What Is RIGHT with the Redskins?

[Slingin Sammy 33]

Originally Posted by SUNRA

Now our record says exactly who we are because of whats wrong with the team.

1. Zorn's inability to adjust to exotic defensive schemes which leads to three and outs rather than more points and first downs.

2.Zorn's reluctance to change or ad gadgets plays that were not in the first four games they won in.

3.Zorn's lack of knowledge of player personal and their strengths. Cooley, Betts, Fred Davis and Devin Thomas have been grossly underused in critical situations. Davis has been inactive as Todd Yoder contributes nothing.

4.If the offensive line is beat up, where is the 2-step drop passes. Where is the dump off screen, and God forbide a reverse-half back option. Once every three games will not get it done.

5.Lastly, If Jason Campbell finishes this year with a losing record, there has to be an opportunity for Colt Brennan to play for his job. Jason is looking worse every week and has absolutely no clue about his progressions anymore. His release takes forever and he's still locking in on players which is causing alot of batted balls.

1. Zorn is the one making the OL blitz calls on the field, correct? Zorn is the one diving at DL's knees or reaching at them as they fly by them, correct? If you want to call out a coach, call out Buges. He's responsible for the OL protections / schemes.

2. Gadget plays take time to run in practice. If you have basic timing issues and OL issues to address, gadet plays go down the totem pole of important things to do during practice pretty quickly. If we're basing our success on the use of gadet plays we've got much bigger issues.

3. I'm sure defenses haven't been keying on Cooley after the year he had last year and the lack of a major WR threat? Betts, his production has been pedestrian at best and whenever we are in a situation where the worst thing that could happen is a RB to fumble, count on Betts to cough it up. Davis/Thomas, I'm pretty sure everyone in the FO and on the coaching staff wants them to succeed desperately, so if they aren't in, there's probably a good reason.

4. I didn't know there was such a thing as a 2-step drop, wouldn't the QB be throwing off the wrong foot? As far as a 1 or 3 step drop, you can only throw so many slants and WR screens. Wasn't that the complaint everyone had with Brunell? Zorn has called screens and draws in key situations, that have been successful.

5. You must be kidding, right. JC is the furthest thing from the problem right now. Colt needs to stay right where he is, and wait for next pre-season to light it up against 3rd & 4th stringers and when JC throws an INT folks can clamor for Colt again.
You complain about locking on to a receiver, what's the QB supposed to do on a 1-3 step drop. He's supposed to pre-read the D, take his steps, set and release. No time to go through more than the 2nd progression. If the OL can't pass-pro the D knows it will see a bunch of quick stuff, they'll do as they're taught: "if you can't get to the QB, get your hands up".
I don't care if you put P. Manning behind our OL right now, he'd struggle too.

At the end of the day we'll finish at 8-8 or 9-7, right where most on this site predicted we'd finish in the pre-season. We've got a good base of players / coaches to build on. Just like most teams in the NFL, we've got some holes to fill.