[sportscurmudgeon]

gortiz:

When Arizona has both Larry Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin on the active roster, their WR corps is much better than the Skins. Boldin is better than ANYONE on the Skins' roster and Fitzgerald is certainly as good as Coles and maybe better.


Would anyone trade the Skins' WRs even-up for the ones on the Colts? If the Skins are so talented, someone might actually think that they'd rather keep the Skins' contingent. That would be a BAD move. Same with the Rams, and the Vikings and the Eagles and the Seahawks and the Patriots and the Chiefs - - and maybe even a few others.


Folks:

Is is POSSIBLE that the game plan to throw the ball short and to throw it quickly was created as a means to keep the Eagles from blitzing the bejeepers out of Patrick Ramsey? You may have noticed that the Eagles blitzed less than half as often as they typically do; maybe that was the offensive game plan's intent???

The players on the field need to be accountable and responsible for yesterday's loss. The score was 14-6 and it was first and goal at the Eagles' ten yardline. Get a TD there and even without a two point conversion, the Skins are in the game. The next sequence of events includes three penalties and two dropped passes. The game plan didn't do that; the coaching staff didn't do that. And then there was a missed field goal.

So onto the field comes the defense. Remember, this is the unit that everyone is raving about now because of its statistical ranking in terms of yards allowed. What the Skins need here is a turnover or at the very least a "three-and-out". Was I hallucinating when I saw the Eagles march down the field and get a TD on a drive of about 65 yards? The game was OVER then and there. And the offensive game plan had nothing to do with that.

By the way, when you talk about "execution", you need also to recognize that there are certain plays and certain times of the game where execution matters more than at other times. Yesterday, the Skins' defense put the Eagles in 15 third down situations. Then they gave up the first down 9 times. That was not the game plan's fault...