What Is RIGHT with the Redskins?

[SBXVII]

Well where to start.....there's so much to mention:
We have one of the best WR tandems in ARE and Thrash. Almost arguably the two best Tackles in the league in Samuels and Jansen who will be staples in the offense for years to come. If not the best then close to it in Smoot as CB and Springs brings a lively Vetran factor to the defense.
Oh and how could I forget the two best kickers in the league in Suisham and Plackemeier. Certainly I hope they will help hold down the fort for years to come with their abiliby to come up big in clutch situations.
...and last but not least...whoever comes up with their magnificant game plan week in and week out should not only get a raise but be promoted. Whoever this individual is should have been interviewed as head coach during our Head Coach Search.

P.S.....I totally almost forgot the future of this team Jason Taylor. WOW. I don't think his motor ever stops. He is one constant machine in motion. Even the coach's have a hard time taking him out of the game.

[SBXVII]

Ok honestly I'm getting tired of other teams raiding our Practice Squad. Last week we lost someone and this week the Bears have taken our only tall WR that has not screwed up (only cause he has not been on the field) Devin Aromashodu. I think we need to start looking at all these other teams practice squads and find some O-Linemen and D-Linemen. Apparently it's ok to steal from another teams practice squad only to put them on your own practice squad. So I say lets get to it and look to our future now.

Then we can sign CJ in this off season. LOL.

[trufan1021]

Listen,All the talk about playoffs.colt brennan and so on is all just talk. Im a die-hard skins fan but i rather not lie to myself (I think thats how you get hurt) No look if you think about it redskins have not played well all season in the begining we were executing and etc. but we never showed the fans that we we guarantees to win the next game. Everygame with the redskins is a iffy 4th quater decicion. As far as the playoffs i hope so yeah everyone hopes so. but it all starts with cincy right now i dont even think we could be detroit,also the west coast offence is not going to work and zorns playcalling isnt going to work with the injuries on the O line, everyone must just hope we can pull these last games out,but we have ALOT to work on this offseason. including another WR,








WE NEED TO USE EVERY OPTION WE HAD SELLERS,MOSS,KELLY,THOMAS,RANDEL EL,
EVERYTHING

[T.O.Killa]

Dre Moore on Tampa's practice squad. We need to get him asap. Had alot of sacks at MD, is 6-4 315, was Tampa's 4th round pick and was the most athletic tackle at the combine. Ran a 4.88 40ytd.

[Ruhskins]

[QUOTE=Beemnseven;509627]I have just a few bones to pick here...

-- Golston, Montgomery, and Alexander at DT. Okay, solid pickups late in the draft when we never expected it, but still, no blue-chip difference makers here. Look at the best teams in the league right now -- all of them have a monster somewhere at the D-line. We've got nobody close to that label here. And there's nobody in the pipeline either. QUOTE]

Hey stop stealing my analysis!!! LOL. :smashfrea

"Defensive Line - I think our interior d-line has quietly underperformed this season. With Carter and Jason Taylor's lack of production, people forget that the interior tackles haven't done much either. While Golston and Montgomery are good young talents, we need a dominant DT that can push the line. Good defensive units like Minny (the Williamses), NYG (Coefield), Titans (Haynesworth), and Baltimore (Ngata) have strong DTs that push the line, helping the outside rushers get to the QB. I wouldn't mind for the team (if the salary cap permits it) going after someone like Haynesworth."

I think the team focused too much on pass rushers and forgot to deal with the DTs. Once again, the best pass rushers won't matter if you don't have DTs that can push the offensive line and disrupt both the pass and the run. Griffin is old and gets hurt, and both Golston and Montgomery are not cutting it.

[GTripp0012]

Simply put, you can't stop teams in the NFC East from running like we have all year without a great run defending defensive line. Which we have. Now, neither Golston or Griffin is much of a pass rushing threat from the interior. In today's game, I think you need to have dual purpose defensive tackles.

I also continue to feel that if we layed off the blitz more, which forces guys to shoot at certain gaps, we could get more sacks. Baltimore used a lot of max protect against us, so perhaps we'll destroy the Cincinnati OL.

[T.O.Killa]

Do any of our experts have an opinion HB Blades , seems to me his is playing great.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Simply put, you can't stop teams in the NFC East from running like we have all year without a great run defending defensive line. Which we have. Now, neither Golston or Griffin is much of a pass rushing threat from the interior. In today's game, I think you need to have dual purpose defensive tackles.

I also continue to feel that if we layed off the blitz more, which forces guys to shoot at certain gaps, we could get more sacks. Baltimore used a lot of max protect against us, so perhaps we'll destroy the Cincinnati OL.

Our blitzes don't work (see Giants game) and rushing just the front four gives the opposing QBs an eternity to throw.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

Our blitzes don't work (see Giants game) and rushing just the front four gives the opposing QBs an eternity to throw.

