Redskins vs Bucs Post Game Reaction

[JoeRedskin]

Okay. Slowly emerging from the debbie downers to enjoy the victory. While I long for a game ending "Victory Formation". I don't think we will be seeing one of those for a bit and shouldn't have expected it.

We lost our best D player and someone who the D was intended to be built around. If he was still playing, I think we are 3-1 and this game was nearly as close. Who knows.

On offense, sorry. Anyone calling for MS or KS heads right now, are you seeing the point production I am? Sure, the D's we've been playing have not been the best in the league, but they aren't exactly pansies either. TBay was the number 1 rush defense (admittedly in part b/c their back end is as bad as ours) - we handled them. The offense is working and working well. We have had four games of 24 points or more. Let me say that again - FOUR GAMES OF 24 POINTS OR MORE. I cannot remember that happening. The number of hits on Griff was substantially reduced this week. The line, still a weak point, is (seemingly) playing better as the season goes on. The coaches are putting RGIII in a position produce points and possibly win the game, and he is doing more than we could have expected a rookie to do. Not as much as we maybe hoped, but more than we had a right to expect. He's both physically and mentally tougher than anyone gave him credit for at the beginning of the year. All those stories we drooled over about his character barely scratched the surface.

The D needs to tighten up. If it can, we can win more games than we lose. I don't know if it can, b/c I don't know if it has the personnel to play the type of pressure D MS/JH want it to do and I don't know if MS/JH know how to adjust for the loss of Orakpo and Carriker.

As others have said, we simply aren't good enough to blow teams out. Maybe by the back-end of the season, our O starts being the scary good it can be. Maybe, by the back end of the season, some of the young O-line can step up. I got nothing on D except prayers that JH has a come-to-Jesus moment and gets it turned around.

From this point on, except for the Cleveland game, I don't see us favored to beat anyone on the schedule (maybe the Panthers at home). I think we stealing a few that we should lose and maybe, just maybe, break .500 mark. All the NFC East teams are flawed and I don't think anyone in the Division is unbeatable.

It's early, we have a tough schedule and our D needs to get it's sh** together. We have a long ways to go, hopefully, it is exciting football all the way to the final Dallas game.

HTTR