Question that needs an answer before the night is over

Yes because they came close to losing by allowing Kolb to throw 5 yd passes all afternoon.

Key phrase is came close. We won let it go

I have never in my life been so mad after a victory. I was on the edge of my seat the entire 4th qtr and maclin came within a finger tip of a winning TD.

Now that was a good game plan if Vick was in the game but with Kolb you just go after him and force him to throwIt's always easy to change your entire defensive gameplan....mid-game :frusty:

Instead of blaming just the D, how about asking why the O didn't produce crap but 3 pts. after the 1st qtr.

This team is not very good right now. We had folks on this board predicting an Filthadelphia blowout, we should be thankful for this win and hope as the season progresses we improve.

Why in the hell did the skins not blitz kevin kolb not ONE TIME once he entered the game? I mean they just let him sit back there and dink and dunk his way down the field and came very close to losing the game because of this stupid defensve strategy.


Did anyone else besides me almost have a STROKE on the last play of the game?

The answer to your question is because Kolb is an unknown. Last week Sam Bradford was certainly not known as a big play quarterback but he was extremely effective against our blitzes because he knew they were coming.

Granted Kolb was effective towards the end but when you have an unknown like Kolb you don't blitz, especially not when you have big play receivers like DeSean Jackson and Jeremy Maclin out there. Did you not notice how they were shutdown? In the end we gave up 12 poins and we won. Much improved over blitzing Bradford all last game and we gave up 30 and we lost.

What happened if we blitzed and he got it out there quick and Jackson beat our secondary for a touchdown? Would you be on here questioning the blitz?

Btw the Skins did blitz 5 on one play, and the result was an incomplete pass. So we did blitz him once. Idk if you've been watching the past two weeks but everybody and their mothers knew Jim Haslett was blitzing and that's why the Texans and Rams were so effective against us. If Kolb did his work this past week I'm sure he was prepared to be heavily blitzed even though he knew he wasn't starting.

Who cares? We won. Would you have been happier if we blitzed our brains out and Avant held that Hail Mary on the last play?

It's always easy to change your entire defensive gameplan....mid-game :frusty:

Instead of blaming just the D, how about asking why the O didn't produce crap but 3 pts. after the 1st qtr.

This team is not very good right now. We had folks on this board predicting an Filthadelphia blowout, we should be thankful for this win and hope as the season progresses we improve.

There it is! GREAT WIN...DIVISION WIN
Glad to see Haslett's versatility, with the 4/3. "Big" actually played ok tonight. Donovan...a little help
Great Win!! HTTR

But it was a game plan that kept their DRIVES ALIVE. Why not go after kolb since he is not a big play QB?

What keeps drives alive is allowing 3rd and 10 completions. Our D HAS to get better at stopping 3rd down and long situations.

Agree with the comment that Jackson or Maklin would have burned us if we blitzed. I mean I guess we could have thrown one or two in, but the team defensively just isn't that good.

I guess I just never been big on giving a QB time on 3rd and 11. I want drives to end so we get the ball back and add to the lead.

My point is when kolb frst entered the game he had no confidence so why not keep him feeling that way and go after him? He was able to settle in and relax once h was able to dink and dunk and no longer looked scared.

relax people .. we won .. D played great .. Rogers #22 dropped another clincher and we left about 21 pts on the field... (Davis overthrow, Armstrong falling down, ETC ETC ETC)


uhh we freaking won .. 2-0 in one thing that matters

Philly beats you with big plays this year. We took that away and challenged them to beat us in another way. They got close. But close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

Slingin Sammy has it right--the D was fine, but the dang O couldn't ice the game, AS USUAL!!!! That's where I was freaking out. We NEVER get that last first down to ice it and take a knee. We are always relying on our D to save our bacon at the end. How about, JUST ONCE, a first down to end it on offense?

The game should have ended when Torain got 7 on first down. Then it's two plays to get three yards and we take a knee. But NOOOOOOOOOOOO. False ****ing start. 2-8. Run gets two. Incomplete pass. We punt--LAMELY. Can we ever get a clutch ****ing punt???? And you want to blame it on the D, which took away philly's real weapons, a D which got TORCHED in the secondary in the first couple of games. Sure, the D can do more, no doubt. But that ending was not the Ds fault.

A huge win. But, man, we never make things easy, do we? A holding call and a dropped hail-Mary in our wins. But a win is a win is a win.