One Night Only: Offensive Packers-Redskins Game Review, Mythbusters Edition

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Originally Posted by htownskinfan

I just got finished watching the nfl rewind tape of the last game of reg season with the cowboys.They skip some plays on the nfl rewind but out of the plays I saw the skins used the Pistol formation 35-51 plays.Thats what almost 75% of the time?
Rg3 had terrible game passing,9-18 100yards,BUT out of the pistol he ran it 6 times for 63 yards even with the gimpy knee and brace.Everytime he ran it that I saw he ran it it was for over 8 or 9 yards and picked up a first down on every run,except for the time he ran it 10 yards for a td!

I cant see the pistol working for us this yr with no threat to run at qb and it doesnt look like our team is good enough to overcome it.The pistol covered up a LOT of our problems on the off line last yr.
With defense's blitzing us so much,combine that with our off line,RG3 not running with the ball and his accuracy problems it's just too much to overcome for us SO FAR.
Then combine that with how bad the defense is

The most common play they run from pistol is the stretch. The second most common is their play action series. Read option is probably the most common play after that, but I don't know of any game where they ran it more than five or six times.

I think -- and you point this out -- the fact that the team may not be good enough to overcome some run of the mill offensive struggles is probably the biggest story through two weeks, not RG3's knee/confidence.