Smoot Doesn't Lay The Smack Down (Mooby Does) (Redskins V. Cardinals)

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Originally Posted by The Goat

Smackdown on Haslett. I think our defensive scheme was lackluster in the 2nd half. Kolb had a terrible 1st half and our secondary played relatively well early in the game. We should have come out (defensively) in the 3rd quarter expecting them to try to pound the pigskin w/ Wells, as they did. We should have put more guys in the box and not let them get anything going. Something is up w/ the right side defensively as most of the big gains on the ground seem to go there. Orakpo struggling in run defense/containment? Doughty? Hard for me to say.

Arizona ran 3 times in the first half, so if Haslett was going to think they would come out and try to shove it down our throats, he would have been totally guessing. I don't like it when halftime adjustments are total guesses in the dark.

The truth, in my opinion, is because the onus was on the Cardinals offense to change its approach, the Redskins needed to have more than a 3 point lead at half and kicking off based on the way they dominated. It's too easy to go in at half and find one thing about the defense you can attack.

The Cardinals did win the halftime adjustments, but that's to be expected when the Redskins were utterly schematically dominant in the first half. The only place to go for the Cards coaches was up, despite the score.