The redskins performance tonight will be considered a failure if....

[MTK]

Originally Posted by GMScud

I could care less about winning the game. But let's be real- lack of offense buried our season last year. It needs to better this season and thus far we've seen no indications that it will be. This is the most important preseason test, and it will be disappointing if we don't move the ball and score a few times. I wonder how dismissive you guys would be about the preseason if we were lighting up the scoreboard.....

Sure disappointing for now... but how will it impact the season come September?

I think after the legendary Spurrier preseason (Osaka anyone?), quite a few people would be pretty dismissive if we were blowing teams out in August.

[53Fan]

The passing game doesn't improve from last week with the starters in, and our starting defense doesn't get a good share of 3 and outs. Either one would be a disappointment. Combined would be a failure.

[Trample the Elderly]

Originally Posted by Skinny Tee

That's really abstract...how do you quantify gel?

I was being sarcastic. Everytime they interview Haynesworth that's what he says.

[freddyg12]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Sure disappointing for now... but how will it impact the season come September?

I think after the legendary Spurrier preseason (Osaka anyone?), quite a few people would be pretty dismissive if we were blowing teams out in August.

at the same time though, remember getting blown out by the pats in the 2006 preseason? I didn't think anything of it, cause it's just preseason, but that game was foreshadowing for a difficult year, while the pats had another good year.

Preseason is hard for me to gauge things on. Before free agency you could predict the season fairly well and good teams usually didn't do that well in preseason. Now it seems there are so many teams that need the extra rehearsal time due to coach & player turnover, so sometimes the starters are playing fairly hard.

[MTK]

The Lions were 4-0 last preseason, was that a foreshadowing of going 0-16?

[artmonkforhallofamein07]

this was the reuglar season and we lost the game....

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by gibbsisgod

They have given up the most yards so far this preseason. I know, I know, its only ......I am just saying.

Yeah but this is the preseason game that "counts"

[BleedBurgundy]

Campbell goes 1 for anything. Or throws more picks than scores. Or sucks out loud.

[30gut]

If Zorn takes the same approach he's taking in the other preseason games.
I know Billichick will take the game seriously and if Zorn doesn't he's gonna get abused.

[Schneed10]

Someone important to the team gets seriously injured.

Other than that, dress rehearsal or not, it's still just preseason.

[WaldSkins]

If Daniels outshines Pineapple Jesus

[GTripp0012]

More worried about the defense than the offense at this point, but I do expect to see the pass rush harassing Brady for the entire first half.

It's a failure if Brady makes a preseason highlight reel out of our secondary, or if we suffer a major injury on either side of the ball. I'm okay with a boring performance. I just don't want a complete embarrassment that will be on NFL TA the rest of the season, clip by clip.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by Lotus

I meant 10-14 points by the half, too, which would be 20-28 for a whole game. I thought the starters would play only about a half.

Even with that, so much of the second half strategy is based on halftime adjustments that we can't extrapolate a half of points over a game.

Understanding, fully, that your point was that 10-14 points in a half is completely sufficient, my counterpoint is that we won't have any idea how sufficient that is until we play a whole game, start to finish.

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

More worried about the defense than the offense at this point, but I do expect to see the pass rush harassing Brady for the entire first half.

Disagree. First team offense needs to perform and puts some points of the board. I think this would ease alot of people's mind going into the season: Fans, media, FO, coaches and the defense. I think the first team Offense getting shut out or turning the ball over a couple times would be much more detrimental for the confidence of this team. I feel the defense has more ability to bounce back if they get beat up tonite.

[MTK]

I think it's safe to say the first half was anything but a failure