Week 3: Redskins vs. Rams Gameday thread

Apparently a NT isn't important in a 3-4 or we would have waited to get one before switching...right? :yeahright

Why do that when you can just try to embarrass your best defensive player into accepting the role...

You are the coach, everything you say goes, right?

Apparently a NT isn't important in a 3-4 or we would have waited to get one before switching...right? :yeahright

Or having LBs that actually know how to play in the 3-4. Instead, let's take a whole bunch of 4-3 DEs (including Carter, who came to Washington to play DE since he wasn't working out in SF's 3-4) and convert them to LBs.

Why do that when you can just try to embarrass your best defensive player into accepting the role...

You are the coach, everything you say goes, right?

Right....it goes right into the loss column.

Why do that when you can just try to embarrass your best defensive player into accepting the role...

You are the coach, everything you say goes, right?

Exactly. Players are slaves, the sooner they realize that the better :cheeky-sm

From Dan Steinberg:

Best Question, Part I: Did Clinton Portis just lose his job to a guy who was on the practice squad a week ago?

Worst Deja Vu: Week 3, on the road, against a bad 0-2 team with a rookie quarterback, and the Redskins lose. This probably wasn't as horrific as the Lions game, since Detroit had lost 19 straight at the time and was a national laughingstock in the way St. Louis wasn't. But this wasn't good.

Worst Drive: The Redskins got the ball at their 37 late in the third quarter. They went incomplete (bounce pass to Roydell Williams), incomplete (off-target to Cooley), incomplete (pass behind Keiland Williams). The drive lasted 23 seconds.

Best One-liner, Part I: Sam Huff, before the game, when Doc Walker attempted to reassure the crew that Stephon Heyer would hold his own.

"He not only holds his own, he holds the opponent," Huff said.

Worst Talk: DeAngelo Hall said earlier in the week that this was his defense, and that he wanted to cover the playmakers on the other team. His defining moment from this game came when he slipped on a short pass to Mark Clayton, allowing Clayton to run free down the sidelines.

Best Quote: Brian Mitchell, in the Comcast SportsNet post-game: "This is a terrible team at this point....The game I saw today reminded me so much of last year, it's ridiculous."

Best Redskins Stat: Brandon Lloyd: 6 catches, 169 yards, 1 TD. Oh, wait....

Worst Redskins Stat: Washington has 115 rushing yards in the first half, and 1 rushing yard in the second half.

Worst Celebration: After the Rams converted a 3rd-and-6 late in the second quarter, LaRon Landry leveled Danny Amendola, and then appeared to celebrate. It was a vicious hit, but I still don't get how you can celebrate a play in which the other team gets a first down.

Worst Defense: In three games, the new Redskins defense has allowed 380 yards, 526 yards, and 365 yards.

Worst News: The Redskins defense just got shredded by a rookie quarterback in his third NFL game. Next week, they face Michael Vick, who just accounted for four touchdowns and better than 300 yards on his own.

From Dan Steinberg:

Best Question, Part I: Did Clinton Portis just lose his job to a guy who was on the practice squad a week ago?

Worst Deja Vu: Week 3, on the road, against a bad 0-2 team with a rookie quarterback, and the Redskins lose. This probably wasn't as horrific as the Lions game, since Detroit had lost 19 straight at the time and was a national laughingstock in the way St. Louis wasn't. But this wasn't good.

Worst Drive: The Redskins got the ball at their 37 late in the third quarter. They went incomplete (bounce pass to Roydell Williams), incomplete (off-target to Cooley), incomplete (pass behind Keiland Williams). The drive lasted 23 seconds.

Best One-liner, Part I: Sam Huff, before the game, when Doc Walker attempted to reassure the crew that Stephon Heyer would hold his own.

"He not only holds his own, he holds the opponent," Huff said.

Worst Talk: DeAngelo Hall said earlier in the week that this was his defense, and that he wanted to cover the playmakers on the other team. His defining moment from this game came when he slipped on a short pass to Mark Clayton, allowing Clayton to run free down the sidelines.

Best Quote: Brian Mitchell, in the Comcast SportsNet post-game: "This is a terrible team at this point....The game I saw today reminded me so much of last year, it's ridiculous."

