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sportscurmudgeon 09-28-2004, 01:21 AM If you've been folloowing the Skins for a while you will remember Albert Connell and how he would get a brain carmp about once a game and not make it out of bounds when they needed the clock stopped. Gardner did that on the next to last play; on the final play he didn't. It wasn't a brain cramp; it was a soild defensive play by Roy Williams.
This is the single best game Gardner has had in his entire tenure here. Now he needs to do the same thing next week and the week after that...
Then he can stay.
That Guy 09-28-2004, 01:35 AM coles hasnt done anything but drop easy balls all year.
except when he got 100 yards last week, way more than anyone else... chill ;)
Hogskin 09-28-2004, 01:40 AM Well, I, for one, won't be saying any more about Gardner. This was by far the best game of his career. He finally showed up. Our offense finally found itself in the second half.
That Guy 09-28-2004, 01:51 AM it needs to stay though... if they put up 130 yards through the air next week and look like they did in week 1, i'll be mad again ;)
itvnetop 09-28-2004, 06:12 AM During the draft a few years back, Mel Kiper said that Rod was the steal of the first round at the spot he was drafted at... I think Snyder wanted Santana Moss, but they took size in the end.
Rod didn't do too bad when he was thrust into being the number 1 receiver his second year (after Westbrook left). When LC and Rod are both in top shape, we're going to have a sick receiving corp with Jacobs, Thrash, and McCants.
Luxorreb 09-28-2004, 06:31 AM Coles is picking up alot of coverage from different areas. Parcells knows about Coles. Gardner had a good game but as you guys have said 'just keep it up!'. Bottomline is noone has a good showing if the team loses. This isn't the positives thread. Gardner ain't no Albert Connell thank god. If Connell had ANY brains he woulda gotta outta bounds at the end of the 1st half against Arizona, TWICE. He was reduced to a locker thief. He was fast he could catch. I hope he atleast doing some good drugs now...
Gardner is a good WR, but I do think it helped that my brother wore his jersey to the game. I wore Gary Clark and that didn't seem to help...
joecrisp 09-28-2004, 06:31 AM Gardner was magnificent, and would have easily been the MVP of the game if the Redskins had been able to pull out the victory. It's mindboggling how up-and-down this guy can be-- and now the same can be said for Coles, for the opposite reason.
I was screaming at the TV when Coles dropped his second pass, "what the f*&% is wrong with you???!!!" Seriously, what the f&%# is wrong with him? It just doesn't make any sense. Does he now have a fractured finger in addition to his fractured toe? It sure looks like it. I was screaming for them to replace him with Thrash or Jacobs or somebody. Madden said it best: "that's just inexcusable."
And by the way, Gardner should have had THREE touchdowns Monday night-- or at least put the Redskins in position to score a third. The refereeing was another thing that was inexcusable in that game. Those were two game-changing situations that those referees screwed up...
Coles is fine, lol this board is hilarious at times. Last week we lynched Gardner, now he's the hero and we're asking what's wrong with Coles. What's wrong with him is he had a bad game, it happens.
RG stepped up big time last night, trouble is he's shown flashes like that in the past only to resort back to 50/50 the week after. We need to see that kind of effort week in and week out.
Defensewins 09-28-2004, 08:47 AM Regarding Coles and Gardner:
I think it is unrealistic to expect a WR to catch every single ball that is thrown to them that is catchable. We are all human and have bad days. Some more than others. Some might not remember but Gary Clark (one of the best WR's in Redskins history) had the same problem of dropping an occasional easy catch. He had at least one drop of an easy catch a game. My friends and I used to say, "oh good he got the drop out of the way and he will kick ass for the rest of the game."
I also think Brunell and Gardner had a lot of real game rust to shake off and it looks like they did it. Brunell missed most of last year. Gardner was ignored and hung out to dry for two years under Spurier. It looks like they shook off the rust and are ready to play well now. Plus the Dallas defense is no joke. They did well against on of the best defenses.
Skins1573 09-28-2004, 09:07 AM Regarding Coles and Gardner:
I think it is unrealistic to expect a WR to catch every single ball that is thrown to them that is catchable. We are all human and have bad days. Some more than others. Some might not remember but Gary Clark (one of the best WR's in Redskins history) had the same problem of dropping an occasional easy catch. He had at least one drop of an easy catch a game. My friends and I used to say, "oh good he got the drop out of the way and he will kick ass for the rest of the game."
I also think Brunell and Gardner had a lot of real game rust to shake off and it looks like they did it. Brunell missed most of last year. Gardner was ignored and hung out to dry for two years under Spurier. It looks like they shook off the rust and are ready to play well now. Plus the Dallas defense is no joke. They did well against on of the best defenses.
we need to throw him the ball early in the game even if he drops some, but he will also get some, and by the end of the game gardner will have more faith in himself which I hope and think we will get more of what we watched tonight.
That Guy, yes coles had 100 yards last week but he also droped 1 or 2 easy
passes durning the Giants geame
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