No Audibles

boggles me this can happen in the modern NFL. KC never called audibles??

I think that Saunders tries to design his plays so that they are immune to any look the defense gives. Shades of Spurrier. Spurrier would have tried to block Demarcus Ware with Christian Fauria too.

What a depressing thought. Saunders is Steve Spurrier without the combination routes. He's Horizontal Spurrier.

All those passing plays have plans for what to do when the D blitzes. It worked fine in KC--and recall that Brunnell wasn't sacked toaday. The iggles blitzed on that one long throw to Lloyd, so if the blitz is handeled properly, it's an opportunity to make plays. We didn't handle the blitz well, no doubt. But it's not like this system isn't designed for blitzes. My guess is MB gets "happy feet" and misses the hot read. And the line missed some blitz pickups. Sure, we could have seen better play-calling. BUt without execution, it won't help.

As for the short throws, there is always more than one wideout in those sets. Brunnell just takes the first thing he sees, and that's that. MB doesn't want to get hit, so he takes the quick short read unless he clearly has all day. My guess is Campbell will take more hits and make more plays. And that will slow the blitz.

What the good QB's do is they move and slide in the pocket. Brady, Brees and Manning do it really well. They can feel the pressure, slide and stand tall in the pocket and make an accurate throw under pressure. Audibles are something that are needed in any offense so I'm not sure why this system does not have any. I played highschool football and we even had audibles in our system. Simply pathetic.

i think if the redskins had run the same offense they did last year this season with gibbs calling the plays,the redskins may have been undefeated up to this point.i think gibbs misjudged what a good play caller he was,and overestimated saunders!

I think that Saunders tries to design his plays so that they are immune to any look the defense gives. Shades of Spurrier. Spurrier would have tried to block Demarcus Ware with Christian Fauria too.

What a depressing thought. Saunders is Steve Spurrier without the combination routes. He's Horizontal Spurrier.

at least Spurrier knew the direction of the endzone. christ did i just say that??

i don't believe Saunder's offense was purely horizontal, i remember plenty of downfield, over the middle shots to Gonzalez. Cooley should be that guy here, he has some of the same ability.

at least Spurrier knew the direction of the endzone. christ did i just say that??

i don't believe Saunder's offense was purely horizontal, i remember plenty of downfield, over the middle shots to Gonzalez. Cooley should be that guy here, he has some of the same ability.

You guys have to realize that Saunders is not running the offese he want's to. KC the last four or five years were always a top ten rushing/passing offense. It all starts with the QB. And if you don't have the trigger man then it just does not work.

You guys have to realize that Saunders is not running the offese he want's to. KC the last four or five years were always a top ten rushing/passing offense. It all starts with the QB. And if you don't have the trigger man then it just does not work.

oh that last part i think we ALL realize.

Why audible? its not like the line blocks anyway.

Forget Audibles, they don't even seem to have hot reads. On good teams, the WRs and QB have this look they give each other. We on the other hand have this Nazi system that has no flexibility. You can't blame the players for that. I wish Gibbs would take over. Perhaps then we might win.

i think if the redskins had run the same offense they did last year this season with gibbs calling the plays,the redskins may have been undefeated up to this point.i think gibbs misjudged what a good play caller he was,and overestimated saunders!

I actually thought Gibbs was not doing a good job calling plays. Way too conservative.

Too many pages in the playbook!

Audibles are on pages 710-715 of the 700 page playbook