Armstrong bad choice?

[SirClintonPortis]

He's a Cowboy fan. Can't help his subconcious. He'll have 500+ yards and three touchdowns this season. Bank on it.

[TIFOSOdeiREDSKINS]

we have 2 awesome TEs and sunday night i only saw the offense take advantage of 1 of them. why? considering WR is a weakness, we should be exploiting our strength at TE.

[BaltimoreSkins]

Originally Posted by TIFOSOdeiREDSKINS

we have 2 awesome TEs and sunday night i only saw the offense take advantage of 1 of them. why? considering WR is a weakness, we should be exploiting our strength at TE.

Also, the series in question, we should've gone back to the run to try to eat some clock, but KS must've seen something he liked after that first toss cause he went right back to it.

[diehard]

He plays well on kick and punt coverage so, he'll stick. Look for Thomas to get in on the offense this week though. I noticed how well Westbrook played on teams too.

[#56fanatic]

give the dude a break! They only thing I am sick of seeing is having 6'2'' WR sitting on the bench when running those plays. Two beastly TE not in the passing route in the redzone. It killed me for two years when we had Kelly and Tomas sitting on the bench during redzone possessions. you dont have to know too many freaking routes when your down there. Lob the damn ball up and let the freaking WR's make plays on the ball. Is there something in the Redskin history rule book that says we are not allowed to run that play???? Every damn NFL team in the league runs that play, except us. Kills me!!!!!!!!!

[GusFrerotte]

I will give Armstrong til game 3 to see if he can proudce, but I am with Jay on this in that we might be just delusional about what this guy can bring to the table. The second fade into the endzone was just good coverage, but the first one should have been caught, plus the other catch he missed should have been grabbed also. By the end of game 3 any jitters should be gone and he should have at least 6-8 grabs I would imagine. Either way, I see no way in which we don't draft a top WR in the 2011 draft. We need more targets than Moss and Cooley. Sellers should not be thrown to at all.

[Swarley]

I'm confused, hasnt it been one game? Didnt he have a good pre-season?

How about we just wait and see...

[jsarno]

Originally Posted by GreekSkin

I'm confused, hasnt it been one game? Didnt he have a good pre-season?

How about we just wait and see...

I would agree...however, what I don't get was all the love for this guy, then he gets targeted 5 times, 2 in the end zone (1 VERY catchable) and ends up with only 1 catch for 11 yards? Why are we even targeting him in the endzone anyway? We target a no body like Armstrong twice in the endzone on the same designed play, but not once target Davis who is 6'4"?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not only calling out Armstrong, I am calling out the play calling.

[GusFrerotte]

I think it is more of a case where we overbilled the guy(ala Marko Mitchell), not thinking he is going to be a bust, but thinking he is going to be a potential stud. Even if he does pan out nicely, we still need to draft him some help. I think that is at the bottom of Jay's views. We just overhyped the guy like we did last preseason with Mitchell, Thomas, and Kelly, only to be crapped on when the smoke cleared. We thought the world of the guy in the preseason, even when the body of work wasn't all that spectacular, then showtime came, and he didn't show us anything that we allowed ourselves to be hyped up about.

[sportscurmudgeon]

Originally Posted by jsarno

What was with all the love for this guy, then he dropped a TD that he really needed to catch?
Granted, first game, but I watched some routes and I was not all impressed. Anyone else care to shed some light on this guy?

Check out the other thread here that says the Redskins' WRs are really good and should not be taking the criticism they have taken for the last - - I don't know - - three years.

Following that logic, your criticism of AA is premature, unwarranted, ill-advised and ignorant.

Carry on...

[Hog1]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

Check out the other thread here that says the Redskins' WRs are really good and should not be taking the criticism they have taken for the last - - I don't know - - three years.

Following that logic, your criticism of AA is premature, unwarranted, ill-advised and ignorant.

Carry on...

THAT should do it!
.........and correctly so.........

[GusFrerotte]

Other than Moss they(recent Skin WRs) haven't been very good for the past several years. The only other WR that actually really produced in decent numbers in recent memory was, dare I say it, Rod Gardner. Before that, you had the dynamic duo of Michael Westbrook and Albert Connell. Not the best trio overall, but better than what we have today. As for being ignorant, I am not sure Jsarno is guilty of that. The hype of last season over our WRs was incredible. We were supposed to see Thomas and Kelly breakout remember? Mitchell gave some guys hard ons. What did they do? A whole lot of nothing!!! The 3 WRs I previously named performed decently, but were not stellar and received tons of criticism for too many drops, health problems, etc like our current bunch, but the older guys did produce. In short, we let ourselves get too geeked up about a WR corp that really isn't so stellar, and doesn't look like they are going to get the numbers that we were hoping for. Face it, we have one stud, with an old geezer and a trio of younger guys that have the equal chance of being studs or duds. Thus far with Thomas and Kelly, you don't have any numbers that are very promising, do you?

[30gut]

Originally Posted by jsarno

What was with all the love for this guy, then he dropped a TD that he really needed to catch?
Granted, first game, but I watched some routes and I was not all impressed. Anyone else care to shed some light on this guy?

Wow just like that huh?
A couple of drops and boom he's the wrong choice?

What routes did you watch?
Lets deal in specifics.
Lets talk targets down and distance.
Lets not just make blanket unsupported statements.

[SBXVII]

Uh Oh, Uh Oh, the sky is falling! Look, do you see.

Look it was one game. and..... we won. Can we savour this win before we have to move on to the next team from the same state that only has Steer's and Queer's? On a side note I didn't see Galloway, R.Williams, Thomas, or Banks doing much either. Oh and I failed to see TE Davis do much either. It seemed that this game was the Portis, Moss, and Cooley show. I too felt AA was being held on one of the TD passes. The defenders left hand pulls on AA's right shoulder turning him just enough so he doesn't catch the ball and it bounces out of his hands. I was pissed that it wasn't interference and given 4 more downs. We probably should have kept Tryon cause Rogers couldn't catch a cold all night either. JK.

[GusFrerotte]

Originally Posted by SBXVII

Uh Oh, Uh Oh, the sky is falling! Look, do you see.

Look it was one game. and..... we won. Can we savour this win before we have to move on to the next team from the same state that only has Steer's and Queer's? On a side note I didn't see Galloway, R.Williams, Thomas, or Banks doing much either. Oh and I failed to see TE Davis do much either. It seemed that this game was the Portis, Moss, and Cooley show. I too felt AA was being held on one of the TD passes. The defenders left hand pulls on AA's right shoulder turning him just enough so he doesn't catch the ball and it bounces out of his hands. I was pissed that it wasn't interference and given 4 more downs. We probably should have kept Tryon cause Rogers couldn't catch a cold all night either. JK.

I agree, but I think the overeaction is due to the hype we have given these newbies. Can't quit on AA after one game, but face it we have been overhyping our young WR corp for two seasons with nothing to really justify it. Armstrong is just the newest member in a cast that has been said by most in this forum to be ready to bust out. I don't think people would be so impatient if the hype/ kool aid machine wasn't turned up so much. That just leads to unrealistic expectations.