Week 3: Giants at Redskins Game Thread

[Jamaican'Skin]

Where was this O, for the 2nd half?

[jsarno]

Originally Posted by Jamaican'Skin

Where was this O, for the 2nd half?

I told you...had nothing to do with the O...it was the conservative play calling!

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by jsarno

I told you...had nothing to do with the O...it was the conservative play calling!

Yep, Gibbs shouldn't have rubbed that butter all over Portis' gloves at halftime. Fire the coach.

We would've been fine with the playcalling in the second half if we weren't dropping the ball. Portis forgot how to catch AND take a handoff, Campbell fumbled a snap, Sellers dropped a potential game-tying TD (ask Dawkins if Sellers can run over anyone) and we just made too many mistakes to win.

[jsarno]

Originally Posted by Buster

Yep, Gibbs shouldn't have rubbed that butter all over Portis' gloves at halftime. Fire the coach.

We would've been fine with the playcalling in the second half if we weren't dropping the ball. Portis forgot how to catch AND take a handoff, Campbell fumbled a snap, Sellers dropped a potential game-tying TD (ask Dawkins if Sellers can run over anyone) and we just made too many mistakes to win.

No one is saying the players didn't mess up. (ps- it was campbell's fault that portis fumbled...he didn't tuck it in like he should have). But we are saying that if not for conservative play calling this game would have been won by us.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by jsarno

No one is saying the players didn't mess up. (ps- it was campbell's fault that portis fumbled...he didn't tuck it in like he should have). But we are saying that if not for conservative play calling this game would have been won by us.

jsarno, how would you define conservative playcalling?

[jsarno]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

jsarno, how would you define conservative playcalling?

Hard to get specific, but just watch the entire second half again until Campbell had to throw some deep balls. (although a few of them were due to penalties.)
Short passes, too many runs etc.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by jsarno

Hard to get specific, but just watch the entire second half again until Campbell had to throw some deep balls. (although a few of them were due to penalties.)
Short passes, too many runs etc.

So who isn't conservative? And what's wrong with running the ball (what with 2 1,000 yard rushers?)

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by jsarno

Hard to get specific, but just watch the entire second half again until Campbell had to throw some deep balls. (although a few of them were due to penalties.)
Short passes, too many runs etc.

I would agree with that definition, but look at this:

3rd Quarter
2-7-WAS 33 (9:13) 17-J.Campbell pass incomplete deep left to 89-S.Moss.

4th Quarter
1-10-WAS 38 (5:25) 17-J.Campbell pass incomplete deep right to 89-S.Moss.
1-10-NYG 48 (4:02) 17-J.Campbell pass incomplete deep left to 82-A.Randle El (29-S.Madison).
2-10-NYG 35 (3:43) 17-J.Campbell pass incomplete deep left to 82-A.Randle El [92-M.Strahan].

We definately took our shots in that game. On the last drive, we completed two "long" passes. 2/6 isn't a bad long pass completion rate for a half, its to be expected.

We had as many deep passes as handoffs to Portis in the second half. Can that be twisted as conservative?