Skin's Breakdown

[Shane]

Ramsey seems to lock in on players or get an idea in his head and sticks to it without looking at the field.

On the play where he tossed it way over Coles, he had decided he was going to throw the ball out of bounds and just stopped looking, despite Coles being right underneath the throw. This really shows Ramsey gets very tense out there. When you get super tense, you don't see the field.

On the throw in the end zone to Cooley that Cooley couldn't quite bring in, Portis was open with no one within a mile of him. As Theismann said, Ramsey reverted to bad habits in trying to force the ball downfield there. Again, Ramsey's tension caused him to not see the obvious.

We know what happened at the end, when Ramsey was supposed to check out of the play if the Eagles didn't blitz, but he tossed it up for grabs with three Eagles and one Redskin there.

Before he made the great 30 + yard throw to Cooley, he took a really inexcusable sack, holding on to the ball too long once again.

If you get tense enough, anyone makes stupid mistakes. There is no shame in getting tense, but it doesn't make for great quarterback play. If Ramsey could learn to relax out there, he would play to his potential much better.