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offensive line play wasn't very good. but with 2 new starters, and the very first preseason game, thats to be expected. defense looked pretty good. flying around, and getting to the ball. i thought Fletcher and Lamar Marshall both looked good in the middle. maybe Greg Williams can use a 3-4 every once in a while. Campbell was just OK. needs to get his internal clock up to game speed. i thought both Frost and Suisham legs looked very strong. Todd Collins probably won a roster spot with his play. and mike espy probably lost one with the 2 drops

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[quote=dmek25;339405]offensive line play wasn't very good. but with 2 new starters, and the very first preseason game, thats to be expected. defense looked pretty good. flying around, and getting to the ball. i thought Fletcher and Lamar Marshall both looked good in the middle. maybe Greg Williams can use a 3-4 every once in a while. Campbell was just OK. needs to get his internal clock up to game speed. i thought both Frost and Suisham legs looked very strong. Todd Collins probably won a roster spot with his play. and mike espy probably lost one with the 2 drops[/quote] I agree with you on the OL and LB's . I wish we had a few young OL that we had developed the last couple of years , our starters are not that young . I would also like to see us run a 3-4 , atleast on 3rd and long's . Might have to keep both Taylor & Landry back roming middle & deep middle , giving up too much in the middle to TE's . I just hope the NFL does not let romo keep bringing his pet roaches to regular season games !

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Biggest positive: Defense. Looks like we have a strong defense and good depth. Fletcher looked good, Prieleau looked healthy, DL looked 100% better than last year, secondary coverage was better. No TD's allowed (even on a couple of short fields).

Biggest negative: OL. no holes for running backs, bad pass protection. In hind site I think it was a lot to expect Heyer and Wade to work effectively together in their first real action. Samuals and Wade sounds much better to me.

Overall the offense was hit and miss. The good news is that it made Campbell get use to real pressure and hits; he has been in a hands off environment for a while now. He started moving around better as the game progressed. There were a few things he did passing that looked good (His pass to Moss was a thing of beauty). Ladell looked like he could have broken down the defense given time, but once he was pulled, the running game never got on track.

I will be looking for better offensive consistency next game.

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[quote=angryssg;339288]
1st Team Offense
Jason Campbell was pretty solidwith the excecption of his % and no TD passess. I am weary of him turning the ball over on fumbles. I feel that at least one of the sacks on him could have been avoided had he observed the defense and shifted protection accordingly (the fumble he lost). .[/quote]


But other than that....



:benched:

Re: Your thoughts after Preseason Game One...
 

[QUOTE=CHIEF CHUCKING MY SPEAR;339242] ARE has to catch that ball he missed.[/QUOTE]

No, Campbell shouldn't try to force passes where his receivers will get killed. He did the same thing to Espy.

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our starting D looks much more improved. they werent giving up those running lanes like last year. the front 4 did a good job of playing the run last night......couple of guys who caught my eye after the starters. chris wilson #77 looks like he could rush the passer, hickman #75 looks very similar to wilson and was very heads up taking the quarterback out on that fumble(smart play there thats how you do it). #94 montgomery looked like a monster, he was killing double teams and stuffing the run all night. #54 HB Blades was all over the place last night he looked good and if he keeps playing like that he could have an impact on this years team.

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[QUOTE=mooby;339256]Campbell looked ok. Our starting offensive line sucks, Jansen didn't look good, neither did Heyer or Wade. Our backup o-line didn't look good either. Brunell was unimpressive. Collins did decent, led our o to the only scoring drive of the night. If Collins continues to look good and Brunell looks bad, we could see Collins take the #2 spot. Our defense was by far the most impressive thing of the night, great decision to bring Fletcher in, he's a beast. Landry looked ok from what I saw, but I didn't see much of him lol. We still aren't getting any pressure from the d-line, but then again I didn't have high expectations for them to begin with.[/QUOTE]

I agree with your assesment.

