The Sky is NOT Falling!

[wilsowilso]

If Kyle Shanahan gets his head out of his ass and makes significant adjustments to the Garbage Red Zone play calling we could be a really solid team.

One other thing. We have absolutely NO DEEP THREAT PASSING GAME. NONE.
Even with Armstrong being hurt our ability to get behind the last level of the secondary has been a SHIT SHOW this year.

Otherwise with a win next week I will be very happy with where the team is at through 1/4 of the season! Must beat the Rams.

Also Ryan Kerrigan is a BEAST.

[skinsguy]

No doubt about it, this team has greatly improved from a year ago, and eventually, everybody will stand up and start to take notice. but, the 'skins still have a ways to go and pieces that still need finding. The sky is definitely not falling, but this team is more than good enough (IMHO) to win games that they should be able to win (such as last night's game.)

I look at it like this: any of our opponents that are 8-8 and below should all be opponents that the Redskins beat - no excuses! It's those teams that are consistent playoff and Super Bowl caliber teams (such as the New England Patriots) that this team should measure their progress by.

[WilbursHomie]

This one is completely on the play calling. 100 percent. We played exactly to our talent level last night and it's the coaches job to play to those strengths and weaknesses too. Ware's gonna beat Brown, Hall can't cover Bryant 1 on 1, Rex is gonna do stupid stuff randomly. These are the facts. SO DONT CALL PLAYS LIKE THEYRE NOT, KYLE!!! Anyone that says Brown should do a better job against Ware should be banned for life from this forum. He is not capable of doing a better job, ever, under any circumstance, just understand that. So you call plays knowing he's coming, not how things should go in a perfect world. Insanity is thinking a mediocre player is going to not play mediocre football.

[SBXVII]

Originally Posted by wilsowilso

If Kyle Shanahan gets his head out of his ass and makes significant adjustments to the Garbage Red Zone play calling we could be a really solid team.

One other thing. We have absolutely NO DEEP THREAT PASSING GAME. NONE.
Even with Armstrong being hurt our ability to get behind the last level of the secondary has been a SHIT SHOW this year.

Otherwise with a win next week I will be very happy with where the team is at through 1/4 of the season! Must beat the Rams.

Also Ryan Kerrigan is a BEAST.

Ok I can't argue against it but maybe if the team would give even close to similar reps at WR to the rest of the WR's that they probably do Moss, Gaffney, and Armstrong then the rest of the WR's might be better prepared. I still don't know what happened to Armstrong all I heard was he was on the sideline with out pads on from what the radio said and Paul and Austin were playing in his place. Personally Austin should be used more, Hankerson should be given atleast a couple a catches a game to get him some playing time and to develope him. I guess I missed what Stallworth was able to provide this week or was he de-activated?

What I'm seeing is the Skins trying to replicate what the Patriots are doing with 2 or 3 TE's in a game.

[Mechanix544]

Originally Posted by SBXVII

Ok I can't argue against it but maybe if the team would give even close to similar reps at WR to the rest of the WR's that they probably do Moss, Gaffney, and Armstrong then the rest of the WR's might be better prepared. I still don't know what happened to Armstrong all I heard was he was on the sideline with out pads on from what the radio said and Paul and Austin were playing in his place. Personally Austin should be used more, Hankerson should be given atleast a couple a catches a game to get him some playing time and to develope him. I guess I missed what Stallworth was able to provide this week or was he de-activated?

What I'm seeing is the Skins trying to replicate what the Patriots are doing with 2 or 3 TE's in a game.

We have all the talent in the world in our TE corps, Cooley, Davis and a more than able Paulsen, but we dont have one thing. Tom Brady knowing his plays inside and out, and being able to think on the fly and progress thru his reads quickly. Also, what the hell is up with Rex. I thought this was the "**** it im going deep" guy? What I have seen the last couple weeks are a bunch of floaters (not the toilet type........well, I guess maybe.....) and plenty of balls without ANY mustard on them whatsoever. Seriously, where is the arm this guy supposedly has? His throws were flat and had way too much arc, but you could tell he was trying to zing it.......what gives rex?

[backrow]

The Sky is TOO falling! NASA said it fell into the Pacific Ocean.


Ooooooooooooooh! My bad! That was only a 6 ton NASA Sattelite, not the entire sky!

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by SBXVII

What I'm seeing is the Skins trying to replicate what the Patriots are doing with 2 or 3 TE's in a game.

Im pretty sure that the patriots have one TE on their roster right now. And the packers have 5, but only use one with any consistency. Crazy league.

Anyway,I just wanted to say that I have no problem with haslett's 3rd and 21 call. I'm pretty sure that we went cover 0 and blitzed everyone on the play last week when Kerrigan got a touchdown. It was a call that would have been praised as genius if it had worked. Just like shanahans 4th down call last week that got us a touchdown. Both shanahan and haslett are aggressive, gutsy playcallers. Sometimes it'll result in big plays. Other times we'll get burned. As far as I'm concerned, grossman and Rocca lost the game for us on two bad plays. It happens. I'm upset, but I'm not concerned. I don't feel that this loss is indicative of any negative trend. We lost a close game to a division rival in their house. Time to move on and focus on the rams.

[wilsowilso]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

Im pretty sure that the patriots have one TE on their roster right now.

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Patriots have two BEAST young tight ends. Gronkowski and Hernandez.

[Jontrem]

Originally Posted by wilsowilso

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Patriots have two BEAST young tight ends. Gronkowski and Hernandez.

Hernandez is currently out with a strained MCL and he was inactive last week, also they dropped Gronkowski's brother, who is also a TE...so they may only have one active TE.

[Alvin Walton]

yes, a lot of last nights plays were WTF moments.
Especially Cooleys second running play. Dallas saw that coming a mile away.

[44ever]

Originally Posted by Alvin Walton

yes, a lot of last nights plays were WTF moments.
Especially Cooleys second running play. Dallas saw that coming a mile away.

Thats where I started shaking my head and never stopped from that point on. Hightower, Helu, Torain should be the only people touching the ball. That was a unnecessary playcall and a complete waste of a down.

[mooby]

Boy, it seems like we need one of these threads every single year. With that said, I agree. We're 2-1, we're definitely better than last year, and we need to keep working harder to fix our mistakes. We've got a good opportunity next week with the Rams, although it does suck that S.Jax will be back, as he always has good games against us, but there's a lot to be happy about and a lot to improve on.

[Meks]

seems every season there is a thread titled this way and guess wat ....... the sky falls.

[CrazyCanuck]

Originally Posted by Meks

seems every season there is a thread titled this way and guess wat ....... the sky falls.

Classic. As a wise poster once wrote, "it's funny because it's true".

[CrazyCanuck]

Originally Posted by Meks

seems every season there is a thread titled this way and guess wat ....... the sky falls.

You still deserve one of these though...