Putting Things in Perspective

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Originally Posted by scowan

You know guys, one thing that has not been mentioned a lot in this thread is how Ramsey did not have Portis much Saturday night. I don't want Portis hurt, so there is no need to have him in there much, and Betts played pretty well, but I think a heavy dose of Portis will help Ramsey a great deal.

Yeah, but the problem is, you're going to have to resort to an all-out passing attack at some point during the season. Sometimes, the running game will be stymied, you'll get behind in the 4th quarter, and that's when you've got to be able to open it up through the air.

Portis isn't going to be there for all 16 games to save the day. There's two essential elements to moving the ball -- running and passing. Right now, we're OK with running it (and I stress OK, with Portis' 3.8 ypc average last year) and we're darn near dreadful passing it.

My guess is that Gibbs wanted to come out blazing to get a good first look at his QBs and wideouts and find out how much they've ascertained through all the minicamps during the offseason, and training camp so far.

It seems there are a few Redskins fans struggling to find excuses for another 10 point performance of which absolutely zero were engineered by Ramsey and the first teamers.