Heyer and Jansen were getting thrown around all night, more so Heyer, but I guess that's excusable since he is a rookie. Hopefully, Jansen just had an off night and isn't regressing like many Warpathers were accusing him of last year. Wade look fine straight ahead, but when he tried to pull on that counter, he was so pitifully slow and couldn't set a good lead block. Jason Fabini was ridiculously bad. I don't understand why our front office recognizes the need to improve our O-line, and then goes and signs rejects from the worst lines in the league: Dallas and Houston.

Our run D was pretty stout all night. It seemed like a different LB was behind the line making a play every time the Titans tried to run, and yes, London Fletcher owned last night, great pickup! The only thing disconserting about all this is Tenn was able to convert through the air any time the Run D got them into 3rd and long situations. What's wrong with our pass D? Shawn Springs gave up the first big 3rd down conversion too. We're going to be in trouble if we keep getting gouged down the field. Oh, and Ade is gone after this preseason. During Tim Rattay's scoring drive, he targeted Ade's man on every throw and just moved it right down the field.

Laron looks good. He put KC on his butt hard on that one 3rd down play. I'm excited about him.

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by the way it looked to me that lemar marshall was playing outside backer last night and HB was in the middle. anyways the comment of playing a 3-4 on third downs is not what we want....there is no reason for it, its not really a better pass D it describes the front 7 alignment, we should be in nickel or dime packages on 3rd down, if we use the 3-4, which we will in a limited use just like last year, itll be on first and second down not third down.

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ade maybe gone but did you see him get 2 pancake blocks on the same guy on a punt return........he pancaked #42 Henry and the the guy got up and kept on gettin it down the field and jimoh comes over and just lays his ass out again.....the dude can play some special teams man. he wont make the team with his coverage though, hes as bad as they come at corner.

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I was thinking about the game this morning, and I think here are a couple things we need to remember about last night's game. First thing, two of our starters didn't play last night, and that is enough to disrupt continuity of our offensive line. Derrick Dockery is, of course, gone to another team, and Chris Samuels was out with an injury. So, I expected our OL to not be dominate, although I was disappointed with seeing absolutely no holes opened up for our running backs.

The second thing to keep in mind is the fact that usually, the first preseason game has no real game planning. The offense is usually vanilla, and the coaches are more focused on watching their players make plays, rather than focusing on game planning.

This was the first real, true game for our OL that is trying to move on without DD and playing without CS. So, you can't really expect them to play as if they had been playing together for a few years. JB will have them ready by game one, I'm sure of that.

Jason Campbell continues to impress me. Some people said he played like crap, and I guess that's because we didn't score any TDs while he was in, and he fumbled twice. However, looking at the big picture, Campbell is showing poise. He's not staring down one receiver and he's definitely not automatically dumping it off ala Mark Brunell. There were some nice passes that were dropped. Yeah, there were a few passes that got away from him, but all in all, I'm confident that Jason Campbell is our guy. This is his first full year as a starter, so I am expecting him to make some great plays, yet still show some room for improvement.

When we get Chris Samuels and Clinton Portis back, we'll be good to go.

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Jason Campbell looked pretty comfortable when he wasn't getting pummeled. He had a couple bad throws, but overall I think he made good decisions and had a few decent throws. Mark Brunell had a real nice throw, but was under durress much like Campbell was so didn't have a lot of chances. Todd Collins looked the most consistent, had some good looking passes and led the team for it's only offensive touchdown. I'm not reading too much into that since he was playing against guys who won't even be on a roster this year. Santana Moss looked good, I was worried about that, ARE had a decent catch, other than that, not much else from the receiver corps that's expected to be here after preseason. The O-Line was pretty bad. I'm not too confident in the depth there either let alone the starters. Chris Samuels coming back healthy will help, but there's more to it than that. I hope Bugel figures this one out in the next few weeks or we're in trouble there.