Well, if the blitzes don't work, like you and I both believe, then rushing four wouldn't give them any more time to throw.

I don't know if you caught the stat that Al Michaels threw out that basically said that the Redskins came into the game with with 99 blitzes of 6 or more people, tops in the league. But they only have 6 sacks on those plays (6%). So if 94 percent of the time we are blitzing the house we're NOT getting a sack, we're obviously not impeding what they like to do nearly enough. I mean, yeah, we're forcing the ball out fast, and against bad offenses (St. Louis, Cleveland, Pittsburgh) that can be enough, but if our front four can get there almost as fast as we can with six guys, then we should basically never be blitzing.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by T.O.Killa

Do any of our experts have an opinion HB Blades , seems to me his is playing great.

Blades is really getting killed against TEs. We were number one in the NFL against defending TEs when Doughty, Horton, and Washington had them. But the last two weeks, teams are realizing that Blades will buy a play fake and you can slip Kevin Boss or Todd Heap out wide open. This is what happened on that 4th down play.

He's great against the run though. Plays much more aggressively than McIntosh and hits hard for a guy his size.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Blades is really getting killed against TEs. We were number one in the NFL against defending TEs when Doughty, Horton, and Washington had them. But the last two weeks, teams are realizing that Blades will buy a play fake and you can slip Kevin Boss or Todd Heap out wide open. This is what happened on that 4th down play.

He's great against the run though. Plays much more aggressively than McIntosh and hits hard for a guy his size.

This is not good, Fletch and Washington are getting old (esp Washington with all the injuries). I hope Blades develops or we can get a young good player in the draft or free agency.

[GTripp0012]

Redskins Sacks:
Andre Carter 3
Demetric Evans 3
Rocky McIntosh 2.5
Anthony Montgomery 2
Kedric Golston 2
Lorenzo Alexander 2
Jason Taylor 1
Corneilius Griffin 1
Chris Wilson 1
Chris Horton 1
LaRon Landry 0.5

Redskins who have double digit pressures:
Andre Carter 31
Demetric Evans 13
Anthony Montgomery 11
London Fletcher 10

Redskins with 3 or more hits on QB
Demetric Evans 4
Andre Carter 3
Corneilius Griffin 3

Redskins with 2 or more batted passes
Jason Taylor 7
Andre Carter 2
Demetric Evans 2

No player has been hurt more by the increased blitzing than Andre Carter, whose 31 pressures would have produced AT LEAST ten sacks if not for all the guys directly in the face of the QB and the hot routes by the WRs.

[GTripp0012]

Phillip Daniels '07: 2.5 sacks, no hits on QB, 4 pressures in 16 games
Demetric Evans '08: 3 sacks, 4 hits on QB, 13 pressures in 13 games

Anthony Montgomery '07: 0.5 sacks, 4 hits on QB, 2 pressures
Anthony Montgomery '08: 2 sacks, 2 hits on QB, 11 pressures

Corneilius Griffin '07: 2.5 sacks, 7 hits on QB, 5 pressures
Corneilius Griffin '08: 1 sack, 3 hits on QB, 8 pressures

What I'm saying is that we've seen measureable upgrade at two positions on the DL over last year, some decline at DT with Griffin, and Carter's producing at his normal level, but the sacks stats are very skewed by Blache's schemes. Don't be fooled here: our DL is better than it was last year. The small decline on defense is somewhat schematic, but a lot of it is in the back seven.

[sportscurmudgeon]

GTripp:

The reason I will stop short of saying that the Skins have a great run defensive line is what happenbed to that line in the fourth quarter of the Dallas game and the fourth quarter of the Baltimore game. When the Skins needed a stop in both of those games to have a shot to win the game AND when the offense needed to run the ball down the Skins throat - - the offense did just that. Both teams lined up and ran right at the defensive line and pushed them around. ON just those two drives - - with the game in the balance - - I think the offense ran the ball 20 times and never had to punt the ball.

That does not happen to great defensive lines.

I agree that the Skins' DL is better against the run than it is at pressuring the passer, but it is not a great defensive line against the run.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

GTripp:

The reason I will stop short of saying that the Skins have a great run defensive line is what happenbed to that line in the fourth quarter of the Dallas game and the fourth quarter of the Baltimore game. When the Skins needed a stop in both of those games to have a shot to win the game AND when the offense needed to run the ball down the Skins throat - - the offense did just that. Both teams lined up and ran right at the defensive line and pushed them around. ON just those two drives - - with the game in the balance - - I think the offense ran the ball 20 times and never had to punt the ball.

That does not happen to great defensive lines.

I agree that the Skins' DL is better against the run than it is at pressuring the passer, but it is not a great defensive line against the run.

I think the bigger problem with the run defense is on the linebackers. It seems like there are more than a few occassions that the linemen steer the running backs toward the linebackers and the linebackers just don't make the play