Skins lions post game

[skinsfaninok]

It wasn't Barry's fault at all. It was Jones and Hopkins with 2 brutal mistakes.

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[mredskins]

tough tough lost but we did have a 4 game winning streak. Every team has games like this. got hope Norman and Trent are ok and just move on.

[MTK]

Classic case of letting a team hang around long enough to bite you in the end.

[skinsfaninok]

Originally Posted by MTK

Classic case of letting a team hang around long enough to bite you in the end.

It happens to everyone. I know this is a good young team and getting better every week. If we didn't have those 2 mistakes in the first half, we win that game easy. We beat ourselves and the team knows it. Bengals better be ready for a mad skins team next Sunday.

[FrenchSkin]

I really don't get what people wanting Barry out are expecting. IMO we haven't seen our D play so hungry in years, and I mean like at least 6 years. They are tackling better, and already improving through the season, run D has been tremendously better than the first 3 weeks.

OK playcalling on that last drive could have been better, but Barry is doing really good things with this personnel. This may not be SB level yet, but he's a young D coord, and showed he was able to learn from his mistakes. No one on earth is gonna turn this D into last year's Broncos' in a week... Firing him would be a HUGE mistake IMO. This is a team sport, confidence and team spirit matter, firing a coach (especially during the course of the season) is a traumatic event for a team, this is not harmless... cuz this is not Madden...

[TheMalcolmConnection]

Right. I was wanting his head a few games in, but I really do see some growth and adjustments. This was one of those games where you just felt like ZERO bounces went our way. It sucks and we have to move on. If Norman and Williams are OK, we should have a good shot at the Bengals. They're not as scary as they were before the season started. The one guy I'm really worried about is Breeland. Dude just looks like he is getting worked.

[skinsfan69]

I just heard Theismann making excuses for the last drive. Basically saying that Barry was hiding the youth and inexperience of the secondary. That he was protecting them since Norman was out. WTF is he talking about? These are professional football players, not 6th graders playing a flag game. I love JT but sometimes I want to smack him.

[Chico23231]

the 2 fumbles and the missed field goal is what loss this game...We got to eliminate these mistakes.

Matt Jones fumble on the 1 yard line was a costly as the Cousins INT in the end zone vs the Cowboys. These 2 plays are the difference between 6-1 and 4-3. Margins are slim, cant turn the ball over, but you certainly cant turn the ball over in the red zone.

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

the 2 fumbles and the missed field goal is what loss this game...We got to eliminate these mistakes.

Matt Jones fumble on the 1 yard line was a costly as the Cousins INT in the end zone vs the Cowboys. These 2 plays are the difference between 6-1 and 4-3. Margins are slim, cant turn the ball over, but you certainly cant turn the ball over in the red zone.

I'm not buying that. They missed a FG too so that evens things out. Even after the fumbles and missed FG, the offense gave the defense a 4 point lead with a minute left. Even the players are bitching about how the defense was called on that last drive. We are not a good zone team. Everyone knows it. Joe Barry coached scared when the game was on the line, but I put it on Gruden cause he's the head coach.

[TheMalcolmConnection]

Jones is the one I'm done with. After seeing Kelley and Thompson run, I just don't see what Jones gives us the other two do not. I'd love to know the stats on his lost fumbles too, because damn, it's like we NEVER recover his fumbles it feels like.

[Chico23231]

Sure the defense wasn't great the last drive...but overall holding a team to 20 points on the road isn't bad.

We had like 415 yards of offense...25 first downs? or something like that. We should have scored more than 17 points

[punch it in]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Sure the defense wasn't great the last drive...but overall holding a team to 20 points on the road isn't bad.



We had like 415 yards of offense...25 first downs? or something like that. We should have scored more than 17 points

Exactly. Not to mention the fumble on the two was not taking just 3 off the board but potentially 7. We dominated the stat sheet. It does not matter if our d was bad on the last drive or the first drive, they played well enough (on the road) to win. Only stat we didn't dominate was turnovers. That is what sealed the deal. You are 110% correct.

[MTK]

Yeah I put it mainly on our missed opportunities on offense, the fumbles and the missed FG.

[skinsfaninok]

I think we can win without Trent for a week but without him and Norman? That would be hard

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[SFREDSKIN]

In a way I can't fault Joneses fumble in the endzone. He's been challenged by his coach to run like a 230lb RB and not a pussy, his extra effort in trying to score cause the fumble. This will be a lesson to him to just go down, he's not the 1st or last RB to fumble in the endzone due to extra effort.