones was stellar considering he hasn't played in a year, and has only been here two weeks.

Thumbs down: For the defense as a whole that played miserable for portions of the first half. Cudos to the coaches for sticking with the game plan, not getting away from the running game because of the early defecit.

Bottle the things we did right in this game and let them serve as a model for the remaining seven games.

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[quote=Mattyk72;625956]Thumbs up to the whole damn team for giving us something to smile about, even if it's just for a week.[/quote]
Amen to that!! :food-smil

Although I didn't watch whole game, but based on what I have seen;
Thumbs ups:
- O-line; they were definitely much better since maybe week 1 or 2? Levi Jones obviously became one of great pick-ups (so far?), also I thought Rinehart performed well?
- RBs; who would have think that without Portis in the line up, running game would be better.. At this point, I would love it if Zorn decides to make Betts #1 for rest of the season.. I'm impressed with Ganther, as well, he has done well, especially when he was signed two or three weeks ago..
- Receivers; I'm glad that all players (unfortunately, Mitchell wasn't involved except for his blockings) got involved in the game.. I hope this will continues throughout the season!
- Sherm; he may be good at bingo, but he definitely is helping our offense!
- DEs; Carter and Orakpo continue to be beasts, with help of Haynesworth and DTs..
- We finally snapped the 17- points! Although it's all because of Smith, but still..
- Special team; props to Danny Smith and Hunter Smith for creating the play and making it to happen!!

Thumbs down:
- Defense; what the hell happened? We are giving up big plays now, isn't that Landry's responsibility to stop the big plays? I'm absolutely disappointed in Rogers, I have always believed that he's our #1 CB but unfortunately, Blache isn't playing to Rogers' talent, which is bump and run (man to man).. I think we pretty much can expect our FO to let Rogers walk away, it is better that way anyway, especially with his egoistic.. Our running defense game wasn't so good neither..
- Campbell; although he did make some plays but he also missed some plays.. He overthrew some (e.g., Fred Davis and Moss on the bomb), missed Yoder for a touchdown (he was totally wide open).. But we still have to give him props for not giving up..