Panic button poll

The only problem that I see so far is effort. Our defense has excelled mostly with effort and schemes. I would feel better if we had competed, but at no point yesterday did I see the Skins compete.

Offensively it's the same thing, effort. Giving up sacks to four man pressures, dropped passes, receivers not getting open, nothing is working.

The only bright spot is that none of these games has counted thus far. When the lights go on for real, we'll see what pops.

Looking for the button.
New system takes time, yet we must have some concern. Here we are, basically done with preseason, and yet to have a decent 1st team drive. How are we to know if its the "vanilla" "2%" "dont show your hand" stuff or not? I would think with our 1st two poor showings we would have opened up the playbook alittle bit.
I believe we will struggle for a bit early this year. But with our talent, players and coaching, by week 5 or so we should be ok. Just hope we can get a couple Ws along the way.

Hammer in hand.....not worrying yet but there is reason to be cautious.

Hammer in hand.
The preseason stats that scare me most: Mark Brunell has led the first-strong offense to 0 points and he has a QB rating of 48.1.
If Brunell falters in the Vikings game, Gibbs should pull him as quickly as he pulled Ramsey last season. Let's face it, at some point we're going to have to swallow the medicine and start Campbell. I'd rather do it early on and take our lumps than start 0-3 with an ailing Brunell.

None of the Poll Options seem to apply for me, so I couldn't choose. The Offense seems out of sync and has little rhythm, even when executing the basic so-called "vanilla" offense, which is somewhat disturbing to me. However, we still have two weeks to get an effective rushing game for the Vikings game (which should be enough), and three weeks to get our passing game down for the CowPukes (which we'll in order need to win).

Hammer in hand. Look, I agree with Matty about preseason hype, but ALL the signs seem bad, as far as anything we've put on the field (especially last night). I'm hoping that the signs are not relevant, for the various reasons people have said. But I can't ignore the signs.

Far too early to Panic. If you feel the need to panic, panic on these counts:

1. Special teams - kicking and punting are woefully inconsistent
2. Can the O-line stay healthly? Forget how the starters played yesterday, but if even one of them goes down, we're in trouble.

We played a bad game yesterday - we didn't show up. What could be a bigger indication of that than Moss dropping a pass. It was like the 36-0 beating we took from the Giants last year - where nothing goes right.

G Williams used the same defensive package yesterday - the entire game. He put a DB (e.g., Rogers, Archuletta) one-on-one with Ben Watson the entire game. Do you think this is going to happen in the regular season???!!! They will try not to leave Adam Archuletta one-on-one in coverage. On a couple of plays, GW sent an all out blitz, and Brady (one of the best QB's in the league, arguably one of the best QB's ever) burned us. Any good QB will do that. So what's new? Stop worrying about the defense.

On the Offensive front, if Al Saunders says he's comfortable with the way our starters are picking up the offense during practice, then that's good enough for me. The guy's overseen the league's top offenses over the last 5-6 years - this ain't Spurrier, folks.

Saunders most insightful comment is not that he's shown just 2% of the playbook - its the analogy with the boxing game he pointed to (aka which 2% has he shown). He said his pre-season philosophy is akin to trying to face an opponent in boxing where you're only allowed to use jabs (no hooks, upper-cuts, etc.) to attack the opponent. Will it take time for our starters to feel comfortable with the offense? Sure. Will that prevent us from laying a beating on the Vikings on MNF? Hell no!!

Good post Hurrykaine. We came out jabbing and the pats came out with baseball bats... But 41-0? wow.

I don't see any reason to worry, we havn't lost a game yet this year. It will be 3-4 weeks before I even consider that we may not win big this year. Panic right now, not hardly.

thanks hurrykaine, that post made me feel better. still got the hammer in hand though. still concerned.