Week 1 Positives and Negatives

Watt basically won that game. He's going to do that this year. He owned the game.

I understand why the coaches didn't give more attention to blocking Watt. The Skins even tried to block Watt with a TE one-on-one, as if that was going to work. When Clowney went out of the game, it should have been a no brainer to double-team Watt.

I was very unimpressed with that entire game plan. From the playcalling, to the lack of attention paid to Watt, 0 designed runs for Griffin. It was Jim Zorn part 2. Oh, and don't get me started on that shitty reverse call deep in our own territory. Hopefully we'll see some improvements next week. Let's get DJax down the field a bit more, let's get RG3 on the move, and for god sakes, coach his ass up and get him to stop BACK-PEDDLING!

Watt basically won that game. He's going to do that this year. He owned the game.

I'm not ready to call him Reggie White as a few of those sacks were on Griffin. He pushed around our line a bit, but wasn't that to be expected? We made some plays on him in the run game. I would've liked to see Gruden have some designed rollouts to the left side and go away from him.

One more comparison.

Look at those 3 pictures again, BUT focus on TWilliams side. Pic 1 the line up is fairly mirrored of Watt/Polumbus. Pic 2 Trent is engaged and winning, Polumbus is engaged, but Watt is really nearly passed him. Pic 3 Trent is smoking a cigar, the Right Guard is looking for who else he can feed to Trent, and Polumbus is about a yard behind Watt.

We know Polumbus isn't Williams, and their other DE isn't Watt so obviously Trent should win his matchup, but just pointing out another way to look at those slides.

I'm not ready to call him Reggie White as a few of those sacks were on Griffin. He pushed around our line a bit, but wasn't that to be expected? We made some plays on him in the run game. I would've liked to see Gruden have some designed rollouts to the left side and go away from him.

QBs are under duress all over the league, and RG3 is no different. Plenty of big slow QBs are able to react quickly, step up and/or to the side and buy time to make a throw downfield. Stafford did it a bunch just last night. Just watch some other games. The contrast is stark.

It's not speed, but reaction time. RG3 did a much better job of reacting sooner in the 2nd half, but he stills opts to go backwards and roll out vs. taking the lane right in front of him. There's no reason he should have been outrushed by Ryan Fitzpatrick. There were yards to be gained, but he either reacted too late or, for whatever reason, did not want to cross the line of scrimmage under any circumstances.

Looking at the routes being ran, it would appear it was a short pass play.

edit: Just noticed it was shotgun formation. Damn.

You had the right idea though. Robert needs to climb the pocket more. The one play I remember was the intentional grounding play. He should of stepped up in the pocket instead of running in to JJ Watt, but hindsight is always 20/20.

Let's not forget RG3 is in transition to BECOME a pocket passer. I think folks are to quick to judge his performance. He needs reps, live game reps to get comfortable with the new scheme and as a quarterback. I didn't and I don't expect him to light it up straight out the gate. I also didn't and don't expect J. Gruden to be Coach of the Year either. I want the Skins to win just as much as the man but I understand this team needs time to gel and mesh together. Time to start lower expectations ppl my issue would be if RG3 regresses more than he progresses to early to tell.

Watt basically won that game. He's going to do that this year. He owned the game.

That's a 5 win team that will get dominated most of the season. Nothing he did justifies 6 points.

I was very unimpressed with that entire game plan. From the playcalling, to the lack of attention paid to Watt, 0 designed runs for Griffin. It was Jim Zorn part 2. Oh, and don't get me started on that shitty reverse call deep in our own territory. Hopefully we'll see some improvements next week. Let's get DJax down the field a bit more, let's get RG3 on the move, and for god sakes, coach his ass up and get him to stop BACK-PEDDLING!

Agree with you about the game plan. It was weak. Jay Gruden needs to improve and he knows it.

Robert is going to take a little longer. He needs some time to get rid of old, bad habits and to feel comfortable doing things the right way.

Eric Winston is looking for a job but for some reason Tyler Polumbus is on our roster!?!?