Redskins Lions postgame

[Skinsfanatic]

Originally Posted by CASKINS

7. Trade value

Trade value for who? Fred? Trade him now then.

[NC_Skins]

Originally Posted by Skinsfanatic

Trade value for who? Fred? Trade him now then.

LOL. He was a free agent during the off-season. If nobody wanted him then, I seriously doubt they want him now.

[Skinsfanatic]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

LOL. He was a free agent during the off-season. If nobody wanted him then, I seriously doubt they want him now.

That was kind of my point. I said earlier let him go at the end of the year. He seems to hang around based on potential. Let Reed keep the position for the rest of the year and see what he can do.

[Giantone]

Sorry but you guys need to calm down , look at the Giants it should make you happy that you can at least score ,we can't do crap .


Perspective gentlemen, perspective .

[NC_Skins]

It was a top 10 defense when we ran a 4-3. I've never been a fan of the 3-4. Orakpo covering the TE on the 2nd TD would never be the case if we still ran a 4-3.

This comment was made in the game thread. You do realize that Orakpo was a OLB in the 4-3 when he first was drafted. There is a good chance he would have been in coverage on a 4-3 defense just as he would be in a 3-4.

[Skinsfanatic]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

This comment was made in the game thread. You do realize that Orakpo was a OLB in the 4-3 when he first was drafted. There is a good chance he would have been in coverage on a 4-3 defense just as he would be in a 3-4.

He MIGHT have been, but wouldn't be now. I think he would be a much more successful DE.

[Skinzman]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

This comment was made in the game thread. You do realize that Orakpo was a OLB in the 4-3 when he first was drafted. There is a good chance he would have been in coverage on a 4-3 defense just as he would be in a 3-4.

Brian Orakpo was a 4-3 DE when he was at Texas. His hand was in the dirt pretty much every play in college.

I think people need to slow down some on the doom and gloom some. It sucks, but we actually played better today than either of the first two games. Some stupid turnovers by RG3 and a dropped TD was the difference today. We should have won but the mistakes on offense kept it from happening.

[mooby]

Originally Posted by Skinsfanatic

Can we:

1. Fire Haslett.

2. Install a 4-3 and use the rest of this year to get used to playing it.

3. Remove Thompson from returning kicks (and instruct all of our returners NOT to leave the endzone if you catch it 6 yards deep or deeper).

4. Run the ball.

5. Bootleg more (those passes generally looked good).

6. Use more Reed, less Paulson.

7. Let Fred Davis go next year, and use the cap money we will have to shore up all of the DB positions and the OL.

That sounds like a terrible idea. You can't change defensive schemes overnight, even an entire offseason sometimes isn't enough time to get players used to the change (as evidenced by our first year running the 3-4). I think we'd pretty much be guaranteeing an abysmal defense for the entire year if we did that.

[Skinsfanatic]

Originally Posted by mooby

That sounds like a terrible idea. You can't change defensive schemes overnight, even an entire offseason sometimes isn't enough time to get players used to the change (as evidenced by our first year running the 3-4). I think we'd pretty much be guaranteeing an abysmal defense for the entire year if we did that.

Other ways to guarantee an abysmal defense....keep playing the same.

[SBXVII]

I fail to see how a team keeps the majority of its starters from the year before and regresses. Defensively I get it, we have two rookies I the back field not getting it done as well as we would like, piss poor tackling, and the DL.... it looks like our opponents would prefer us to blitz cause that opens up the middle of the field for slant routes which our back field is not covering well.

[DynamiteRave]

Originally Posted by SBXVII

I fail to see how a team keeps the majority of its starters from the year before and regresses. Defensively I get it, we have two rookies I the back field not getting it done as well as we would like, piss poor tackling, and the DL.... it looks like our opponents would prefer us to blitz cause that opens up the middle of the field for slant routes which our back field is not covering well.

Team has no heart. Bunch of gutless warm bodies out there.

Seems like a bunch of guys out there working. Like, literally doing a job because that's what they're paid to do. Rarely does it look like they're enjoying it or that they're motivated; they just look like they showed up because they had no other choice.

There are players who exceptions to this, of course. But these dudes are just f'ing sloppy. Penalties, drops, sloppy ass tackling; you're losing and you're laughing on the sidelines? Come on, man.

[donofriose]

That ball completely changed position. I definetaly thought he dropped the ball.

[DynamiteRave]

I really like the 3-4 but we need a better secondary. We can get good pressure on defense but our secondary is God awful. There was multiple times Lions WRs were running around with no one covering them.

[skinsfan69]

This is what bad teams do....beat themselves....turnovers, penalties, dropped to passes, shitty tackling.

[punch it in]

Originally Posted by skinsfaninok

I'll pass on that bad game next week, I'm going to be using my days off to actually do something now. For years I've wasted my time on wkends for this

Yeah. There are six games on the schedule i think we can win.
Giants
Giants
Vikings
Raiders
Eagles
Chargers.
Of those six exactly none of them are sure things.
If we lose next week there is a realistic chance we go 0-16? I think im going to start winterizing my yard on sundays. Maybe ill get so drunk on saturday nites that i just sleep through the games?