Great Playcalling, Joe

[Chief X_Phackter]

Hate to lose a division game at home against a reeling team that we had up against the wall. This should leave a bad taste in the mouths of every player and coach in that locker room. Now they have two weeks to think about how they could have buried the giants in a hole, and instead let them get away with one. All I can say is it doesn't get any easier after this one. These are the games they need to win to compete in this division, and it didn't happen. Enjoy the week off.

[GTripp0012]

In fact, the "run, run, pass" playcalling you thought you saw happened a grand total of ONCE the entire game. It appears you're just wrong on this one.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

In fact, the "run, run, pass" playcalling you thought you saw happened a grand total of ONCE the entire game. It appears you're just wrong on this one.

People love to play the "blame the play calling" card after a loss.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

People love to play the "blame the play calling" card after a loss.

I know.

It's sad since no matter what play the coach sends in, the offense always has a chance to excute it. The offense should always be held responsible for poor play, even if the playcalling did them no favors.

[Gmanc711]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

I know.

It's sad since no matter what play the coach sends in, the offense always has a chance to excute it. The offense should always be held responsible for poor play, even if the playcalling did them no favors.

Well guess what guys...if the players had the chance to execute whatever, than they would pay someone like me ten bucks a hour to go out there and coach the skins, not pay someone five million dollars a year....

You can play the "coaches can do no wrong" card all you want, but there is a reason they are getting paid out the ass and thats becuase some coaches can be the difference between winning and losing football games....if it was as simple as guys executing plays, than no coaches would ever get fired and whoever was on the feild would be the only ones whos jobs are on the line....I just hate the fact that we cant question this horseshit somtimes.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by Gmanc711

Well guess what guys...if the players had the chance to execute whatever, than they would pay someone like me ten bucks a hour to go out there and coach the skins, not pay someone five million dollars a year....

You can play the "coaches can do no wrong" card all you want, but there is a reason they are getting paid out the ass and thats becuase some coaches can be the difference between winning and losing football games....if it was as simple as guys executing plays, than no coaches would ever get fired and whoever was on the feild would be the only ones whos jobs are on the line....I just hate the fact that we cant question this horseshit somtimes.

Uh, no? I can't really counter-argument your post because there obviously is no correlation between the way Dan Snyder perceives the NFL, and the way games are actually won and lost. This much is obvious so far.

So to say that he thinks he is making his team a lot better by paying Al Saunders a lot of money is probably accurate, but if we had you calling the plays instead I think you'd do just fine. I believe you'd agree with me since you are so critical of the playcalling.

But yeah, I wouldn't make an argument relying on Dan Snyder's understanding of the game of football...

[Darrell_Green_28]

do we know for a fact that gibbs called the plays? why do people call for his head basically just because it LOOKs like a play he would call. How do you know who called what plays? none of us know for sure who call those plays.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Darrell_Green_28

do we know for a fact that gibbs called the plays? why do people call for his head basically just because it LOOKs like a play he would call. How do you know who called what plays? none of us know for sure who call those plays.

Gibbs is not calling the plays and hasn't since Saunders got here.

He sure as hell doesn't look like someone calling plays either, anytime they show him on the sidelines he's walking around with his arms crossed.

[Darrell_Green_28]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Gibbs is not calling the plays and hasn't since Saunders got here.

He sure as hell doesn't look like someone calling plays either, anytime they show him on the sidelines he's walking around with his arms crossed.

EXACTLY what i was saying.. people saying it was gibbs calling the plays..

[redskins5044]

Originally Posted by Darrell_Green_28

do we know for a fact that gibbs called the plays? why do people call for his head basically just because it LOOKs like a play he would call. How do you know who called what plays? none of us know for sure who call those plays.

joe called the plays in the second or he told saunders this how we are going to approach it. i am fine with gibbs calling plays. we should just get rid of al saunders then. we brought him here to open up the offense and improve from the offense in 2005. 2006 was a diaster. we dont know who called the plays but i think we have seen this playing before and saunders wasnt here yet.

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by redskins5044

joe called the plays in the second or he told saunders this how we are going to approach it. i am fine with gibbs calling plays. we should just get rid of al saunders then. we brought him here to open up the offense and improve from the offense in 2005. 2006 was a diaster. we dont know who called the plays but i think we have seen this playing before and saunders wasnt here yet.

The question is Gibbs letting him open up the offense?? I don't think so.

[Darrell_Green_28]

and maybe the play call was right but wasnt executed right? or someone missed a blocker or something. we can always second guess

[Darrell_Green_28]

or on that last play maybe if betts hadnt tripped......... maybe???

[skinsguy]

Wow, didn't take some of you guys long to turn to gloom and doom! And to already be calling for coaches' heads! That's what pathetic.

Let's get some things straight: Al Saunders calls the plays, not Joe Gibbs. Funny how people call puts the blame on Gibbs when the offense suffers. Wasn't it Gibbs' play calling that got us into the playoffs a couple of seasons ago? Not Al Saunders. Stop with the petty finger pointing.

[Paintrain]

We didn't match intensity in the 2nd half, that's for sure. The playcalls, on BOTH SIDES left a lot to be desired.. Manning hates pressure in his face up the middle, yet on the rare occasions we did blitz we send pressure from the edges.. Their secondary is piss poor, yet we didn't come out attacking them in the 2nd half..

Not calling for anyone's head or major changes, I expected us to be 2-1 at this point in the season (although I figured the loss would be to the Eagles, not the Giants) but we've got to stop sitting on a 2 touchdown lead and start trying to blow teams away when we have them on the ropes!

Last week Tirico kept saying how many games we've lost under Gibbs 2.0 with an 11 point or more lead (it was like 12 games).. That's a sure fire sign we are not putting our foot on the necks of our opponents!