Seahawks Redskins Rookie Showdown

[RobH4413]

Originally Posted by Lotus

I re-watched the Panthers game to remind myself of what life was like before The Streak. Some observations:

1) Our schemes on both offense and defense now are much more creative
2) Our receivers are dropping the ball much less
3) Believe it or not, Tyler Polumbus is playing better. Although he still gets run over, the frequency is less
4) We haven't blown as many coverages and so are not giving up 80 yard plays
5) We have significantly cleaned up our act in terms of penalties

This is key. Our receivers are making plays. Straight ballin at times if you ask me. Ike Hilliard has done a great job with this corps throughout the turnaround. The routes are run with confidence- and to tell you the truth- I actually attribute that to RG3 scrambling a bit less.

I'm basing this off intuition and intuition alone- but I'd like to look at the amount of time RG3 has the ball vs. earlier in the year. I feel like the timing of the offense is more in step, and that helps the receivers run efficient routes.

That's also why these Seattle corners scare me. They're big and scary. They will bump some of our smaller receivers and knock them off their routes. We will really need them to step up and get physical. They will need to maintain their routes and not let them get in their heads. - and use our skill- SPEED- to beat them.

[SkinzWin]

Originally Posted by RobH4413

This is key. Our receivers are making plays. Straight ballin at times if you ask me. Ike Hilliard has done a great job with this corps throughout the turnaround. The routes are run with confidence- and to tell you the truth- I actually attribute that to RG3 scrambling a bit less.

I'm basing this off intuition and intuition alone- but I'd like to look at the amount of time RG3 has the ball vs. earlier in the year. I feel like the timing of the offense is more in step, and that helps the receivers run efficient routes.

That's also why these Seattle corners scare me. They're big and scary. They will bump some of our smaller receivers and knock them off their routes. We will really need them to step up and get physical. They will need to maintain their routes and not let them get in their heads. - and use our skill- SPEED- to beat them.

They have two good corners. We have more receivers that have been playing at a high level. Garcon, Moss, Hankerson, Morgan, Robinson. Paulson has really stepped up and improved his receiving skills since Fred Davis went out. If they do shut down our run game and two two corners, I think we can work 3 and 4 wide receiver sets and find holes in their zone coverage (I am assuming they will still play a zone).

I think that's why Detroit who was only a 4 win team beat Seattle. They are obviously a passing team and although Calvin Johnson was taken away, the rest of the receivers stepped up and had big days. RGIII has shown he can make all the throws so I think this is something we can cope with, should they be successful at slowing our run game (which I think is unlikely) and taking Garcon and our #2 out with Browner and Sherman.