Defense, all I can say is I'm looking forward to bigger and better things this year. Depth looks good. Starters were flying all over the place. They stopped the run. Gave up a few big plays, but I think overall it was a big step forward from what we saw all last year.

Frost was pretty damn good. Suisham? Well, I'll give him another week, but he didn't impress me. Way too inconsistent on his kickoffs: one five yards deep in the endzone, one at the two yard line and one directly out of bounds. Other than that special teams did decent, one run back did get away from them, and we didn't do anything special on returns.

Looking forward to progress next week, especially with the offense.

Re: Thoughts on Skins vs Titans
 

campbell second fumble came from the front side

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[quote=CHIEF CHUCKING MY SPEAR;339434]campbell second fumble came from the front side[/quote]

It also came about two seconds into the play

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[quote=angryssg;339288]The outcome of the game was a win for us, however after my analysis we should have either tied or lost. Here ar my thoughts.

1st Team Offense
Jason Campbell was pretty solidwith the excecption of his % and no TD passess. I am weary of him turning the ball over on fumbles. I feel that at least one of the sacks on him could have been avoided had he observed the defense and shifted protection accordingly (the fumble he lost). To his credit he threw no intercecptions, and showed alot of poise.

O-Line
I know that Chris Samuels is out and Wade is new at LG, but the offensive line was getting blown up. Even Jansen made a mistake. Point blank, because of their lackluster play they gave up 2 sacks as a starting unit and gave running backs no holes to run. With that said they have some work to do. Even Jon Jansen made a bad play.

RB
Ladell Betts and Rock Cartwright had no room to run. They made the most of what they had which wasn't much. Both backs are more than capable of running when holes are present. With the excecption of one run by Betts, Rock did a better job of running the football. I didn't see Sellers touch the ball at all.

WR
Santana further proved why he is the number 1 by receiveing for roughly 50 yards on 2 catches. ARE, caught one pass for a first down, but the chemistry between he and Campbell needs improvement. Sadly. Brandon Lloyd nor Cooley made a mark on the field. I do not think that Cooley has fallen off though. Cooley just did not have the opportunity.

Defense
While overall they played great , due mostly to London Fletcher, who did drop a clear intercecption; I do have some concerns. Fred Smoot played off of his receiver a little and allowed a big first down catch. the defense also allowed the TE Scaife to run free a little too much during the game. Other than that the D seemed to get to the ball pretty quickly.

Special Teams
Rock Cartwright made a bone headed move to take the ball out of the endzone on the first play of the game, setting the skins up in bad field position that would plague them throughout the first half. Shawn Suisham missed a field goal by hitting the left upright denying Washington a tie in the first half. Suisham also commited a stupid penatly by kicking his first kickoff out of bounds giving the Titans the ball at the 40. The punt coverage team also did not fair well by giving up a couple of big returns. On a positive note, Frost punted the ball very consistently and even forced a fuble on one play. Too bad it went out of bounds and we were unable to recover.

I am not even going to go over the second team offense as they were more lackluster than the first. IMO Brunell should be cut and Collins should have the Backup job. Brunell just does not have that fire anymore and it looks as if he has done nothing in the offseason to maintain his status.

Second and third team D
They looked good because HB Blades picked up where London left off. That play carried over to the 3rd team D wich won the game. Again, TE's were giving them a bit of a problem. Reed Doughty was in perfect position for an intercecption, but dropped it. I am sold on Byron Westbrook and hope that he makes the team as the 5th corner.

3rd Team Offense
Todd Collins for once outshined Brunell and led the offense to its only score. On this rare occaision I belive that he outplayed Brunell. Todd's awareness of this offense was evident in this game. I also believe that more passess should have been compleeted with all 3 QB's in the game as 2nd and 3rd team WR's dropped many passess. Campbell and Brunell should have faired better.

