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I title the thread with that one simple word, because I am positive that Joe Gibbs has forgotten the term.

Am I am the only that sees ten people in the box, and they still run it up the middle. The play calling is horrible. If theres ten in the box, dont run the ball, call an audible. I dont mean do like Spurrier and call 8 a play, but be smart about it. A lot of the time when they line up, not only do I know what we are calling, but its clear that it is not going to work.

An audible could be huge for us in making more first downs and scoring more points.

good point! also, how about this = very little in the way of penalties and TO's with todays game!!! go skins!!!

gibbs doesn't like audibles cause they can result in penalties... so running into a stacked line and wasting a down is a good solution if i've ever heard it :(

I thought it was REALLY strange too, i mean seattle wasn't even trying to hide it.

Ive never seen as many people in the box as I saw today. It was crazy how many of them stacked the line and yet we just ran right into them.

We did finally run some play action. But we still dont threaten the opposing team to play back on us, and until they do they will stack the box and stifle portis.

I couldnt agree more,thats what I just said in the Brunell thread,so much for Moss stretching the defense,Brunell's an experienced qb,he should be able to recognize the situation and call an audible,who calls the plays anyway? is it Gibbs or somebody else?whoever it is might want to turn it over to somebody else

My guess is we'll see more of them as Gibbs and Brunnell get comfortable. You have to be able to audible in this league. No two ways about it.

If only Joe Gibbs and his staff had the knowledge and experience of some of the guys on this board eh?

[QUOTE=davy]If only Joe Gibbs and his staff had the knowledge and experience of some of the guys on this board eh?[/QUOTE]
well if he did he would have had a better record last yr,nobody in their right mind would have stuck with brunell that long last yr

Was it me or did seattle seem to know every time we were going to run every time we ran.

[QUOTE=rickmmrr]Was it me or did seattle seem to know every time we were going to run every time we ran.[/QUOTE]

everyone knows what we are goign to do every play. we are very predictable.

[QUOTE=htownskinfan]well if he did he would have had a better record last yr,nobody in their right mind would have stuck with brunell that long last yr[/QUOTE]

he stuck ith brunell because it wasnt all his fault. Just like it wasnt with ramsey when he came in and sucked to. No nfl qb is as bad as they loko in gibbs system. Gibbs needs to learn how to call plays again. Im not in love with brunell but hes not as bad as gibbs makes him looks.

Its very obvious that Gibbs is finally starting to listen to Musgrave. We looked like a real west coast team at times today and it was working. Hopefully we'll do it more. But then Gibbs to over teh play calling again with 5 straight runs...we had a lead, why would we try to score....

the skins offense moved the ball consistantly down the field on the seahawks defense today,the play calling was fine and there was no need to call audibles, the skins had over 100 yards rushing on them.

[QUOTE=That Guy]gibbs doesn't like audibles cause they can result in penalties... so running into a stacked line and wasting a down is a good solution if i've ever heard it :(

I thought it was REALLY strange too, i mean seattle wasn't even trying to hide it.[/QUOTE]

A simple play action and throw the intermidiate pass over the top of the LB's, the reason teams are able to stack the box is because the WR's are running deep patterns and being covered by corners and safties, we need to isolate Cooley and Portis just beyong the LB's so that any time they committ to the run we can dump the ball over the top of the LB's, if we show we are willing to do that every play we will force the LB's to wait a little longer for their read's to make sure we don't throw it, this will allow more running lanes for our backs, I don't know how we will ever run the ball if we allow LB's to overcommitt to the run like they do, no line can block 7 or 8 defenders in the box with any kind of reasonable success.

Considering how bad the seattle defense was just pining their ears back and running where ever our backs went, I don't understand why we didn't use more misdirection play's, end around's, and play's of that nature?

I also want to say I don't see anything remotly resembling the denver blocking schemes we so worked on in the offseason.

It also seemed that today's game later in the game that Gibbs allowed more play calling by our coordinator, we went away from a lot of those comeback routes, and started running a west coast offense with slants, and passes to the TE's and back's, which was refreshing to see, it is also what alwowed us to control the ball like we did for most of the game.

the only reason the game was close is because the skins defense had a few breakdowns today. the skins offense played pretty darn good

[QUOTE=wolfeskins]the skins offense moved the ball consistantly down the field on the seahawks defense today,the play calling was fine and there was no need to call audibles, the skins had over 100 yards rushing on them.[/QUOTE]

If the play calling was fine then why was it always third and long? yes ,brunell did a great job of converting 3rd downs. But if you run twice, and its 3rd and long...youre not doing something right. Portis averaged just over 3 a carry again. Pathetic. No running back can run through a 9 man front. The announcers even laughed and twice put up numbers counting the number of defenders in the box, and they still ran it up the middle.

If gibbs makes a good pass play, hes going to jump like a school boy then hand it off. Hes very predicatable. There was one or two drives that we ran the west coast offense and it was working great. We just have to do that more. You can almost tell when its musgrave or gibbs calling the plays.