How Is Our Playcalling?

you have to remember, that for the past two years, we could win games like that...get a lead, let the D and running game take over. Its hard to switch gears this late in the season when nothing is going your way. I'm not saying what happened was justified though, but perhaps if the D returns to form, it won't matter so much. Someone suggested blaming the D line, and I didn't see much of the second half...but what I did see is Wright/Rumph getting burned a lot, and giving way too big of cushions


We also lost some games like this too? Remember Oak.? Remember SD? Both home losses last year with leads in the 2nd half. Personally I hate all the conservative play calling. You run to win but you throw to score. I know JC is only started his 3rd game but we still need to push the ball down the field A LOT MORE. It looked like SM was getting open all day and we should have went to him a lot more. I would also like to see Saunders call the plays from the sideline.

the play calling is horrific, we finally eliminate all of the stupid penalties which i thought were killing us before but apparently not. i mean, a half back draw on 3rd down with 40 sec left? what happened to the ol' brunell bootleg play, i would have liked to see campbell either throw or run it in

Why does everyone want to focus on the offense when the bigger problem was the D getting gashed for 200+ yards on the ground??

That shouldn't be surprising. It's the Falcons - they are going to put up 200 yards rushing on you. Thing is though, they don't usually win despite all of those yards, because they are a fairly one-dimensional team.

Our defense screwed up, but it wasn't on the ground - it was in the air. Let Vick and Dunn get their yards between the 20s, but you can't let Vick throw two 15+ yard TD passes.

The D is giving up all those yards because they are on the field so much they are gassed by the time the 4th quarter arrives. I dont care what kind of D a team has nobody can be on the field as much as the redskins D and not have them to get tired.

That shouldn't be surprising. It's the Falcons - they are going to put up 200 yards rushing on you. Thing is though, they don't usually win despite all of those yards, because they are a fairly one-dimensional team.

Our defense screwed up, but it wasn't on the ground - it was in the air. Let Vick and Dunn get their yards between the 20s, but you can't let Vick throw two 15+ yard TD passes.

Yeah. With this game, they now have 7 games with 200+ rushing yards ... damn!

the play calling is horrific, we finally eliminate all of the stupid penalties which i thought were killing us before but apparently not. i mean, a half back draw on 3rd down with 40 sec left? what happened to the ol' brunell bootleg play, i would have liked to see campbell either throw or run it in

I wouldn't say the playcalling was "horrific", or even bad -- it was pretty good (like someone else said, Betts had 155 yards). However, I was thinking the exact same thing about the Brunell bootleg.

This is just plain out stupid. Sorry, but I have to say it. Every time when our team plays to our strengths...which is RUNNING THE FREAKIN' ball, people whine and piss their diapers because our offense is playing too conservative. Yet, look at the games we have won this year and in the recent past...it's because we have RAN THE FOOTBALL MORE THAN WE HAVE PASSED! Gee....so if we win more when we run the football, it only makes sense to run the football. I guess people want Campbell to drop back on every play and pass it 40 yards down field. I'm sure it works on your computer games.
Actually skinsguy no one was complaining about being too conservative, and no one said anything about campbell needing to throw more in the game. We all know that our strength is running the ball, and that it gives us the best chance to win. I'm pretty sure what everyone was whining and "pissing their diapers" about was the playcalling after our lead, as implied in the title of the thread. Check this article out.. Les Carpenter - Veering Off Track After a Running Start - washingtonpost.com (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/03/AR2006120301174.html)

Why does everyone want to focus on the offense when the bigger problem was the D getting gashed for 200+ yards on the ground??
the problem, in my eyes, was the playcalling. betts was running all over atlanta, and for some reason, mr saunders wants to be super smart and keep passing the football. we could have dominated the time of possesion, and kepy our defense off the field, if we chose to keep running the football. and we definitely run better between the tackles, as opposed to the stupid sweeps saundrs keeps calling

I wonder if he'll be calling all the plays next year.

weeee!