Final Analysis
Unless the Offensive play picks up I do not see the skins winning more than 7 games this year. This week they got lucky, but if you watched the game you realize that there is still alot of work to be done. I understand the injury that we have on the O-line now, but if it doesn't improve when Samuels comes back and Wade doesn't get a handle on things it is going to be a long season.[/quote]

How can you have a season Analysis on the first pre-season game?

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[quote=Bstanley;339437]How can you have a season Analysis on the first pre-season game?[/quote]


Agreed...it's way too early to base the Skins record this year on their first preseason game. Let's slow down and let them work out the kinks over the next few weeks, then see where they are at. You might be able to get a better read then.

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My thoughts on the game:

Campbell looked ok, he made some nice throws and was a little shaky on a few. He showed some poise stepping up in the pocket and avoiding pressure a few times. Overall I was pleased with his first showing of the preseason. He still has a long way to go, but he looks more comfortable and in control. I can't fault him for the fumbles too much, the protection just wasn't there. Still, he needs to be more aware of holding on to the ball.

The OL pass protection was seriously lacking. I think we got a taste of just how important Chris Samuels is. Heyer looks promising as a youngster, but let's face reality. If he sees significant playing time this year we're in big trouble.

Defensively I was very pleased, I thought the run D was solid, we saw some pressure and a nice hit by Landry on a blitz, and overall I thought the D looked much improved over last year. No complaints here at all.

While I would have liked to have seen at least one scoring drive from the starters it's certainly not panic time. The OL was missing a critical piece, and we really didn't try to establish the run. I thought the whole mission of the first half was to get Campbell as many pass attempts as reasonably possible.

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As most people have said I think the positive we can take out of this is the win(and the positive attitude it brings for us) and our first string D's performance.

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It's a good thing we didn't finish the game with Brunell or we would have come away with a big fat zero. It's time for him to hit the road. He really sucks.

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[quote=70Chip;339402]They have a lot of work to do. Also, the offense was as bland as last year's preseason. No pre-snap motion. Ran basic running plays on first and second down mostly. This would make me feel better, ecept the O-Line shouldn't look so bad on such basic stuff.[/quote]

There was pre-snap motion. The two biggest passing plays came off receivers in motion. ARE's first down catch and Santana's nice long reception.

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Unfortunetly it was a preseason game with two bad teams playing in it. Gibbs should be very embarassed with this team to actually put on a burgundy and gold uniform. Albeit the starters on the offense were not in long. The O-line was a huge disgrace out there. Hey Buges, your much coveted line looks like garbage! You let a titans team with a bunch of no-names wreak havoc on your line with no fancy stunts or inovative blitz packages. Simply terrible, good way to get your starting qb killed! Their front FOUR got mad penatration on our O-line. Are you kidding me?!? Our O-line couldn't run block nor could they not pass block either. And this one play when JC got wacked and fumbled again the ball was just laying on the field with nobody giving two shits about recovering it and then when it is recovered no one was interested in atleast touching the guy down who just laid there for eternity with the ball. That lack of hustle, and desire to help your team is not acceptable! And when your qb gets creamed because of your sorry ass cannot block worth a !@#$, could you at least help-up your franchise qb?
The reason why our defense looked good is because GW played his guys as if it were a midseason game. Lots of semi complex schemes and different looks for a first game preseason contest. Again, not alot of front FOUR pressure! I'm sure opposing offenses will carve up our high paid secondary once the season starts.

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[quote=holcknowsbest;339423]ade maybe gone but did you see him get 2 pancake blocks on the same guy on a punt return........he pancaked #42 Henry and the the guy got up and kept on gettin it down the field and jimoh comes over and just lays his ass out again.....the dude can play some special teams man. he wont make the team with his coverage though, hes as bad as they come at corner.[/quote]

I didn't see those plays on special teams. I realize the special teams has been what's kept him around for a while. Personally, I'd like to give some of these youngers corners a chance instead of holding onto solid special teamers that are always going to be just that.

