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Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection
Gibbs start calling the game more conservatively?! Urgh, not something I want to see! 
I will say this... I think that while it doesn't count, they're telling Ramsey to "let-er-rip" and see how he does. I'm sure if these games counted, they'd be running more to set up the pass so that once they stack the box, Ramsey can hit some easy quick slants to Moss or Patten and they'd be gone. |
I don't want to see Gibbs go as conservative as last year, but I definitely don't want to see him cutting Ramsey loose like he is in the preseason. Did you know the Redskins rank 2nd in the NFL in pass yards per game so far in the preseason? Philly is first.
That's abnormal for a Joe Gibbs team. I think he's just calling pass after pass because he's just trying to assess what works. He's probably trying to figure out which plays work and which don't. When the regular season comes, I think he'll call running plays about as often as he did last year. The only thing is he'll pick his spots to go deep this year, and he'll probably choose to use the plays that he sees working here in the preseason.
I think he's using the preseason as a guinea pig of sorts, a test-run of the passing game. But he'll end up using his normal offensive style. All Clinton Portis, all the time, but with just a few deep passes mixed in. Which makes sense. After all, Clinton is our best offensive player. I maintain that the deep passing game is there primarily to give Portis room to run and take over games.