Redskins vs. Bengals game thread

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Originally Posted by bjschmonsees

Why does this team always start slow? Is it the players? It can't be the coach, because this has been a problem for more than a decade...Gibbs, Norv, Zorn, Spurrier...None of them could ever motivate a team that has enought talent to win a playoff game... I'm starting to believe that the native americans who put a curse on this team have been very effective...

A lot of it's the home field advantage that they have, which explains the Ravens, Seahawks, and Bengals slow starts.

We always seem to overcome those starts though and play just fine. Problem comes when we earn a touchdown, or at least a short shot at a touchdown, and it's taken away from us because the zebras don't know what "forward progress" is.

Passing offense, Campbell especially, but the protection as well was pretty good today. Run blocking was not great, and I'm afraid that's how it is going to be the rest of the year.

Defense has no excuse though for giving up 17 points in the first quarter AND not getting them off the field in the second half. Blache needs to go. He's awful.

If they have to clean house on the coaching staff, then they have to do what they have to do. But until someone else is drawing up the defensive gameplan, I think we will never produce a better defense than this one.

I would actually clean all the defensive coaches, just because I think they have such a jaded idea of what the problems are, that any solutions that these guys come up with are only going to hurt us in the future.

Campbell's impressive. He's just not getting any help from people who aren't Mike Sellers.