Best Redskins Stat: Brandon Lloyd: 6 catches, 169 yards, 1 TD. Oh, wait....

Worst Redskins Stat: Washington has 115 rushing yards in the first half, and 1 rushing yard in the second half.

Worst Celebration: After the Rams converted a 3rd-and-6 late in the second quarter, LaRon Landry leveled Danny Amendola, and then appeared to celebrate. It was a vicious hit, but I still don't get how you can celebrate a play in which the other team gets a first down.

Worst Defense: In three games, the new Redskins defense has allowed 380 yards, 526 yards, and 365 yards.

Worst News: The Redskins defense just got shredded by a rookie quarterback in his third NFL game. Next week, they face Michael Vick, who just accounted for four touchdowns and better than 300 yards on his own.

That Sam Huff line made me laugh out loud. That is what I will think about tomorrow at work....because thinking about this game makes me want to throw up.

Special teams also sucked. A blocked kick and punt in back to back games is unacceptable.
Devin Thomas has been OK as a returner getting to the 30 most of the time but our punt returners have been crappy.
I think Danny Smith needs to go before Haslet. He just does not put a solid team out there.

Apparently a NT isn't important in a 3-4 or we would have waited to get one before switching...right? :yeahright

Or depending on a volatile misfit. Albert looks lost out there, and I don't think it's just because of skipping OTAs. I think he's one of those "instinctive" players that needs to play "his" game of bum rushing into the backfield no matter what. Landry's also fits the "instinctive" player category, and they accomodated to his strengths.

How is that weak? That is pretty much the truth. If most of those kids didn't have atheltic ability to get into a major Div IA football program, two thirds at the very least would be on the streets and/or in jail. Look at Urban Meyer and Univ of Fla. 30 frigging arrests in what? 2 years? Pitt kicked that freshman DB off the squad the day before their ass kicking at the hand of Miami for beating on his pregnant gf and two female passerbys that tried to stop it.

On the streets or in jail? Now that's just stupid.

From Dan Steinberg:

Best Question, Part I: Did Clinton Portis just lose his job to a guy who was on the practice squad a week ago?

Worst Deja Vu: Week 3, on the road, against a bad 0-2 team with a rookie quarterback, and the Redskins lose. This probably wasn't as horrific as the Lions game, since Detroit had lost 19 straight at the time and was a national laughingstock in the way St. Louis wasn't. But this wasn't good.

Worst Drive: The Redskins got the ball at their 37 late in the third quarter. They went incomplete (bounce pass to Roydell Williams), incomplete (off-target to Cooley), incomplete (pass behind Keiland Williams). The drive lasted 23 seconds.

Best One-liner, Part I: Sam Huff, before the game, when Doc Walker attempted to reassure the crew that Stephon Heyer would hold his own.

"He not only holds his own, he holds the opponent," Huff said.

Worst Talk: DeAngelo Hall said earlier in the week that this was his defense, and that he wanted to cover the playmakers on the other team. His defining moment from this game came when he slipped on a short pass to Mark Clayton, allowing Clayton to run free down the sidelines.

Best Quote: Brian Mitchell, in the Comcast SportsNet post-game: "This is a terrible team at this point....The game I saw today reminded me so much of last year, it's ridiculous."

Best Redskins Stat: Brandon Lloyd: 6 catches, 169 yards, 1 TD. Oh, wait....

Worst Redskins Stat: Washington has 115 rushing yards in the first half, and 1 rushing yard in the second half.

Worst Celebration: After the Rams converted a 3rd-and-6 late in the second quarter, LaRon Landry leveled Danny Amendola, and then appeared to celebrate. It was a vicious hit, but I still don't get how you can celebrate a play in which the other team gets a first down.

Worst Defense: In three games, the new Redskins defense has allowed 380 yards, 526 yards, and 365 yards.

Worst News: The Redskins defense just got shredded by a rookie quarterback in his third NFL game. Next week, they face Michael Vick, who just accounted for four touchdowns and better than 300 yards on his own.

Answer to question 1:

Not necessarily, but Shanny just showed that Portis is nothing special and that a practice squad dude who's not a stumbling bama can be just as effective.

Portis can be a good third down back, becaus of his blocking although he blows as a receiver out of the backfield.

Portis is average. There are backs all over the league as good or better.