I also liked how the announcers tried to put over Chris Henry as a hoss after a few good runs. Then, the rest of the night he was getting drilled for no yardage.

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My impression was that Campbell played a bit better than I'm reading here. He did have a pretty egregious over throw and led Espy about 3 yards too far on an out but other than that his throws had good velocity and were on target. It's hard to throw with an entire dline in your face. About the fumbles, yes you'd like to see him "sense" the hit and cover up but it's the first pre-season game, those were the first hits he's taken this year and they weren't small. I saw nothing from Campbell that would make me anything but optimistic about the future (including this year.)

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[quote=theJBexperience;339455]There was pre-snap motion. The two biggest passing plays came off receivers in motion. ARE's first down catch and Santana's nice long reception.[/quote]


Thanks for the correction.

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My take on the game was mixed. I thought Campbell looked pretty good when he had time to throw the ball and he made a couple good passes to Moss and Randle El. He does need to learn to hold the ball and just go down when the pass rush is coming and the pocket collapses. He also needs to read blitzes better because on that first sack and fumble he didn't even see the blitzer coming and got blind sided. I think the titans also picked on Heyer and Wade a lot.

I agree that our o-line didn't create many holes for Cartwright to run through, but when he did have holes, if it was Portis or Betts, they would've created much more with the football.

My biggest worry about the offense was where was Cooley? Was he thrown to at all in the entire game? He needs to be a huge part of this offense and I don't believe he saw any looks. I mean maybe they moved him to protection since tennessee was blitzing a lot but he needs to see much more action.

The defense looked pretty dang good, Fletcher looks ready to play and he looks like one of the better acquisitions we've made in awhile, plus he played under GW for awhile in Buffalo so they have some chemistry. The d-line looked good against the run even in the absence of Griffin, and I think we did pressure the quarterback enough to make him throw bad passes. Landry made a couple good plays and so did Rocky McIntosh, didn't hear Washington's number called too often. I think our secondary does look a little bit suspect and we are still playing like ten yards off of people so that worries me.

The last thing I noticed is that Suisham or whatever does not have any competition on the depth chart, and he clanked a 49 yarder off the upright and kicked a kick-off out of bounds. After watching this performance I think we need to think about bringing in some competition into training camp.

Overall, I think this was a game of ups and downs and hopefully we'll see a better performance from the starters, especially the offense, next saturday against the steelers.

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Welcome, Bully Worm. Good post.

I didn't see the game, but weren't they kind of forced to keep Cooley in to protect? Probably it was a result of the O-line shuffling.

Good to hear about Fletcher and the LBs. We still need some push from the DEs, no doubt, but hopefully that will come.

The offense better pick it up, because the Steelers play some good D. If we can't get the left side of our o-line into shape, we are going to have some problems.

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On the offensive side of the ball we have alot of work to do, JC was average. Brunell looked his age, Collins looked most impressive for once. One of the old timers has got to go. Hopefully Brunell!

Pleasantly suprised with the defense, looked IN FORM! Fletch was awesome, along with the line and the secondary!

Its just the first game of pre, I look for us to sharpen up on the offensive side of the ball each week.

We came home with a victory by fighting it out till the end, look forward to improvements this week against the steelers at home.

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Our defense was beast that game. Even when JC fumbled and gave it to them with amazing field position we drove them back and they didn't even kick a field goal. Offensive line needs some work and we need to learn how to hold on to the football.

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[quote=Daseal;339253]Considering it's the first game I'm happy with it. As usual the offense takes a bit longer to come around. If our starting crew has another night like that in game 3, then it's time to worry.

Question, how many of the starters on our line played consistently? I know I saw the rookie T from MD in there, but I had company and couldn't quite focus on the game as much as normal. It seemed as if the Titans had a lot of pressure with just the front 4.

Will 10 yard torrents haved this game? Since I missed large chunks?

