Players that impressed you the most after the 1st preseason game?
 

Who impressed you?

Offense: Torain & Williams
Defense: Riley
Special Teams: Brandon Banks

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Grossman
Williams(T)
Torain
Tryon
Riley
Banks
Austin
Williams (RB)
Thomas
Armstrong
Robinson Backup T
Lichestenwhatever
Williams (G)
Gano

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Offense: Williams, Torain, Grossman
Defense: Riley, Tryon
Special Teams: Banks

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Offense: Trent Williams
[I]*Honerable Mention - Rex Grossman[/I]

Defense: Albert Haynesworth
[I]*Honerable Mention - DeAngelo Hall[/I]

Special Teams Do I even have to say

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Williams, mcnabb all RBs and Entire 2nd team

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Brandon Banks TD was electric. Trent Williams played well too. Not much to complain about though. But good to see #5 hook up with #47

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Veteran Players
Offense: Cooley
Defense: Haynesworth
Special Teams: Gano had some good deep kickoffs

New Players
Offense: Torain
Defense: Riley
Special Teams: Banks!!

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Mostly I was pleased to see that Williams can really play.

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I'm almost at halftime while watching the recorded game, but man, the O-line looks really nice. And that's without Jamal Brown.

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I am so glad that Campbell is gone. McNabb is a billion times better. Jason would have been sacked 3 times in those same situations.

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I was impressed by Portis, the o-line, P. Riley, McNabb, Banks, and Gano. It was awesome to see so many kickoffs for touchbacks.

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This is what a Big time qb can do for your franchise

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[quote=skinsfaninok;720324]This is what a Big time qb can do for your franchise[/quote]

and a solid offensive line.

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Chris Cooley
Trent Williams
Donovan McNabb
Roydell Williams
Stephon Heyer
Perry Riley
Rex Grossman
Brandon Banks
Ryan Torain
Keiland Williams
Graham Gano

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[quote=SFREDSKIN;720290]Grossman
Williams(T)
Torain
Tryon
Riley
Banks
Austin
Williams (RB)
Thomas
Armstrong
Robinson Backup T
Lichestenwhatever
Williams (G)
Gano[/quote]

heard Edwin Williams and Will Robinson didn't look so hot

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Man, it's hard not to come away being impressed with Trent Williams. And I don't know how Torrain doesn't make this team.

The final score aside, I was really impressed with the team's focus and cohesion this early on. During the Zorn and Gibbs era, it would have taken at least third or fourth pre-season game for the offense to put together that first drive. The execution and, again, focus was evident.

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there will be no Torrain on the team

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Trent Williams really impresses. Does Suggs (BAL) play 4-3 DE? Doc asked him about defending power rushers versus speed rushers. It looks to me this kid has it all. Is his jersey number official yet?

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I'm surprised more people aren't mentioning Keiland Williams. Williams had a better average and 2 TD's.

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[quote=Ruhskins;720333]and a solid offensive line.[/quote]

yes we won me likey!!

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bring on dallas

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[quote=tryfuhl;720351]there will be no Torrain on the team[/quote]

Can you elaborate? Or will we find out on Monday when Brian Westbrook announces his new team?

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[quote=tryfuhl;720346]heard [B]Edwin Williams[/B] and Will Robinson didn't look so hot[/quote]
i dont inderstand why the skins keep playing him at guard? he is a center, and Raback sucks donkey balls.

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Grossman, because he looked totally different than the Grossman of old in that one game. If he can do that against a good/great team every time then you've got something special. I would really like to see him do it against a class act though. Cause he's worse than Cutler from an ITN standpoint, or at least, up to this point in his career.

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Can't believe some of the names mentioned.
Some people are very easily impressed.

Have to agree with Trent Williams though.
Was quite funny to see the guards sliding over to help out only to realise they weren't needed.

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I was impressed with the entire team as a whole. There were a couple of "especially's" but everyone that played, to some extent made their presence felt. I know it's pre-season and it was the Bills, but it was a good start and a confidence builder.

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The excellent from last night:

1. McNabb and Grossman looked solid. Grossman was especially good, which to me was not that surprising. But I think its safe to say the talent at QB...McNabb and Grossman much better than Campbell and that other guy
2. Its nice to see an O-Line pass protect. Our first team run blocking seem to ok, pass protection was excellent. Heyer played really well along with Silverback.
3. Thank god ARE is not kick returning anymore. I think we are finally gonna have a threat returning kicks again.
4. Devin Thomas, after a miserable start...great route, perfect catch...dude needs to play with more confidence sometimes.
5. AH needs to go ahead and be put on the 1st team D along side Kemo at Gholston DE spot. Let this guy just go after the QB.

What we need work on:

1. 1st team D looked confused several times. I understand its growing pain, but we should have been controling that line of scrimage against a much weaker Bills Oline.
2. Portis looked ok, but it seemed to me Torrain just ran better. I think the 1st team Oline could have run blocked better as well.

Not much else, great 1st game...made a really gud impression...

