JLC Rant/Rip on Playcalling

[dgack]

Here's a reason to be optomistic: after starting 2-0, if we play .500 ball the rest of the way, we finish 9-7, and that's been good enough to make the playoffs something like 63% of the time in the NFL since 1960.

Okay, we lost one against a pretty suspect team. We need to get one back, that's all.

[JWsleep]

Well put, dgack.

What's kinda funny here is that JLac is saying we DIDN'T run enough, while meanwhile all over the panicked redskin online nation, people are saying we we're TOO CONSERVATIVE on offense. Can't be both, can it?

Whatever. It's done. Let's learn from this and get better! What else can we do? Give up? Quit? Fire everybody? Trade for a magic player who will solve everything? We've tried all these in the recent past. They do not work.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by JWsleep

Well put, dgack.

What's kinda funny here is that JLac is saying we DIDN'T run enough, while meanwhile all over the panicked redskin online nation, people are saying we we're TOO CONSERVATIVE on offense. Can't be both, can it?

I don't think its either, but we certainly didn't run too much. It's nothing short of flat out wrong to say we did. Running 8 times (one was an end around, another a scramble) in a half that started with a two touchdown lead is never too much regardless of the circumstances.

I don't necessarily agree with JLC either here, but his argument is much better than the dribble I've been reading on the Warpath the last 27 hours.

[JWsleep]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

I don't necessarily agree with JLC either here, but his argument is much better than the dribble I've been reading on the Warpath the last 27 hours.

Try extremeskins--it's the end of the world over there. We are the "intelligent fans", after all!

[SmootSmack]

Interesting article from almost exactly a year ago

Redskins' Saunders Says Run Must Be Established - washingtonpost.com

And there's this

Redskins off and running - - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

Amazing. I was certain that Saunders wanted only to pass and Gibbs was holding him back by making him run the ball

[MTK]

I'm not buying the play calling excuse and in general I haven't been a big fan of always blaming that area after a loss.

When you have proper execution is the play calling even an issue?

If JC hit a few more throws would we even be disussing the play calling? If his throw to Sellers at the goal line was on point is the play calling a problem?

If Portis doesn't bobble the exchange is the play calling a problem?

If Betts doesn't trip are we talking about the play calling today?

[RobH4413]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

I'm not buying the play calling excuse and in general I haven't been a big fan of always blaming that area after a loss.

When you have proper execution is the play calling even an issue?

If JC hit a few more throws would we even be disussing the play calling? If his throw to Sellers at the goal line was on point is the play calling a problem?

If Portis doesn't bobble the exchange is the play calling a problem?

If Betts doesn't trip are we talking about the play calling today?

I am officially done talking about play calling. I've spent way to much time over analyzing it. Plain in simple, you don't execute, you don't win.