What's your take on our coaching?

[hooskins]

Loss falls squarely on coaching. I have heard a couple common suggestions why they shouldn't be judged harshly but none are valid IMO.

1) Redskins are a team rebuilding and were not projected to do well: I say bull. The Bills were projected to be garbage as well.

2)Injuries have taken their toll: Bills are on their 3rd left tackle. You would think our ends would have had a field-day. Also they have Chad Rinehart starting. Enough said.

3)Our WRs are terrible: All of the Bills receivers, from my understanding are undrafted nobodies. Stevie Johnson being the exception drafted in the 7th round. The same round Ryan Fitzpatrick was drafted in.

4)Our RBs are not good: Fred Jackson was a nobody until this year too.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by hooskins

Loss falls squarely on coaching. I have heard a couple common suggestions why they shouldn't be judged harshly but none are valid IMO.

1) Redskins are a team rebuilding and were not projected to do well: I say bull. The Bills were projected to be garbage as well.

2)Injuries have taken their toll: Bills are on their 3rd left tackle. You would think our ends would have had a field-day. Also they have Chad Rinehart starting. Enough said.

3)Our WRs are terrible: All of the Bills receivers, from my understanding are undrafted nobodies. Stevie Johnson being the exception drafted in the 7th round. The same round Ryan Fitzpatrick was drafted in.

4)Our RBs are not good: Fred Jackson was a nobody until this year too.

1. Not by me and Tripp they weren't
2. Fair enough
3. Our WRs need to get the ball thrown to them more. Won't happen until we get a solid QB I suppose (put Rex back in!....*runs and hides*)
4. Shoot, Jackson's been on my fantasy football team for three years running (no pun intended) now

Blame goes all around

[NC_Skins]

Originally Posted by hooskins

1) Redskins are a team rebuilding and were not projected to do well: I say bull. The Bills were projected to be garbage as well.

Well, Smoot and Tripp both called the Bills the surprise team, but I no doubt had them in the Luck Sweepstakes.


Bengals
Dolphins
Bills
Panthers
Colts (after Manning's injury)


These are the teams I had pegged as the worst in the league. The Panthers are playing much better than their record to say the least.

[hooskins]

Just like any major organization the buck stops with leadership. That is the FO and coaching.

[MTK]

I don't think anyone really thought the Bills would be this good, but garbage? I thought they had .500 potential coming into this season.

[davy]

I think Kyle gets way too much credit for the Texans offense. My understanding is that it is Gary Kubiak's offense and KS was just a playcaller.

I don't remember there being too much anguish on Texans message boards when he came here, in fact quite a few posters were glad to see the back of him.

[SBXVII]

I thought it was 3 to 4 weeks ago this was a team going to the SB? lol. Not really but you know what I mean. The OL is decimated. In one game our OL went to hell and a hand basket. I still feel the OL was targeted purposefully because thats what was holding the glue together. With out a decent OL you see what we have. All the other NFCE teams have had their share of OL problems but us up until the Eagles game.

I can't prove it. but I can say I still feel like Andy Reid purposefully had our OL targeted in order to benifit his outcome of the game.

Beyond that, our QB's are not top tier talented QB's. They are #2's at best. Backups. But as some others have said the offseason target was defense. Just look at it... DE/LB in the 1st round, NT in the 2nd round. Hopefully this next offseason the team focuses on QB, OL, CB, and WR. Preferably a QB in round 1.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by SBXVII

I thought it was 3 to 4 weeks ago this was a team going to the SB? lol. Not really but you know what I mean. The OL is decimated. In one game our OL went to hell and a hand basket. I still feel the OL was targeted purposefully because thats what was holding the glue together. With out a decent OL you see what we have. All the other NFCE teams have had their share of OL problems but us up until the Eagles game.

I can't prove it. but I can say I still feel like Andy Reid purposefully had our OL targeted in order to benifit his outcome of the game.

Beyond that, our QB's are not top tier talented QB's. They are #2's at best. Backups. But as some others have said the offseason target was defense. Just look at it... DE/LB in the 1st round, NT in the 2nd round. Hopefully this next offseason the team focuses on QB, OL, CB, and WR. Preferably a QB in round 1.

Well the Eagles cheap shotted Kory L. so you are correct there.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

Well the Eagles cheap shotted Kory L. so you are correct there.

Yeah but did Reid put them up to that?

I seriously doubt it.

[CrustyRedskin]

LMAO! Cheapshoting this team would be a waste of time and effort. It really looks like other teams have to go out of their way kick the skins ass.

[Lotus]

I don't hate Kyle for his last name. I just think he has done poorly in leading the offense.

We don't have a real QB. Kyle should have known this months ago. Yet Kyle insists on having our QB's win our games. He puts the offense on the shoulders of our QB's, not on the running game. And with Rex and Beck that is not sensible.

What we could be doing is reverting to old-school football: reliance on a solid running game and a solid defense to keep us in games. Would we win the Super Bowl this way? Probably not, not without a passing attack. But we would win a bunch of games and be a better team than we are now.

A lack of a real QB is an excuse for Kyle that only goes so far. A good coordinator finds a way to adapt and Kyle does not seem to do this well.

[MTK]

Problem is we can't run the ball effectively right now either. The injuries on the OL have really hurt.

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

Problem is we can't run the ball effectively right now either. The injuries on the OL have really hurt.

It's hard to run the ball with only one running play. The defense already knows what we're going to run. If that one play isn't working then time to put in some more run plays. Time to put Banks in the wildcat. Buffalo did it so why can't we? Kyle has no idea how to diversify his offense.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

It's hard to run the ball with only one running play. The defense already knows what we're going to run. If that one play isn't working then time to put in some more run plays. Time to put Banks in the wildcat. Buffalo did it so why can't we? Kyle has no idea how to diversify his offense.

With the state of our o-line right now, Banks would get killed running the wildcat. I don't fault anyone for not running the ball now, but we didn't run the ball when the o-line was healthy.

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

With the state of our o-line right now, Banks would get killed running the wildcat. I don't fault anyone for not running the ball now, but we didn't run the ball when the o-line was healthy.

Not buying it. So tired of the injury excuse. One run play isn't what I call a good game plan. How about forcing a below average defense have to prepare for more run plays?