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[quote=tryfuhl;720351]there will be no Torrain on the team[/quote]

Exactly! 'Cause Torrain doesn't exist....Torain, on the other hand

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[quote=SmootSmack;720370]Exactly! 'Cause Torrain doesn't exist....Torain, on the other hand[/quote]

To quote you SS ATV "ALL Torain Vehicle".


HTTR.

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[quote=12thMan;720349]Man, it's hard not to come away being impressed with Trent Williams. And I don't know how Torrain doesn't make this team.

The final score aside, [B]I was really impressed with the team's focus and cohesion this early on. During the Zorn and Gibbs era, it would have taken at least third or fourth pre-season game for the offense to put together that first drive. [/B]The execution and, again, focus was evident.[/quote]

Bingo. I was thinking the same thing.

For the first time in years, the offense made it look easy.

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[quote=Chico23231;720368]The excellent from last night:

1. McNabb and Grossman looked solid. Grossman was especially good, which to me was not that surprising. But I think its safe to say the talent at QB...McNabb and Grossman much better than Campbell and that other guy
2. Its nice to see an O-Line pass protect. Our first team run blocking seem to ok, pass protection was excellent. Heyer played really well along with Silverback.
3. Thank god ARE is not kick returning anymore. I think we are finally gonna have a threat returning kicks again.
4. Devin Thomas, after a miserable start...great route, perfect catch...dude needs to play with more confidence sometimes.
5. AH needs to go ahead and be put on the 1st team D along side Kemo at Gholston DE spot. Let this guy just go after the QB.

What we need work on:

[B]1. 1st team D looked confused several times. I understand its growing pain, but we should have been controling that line of scrimage against a much weaker Bills Oline.[/B]
2. Portis looked ok, but it seemed to me Torrain just ran better. I think the 1st team Oline could have run blocked better as well.

Not much else, great 1st game...made a really gud impression...[/quote]

Yep -- it was talked about during the postgame show on ESPN980 last night. Run defense was clearly an issue. The Bills had 146 yards on 18 carries for just over 8 ypc.

There were some really bad angles and over-pursuit on running plays. I'm confident that will be resolved over the next three weeks.

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The McNabb-Cooley connection is going to be huge this season. They've already got a serious thing going.

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[quote=12thMan;720349]Man, it's hard not to come away being impressed with Trent Williams. And I don't know how Torrain doesn't make this team.

The final score aside, I was really impressed with the team's focus and cohesion this early on. During the Zorn and Gibbs era, it would have taken at least third or fourth pre-season game for the offense to put together that first drive. The execution and, again, focus was evident.[/quote]

Trent was very impressive.

I had to do a double take at seeing #46, he kinda has a Betts like build almost. Torain definitely makes this team.

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I'm catching the NFL network stream for a rewatch. Trent Williams is an absolute beast. He looked like he belongs on the football field. After seeing the abominable play of D'Anthony Batiste and the not-as-bad-but-still-bad play of Levi Jones, I'm very happy.

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I loved how everyone played. Also keep in mind for those saying in past yrs we wouldn't look this good till preseason game 3 or 4..... both Gibbs and Zorn were afraid of other teams understanding the offense or seeing too much of the plays so they were very vanilla with the offense. It seems the Shanahan's are different. They are of the mind set of this is our offense, it is good, and you have to stop it. They can go to a different person every time causing DC's to have to have head aches.

This game was difficult for both teams to game plan for. Both teams are using new schemes on both sides of the ball so no one knew what each was bringing to the table. Now other teams have some game film on some of our plays but our defense might be better playing teams who we might have game film on.

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This game is the type of game I want our reg season to be like.... Spank bad teams!! there is no way the bills should even compete with us.

Likes:
Both Fred and Devin scored
Williams is a nasty tackle with an attitude on the field that will be great to watch during the season
Even with Heyer on the field the offensive line looked good

Loves:
Gano can kick his ass off, I don't think they had a real chance to return a kickoff
McNabb Cooley connection looked great
Torian and Keiland both looked great. Keiland has a nose for the endzone
That we thumped them and scored so many points, its been years since I seen our team do that well
Brandon Banks= punt returner

Gotta be on the team
Banks
K. Williams
Torian

Suprise
Bobby Wade he was doin his thing out there

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[quote=Mattyk;720411]The McNabb-Cooley connection is going to be huge this season. They've already got a serious thing going.[/quote]

Yes, yes, and yes. I wouldn't leave Davis out either. This game might have been lets see what McNabb and Cooley could do. Next might be McNabb and Davis. Who knows. I could see both being on the field giving McNabb a couple of options on a roll out.

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Silverback humiliated Maybin consistently.

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I'm not sure how good Okung will be, but it looks like Trent "Silverback" Williams won't leave any doubt in the Redskins' mind that they made the right choice.

On another but related note, did anyone else see Chris Samuels on the sidelines huddled up with CP and few others towards the end? Looks like he's transitioning into his new role very nicely.

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[quote=KI Skins Fan;720362]Can you elaborate? Or will we find out on Monday when Brian Westbrook announces his new team?[/quote]
just picking on the handful of guys here who keep misspelling his name