Five Things I Want to See the Redskins Do

[mheisig]

Originally Posted by jsnyder03

1) Try an occasional special teams play (example: Direct snap to Cartwright in a punt formation, run right. B Mitchell was good for 20 yards every time during Gibbs 1)

2) Bring S Taylor closer to the line of scrimmage. 15+ yards over the top of R Moss every play! Just switch it up already. Put him 8 yards off line, at snap Springs blitzes from blind side, and Taylor meets R Moss (er.. the opposing WR) at the 4 yard mark and knocks his block off! (I hope that's legal within the 5 yard contact zone?)

3) Run more JC from shotgun. If cb plays off our wr, quick slant. If cb is pressing, pump and go. Next play, inside handoff to Portis (Dallas & NY have used this play effectively against us for years!)

4) Use middle of field with wr's more. We run all our deep passes on the sideline, and JC isn't accurate enough to make the play consistently. If our wr is one on one, have JC put a little air under the ball where the wr has some room to run under it.

5) Show more emotion on the sideline. Get the guys pumped up and excited to make a play. Our kick off return team seems to do this (I was there Sunday against the Pats and saw a million of them) but for the most part we fail to add the little extra juice.

Far and away the most signicant is my #1 item. In four years of Gibbs 2, how many times have we faked a special teams play, tried a surprise on-sides kick, used an athletic QB for a draw or bootleg, etc? Let's start playing to WIN the game!!!

You play a lot of Madden, don't you?

[70Chip]

One thing Iwould like to see is Mike Sellers actually make a decent lead block. Or any kind of block for that matter. If he's going to whiff like he has been, we're better off with Yoder in the game.

I would also like to see more disguises and variations from the defense. You can't do the same thing 60 times a game all year long.

[jsnyder03]

Originally Posted by mheisig

You play a lot of Madden, don't you?

Never played Madden, but I am passionate about the Redskins. Like most on this site, I'm a little too fanatical.

As a side note, being a CT guy, I rarely get to see a Redskins game live. From a friend, I got tickets 6 rows off the field, right behind the Redskins bench, 2 years in a row. Great view and well worth it, but the two games were preseason #3 last year (41 - 0) and game 7 this year (52 - 7). Talk about going from pre-game elation, to post-game denial.

Now, back to reality (work)

[firstdown]

1. TD
2. TD
3. TD
4. TD
5. TD
with two from the WR's

[Cowell]

If James Thrash plays I say we use him McCardell and Caldwell to go over the middle. Thrash knows how to take a beating and has done it for a while. Why not send him over the middle? It's not like we are going to lose anything huge.

[JWsleep]

Good thread--agree with lots that's been said.

1. Run for a decent average
2. Convert on 3rd down, especially 3rd and short.
3. Explosive run for more than 30 yards
4. Pass TD to WR of more than 20 yards
5. Fire, for the WHOLE GAME, from the whole team.

[JWsleep]

I'm confident we'll see more blitzing this week--for the first time in a while we're not playing a top-ranked passing team. So we can take a few more risks with our coverage.

[holcknowsbest]

my five things

1. Quit playing cover 2, its a gay defense and good teams pick you apart. It is a defense designed to not give up the big plays. however teams take your will when you are out there the whole game and they complete pass after pass on you. When Gibbs is gone, i pray to god in heaven that greg williams is too. that guy is to stubborn in his ways to be a good head coach or head coach of defense. the patriots ( f-them) had kids calling plays and whooped his ass.

2. Change up the right side of that line. Fabini isnt getting it done, i am sure a change is in order. get someone in the game that can at least run block, run blocking is retardedly easy. yes there are techniques but the bottom line is you know the snap count he doesnt so come off the ball maul his ass. its a tough and will too more than technique and right now they dont have it.

3. Laron Landry in the box, playing run and short passes. get him matched up on some running backs. get him in the backfield where he played his entire carrer at lsu making plays. the guy is so instinctive at the line of scrimmage or in the box that its a shame we dont use him more there, or its bad coaching by my main man greg f-ing williams.

4. Do what has worked....i dont care if you go three and out on the first 12 plays of the game...RUN THE GOD DAMN BALLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!! two reasons are we dont have the recievers or the quarterback to open it up. j campbell will never throw 30 touchdowns but he could still be good if they just ran the football.

5. Apologize to Marky B. Yup the OL' 8 car. the stand up man that he is. he never played as bad as we made it out to be. i dont care if its JC's 1st game or 100th game, our offense has never looked worse than it did against the Pats. lots of contributors to that i know (no run game, blocking sucked, maybe some scheme) but mark brunell never let our offense look that bad no matter who we played.......Maybe, just f-ing maybe the guy who lead us to the playoffs by blowing out dallas, giants, and beating the eagles at the end of 05....was not as bad as we all said. i am and was a fan of Mark Brunell, and at the very least you should acknowledge that he wasnt the problem.