Postgame thoughts

[scowan]

Any of you guys notice that after A. Brown fumbled that Ladell Betts returned the next Kick Off. I would Let Ladell return them from now on. A. Brown even scares me on Punt Returns, because he doesn't call Fair Catch when guys are all over him. That is really scary! He may have speed, but he can't break a tackle at all. The first guy that makes the least bit of contact on him, knocks him down. I want Ramsey against the Cowboys like the rest of you guys posting on this thread, but Gibbs may go with Brunell and try to win ugly again next week. One more thing, WE NEED TURNOVERS!!! Especially against Dallas if we hope to win on the road. Our beloved Skins are not good enough to beat Dallas if we don't win the turnover ratio next Monday.

[RedskinRat]

I think that Brown had enough of a learning experience to stay with him for a while. He's a great return man, like Hall in KC. Just you watch.

[crlesh]

Originally Posted by RedskinRat

I think that Brown had enough of a learning experience to stay with him for a while. He's a great return man, like Hall in KC. Just you watch.

I think return men have to have a mentality similar to cornerbacks. They have to be able to forget everything that has happened on bad plays and focus on the next play. Just like a cornerback, if a return man's confidence is shaken, he's going to fall apart quickly. You see it at least once a year in the NFL - a formerly solid return man fumbles a kickoff or punt, and suddenly he has hands like feet for the rest of the game.

The coaches will have to determine Brown's confidence level and make a decision based on that.

[JWsleep]

If A Brown puts the ball on the ground again, he's toast. That's 2 in close games (Dallas and Chicago)--it cannot happen.

Here's a dissapoiting thing about yesterday--and I know this is pissing off Gibbs big time. We tried over the offseason to fix (among other things) 3 glaring problems--TOs, stupid penalties, and special teams. Yesterday, we lost the TO battle, had a TD taken away on a penalty, and had a special teams fumble and a 2 pnealties that completly altered the field position situation. When you stress things, you'd like to see improvment! Gibbs said something in his press conference like, "we're going to consider some different ways to get these points across." Hope they figure it out, because this is the difference (along with the redzone stuff). Still, these are fixable things in our own hands, so there's hope yet.

[PSUSkinsFan21]

LOL......I just can't believe some of the posts on here. Here I thought we actually won yesterday.......oh wait, that's right.....we did win. Reading these posts you wouldn't know it.

It's already been said a million times so I won't restate it all again, but I'm with Matty on all of his posts. Unless you guys have severe short-term memory loss, you'd have to be blind not to see that the offense looked a lot better yesterday than last year. We dominated the field on both sides of the ball. Yes, we've still got issues getting it into the endzone......and those issues MUST be worked out if we are going to beat better competition........ but if you had told me last year that we'd get 300+ yards of total offense, run the ball for almost 5 per carry, and dominate time of posession......I'd be a pretty happy camper.

You wanted us to open up the offense: we did. You wanted to take shots downfield: did that too. You wanted a better YPC average for Portis: accomplished. You wanted better pass protection: done. You wanted less rediculous penalties and clock management issues: significantly reduced. You wanted less 3-and-outs: done. Yet all some of you can do is bit#h and wine like little girls. I'm just glad I didn't log on until today so that you all didn't kill my buzz yesterday from enjoying a win and a promising improvement over last year.

I'll just end with a plea that we not give up on the entire season before we actually lose a game......Please.

[cpayne5]

Originally Posted by PSUSkinsFan21

Yet all some of you can do is bit#h and wine like little girls.

I nominate this for post of the year.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by cpayne5

I nominate this for post of the year.

I'll second that, his entire post by the way, not just the part about acting like little girls even though that was great.

[PSUSkinsFan21]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

I'll second that, his entire post by the way, not just the part about acting like little girls even though that was great.

Thank you, thank you.
I'll gladly accept the nomination and consider it an honor just to be nominated.

[kingerock]

I'm looking at the replays from Moss... then the replays from Coles

Coles missed HUGE opportunities and dropped a couple passes
6 catches for 66 yds.

Moss made big plays and had no glaring mistakes
4 catches for 92 yards

cya Coles

Then I'm looking at the replays from Patten and then the replays from Gardner

Patten had limited action but like Moss, no glaring mistakes
3 catches for 19 yards

Gardner was... he had... he made... can't seem to find him on the field
0 catches for 0 yards

cya Gardner

Gardner's new team scored 20 points and 350 yards ----- 0-1
Coles' new team scored 7 points (junk time TD) and 390 yards of offense ----- 0-1
My Redskins; only 9 points and 323 yards offense ----- 1-0

15 more games to go, but we're doing just fine if you ask me

[jbcjr14]

The offense moved the ball well yesterday, just need to score a couple TD's. Remember, the Bears will end up a top 5 defense, they are an excellent defensive unit. This week its the cowpokes and they are really good on D. Offense will get it in the endzone on a regular basis in the coming weeks and when that happens and Williams can let the D really loose it will be fun to watch. Patience, patience, patience (I know its hard to do) but they are definately going in the right direction. Last year, they might have lost that game yesterday...but they didn't.

[memphisskin]

Some quick thoughts,

1) The pass rush. In the second half the plan seemed to be to blitz enough to get Orton to think about it and to back off and play zone. Masterful job by Williams of getting into the rookie's head, true he made some plays but nothing deep and nothing of note.

2) The passing game. I didn't expect an offensive explosion, although I did hope for one. There's just no way that Gibbs is going to let it all hang loose the week before playing Dallas on Monday night. I think it was a classic look ahead game, especially when Rex Grossman got hurt in the preseason, then this became an easy win and we started to look ahead to the Cowboys game. That said, I thought Cooley blew it when he didn't run his route in the end zone and I thought Brunell did an excellent job of protecting the ball, throwing it away once and taking the sack another time.

3) The constants. Or as we have come to know them, defense and Portis. No matter who Williams suits up they play physical and Portis is simply awesome. Betts raising the level of his play just will motivate Portis that much more.

All told, I thought our offense would play better but I look for a more even performance next Monday night. The Cowboys looked very beatable, the only thing that scares me is that the passes that Bledsoe was completing were the same ones that Kyle Orton was getting on us, the slants and crossing patterns underneath. Their secondary looked very ordinary, several blown coverages and the safety opposite Roy Williams might as well be wearing a target sign instead of a number. I can't wait for the game

[firstdown]

Hay to lighten things up a little guess what I did yesterday. I do not have any skins stuff like shirts or caps to wear I just never buy that stuff. I was rushing out the door at 6:30am to go to the game and on the way out grabed at hat to wear. While we were tail gating I started talking smack to a Bears fan and he said I thought you where on my saide and I just gave him a funny look. Later my cap feel off and as I picked it up I noticed I was wearing a Chicago Ill hat and all my buddies started laughing at me but they never noticed either. Well now I own a skins hat.