Redskins-Steelers First Team Game Review

WTF can't this team score pts?? (red zone especially) we have offensive talent, Cooley, Portis, Moss, and big receivers!! I don't understand why we cant score it's like every year we have a solid d and an awful offense. All we need is like 20pts per game and we will win 10 games.

Awesome read. Great job as usual Gtripp.

Very well done thank you. The Skins have got to finish drives. It reminded me of last year. We still struggle in the Red Zone.


Yeah that does worry me. We have some exciting new talent on offense though, so hopefully that will change. If it doesn't we will have yet another 7-9 or 8-8 season.

I'm worried about the defensive slip on the second series. Seems like you think it's Greg Blache's fault for calling an aggressive blitz when he could have played conservatively, and then Hall getting beaten...

Last year we had to worry about the Dline -- I hope we don't have to worry about the DB's now. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for now.

Yeah that does worry me. We have some exciting new talent on offense though, so hopefully that will change. If it doesn't we will have yet another 7-9 or 8-8 season.
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Lets hope so. I felt like I was having a deja vu moment last night.
I do not get too panicked or too stoked about preseason games, but it does give some insights of what we might be dealing with. Personally, I see us going 8-8 this season.

Good stuff GTripp! I think the o-lineman stat would be interesting.

I thought the Kelly throw was actually a good call, if only he pushed it out a couple yards further so Kelly could run under it.

I thought the Kelly throw was actually a good call, if only he pushed it out a couple yards further so Kelly could run under it.

I thought so, too. A quality throw and we had a big gainer, maybe even 6 points.

Giving this a pilot run for the upcoming season.

Offense

Drive I & II (before and after the fake punt)



It's incredibly important to remember that the entire difference between the offensive performance of the first team against the Steelers vs. the Ravens is a successful fake punt
Defense




Poor Charlie Batch. On one play, he evaded Andre Carter, Brian Orakpo, and Albert Haynesworth who all had beaten their blocks, and then he ended up getting piledriven anyway by C. Griffin. This is Redskins football.I think the first part was brilliant by JZ. Sometimes a coach needs to light a fire under his team. Get a spark any way you can. It worked( kind of) for that drive as the O came back out and drove the rest of the way down the field. Yes it ended in 3, but this was the #1 defense in the league last year and we proved that we could move the ball on them. Huge improvement from last week, especially in the run game.

To the second bolded part, and I dont mean to nitpick, but if you watch the game again you will see that Batch didn't avoid AH. Actually AH had him around the ankles right before CG nails him.

Anyway, very good read sir. Very good indeed.

Uh. Heyer is a beast.