Did Lloyd get any playtime?[/quote]


[URL="http://forums.tenyardtorrents.com/viewtopic.php?id=4391"]Ten Yard Torrents - NFL & NCAA Football Discussion / Calendar[/URL]

supposed to be capped, we'll see if its up in the next couple days.

i had to sopcast and could only get audio since my connection/the server was being slow :(

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Can't wait to see how we handle the Steelers pash rush. Also will be good to see Ryan Clark return home. We should have never let him go, especially for the little money that he demanded. With the Steelers left OLINE weak, I am also interested to see how our DLINE steps up.

Speaking of our offense, I saw a really good breakdown from last nites game. This guy has way too much time on his hands.

postgameheroes.com/?p=90#more-90

Re: Your thoughts after Preseason Game One...
 

[QUOTE=theJBexperience;339418]No, Campbell shouldn't try to force passes where his receivers will get killed. He did the same thing to Espy.[/QUOTE]

The pass was there before the defenders got there.

AS a former, you have one job: Catch the Frickin Ball!!! Not only did he get two hands on it, but he brought it into his chest only to lose it. It could have even been a fumble.


That very well could have been a 3 and long in a SEASON game, where it counts mind you, that we needed, and the only outcomes that I saw were a dropped pass and a potential fumble.

Think about that!

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[QUOTE=TimmySmithJr;339480]postgameheroes.com/?p=90#more-90[/QUOTE]

This isn't per chance your site is it? If it is, no need to spam this board. Just reach out to Mattyk (click on "Contact Us") and he can discuss linking to each other's sites with you.

Also, is this the same site that had the "inside source" that Taylor was carted off the field with a serious knee injury?

And finally, do you need to be taught how to hyperlink? Let us know, one of us can teach you

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[QUOTE=TimmySmithJr;339480]

Speaking of our offense, I saw a really good breakdown from last nites game. This guy has way too much time on his hands.

postgameheroes.com/?p=90#more-90[/QUOTE]

Wow. Good stuff on that link. Thanks Timmy. (That guys does have some time on his hands, no doubt.)

Re: Thoughts on Skins vs Titans
 

Are we looking at the same thing, Smoot? It was a chart analyzing all the offensive plays, with commentary--didn't seem so bad to me. I didn't see the game, so I can't say if the charts are accurate, but it was interesting. I didn't look at the rest of the site, so maybe I missed the bad.

I defer to your better judgment if there's trouble...:spam:

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[QUOTE=Bully Worm;339464]My take on the game was mixed. I thought Campbell looked pretty good when he had time to throw the ball and he made a couple good passes to Moss and Randle El. He does need to learn to hold the ball and just go down when the pass rush is coming and the pocket collapses. He also needs to read blitzes better because on that first sack and fumble he didn't even see the blitzer coming and got blind sided. I think the titans also picked on Heyer and Wade a lot.

I agree that our o-line didn't create many holes for Cartwright to run through, but when he did have holes, if it was Portis or Betts, they would've created much more with the football.

My biggest worry about the offense was where was Cooley? Was he thrown to at all in the entire game? He needs to be a huge part of this offense and I don't believe he saw any looks. I mean maybe they moved him to protection since tennessee was blitzing a lot but he needs to see much more action.

The defense looked pretty dang good, Fletcher looks ready to play and he looks like one of the better acquisitions we've made in awhile, plus he played under GW for awhile in Buffalo so they have some chemistry. The d-line looked good against the run even in the absence of Griffin, and I think we did pressure the quarterback enough to make him throw bad passes. Landry made a couple good plays and so did Rocky McIntosh, didn't hear Washington's number called too often. I think our secondary does look a little bit suspect and we are still playing like ten yards off of people so that worries me.

The last thing I noticed is that Suisham or whatever does not have any competition on the depth chart, and he clanked a 49 yarder off the upright and kicked a kick-off out of bounds. After watching this performance I think we need to think about bringing in some competition into training camp.

