Seahawks 24 Skins 14 post game thread

kj210

Coming in from the West Coast! Glad to be here!
First post and just joined this forum.
I cannot help but think that this was a magical season!
NFC East Champs, Sweep Dallas, Knock off Giants!
I, along with the rest of Redskin nation held my breath when Griff went down. After watching it a few times, (my medical experience goes about as far as bandaging up my kids' boo boo's) I think Griffin will be fine.
I get tired of hearing Radio sports talk hosts talk about all the Negative (remember, I'm on the west coast so I hear all neg. about it.)
The progression of this team was far better than my expectation.
Looking forward to the next season.
Skins4ever!!

htownskinfan

I dont think you can compare the 2.Dallas game RG3 was probably at 80%
After the rollout at the goalline where he reagravated it,he was around 35% and shouldnt have been in the game

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walton71

He wasn't a hurt RG3in this game, he was a re-injured RG3, and it showed. Shanahan should have recognized it.

cdskins26

I sat in the corner yesterday in the dream seats on the end zone where we scored both of our touchdowns. My takes from the game were:

-Pulling RGIII is a decision that will be graded by the win or loss. Shanny pulls Griff and we hold on for the win, he's a genius. We lose after taking him out up 14 points and he'd be slaughtered. So I really believe there is no right answer with that decision.

-The seahawks defense is the most degenerate dirty unit I have ever seen. After the second touchdown, stepping on Griffin's foot was pitiful. They're cheaters both on and off the field, and I went from a huge fan of that team to a large enemy.

-Not having Orakpo hurt us more yesterday than most days. After the first quarter, we stopped getting to Wilson, and another big athletic OLB putting some pressure on him would have been helpful.

-Wasnt very pleased by the game plan. Too many cute throws, and too many passes on first down were not good decisions, especially when your quarterback is clearly far from his normal self. Needed more ground and pound outta AlfMo.

-Overall, I am beyond pleased with this season. I said going in that we were somewhere between 7-9 wins this season and we went above that. This team is young, talented, and full of heart. Cant wait until training camp!

mooby

LOL. I love how you come in here and make a good point, and everyone ignores it in favor of attacking you for showing up the day after your opponent's playoff loss. Just bad timing for you man.

S/N I agree with your points.

Monkeydad

Too much bashing of the decision to play him.

While Griffin did not look 100% against Dallas last week, he still played well and led us to a big victory. After another week, who actually predicted his knee would be worse? 4 weeks after the injury that we were told would take 2 weeks to heal, it should have been better, right?

When the game started, he did look about the same as in the Dallas game, but I didn't see the injury coming. When we went up 14-0, it looked like a great decision to play RGIII. In fact, because of the Dallas game, the thought of benching him didn't even cross my mind. Another week removed from the initial injury, I expected him to be even better than last week, possibly near 100% except for any hindrance from the bulky brace.

Seattle did play dirty. They seemed intent on cheap shots, late hits and injuring RGIII. They succeeded.

You're a liar if you saw this coming. He not only survived the Dallas game last week, he led us to victory.

Unfortunate ending to an amazing season, but I do not blame the , doctor, coach or the player for this injury. He looked ready to play and the first quarter just solidified that. He was our best chance to win. We had a lead after 3 quarters and couldn't stop Lynch when it mattered most.

Great season. Heal up and do it all over again, Robert.

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sandtrapjack

Seeing RG3 play through injury like that just reminds me of when Phillip Rivers played with a torn ACL in the 2008 AFC Championship game, and he and the coach were lauded as "gutsy", playing through injury.

All players play "hurt". It's another thing entirely to play "injured".

And FYI, I am here every day. I don't post as much as I used to, but I still come here and read a lot.

Alvin Walton

You guys trade Romo for Tebow yet?

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sdskinsfan2001

The day after a loss is so much easier than the 1st hour after a loss.

5 Points about yesterday's game/this season:

1. I think Griffin should have been pulled at halftime, he was clearly hurt and clearly ineffective. He just couldnt drive his legs into his throws and thats why they kept sailing high.

2. RGIII has a huge ego, and he should, he is a gun slinger, all the great ones want to be in the game and think they can make any play necessary. Coaches/doctors will always have to be in charge of pulling players, players aren't gonna pull themselves.

3. Drafting Kirk Cousins is looking more and more like a great draft pick by the day. We can end all the trade talk, we need to have him on this roster. I have full faith in him that even if RGIII has to miss any time at the beginning of next year that Cousins can step in and lead us to victories.

4. We swept the Cowboys and won the NFC East.

5. Assuming RGIII comes back 100% healthy, even if its a few games into the season when he is cleared, and we have a good of-season this year, next season will be just as fun as this season ended up being and possibly better. And I REALLY HOPE we play Seattle again in the playoffs! They are beginning our white whale lol, we just haven't been able to beat them. But their time is coming. Hail!!!

CrazyCanuck

Tough loss yesterday. Part of me is glad though, now we can finally rest RG and get him back to 100% for next year.

Not gonna get involved in all the Shanny second guessing, I think the rule should be simple - if RG has to wear a knee brace he shouldn't play. He hates that damn brace anyways. I'm more scared when he's wearing it.

Also I hate the Seahawks. Sherman is a douchebag. But they played better than us yesterday, they deserved to win.

Thanks for a phenomenal season, one of the best ever.

GO SKINS!

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53Fan

Agree with everything in this post. I'm going to try to make this my last frustrating post about the game and move on. I wanted to beat Seattle badly. I thought we would beat Seattle and it sure as hell looked like we were on our way to doing exactly that. I think KC has proved his ability and value to this team. Starting in the second quarter I started telling a buddy of mine that RG3 didn't look right at all and KC should be put in the game. Sometime in the 3rd quarter I started yelling that opinion at Shanahan through the T.V. By the 4th quarter I had completely lost it over the fact that if it was completely obvious to me that RG3 was totally ineffective, then why in the hell couldn't Mike see it. Other than convincing my BF's wife that I'm a complete lunatic my rants of course were all for nought. What I'm getting at is this. If KC would have been put in the game and we still loss I would have hated it but.....it would have, been a lot easier to take. You put it up to Griffin being hurt and the second string QB who completed one victory for us and led us to 38 points and a victory in his only start..just didn't get it done but with RG3 hurt it was the best option we had. I can deal with that. But leaving an injured ineffective starter in the game while Captain Kirk sits on the sidelines after the way he's performed this year, well it just leaves you with the feeling we coulda won the game but lost because of, imo, a really bad decision. And that's just a little harder to take. Looking forward to next year and feeling good about being a Redskins fan again. HAIL!

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