We won!!!!!!!!!! (Redskins vs. Raiders Post Game Thread)

[GridIron26]

The win yesterday wasn't exactly great one, but win is win. For those people who said we don't have lot of talents, I disagree. We have talents, it is simply matter of utilizing them on right plays. Someone said that Helu isn't consistent, it's not fair to call that because Helu played only 3rd down passing siutations, which is rarely, until Morris got hurt and all of sudden, he rushed well. I put all of our offense failures on Mike and Kyle, Kyle has been calling for lot of passing plays. Like the announcers showed on tv yesterday during the game, first three games - we called 28% running plays and 72% passing plays. Granted, it's mostly due to playing catch up games. However in all of beginning of the games, Kyle called for passing plays, which factored in our lack of moving ball. Until yesterday, Kyle finally called for more running plays, which played big role in winning the game. I only hope Kyle realize that in the bye week and call more running plays for rest of the season. We have Morris and Helu, along with Griffin - use all of them on pistol formations often and then we will have plenty opportunities to score points.

I'm still concerned about our defense, they played somewhat better yesterday. Tackling is improved in little ways, regardless it's still an issue. I'm not sure if our defense will improve lot when Jackson and Jenkins return, OLB and DE are not main issues on the defense. All of players need to do their assignments accordingly to improve our defense. So we should not expect for those two players to improve our defense greatly.

[SmootSmack]

Did I hear right that Logan Paulsen might be done for the year? This isn't any sort of insider info here, I thought I heard it mentioned today over the air. Is this true?

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Did I hear right that Logan Paulsen might be done for the year? This isn't any sort of insider info here, I thought I heard it mentioned today over the air. Is this true?

All I can find is that he left Oakland wearing a knee brace:
Redskins injuries: Alfred Morris has bruised ribs

And he's going to the doctor today:
Redskins TE Logan Paulsen sustained a knee injury in Sunday's

[artmonkforhallofamein07]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Did I hear right that Logan Paulsen might be done for the year? This isn't any sort of insider info here, I thought I heard it mentioned today over the air. Is this true?

Can't confirm with any web posts. The only thing I found was he did injure his knee and was hoping for good news today from the Drs...

Logan Paulsen - Washington Redskins - 2013 Player Profile - Rotoworld.com

[Bucket]

If we lose Logan.. That'll be terrible. I honestly think he's our most solid TE on the roster.

I also think Helu Jr. isn't getting enough touches. I know a lot of elements are involved, but he looked quick yesterday and at times look to have great vision.

[Southpaw]

Originally Posted by Bucket

I also think Helu Jr. isn't getting enough touches. I know a lot of elements are involved, but he looked quick yesterday and at times look to have great vision.

Helu is getting too many touches. He averaged 3.3 yard per carry yesterday. He's fine as the third down back catching passes out of the backfield, but his running ability between the tackles is nothing to write home about.

[GridIron26]

I saw on one play nearing end of the game after Raiders used up all of their timeouts, Paulsen was on ground holding his knee on one play but he managed to walk over to sideline to prevent referee to take injury timeout. So I'm assuming it has to do something with his knee. Paulsen might be a reserve player but he is vital to our running game, it will be huge blow if we do lose him for rest of the year.

[CultBrennan59]

Originally Posted by GridIron26

I saw on one play nearing end of the game after Raiders used up all of their timeouts, Paulsen was on ground holding his knee on one play but he managed to walk over to sideline to prevent referee to take injury timeout. So I'm assuming it has to do something with his knee. Paulsen might be a reserve player but he is vital to our running game, it will be huge blow if we do lose him for rest of the year.

I saw that as well. I also saw him wiggling his knee cap. Could be a knee cap problem as well. Either way it sucks. He is our best blocking TE by far.

[Bucket]

Robert was 10-13 118 yards yesterday off of play action.

I'm hoping we can brainstorm a way to take advantage of the A gap blitz, because that's the biggest issue for us on 3rd downs right now. Teams keep doing it to us because we havn't been able to stop it.

[artmonkforhallofamein07]

Morris is the bell cow and if someone isn't getting enough carries, it's him. HE needs the rock. All he ever does is get stronger and stronger over the course of a game. Helu is a nice reserve but he isn't better than our guy.

Why take away touches from a guy who was second in the NFL last year in yards and TDs?

[skinsfaninok]

Originally Posted by artmonkforhallofamein07

Morris is the bell cow and if someone isn't getting enough carries, it's him. HE needs the rock. All he ever does is get stronger and stronger over the course of a game. Helu is a nice reserve but he isn't better than our guy.

Why take away touches from a guy who was second in the NFL last year in yards and TDs?

it's stupid imo. He has like 30 carries for the entire year... maybe a little more but u get the point

[artmonkforhallofamein07]

Originally Posted by skinsfaninok

it's stupid imo. He has like 30 carries for the entire year... maybe a little more but u get the point

Yep.... I know we were playing from behind, but seriously. GIVE THE MAN THE ROCK.

[Southpaw]

Originally Posted by artmonkforhallofamein07

Why take away touches from a guy who was second in the NFL last year in yards and TDs?

For the same reason people would suggest benching the reigning Rookie of the Year in favor a guy that has seen six quarters(four of which against a garbage team) of full speed, NFL action.

[artmonkforhallofamein07]

Originally Posted by Southpaw

For the same reason people would suggest benching the reigning Rookie of the Year in favor a guy that has seen six quarters(four of which against a garbage team) of full speed, NFL action.

I don't even want to go there. That is one of the dumbest things I have heard. Bench him for Cousins... Why don't we play him and let him work all this rust and other problems out?

The only reason I would bench him now would be to make sure he is ready to go next year when we have a line that can actually block.

Putting Cousins behind our line is only going to lower his perceived trade value.

Offensive line and tackling, the reason we are 1-3.

[skinsfaninok]

^ scoring isnt so bad