Play Calling

[SUNRA]

Originally Posted by NYCSkin

The Skins cannot beat anybody right now. To let two West coast teams travel here and beat us at home is the mark of a poor team. If I was the Rams or Cardinals--I would be licking my chops...

You know damn well the Redskins are going to beat those teams. Let's keep it real. We seem to have our way against NFC conference teams which is why this team is so frustrating. Win have of the AFC games we are 7-4. It's hard for Gibbs to focus on winning in the Division and AFC all in one season I guess.

[Twilbert07]

After last week, I wouldn't count on any victory as automatic.

[Bushead]

Here is the problem with the question. You have to consider that play calling and execution go hand in hand. If Rabach doesn't make that penalty, play calling doesn't even come up in a thread. Gibbs did call a conservative game though. It is just a hard topic to pin-point

[Redskin]

anyway the raiders arent that poor of a team in the first place the giants lost to em too

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by Redskin

anyway the raiders arent that poor of a team in the first place the giants lost to em too

The Raiders are definately a better team than their record suggests. Like us, they have lost a lot of close games.

That said, we should have won that game.

[sniks]

Originally Posted by Ramseyfan

The Raiders are definately a better team than their record suggests. Like us, they have lost a lot of close games.

That said, we should have won that game.

bottom line we are what we are 5-6 and sinking fast.The eagles could tie us and they lost arguabley the best reciever and qb in the game.We are just pitiful.

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by sniks

bottom line we are what we are 5-6 and sinking fast.The eagles could tie us and they lost arguabley the best reciever and qb in the game.We are just pitiful.

We've been sinking because our record was a lot better than we deserved. We were and are a .500 team. (Yes I know we are under .500 right now.)

[sniks]

I know ramseyfan just totaly frustrated with the fourth quarter play.Cant seem to hold it together on either side of the ball.Last 3 games should have won.But like i said earlier we r what we r.

[SUNRA]

Check this out. We pick off Brees at their 30yd line with about 50 seconds left in the game. Portis finally gets 9 yds on one run. Wait a minute, penalty. A 10yd penalty puts the ball at the 40yd. line. Do we throw the ball or just let Portis carry this team on his shoulders since he dropped the team last week ? Yes, Portis runs no gain. He runs again. Third down, no one is open and Brunell runs out of bounds. Why Gibbs why? Why Don Breaux why? Why give the ball away to the third team to beat us on a raggedy fourth quarter decision?

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by SUNRA

Check this out. We pick off Brees at their 30yd line with about 50 seconds left in the game. Portis finally gets 9 yds on one run. Wait a minute, penalty. A 10yd penalty puts the ball at the 40yd. line. Do we throw the ball or just let Portis carry this team on his shoulders since he dropped the team last week ? Yes, Portis runs no gain. He runs again. Third down, no one is open and Brunell runs out of bounds. Why Gibbs why? Why Don Breaux why? Why give the ball away to the third team to beat us on a raggedy fourth quarter decision?

Neither the running or passing game were sharp in the 2nd half. With enough time on the clock for San Diego to go score, Portis ran the ball in order to run the clock down and hopefully get yardage. Those were good calls in my book. Then, on 3rd and long, we try to pass the ball to get into field goal range. Another good call.

So, my question is, what exactly was wrong with those calls?