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Originally Posted by Hail to the Redskins
Wow... have you not been paying attention this year at all?? I think on a weekly basis it is made fact that our running scheme was COMPLETELY unchanged from last year!! Ignorance?? Really??
You are right about one thing ... THAT running game, which Zorn had nothing to do with (other than deciding NOT to change it), has been the reason we have won at all this year
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deciding not to change the running game was a good first move by coach zorn.
deciding to pound the ball early in the season (CP led league in carries thru 8 weeks) to give time for the passing offense to come together was a good coaching decision.
the boys coming off a bye week (yeah so were we i know) really came with a gameplan on O and D and neither blache or zorn has made adjustments yet. this is a copy cat league and teams will see what others have done to you that is sucessfull and do it to you until you prove you can stop it. we havent yet and its been 5 weeks now.
IMO our lack of proper personnel moves has hurt us (which is easier said then done thoo):
Our o line has been our bread and butter years past but we still should have started developing young talent to wait in the wings. (some complain about the lack of drafting O line guys in the first 3 rounds. well then we wouldnt have landry, rogers or the late great ST = all great 1st round picks, or even cooley or mcintosh)(also we tried getting davis from the cards awhile back but he signed with the boys)(we let dockery go for the obvious reasons, maybe we shouldnt have)
We have never had a real wrecking ball at or near the line of scrimmage on D. (we tried to get briggs, while hes a great player hes not the wrecking ball of havoc i want)
Our receivers are servicable, not great. we've had these guys for a while now. (we tried with taylor jacobs, ARE and lloyd and that didnt work, now weve tried with our 3 2nd round picks who hopefully will work out)
We dont have an elite qb, not many teams do. Without an elite qb you really need an awesome team around him to be a contender. (weve tried to find him with 2 first round picks this decade in ramsey and JC)
Point is i think we are trying, its just hard. now it is going to be even harder with our bread and butter of an O line on the decline. we really missed our window of success with these guys being in their prime the past 5 years. we tried adding skilled guys around them (portis, moss, cooley) but it just didnt work out. time to rebuild the O line so that we can again look for the right mix of skilled position players to make it work.
rant over sorry about that. sorry to take a "coach zorn" quote and go off.
go skins!!