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Originally Posted by Daseal
Maybe, just maybe if you read my post you'd see I never once mentioned us throwing it deep on MN. If you would have bothered to look I said we had good playcalling that game. So, please read before you ignorantly spout shit that I didn't say. I said our receivers were getting plenty of seperation. Since I went to 1/8th of the Redskins games last year, and the WRs had seperation in both I can assume that those aren't the only two games the receivers had decent seperation on.
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Why would you assume that because you saw it at 12.5% of the games, it was the case for all of them? That just seems asinine to me. The bigger issue was the drops anyway.
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Originally Posted by Daseal
The O line had a horrible center and an old backup Tackle who is no where near the calibre we're used to. Granted, but ask Portis how bad the line was behind being the 3rd (?) rusher in the NFC.
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Another asinine statement. Portis was high on the league's rushing list just from sheer number of carries, not because the line blocked well for him. His rush yards per carry ranked in the lower half of the league, and that stat more accurately shows the blocking performance of the offensive line than the total rushing yards stat.
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Originally Posted by Daseal
The line played well enough to throw the ball. As I said, most of the times the receivers WERE getting seperation. Problem was the game plan was too conservative to toss it.
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This depends on which part of the year you're talking about. If you're trying to tell me that the line gave Brunell enough time to throw in his starts, you're nuts. He was CONSTANTLY on the run. But, perhaps you didn't realize that since you didn't attend any of those games, since apparently that's the only way to analyze football games.
As for Ramsey, the line grew more cohesive later in the season. They still had trouble giving Ramsey time to throw against the Eagles and Steelers, but who doesn't. In all of Ramsey's other games, his yards per completion was up, which is reflective of both better offensive line play giving Gibbs enough confidence to call more intermediate passing plays.
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Originally Posted by Daseal
Brunell was horrible.. who was it that left him in the lineup? That's right!
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I'll give you that one, I woulda pulled him sooner.
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Originally Posted by Daseal
Neither of you mentioned how SIMPLE the system was. I'm sorry, but even if it's a new system you need it to be complex enough so other teams don't know what plays you're running. What do you guys say about that?
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I say that the system worked in the '80s when the players were EXECUTING. The Skins ran the same damn running play 10 times in a row against the Giants in one playoff game, 50-gut, to run out the clock. It got funny to the point where Lachey was telling LT it was coming, but they couldn't stop it. The issue isn't the playcalling. The issue is execution, because even when you know it's coming, if you do it right, it's very hard to stop.
Gibbs adjusted his playcalling to fit the team. They were playing shitty, so he had to limit what he could do. Then when the team started playing better towards the end of the season, he began to go with more intermediate passing. And now that he has new WRs and a better O-Line, I think you'll see that he'll adjust and open it up even more.