That Guy
11-14-2004, 03:25 AM
Let me point out two mistakes from the defense that led to a loss or nearly a loss for the Redskins.
1. Brunell goes out of the game against the Giants. Ramsey comes in. Portis runs the ball in for a TD. There's a false start. Next play, Ramsey throws an INT. We lose by 6 points.
2.Against Green Bay the O line had 10 penalties for 82 yds. The pass-blocking was bad and was the main reason that Brunell was flushed out of the pocket and overthrough Coolery for a sure TD. Now, the mystery illegal motion led to a great debate but the offensive line killed itself.
3.Against the Lions, first quarter. Brunell throws to Robert Royal for a TD. It was called back and we settled for three. There has to be someone who is better than Ray Brown on this team. He's getting beat too many times and it's forcing Brunell to rush his passes.
Does anybody else see this? 1. If we're being speculative, what if hasslebeck throws an int? what if brunell throws an int and we lose by 27 points? what if ed reed sacks the QB and takes the fumble back 94 yards?
2. Counter-point: coles open by 3-4 yards, ball sails out of bounds... brunell decides to throw an ultra crappy dump off to a wide open betts... lots and lots of views from replays with wide open TEs and WRs not being seen or being ignored... there's many more bad plays than good ones.
3. Brown is actually much more consistant than samuels, though he has less amazing plays, he has far less bad plays too... if we did have someone better, he'd be on the field... (ie molinaro was playing DT last game, the staff doesn't really care about making changes unless its at QB ;))
I agree that the oline is not much more than average, but like someone else said, there are a lot of QBs doing more with less (and making something like 1/16th of what brunell makes). I know portis isn't the problem... and the WRs are blocking well, and from the angles i can see, get open more often than not... I think people are focusing on brunell because he's CLEARLY the biggest problem. No team should expect everyone else to play absolutely perfectly to make up for one clearly deficient member, and that's sort of what you're asking the team to do... in other posts you've said the D isn't doing enough and that it needs to score more i believe, and that the oline breaking down a couple times a game makes them crappy and that they deserve an equal share of blame... From what i've seen, there's one big (very) offensive problem, and a bunch of minor stuff that wouldn't really be mentioned at all if said offensive problem wasn't, well... such a problem.
1. Brunell goes out of the game against the Giants. Ramsey comes in. Portis runs the ball in for a TD. There's a false start. Next play, Ramsey throws an INT. We lose by 6 points.
2.Against Green Bay the O line had 10 penalties for 82 yds. The pass-blocking was bad and was the main reason that Brunell was flushed out of the pocket and overthrough Coolery for a sure TD. Now, the mystery illegal motion led to a great debate but the offensive line killed itself.
3.Against the Lions, first quarter. Brunell throws to Robert Royal for a TD. It was called back and we settled for three. There has to be someone who is better than Ray Brown on this team. He's getting beat too many times and it's forcing Brunell to rush his passes.
Does anybody else see this? 1. If we're being speculative, what if hasslebeck throws an int? what if brunell throws an int and we lose by 27 points? what if ed reed sacks the QB and takes the fumble back 94 yards?
2. Counter-point: coles open by 3-4 yards, ball sails out of bounds... brunell decides to throw an ultra crappy dump off to a wide open betts... lots and lots of views from replays with wide open TEs and WRs not being seen or being ignored... there's many more bad plays than good ones.
3. Brown is actually much more consistant than samuels, though he has less amazing plays, he has far less bad plays too... if we did have someone better, he'd be on the field... (ie molinaro was playing DT last game, the staff doesn't really care about making changes unless its at QB ;))
I agree that the oline is not much more than average, but like someone else said, there are a lot of QBs doing more with less (and making something like 1/16th of what brunell makes). I know portis isn't the problem... and the WRs are blocking well, and from the angles i can see, get open more often than not... I think people are focusing on brunell because he's CLEARLY the biggest problem. No team should expect everyone else to play absolutely perfectly to make up for one clearly deficient member, and that's sort of what you're asking the team to do... in other posts you've said the D isn't doing enough and that it needs to score more i believe, and that the oline breaking down a couple times a game makes them crappy and that they deserve an equal share of blame... From what i've seen, there's one big (very) offensive problem, and a bunch of minor stuff that wouldn't really be mentioned at all if said offensive problem wasn't, well... such a problem.