play calling???

Thinking about the game right now. Would it have been better if Jason ran the no huddle/shotgun during the Giants game. We could have worn out their DLine and they woulnd't have been able to make subsitutions. This is definitely an approach we should take because for the past few years he has looked productive when we run the offense like that and also its a good approach to take because he can se things quicker and take off if needed and also like I said if we are going up against a killer Dline it tires them out and they are not able to make subsitutions.

This is a great point, and I think it could have helped. Someone else mentioned that the Giants only had 3 CB's active for the game. And thats why I have doubts about Zorn and his playcalling. Why you have 5 WR's active and dont go to more 4-5wide sets I just dont understand. If you see a weakness in the other team, I dont understand the reason why you dont take advantage of that....oh wait balance....what a load of crap.

Cooley's take (with a note from CP):
"I mean, fans are the best coaches in the world," Cooley joked. "And a little bit to their credit, so are a lot of us. In hindsight, calling a game is so easy. And a lot of the things that we do [wrong] are simple mistakes to fix. In hindsight, things are great. It's so hard to do what we do. And it's not like high school football, where guys can just go out and play.

"I understand that everyone's upset, but they need to understand that this is the most important thing in our lives as well, and that we're the ones spending all the time and doing everything, and it matters. I mean, as much as it matters to any fan, to me, it's my life."

Portis was given several opportunities to demand the ball more, or to criticize Coach Jim Zorn, or to criticize the play-calling, and he didn't even come close to losing his cool. He'd have made a horrible blog commenter this week.

When we beat Minnesota in 2007 as part of our 4-win stretch to make the playoffs Gibbs pounded the rock to wear out the Williams' Wall, and by late 3rd quarter we were running through them.
I didn't like the majority of Jim Zorn's play calling, but that pound the rock philosophy has worked before. I like Zorn's balanced approach,- at least we're not AZ who only ran the ball 34% last year. Sometimes Zorn is too balanced though, and so damn predictable.

When we beat Minnesota in 2007 as part of our 4-win stretch to make the playoffs Gibbs pounded the rock to wear out the Williams' Wall, and by late 3rd quarter we were running through them.
I didn't like the majority of Jim Zorn's play calling, but that pound the rock philosophy has worked before. I like Zorn's balanced approach,- at least we're not AZ who only ran the ball 34% last year. Sometimes Zorn is too balanced though, and so damn predictable.

Bad example. They went to the SB last year by running the ball 34% of the time, I would be fine with that.

When we beat Minnesota in 2007 as part of our 4-win stretch to make the playoffs Gibbs pounded the rock to wear out the Williams' Wall, and by late 3rd quarter we were running through them.
I didn't like the majority of Jim Zorn's play calling, but that pound the rock philosophy has worked before. I like Zorn's balanced approach,- at least we're not AZ who only ran the ball 34% last year. Sometimes Zorn is too balanced though, and so damn predictable.

We also raced out to a 25-0 nothing lead in that game by thowing 3 touchdown passes in the first half.

The "pounding the rock" philosophy worked when we had John Riggins, but those days are long gone. We don't have a running back remotely close to his style, and we certainly don't have the same type of offensive line. Most people don't know this, but after Riggins left, Gibbs and the Redskins had become a passing team, and, in fact Gibbs as an offensive coordinator for San Diego under Don Coryell was as wide open and wild as an offense has ever been. It was only after Gibbs came here that he recognized his personnel wasn't suited for that type of scheme and adapted to the players he had.

Zorn needs to do the same thing, because clearly this offense has no idea what it's supposed to be.

CP hasn't lost a step.. That 34 yard gain was on the short side of the field, and if any of you have ever run the ball at a college level (d2) then you would know that it's not that simple to break away ont he short side of the field.

AP is probally the only back in the NFL that would of broken that all the way, and he would of had to break the 2 DB tackles first. They were playing soft coverage, and he wasn't able to break through the 2nd level.

Ive went back and watched the replay about 5 times,and i amend my statement that 1/2 the backs would have broken it for a td,that was a ridiculous statement. However, I do think Portis has lost a step from the pounding hes taken the last few yrs, and Im still disapointed that he doesnt look like the back we thought we were getting.His longest runs have went down every yr sine he got here.That 34 yrd run was his longest since 2005,{which contradicts what Ive said about losing a step}but that hole was so big he was barely touched till he was tackled.Is it the off lines fault? I dont know.I do know that I would love to be proven wrong by Portis and you can rub it in my face all day long,cause if Im proven wrong then its helping the skins win which is what we all want
{oh,and it wasnt the short side of the field,just the opposite}

Look, even people around the league admit that Ladainian Tomlinson has lost a step -- so why is it impossible to think that Clinton Portis has?

It doesn't mean he's terrible or that he should be released. He's getting older, he doesn't run the way he used to, and it happens to every single player sooner or later.