Why all the complaining?

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by SouperMeister

You're missing the point. Yes, the Skins won, but with yet another lead at the half, they had their asses handed to them in the 2nd half, and were extremely fortunate to win. What you, me, and every Skins fan wants to see is resonable progress and production from the offense. Three 3 and outs in the last three posessions with the game on the line just won't get it done most weeks. It was obvious that the power running game wasn't working, and the Cards weren't respecting anything deep, so why not go to three and four WR sets to spread the field? Maybe open up more running lanes that way. Something, anything, show us a little creativity when the original plan isn't working. To me, it appears that we're coaching scared on offense. Thank God for Gregg Williams D, but even that won't be enough against the Pats if Gibbs is content to play for a 17-14 game.

Couldn't have said it better.

I've been an Al Saunders defender from the beginning, but by this point, I really expected to more ingenuity from his playcalling and scheming.

Perhaps my expectations were a bit high.

[Paintrain]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

Couldn't have said it better.

I've been an Al Saunders defender from the beginning, but by this point, I really expected to more ingenuity from his playcalling and scheming.

Perhaps my expectations were a bit high.

While Saunders calls the plays, Gibbs sets the game plan and he and Campbell basically said in the postgame that they had a conservative gameplan. Gibbs even said, 'We probably could have taken a few more shots out there, but we were happy with what we were doing.'

Campbell was asked by Kelli Johnson outside the locker room about not throwing downfield at all & he alluded to the gameplan not having many of those plays in it this week.

I don't really care to see JC dropping back and heaving it 30 yds downfield every series, but he's got to take 2-3 shots a game and not completely ignore the middle of the field all game. Success in today's NFL is 12-16 yds downfield over the middle but we seem to always be focused outside the hashes and up the sidelines..

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by Paintrain

While Saunders calls the plays, Gibbs sets the game plan and he and Campbell basically said in the postgame that they had a conservative gameplan. Gibbs even said, 'We probably could have taken a few more shots out there, but we were happy with what we were doing.'

And that's what I find troubling ...

[Paintrain]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

And that's what I find troubling ...

Which was my point in posting it.. Gibbs seemingly is satisfied with squatting on 2 TD leads despite losing so many leads in his 2nd stint..

[ncskinsfanec]

Originally Posted by Paintrain

Which was my point in posting it.. Gibbs seemingly is satisfied with squatting on 2 TD leads despite losing so many leads in his 2nd stint..

Save the complaining for another day, if I'm not mistaking we did win the game! We're are 4-2, right in the thick of the NFC East title race! This beats the you know what out of last season, don't you think?

[dgack]

Originally Posted by Paintrain

Which was my point in posting it.. Gibbs seemingly is satisfied with squatting on 2 TD leads despite losing so many leads in his 2nd stint..

Not sure why this is so shocking. As we saw in the GB game, put the ball on the ground just once and you very well could be done for the day. With the defense playing the way it's been playing, getting up early then riding it out seems like a perfectly reasonable philosophy.

The trick is that we don't have an earth-moving front line anymore, so we can't run it down opposing teams' throats and control the clock in the second half. But turning to the air exclusively is way too risky.

[Paintrain]

Originally Posted by dgack

Not sure why this is so shocking. As we saw in the GB game, put the ball on the ground just once and you very well could be done for the day. With the defense playing the way it's been playing, getting up early then riding it out seems like a perfectly reasonable philosophy.

The trick is that we don't have an earth-moving front line anymore, so we can't run it down opposing teams' throats and control the clock in the second half. But turning to the air exclusively is way too risky.

The mentality of playing not to lose and being scared is why we've lost games where we held a 2nd half lead since 2004 than anyone else in the league.. You can't 'ride it out' in the NFL anymore.. Did you hear Belichick today? He put his starters back in because the Dolphins(!) were 1 possession away from a 14 point game.. When you have the lead, that's when you put the foot on the other team's throat and crush it not just hope to 'ride it out'..

[dgack]

Originally Posted by Paintrain

The mentality of playing not to lose and being scared is why we've lost games where we held a 2nd half lead since 2004 than anyone else in the league.. You can't 'ride it out' in the NFL anymore.. Did you hear Belichick today? He put his starters back in because the Dolphins(!) were 1 possession away from a 14 point game.. When you have the lead, that's when you put the foot on the other team's throat and crush it not just hope to 'ride it out'..

I agree with you in principle, I'm just saying that we're clearly not playing sharp football right now, and it's much easier for Belichick to go out there and air it out than it is for Joe in terms of talent available, health, and so on. I personally think we'd be 1-5 if we'd been taking more risks with 2nd half leads, rather than 6-0.

Besides, Belichick's a flaming asshole. He was just running up the score, because he wants to stick that spygate draft pick fine up the entirety of the NFL's collective rectum.