Cowboys vs Skins: Pre-Game thread

[JoeRedskin]

Originally Posted by Rotten1980

It would be awesome if Gruden puts a good game together tonight, his first as our HC. I like Gruden and think he could develop into a great HC, but so far it's been pretty bad. The plays come in too slow, his play design isn't impressive and he doesn't have the team playing their guts out.

Like said earlier a conservative gameplan on offense would be a mistake. Whip the oline and put it on them to open lanes for Morris to pound the rock, but then take big shots downfield.

I think Gruden has some ways to go as a HC BUT I think, generally, his game planning has been pretty damn good. He clearly plans to attack defenses at their weak points, however, the execution between interceptions, dropped balls and missed blocking assignments has been less than good. Throw in penalties and turnovers, and you just can't game plan around that.

As to "playing their guts out," maybe. Maybe not. Several players play injured, other than the NYG game, I haven't seen any "quit" on the field.

Don't get me wrong, the buck stops at the coaching and he needs to turn around the mistakes and execution errors or, alternatively, he needs to sit folks down - if only for a series or two - just to send a message.