Overall, I think this was a game of ups and downs and hopefully we'll see a better performance from the starters, especially the offense, next saturday against the steelers.[/QUOTE]

Welcome, Bullyworm. Nice post. I agree with your analysis. You seem pretty right.

Don't worry Marcus Washington did make some plays. He was the first Skin to bring Chris Brown down behind the line during their first drive. He was around the ball a lot as well, helping with a few tackles. I remember thinking it looked like he bounced back from his hip surgery pretty well the way he was flying around the field.

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I hope they play Palmer at some point. We need a young guy in there to push JC or at least give us a healthy option if JC gets hurt. Brunell should do the honorable thing and retire before he is dumped.

Re: Your thoughts after Preseason Game One...
 

[QUOTE=SkinsFanSince91;339482]The pass was there before the defenders got there.

AS a former, you have one job: Catch the Frickin Ball!!! Not only did he get two hands on it, but he brought it into his chest only to lose it. It could have even been a fumble.


That very well could have been a 3 and long in a SEASON game, where it counts mind you, that we needed, and the only outcomes that I saw were a dropped pass and a potential fumble.

Think about that![/QUOTE]

I dunno. It looked like the defenders converged as soon as JC threw it. I remember that play was shot with that angle from behind Campbell, so you could pretty much see what he saw. I definitely thought ARE fumbled that ball too, considering the rule change.

It looked like JC may have had Cooley deeper on that route, but I think he checked down to ARE because he was under such intense pressure and couldn't have thrown a better deep ball to Cooley. Throwing it away Brunell style may have been the best option.

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[QUOTE=JWsleep;339488]Are we looking at the same thing, Smoot? It was a chart analyzing all the offensive plays, with commentary--didn't seem so bad to me. I didn't see the game, so I can't say if the charts are accurate, but it was interesting. I didn't look at the rest of the site, so maybe I missed the bad.

I defer to your better judgment if there's trouble...:spam:[/QUOTE]

No it was a fine analysis. All I'm saying is he's had two posts on this board so far. And both times he's linked to that site (the first time a couple of days ago to a blurb that said "my inside sources say Sean Taylor was just carted off the field" or something along those lines).

History has shown that when people come onto our site and are constantly linking to another site that it's their own site that they are trying to promote (unless it's GTripp and Football Outsiders).

As a rule of thumb, if someone wants to do that all they need to do is contact Matty and Matty discusses with them linking from one site to the other. That's all I'm saying.

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[QUOTE=SmootSmack;339483]This isn't per chance your site is it? If it is, no need to spam this board. Just reach out to Mattyk (click on "Contact Us") and he can discuss linking to each other's sites with you.

Also, is this the same site that had the "inside source" that Taylor was carted off the field with a serious knee injury?

And finally, do you need to be taught how to hyperlink? Let us know, one of us can teach you[/QUOTE]

Good memory Smoot. Its not my site, I actually met the guys who run it at a Skins game though (they had season tix next to me and we kept in touch, no homo). I don't think they read this forum, so I just thought you guys would get a kick out of the info. A bit too much of a breakdown for me, but I know there are some nutters on this site...so to each their own.

Thanks for the advice, I'll tell them to reach out to Mattyk.

I can't hyperlink until I have enough posts. I have been a lurker here and never had a reason to log in until now.

As for the Taylor story, I can't speak to that. I know I just posted on here that they are reporting a MRI. After emailing with the admin of the site, they still stick by it. Don't know who to believe, but excited about Taylor's year.

Anyways...F the Steelers and their stupid mascot.

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anyone see montgomery man, the guy was a freaking monster man, he played awesome

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Hey thanks a lot for the welcome guys. I have been browsing around this message board for awhile and I finally decided to join. I am only 19 but I am a diehard Redskins fan forever, born and raised, and I'm pretty well informed on their history. I'm going to the Steelers game next saturday so hopefully we'll see some better performances from the starters, especially the offense.