How did we look vs. the Ravens?

I don't believe our offensive line is near good enough to pound the ball on the ground on a consistent basis.

Weren't the Skins 4th in the league in rushing last year with the same O-Line they have now? Minus Dock of course. And some would argue that Kendall is an upgrade over Dock. They've played the entire preseason with backups on the left side. Be patient.

Yes Saunders has brought in a proven offensive scheme, but we don't have the horses up front to run it, and we are not sure if Campbell is capable of executing it?

The running game thrived with Campbell under center last year. No reason to think it won't again.

blades was a stud with the starters. that would make 2 rookies starting in week 1 under williams. beast

The defense is converging well on the ball, which is great to see. The young guys are adapting great to Williams' defense. Give Taylor 12" and he would have ended McNair's season on that hit!!! A couple of open running lanes up the middle in the 2nd half, but the first team looked great.

The offense looked good with Collins at the helm. The run game has not been very productive, but look at the defenses we have played against, all of them are tough to run on for any offense. The 30-40 yd pass play they keep running up the left side usually has an open receiever and I have seen Jason hit them in stride, I hope there are more variations of this play!

I for one am not impressed with Collins as our #2. This guy looks like he has no fire in his belly to run a high powered offense. He needs to have the clip board in his hand, and not a football. Our running game is terrible because of several things: Betts only runs like a series or two and then from there we trot out our third and fourth option on the depth chart (where in the hell is Rock?). Our offensive line is trying to find it's way with current players in uniform right now. Our offensive line coach is a little late on trying to find a replacement for Dock, and the Wade experiment has failed. This issue really concerns me, because as your line goes your offense goes. Buges is apparently scanning daily the waiver wires, and trying to grab up anybody with a descent pedigree to help out. Also, our premadona running back is sandbagging this preseason just because he can, and the coaches let him. And one final analysis, is it me or does it seem that our receivers are not getting enough seperation? Because it seems to me that the FEW completions that this team has converted, there were multiple defenders all over the receiver. This could also be another factor of our O-line is not giving the qb enough time to work through the progressions. Throwing into double and triple coverage is flirting with trouble. Also, I'm not too comfortable with the fact that we are picking-up roster cast-offs, or guys that have been out of football for some time. This tells me that our caoching staff is not cconfident with the current players wearing B/G. Yeah, I guess we've had some success in the preseason, but I'm by no means warm and fuzzy with the product on the field.

Why isn't ARE returning punts?

Why isn't ARE returning punts?

So he doesn't get hurt.

blades was a stud with the starters. that would make 2 rookies starting in week 1 under williams. beast
Blades will not be starting week one if Marcus Washington is ready to go, and if Washington cannot play week one I think it will come down to Blades, Godfrey, and Campbell to get the start.

So he doesn't get hurt.

Copy and paste this statement in just about every pre-season "Why isn't he....?" thread/topic.

I think the D looks good--though there isn't much QB pressure from the front and the starting D hasn't got a TO yet. Still, they look much improved and seem to have their swagger back.

The O is a complete question mark--we've scored VERY few points with any O this year. Yes, I know it's preseason and I know we've played some good Ds, but this is not a proven bunch that can just turn it on in the regular season. Sure, key people are out, but then that means we have no depth, and you need depth to be any good. So I'm concerned. A slow start would be very tough this year, especially after last year's disaster.

Hope it will click soon, but I will not believe it until I see it on the field.

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