Redskins Lions postgame

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by scowan

Did Rambo even play yesterday? I never heard his name once. Also, as I was watching the game yesterday, I said to myself, we can make average players of other teams seem All-World. Not All-Pros, but All-World. They will have the best games of their careers against us. Our Offense made mistakes, but our Defense can not be trusted to stop anyone. We were totaly relying on Matt Stafford to make a bad throw in order for the Redskins Defense to get off the field on 3rd down. DeAngelo Hall made one play, but no one else did anything. Ryan Kerrigan is the only guy that can consistently tackle

Hurt early. Looked minor like a cramp but he never came back. Josh Wilson took his place at FS.



Meriweather survived an entire game!



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Update, Rambo was suffering from PMS:

Injury Updates: Jordan Reed Bruises Knee | Redskins Journal

Bacarri Rambo left the game with what appeared to be a right leg injury but was later revealed to merely be cramping.

[scowan]

Originally Posted by Monkeydad

Hurt early. Looked minor like a cramp but he never came back. Josh Wilson took his place at FS.



Meriweather survived an entire game!



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Update, Rambo was suffering from PMS:

Injury Updates: Jordan Reed Bruises Knee | Redskins Journal

You guys notice that Meriweather took out Orakpo for a short time yesterday? So here is the total for Meriweather through 2 games, He has lead with his head 3 times and taken out Eddie Lacy, himself, and a team mate Orakpo. If he will just go head first into the goal post, he will hit for the cycle !!!!

[artmonkforhallofamein07]

Originally Posted by scowan

You guys notice that Meriweather took out Orakpo for a short time yesterday? So here is the total for Meriweather through 2 games, He has lead with his head 3 times and taken out Eddie Lacy, himself, and a team mate Orakpo. If he will just go head first into the goal post, he will hit for the cycle !!!!

Yeah, for all of the we want BM back to help with the safety position, I really haven't seen the guy do much. Morris needs to sit his ass down and teach him how to wrap up. All he does is launch himself when he is attempting to make a tackle. I don't know if it is his injury or just the way he plays.

Interesting that Rambo was only cramping and never saw anymore action. JW must have done a decent job at FS to not warrant his return.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by artmonkforhallofamein07

Yeah, for all of the we want BM back to help with the safety position, I really haven't seen the guy do much. Morris needs to sit his ass down and teach him how to wrap up. All he does is launch himself when he is attempting to make a tackle. I don't know if it is his injury or just the way he plays.

Interesting that Rambo was only cramping and never saw anymore action. JW must have done a decent job at FS to not warrant his return.

Meriweather has been awful. I understand that he's probably the one guy on the roster who is trying to gut it out at less than solid health, but he starts and finishes every play out of position, and you need to be some kind of athlete to make up for that.

[artmonkforhallofamein07]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Meriweather has been awful. I understand that he's probably the one guy on the roster who is trying to gut it out at less than solid health, but he starts and finishes every play out of position, and you need to be some kind of athlete to make up for that.

I noticed more than a few times yesterday ( the announcers alluded to it later in the broadcast ) that the back end of the defense is not working very well together pre snap at all. Miss communication, bad alignment, sometimes guys on the outside look like they have no idea what the play call are or thier assignments, and of course frustration. This is before the ball is even snapped. The Lions two scoring drives in the first half is where this was evident.

That's all on the coaching and the LB getting the calls out to the defense.

[Paintrain]

Originally Posted by artmonkforhallofamein07

I noticed more than a few times yesterday ( the announcers alluded to it later in the broadcast ) that the back end of the defense is not working very well together pre snap at all. Miss communication, bad alignment, sometimes guys on the outside look like they have no idea what the play call are or thier assignments, and of course frustration. This is before the ball is even snapped. The Lions two scoring drives in the first half is where this was evident.

That's all on the coaching and the LB getting the calls out to the defense.

I've heard a couple of analysts note that it doesn't seem like anyone on the back half knows what coverages they are in. B. Mitch said he was watching the Packers game with Shawn Springs and Springs wondered numerous times what coverage scheme we were running because it didn't make any sense. It goes to something that Keim said years ago from a former coach that while Haslett has some sound blitz packages, his coverage schemes are very suspect and sometimes flat out flawed.

Examples, Riley man up on Cobb last week? On the final TD to Megatron he had Kerrigan and Riley in zone with Merriweather over the top inside the 10 yard line? Really?!?! I'd rather us pressure and play man on the back end. At least we could get some hurries or sacks because our coverage unit is pathetic.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by artmonkforhallofamein07

I noticed more than a few times yesterday ( the announcers alluded to it later in the broadcast ) that the back end of the defense is not working very well together pre snap at all. Miss communication, bad alignment, sometimes guys on the outside look like they have no idea what the play call are or thier assignments, and of course frustration. This is before the ball is even snapped. The Lions two scoring drives in the first half is where this was evident.

That's all on the coaching and the LB getting the calls out to the defense.

Yeah, and a couple times Riley was making the defensive calls with Barnett in for Fletcher. I don't know any way we can evaluate defensive changes made before the snap, but I will say that we got so used to Fletcher getting us in good alignment right before the snap that we simply can't be the same defense if Fletcher isn't on the field.

Fletcher's season to date is an excellent example of why there aren't any historical comparables for a 38 year old linebacker. Typically, they spend the pre-snap phase on a beach somewhere.