Redskins vs. Steelers Preseason Pre-Game Thread

[mlmpetert]

Originally Posted by redsk1

I believe this guy John Keim was on sports radio 910 yesterday. He mentioned that Banks has some off the field issues...attitude type stuff. The coaching staff doesn't want to make a long committment to this guy and don't be suprised if he doesn't get cut. Really surprising b/c i've never heard it before.

But yes i'd guess Paul or Austin for that last spot. Paul is known as a special teams standout right? KR?

Moss, Gaffney, Armstrong, Hankerson, and Paul I'm guessing.

Yeah my boss was talking about this today. Apparently Banks has a big attitude, i never saw him as that type of guy before either. I think SS alluded to that a incident may have happened with Banks that we dont know about, in addition to the stabbing thing. Maybe it was his locker-room attitude.

And although i think kickoff returners are now significantly less important i agree with Buster that punt returns is where he needs to be a weapon at. Although I was more impressed with his punt return then his kick returns there’s a much more important duty when returning punts; making sure you don’t drop it…. which banks has had a little bit of trouble with. I say if he drops one kick off or one punt in the pre-season hes gone. Either way I think hes on the outside looking in and is gonna have to have a bunch of nice returns, no drops, and one TD return or doesn’t make it. He was the funnest thing to watch on the team last year and I hope he makes it, just not sure at what cost.

[Longtimefan]

Originally Posted by mlmpetert

Yeah my boss was talking about this today. Apparently Banks has a big attitude, i never saw him as that type of guy before either. I think SS alluded to that a incident may have happened with Banks that we dont know about, in addition to the stabbing thing. Maybe it was his locker-room attitude.

And although i think kickoff returners are now significantly less important i agree with Buster that punt returns is where he needs to be a weapon at. Although I was more impressed with his punt return then his kick returns there’s a much more important duty when returning punts; making sure you don’t drop it…. which banks has had a little bit of trouble with. I say if he drops one kick off or one punt in the pre-season hes gone. Either way I think hes on the outside looking in and is gonna have to have a bunch of nice returns, no drops, and one TD return or doesn’t make it. He was the funnest thing to watch on the team last year and I hope he makes it, just not sure at what cost.

Where kickoff returns are concerned, I look for ST coordinators to devise schemes where kickoffs will be higher and shorter with hopes of being able to pin the receiving team inside the twenty as opposed to just kicking the ball into the endzone and the receiving team being awarded the twenty yd. line automatically. Savvy ST coordinators will take advantage of the rule.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by Longtimefan

Where kickoff returns are concerned, I look for ST coordinators to devise schemes where kickoffs will be higher and shorter with hopes of being able to pin the receiving team inside the twenty as opposed to just kicking the ball into the endzone and the receiving team being awarded the twenty yd. line automatically. Savvy ST coordinators will take advantage of the rule.

For sure. And I don't think it will take very long. Probably by Week four of the season, a number of teams will be using directional strategies on kickoffs.

And you'll need a good return man to force other teams to kick touchbacks to get even decent field position. I expect leaguewide points scored to decrease significantly this season.

[SBXVII]

Originally Posted by Longtimefan

Where kickoff returns are concerned, I look for ST coordinators to devise schemes where kickoffs will be higher and shorter with hopes of being able to pin the receiving team inside the twenty as opposed to just kicking the ball into the endzone and the receiving team being awarded the twenty yd. line automatically. Savvy ST coordinators will take advantage of the rule.

totally agree with you and this is only preseason. No one wants to divulge all their sneaky tricks right now. So I'm guessing most teams will simply kick through the endzone so there is no injuries prior to the season starting.