skins eagles postgame

[MTK]

Paulsen definitely hesitated a bit on the route. I think it was a miscommunication more than anything.

[HailGreen28]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

Paulsen definitely hesitated a bit on the route. I think it was a miscommunication more than anything.

I think that pass was a lot further off than a couple steps. If Logan had broken upfield he couldn't have got that one.

And I think there's a new meme for people to trash-talk the Skins on. Last season it was "RG3 will get killed in the Read Option". When it was safer than in the pocket and scrambling where RG3 couldn't control where the tacklers were coming from, and this season's beginning the same mediots wondered "gee RG3 sure is getting hit a lot in the pocket since they aren't running the read option".

Now I think mediots on TV, bloggers, etc., are considering it fashionable to criticize our Offense's playcalling. Opposing players are saying it, which at this point I put about as much stock into as hearing Giants DLinemen call every OL that beats them "dirty". Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think every team scouts every opponent's tendencies. (To the point I think Cooley's infamous pic of his playbook in his lap, there was a question of what the opponent would do when "x" player substituted in). And that's become a scapegoat even among our own players.

I'm not saying "the media" started this (I know people who report the NFL would love us, any team, to go on a tear, makes a great story), I'm saying they're parroting what other teams are trash-talking about us, to the point our own players are saying it.

Why are other teams saying it? I don't think we're any more predictable than other teams, though I welcome any motivation to mix things up more. I think other teams are scared of what RG3 and Co. could do if he fully recovers. And "predictable" is the worst teams can say. People trash Brady for the "dink and dunk" game he plays, They can learn to hate RG3 beating people with smart running and his cannon arm. As long as we don't get a terrible coach if we replace the Shanahans.

But I don't really know. Am I off base in thinking the above?