Philly postgame week 1

[Warthog]

Redskins played a new type of football game versus the amateur hour of the Gruden-era :

1. Made a comeback like good teams can do. Never, ever happened with Jay. We would get a lead and then hang on by our fingernails with games being decided on the last play.

2. Defense got its groove on after a rough start. I predicted that this defense will be a TOP 5 DEFENSE. Yeah, the Beagles were missing some OL players but by the end of the day Wentz was scared and bedazzled by the pass rush. Also, I was impressed with the 8 sacks being spread around with different players EXCEPT with the best backup rusher Ryan Kerrigan - TWO SACKS and beating Dexter Manley’s career sack total.

3. We knew the Defensive rush was going to be awesome, but the secondary was excellent - especially at Corner!! Even without Fuller there the corners played great. They’re young and may make some mistakes but as the pass rush started to engage they got some INT.

4. The offense started slower BUT used great field possession to score TOUCHDOWNS, not the field goals or nothing of past years. I remember games where, because of miscues and penalties, the team moved backwards from inside the 10 to BACKWARDS 20-40 yards. This team scored in the Red Zone!

5. WR & TE - We knew MacLaurin was outstanding but the NFL is going to find out how good Steve Sims is! Logan Thomas didn’t have big yardage but he got key first downs and a TD. I don’t think Thomas is going to be excellent but already he’s very good at getting just enough to keep a drive moving or a TD when we need it.

6. Haskins wasn’t excellent but he was good enough to win. NO BIG TURNOVERS. He will get better and we’ll find whether he’s the future franchise QB or not by season’s end. The left side of the OL sucks but hopefully will get better - they were like a sieve at times. Christian and Martin are probably not the long-term answers and may just be the journeymen players we thought they were.

The team looked at a bunch of WR and TE FA today. I was surprised they didn’t bring in some OL players too. But this tells me they aren’t happy with INMAN at the WR#2 and the TE #2 is open. AND they need backups at both positions. I think they’ll want someone with speed to match up with McLaurin. I think the team didn’t try hard enough to pick up something at TE in FA. All we have is Thomas.

All in all, a wonderfully satisfying victory, especially since I live up here in Philly Country. It’s great to hear the fans here whine excessively about their injuries and how could we lose to WASHINGTON?? Like everyone else in the NFC East they’ve been happy to crush us on a regular basis because of our poor coaching, terrible and micromanaging owner, awful draft picking, AND ALWAYS paying too much for players who wanted to “CASH OUT” for min effort!

No more- we have an excellent HC, and a outstanding DC and a phenomenal (almost) GM! I’m amazed how many REAL STARTERS we get from the dregs of the UDFA and lowest draft picks!! Before, we were lucky to get a Special Team wizard from the last three picks of our draft. We would have half of Bruce Allen’s draft picks not even make the team!!.

With Kyle Smith great drafts - even his late picks actually make the starting team in the first or second year AND in important positions. And they are play makers!!

I’m trying not to get to excited for this season because we DO HAVE some weak areas. But we are going to surprise the NFL, especially at defense!


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