Brunell Revisited

Offiss, that's a great breakdown of the system that Portis emerged from. Now if that system produced 1,500 yd seasons back to back, shouldn't we adjust our playbook to give him a chance to be the back we know he is capable of being?


I said it in another post, when you pay 50mil. for a back you change what you have to change to make sure he fit's in, even if it's just a couple of play's to feel thing's out, with that said, I don't see us changing anything until we are certain that the line is doing their job, reason? Regardless of the back, if the line isn't opening hole's, I don't care who the back is, or what the system is, your not going to run the ball, the counter trey is the type of play that Portis should excell at, it's a similar philosophy, we can have Portis do some straight ahead running on occasion, but it has to be the exception not the rule, now if the line is blowing holes for running up the gut then fine, but we have to keep the D-linemen off of Portis, he's not big enough to take a pounding from those big boy's, with Bugel's track record I don't think we will change philosphy any time soon, which I think is ok, but I think we should also prepare in case that is the case and we have to change, putting a couple of play's where we block down might be a good idea, even if it's only until we get the rest of the running game going, it could be the difference in winning and losing right now, considering how close the games have been, great coaches adjust to their personel, well let's see what happen's, I know the staff is more than capable of changing the blocking scheme, in fact, the denver blocking scheme I believe was derived from some of the play's Gibb's used to run, if you remember early on in his carreer with us, he ran some pretty funky blocking schemes that no one had seen before, like pulling both tackle's, and guard's, and criss cross them to opposite side's, then you would just watch the LB's, and linemen, so confused they would just stand there, while the TE would be wide open 20yd's down field, it was a thing of beauty.

Bring in pot-smokin Ricky as a one two punch HA HA. who would stop us then noone. what ever needs to be changed, change it so we can exploit Portis's potiental period. otherwise linemen need to stay on their block until the whistle blows. the dirtbags don't have a mean streak that they should let get dirty "dirtbags", elbow a guy inthe face or something don't look so nice and willing to give up. can anyone see Cadillac Williams as a shock draft pick in next years draft?

I think the bigest problem is we have never had an answear to Jon Jansen going down . he was the No.1 run blocker bar none on the O-Line but it will come back. What we need to do posibly is run more 3/4 reciver sets. as has been mentioned before the max protect is great but really limits your opptions as the D just stacks 8 or even 9 in the box to stuff the run. I personally think spreading things out a bit more will both help the passing game and running game as Brunell will be able to make more use of his game smarts and Portis will have some daylight.

It is however excecution and concentration which are missing. We cannot loose the ball as we have been doing in key situations and giving away stupid penilties also even if the defence knows what is comming a good offence still makes the play and gets the yards.

speaking of Jansen what's the latest on Kenyatta Jones, when is he returning?

I think Jones will be starting on Sunday night

I think Jones will be starting on Sunday night

thanks, I hope he does

watch KC, look at their Oline... its unbelieveable how those guys got it together...
Holmes wouldn't have had such a field day, but ray ray was having a really off day... missing tackles, having tackles broken etc... he looked bad that game, and i don't think we're going to be as lucky...

watch KC, look at their Oline... its unbelieveable how those guys got it together...
Holmes wouldn't have had such a field day, but ray ray was having a really off day... missing tackles, having tackles broken etc... he looked bad that game, and i don't think we're going to be as lucky...

Ray Lewis is spending too much energy portraying his Madden image. If he just shut up and play he would have more energy, but it's O.K. for this weekend.

Ray-Ray rarely has bad games and I really don't think he's going to do it 2 weeks in a row. Somebody better put a hat on him all game long.

I don't see a why lot of you think that he's a great or even capable QB. I see him throw balls high all the time. Coles drops balls because he has to outstretch all the time. He does drop a few that are thrown right to him, but the "fumble" was Brunell's fault. I see Brunell throw balls away when he doesn't have pressure on him. I see him start to run around the pocket when a blitzer gets close, but is demolished by Portis. I see him hold the ball too long. Most of all, I see why his passer rating is so high...all he does is check down. Clearly that's not all he does, but more often than not. People wonder why the Skins don't throw downfield, I guarantee Gibbs is calling the plays, but Brunell is checking down. Brunell has played 1 very good quarter of football this season. People blame clock management for the Cowboys loss, how about the check down that wasted over 10 seconds on the first play of the possession? How about the fact that he threw the last pass to Terrance Newman and Rod had to go over his back. Had he put the ball to the sideline Rod would have been out of bounds.

People say he didn't lose the Browns game: 13 of 24, 125 yards, no TD's; tell me how he did enough to win.


I would say you are right and that is not good for Redskins. Now is the time to see if Ramsey can be a NFL QB for gibbs or next years hight first round pick is a QB if ones is there! Brunell is a weak arm old man well older then his years! Sorry but the truth hurts! Wish it wasn't so but wishes don't win games!