Skins vs Eagles week 1

[CRedskinsRule]

COACH.............. TEAM................ W......L
John Harbaugh... Baltimore ..........5........0
Jim Harbaugh..... San Francisco......2......0
Greg Schiano...... Tampa Bay.........1......0
Mike Shanahan... Washington.......15.....4


I'd say Shanahan is pretty good at opening day games.

[skinsfaninok]

Yes he is. Good post.

[mredskins]

It sucks waiting to be one of the last games on week one. Sigh.

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by mredskins

It sucks waiting to be one of the last games on week one. Sigh.

Yup. That's why I dislike our being on MNF. It's bad any time but especially the first week.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by mredskins

It sucks waiting to be one of the last games on week one. Sigh.

I like the odd games at the begining of the season because its still summer and plenty of summer stuff to do. I'm playing golf Sunday which I would not do if the skins had a game.

[RedskinRat]

Once the first football is kicked off on Thursday I'll be entering a Twilight Zone of NFL lunacy. Nothing else matters.

I think it may be worse for me given that when I first got interested in football I was limited to a tiny column of coverage in a British newspaper every week. Never thought I'd live here or go to an actual game. I am a monster.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by RedskinRat

Once the first football is kicked off on Thursday I'll be entering a Twilight Zone of NFL lunacy. Nothing else matters.

I think it may be worse for me given that when I first got interested in football I was limited to a tiny column of coverage in a British newspaper every week. Never thought I'd live here or go to an actual game. I am a monster.

I have a TV in my garage and on my back porch. I can catch the games on Sunday and still get a few things done around the house. I have to fight the urg to watch college ball because that would kill my weekends. Now if the skins are on the only things that I'll do is grill and drink beer.

[MTK]

Redskins roster by the numbers - NFC East Blog - ESPN

[CrazyCanuck]

So how was the offseason??

Did RG go for the knee surgery? Is he playing week 1? Did the Skins change their name?

I'm JUICED!!

Let's go boys!!

[CRedskinsRule]

pierregarcon
7 hours ago
Monday night I'll be dedicating my game to 8 year old Tara Sankner battling inoperable astrocytoma. For each touchdown I score I'll be donating $2,500 to her family to help cover the costs of treatment and growing medical bills. Join me in raising awareness of childhood cancer by using the hashtag #TD4Tara

[SirLK26]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

pierregarcon
7 hours ago
Monday night I'll be dedicating my game to 8 year old Tara Sankner battling inoperable astrocytoma. For each touchdown I score I'll be donating $2,500 to her family to help cover the costs of treatment and growing medical bills. Join me in raising awareness of childhood cancer by using the hashtag #TD4Tara

That's awesome. C'mon, Eagles, you know what your job here is!

[Green Monk Machine]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

pierregarcon
7 hours ago
Monday night I'll be dedicating my game to 8 year old Tara Sankner battling inoperable astrocytoma. For each touchdown I score I'll be donating $2,500 to her family to help cover the costs of treatment and growing medical bills. Join me in raising awareness of childhood cancer by using the hashtag #TD4Tara

Playing with a purpose, I like it. It be nice if all the vets on this team did the same.

I recall Robert saying that after his first TD he will celebrate dance like the young make a wish kid did earlier at OTA's.

Speaking of celebration, is Alfred's now considered illegal?

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Green Monk Machine

Playing with a purpose, I like it. It be nice if all the vets on this team did the same.

I recall Robert saying that after his first TD he will celebrate dance like the young make a wish kid did earlier at OTA's.

Speaking of celebration, is Alfred's now considered illegal?

Celebrations are ok as long as it doesn't taunt another player. Alf's HR swing is just fine.

[Hog1]

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[CultBrennan59]

The thing which keeps bothering me going into this game is that a lot of Skins fans (including myself) are overly confident. Some people are predicting an onslaught of points.

Another thing that worries me about the Eagles is McCoy, Vick and DeSean Jackson. Those guys, we rarely play all 3 of them at once, because one of those guys is usually hurt. Well we get all 3 of them healthy at once. These 3 are very explosive. A rookie safety and injury riddled strong safety doesn't help stop those 3 players.

A lot of people have mentioned, and I'd have to agree, that McCoy in the zone read/stretch zone is going to be scary and tough to stop. He's already shifty and elusive as hell in a normal offense. I just have visions of McCoy in the open field and Rambo and him are 1 on 1 and McCoy just jukes the hell out of Rambo for a long TD run.

Vick has said that he feels like Chip Kelly has made him a better QB again by putting him in the pass happy offense. We shall see if he's playing like the Vick of old (2010, 2004) or the Vick of the past few years. Lets not forget, he can still run, and we don't fair well against Vick as a starter, history has shown.

Another side of this game to think about is the star player, RG3. He hasn't played in a game in 8 months. He hasn't taken a hit or sack in 8 months. He's going to be rusty to start off the game. His teammates haven't been catching passes with him under center 11 on 11, up until this past week when he was cleared to practice. Its going to be a matter of when will the rust come off? The first snap? The first series? first quarter? first game? I remember Tom Brady a few years ago coming off a torn ACL and he was clearly freaked out and not himself going against the Bills (ironically they were featuring their new up tempo offense as well).

The other thing we need to think about is the Zorn effect.
You're confused, by 'Zorn Effect', what I'm saying is the effect of having a new head coach with an unknown system. We think we know what Kelly is going to run in the NFL, but we still have no clue what he's going to call on certain downs. Just like Zorn other teams didn't know Zorn had the guts to call a draw on 4th and 2 from the 48. They didn't know Zorn would call trick plays on special teams. But like all new head coaches, they are figured out by about the midway point of the season when all teams have enough tape to figure out new coaches plays and tendencies. They problem is the we don't play our first game against Philly after week 8, we play them week 1. That is eerily concerning.

Whats to say the eagles don't start hot, RG3 is slightly rusty 2 series in and we start panicking early on forcing plays or stupid fumbles or penalties then the whole game we're playing catch up to a potentially explosive offense, while Phillys crap defense can play a bend but don't break approach with a 14-0 lead..

(I'm just saying this to play the cautious side of things. I still think we win big)