No love for Ol' DC

[vaoutlaws2006]

here's a little fact about preseason...the last time a joe gibbs coached team started 0-4 in the preseason...well as a redskins fan you should know well the rest is history. I think that year we won our first 12 games. the preseason means absolutely nothing. remember spurrier's first year here i think we were like 3-1 or maybe 4-0 in the preseason and that didnt matter one bit once the season started. i think we finished 7-9 that year i am speaking of with the 'ol ball coach.

[DaveyFoSho]

38-17 washington over minn...and 17 is me being a nice guy........big MW, ST, AND AA are going to run over people all game long......

[vaoutlaws2006]

artmonkdrillz...i think he is the lone crusader

[MTK]

The preseason didn't seem to matter much to Pittsburgh last night.

[12thMan]

I wouldn't say the pre-season means 'absolutely nothing'...I think that's taking things to the other extreme as well. Just like putting all your stock in preseason isn't good either. I think I'd prefer somewhere in the middle. Preseason is an evalutation time. Talent, execution, skill, as well as attitude.

Brunell did come around some toward the end, but I'm a little nervous.

[FRPLG]

All the people bemoaning our offensive play are looking past some things. I will grant that the lack of production COULD be a concern. In fact if our offense had been vanilla I would be concerned. But our offense wasn't even vanilla in pre-season. It wasn't even a system really. According to coaches they actually treated the games like practice. Essentially putting guys in positions and situations to see what they can do. Doing so with little regard for game situation et al. If we had gone out and tried to run a system in those games I would be very worried. Even a vanilla system. As it is we did not. We went out and worked on plays. We'd a run a play one direction then run the other direction on the next play. One game we didn't max protect but like 2 or 3 times to whole game. We left the o-line all on islands just to work on that aspect. We didn't run any system so why should we me worried when the O looked like poo?

When Joe Gibbs comes out to a post game conference like after the Patriots game and looks like absolutely nothing happened that should tell you something. Either the old man is crazy or he knows that what happened wasn't a real indication of anything.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

All the people bemoaning our offensive play are looking past some things. I will grant that the lack of production COULD be a concern. In fact if our offense had been vanilla I would be concerned. But our offense wasn't even vanilla in pre-season. It wasn't even a system really. According to coaches they actually treated the games like practice. Essentially putting guys in positions and situations to see what they can do. Doing so with little regard for game situation et al. If we had gone out and tried to run a system in those games I would be very worried. Even a vanilla system. As it is we did not. We went out and worked on plays. We'd a run a play one direction then run the other direction on the next play. One game we didn't max protect but like 2 or 3 times to whole game. We left the o-line all on islands just to work on that aspect. We didn't run any system so why should we me worried when the O looked like poo?

When Joe Gibbs comes out to a post game conference like after the Patriots game and looks like absolutely nothing happened that should tell you something. Either the old man is crazy or he knows that what happened wasn't a real indication of anything.

You hit the nail right on the head.

[Duffman003]

sean salisbury gave us some love when I was watching ESPN the other day...I think he said we would win the division or at least make the playoffs

[gibbsisgod]

perhaps the biggest benifit to our preseaon is Minnesota has absolutely NO gametape to watch on us. We have shown NOTHING. they are preparing for us with out knowing what our offense will be throwing at them. Sure they can go and look at KC film but our skill players are what will be the difference. They have never seen this new scheme with our players running it. They are in for a rude awakening come spt.11. They have no clue what is about to happen to them. whooohoooo i am getting excited. Gibbs is no fool ladies and gentlemen and he has set a huge trap for the vikes and they are about to walk into a shit storm. Moss, lloyd,randle el, cooley, portis(god willing), ducket,betts, patten, and the list goes on. Come get some Minnesota!

[GhettoDogAllStars]

ha ha. Dan Patrick ridiculed Gibbs for playing Portis in the preseason? did he ridicule all the other teams that played their proven RBs? I bet he didn't...

[FRPLG]

Dan Patrick is a dumb sh*t. Just everyone who works for ESPN on camera is. I can count on one hand the people who do good work for that company. Gammons used to, Mortensen is quality, Clayton does a good job, Tom Jackson is only sane person there when it comes to TO. That's it. I got 4. Now on the other hand and feet I can count all the dumbasses. I wont bother lisiting those 15 or 20 idiots.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

Dan Patrick is a dumb sh*t. Just everyone who works for ESPN on camera is. I can count on one hand the people who do good work for that company. Gammons used to, Mortensen is quality, Clayton does a good job, Tom Jackson is only sane person there when it comes to TO. That's it. I got 4. Now on the other hand and feet I can count all the dumbasses. I wont bother lisiting those 15 or 20 idiots.

Ouch. What about Jaws, Hodge, Theismann, TAFKAS, Trey Wingo...

[wilsowilso]

Originally Posted by TAFKAS

Ouch. What about Jaws, Hodge, Theismann, TAFKAS, Trey Wingo...

TAFKAS is way too biased. How did they even hire that guy? Never has anything good to say about us. Those other guys are alright.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by wilsowilso

TAFKAS is way too biased. How did they even hire that guy? Never has anything good to say about us. Those other guys are alright.

Who said anything about That Guy? No one hired him.

[BrudLee]

Originally Posted by TAFKAS

Who said anything about That Guy? No one hired him.

Wait, That Guy or ThatGuy?