Smoot Lays the Smack Down (Redskins vs. Rams)

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by 12thMan

You know I keep thinking about this "we're not a good football team" thing.

I don't know how people define that, but we rarely get outplayed. Most of what I've observed over the past 10 games is that we've beat ourselves or we were just not prepared.

Well if you're always beating yourself and you're not prepared then what does that make you? I don't think we're bad, we're just average. I think we're well coached on defense. I think we're poorly coached on offense.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

Well if you're always beating yourself and you're not prepared then what does that make you? I don't think we're bad, we're just average. I think we're well coached on defense. I think we're poorly coached on offense.

Please defend this claim. I'll take just one example.

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Please defend this claim. I'll take just one example.

I never see blown coverages, guys seem to be in position. We don't give up a lot of big plays.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

I never see blown coverages, guys seem to be in position. We don't give up a lot of big plays.

I could be wrong, but I think today our CBs were not playing well and were giving the Rams WRs a lot of room.

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

I could be wrong, but I think today our CBs were not playing well and were giving the Rams WRs a lot of room.

That's true, the DB's didn't play all that well today. But I didn't see guys blowing coverages. STL scored 7 points so in two weeks the defense has given up 23?

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

I never see blown coverages, guys seem to be in position. We don't give up a lot of big plays.

Fair enough.

Couldn't you say exactly the same thing about our offense, that we never take obscenely negative plays on offense, we just sometimes end up in third and long thanks to uninspired first and second down play?

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Fair enough.

Couldn't you say exactly the same thing about our offense, that we never take obscenely negative plays on offense, we just sometimes end up in third and long thanks to uninspired first and second down play?

Well yes there aren't a lot of neagative plays cause the offense is conservative. But that doesn't mean we're not poorly coached on offense.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

Well yes there aren't a lot of neagative plays cause the offense is conservative. But that doesn't mean we're not poorly coached on offense.

Well I agree with that, but doesn't that make the defense just as conservative? I know we blitz a lot, but if you just play the same boring coverage scheme, how aggressive are you really being?

If the argument is that the Skins D is well coached because they don't blow many assignments, and the offense also hardly blows any assignments, I'd say that, in this example at least, the units are equally disciplined.