SportsFanatic
10-03-2010, 11:15 PM
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.
Well if Jim Haslett doesn't know how to disguise a blitz then he shouldn't be employed.
mooby
10-03-2010, 11:16 PM
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
If you got about 21 from the miscues, you need to drop it by a touchdown at least. Cooley scored his touchdown on the same drive as the McNabb/Davis miscue.
mooby
10-03-2010, 11:19 PM
Well if Jim Haslett doesn't know how to disguise a blitz then he shouldn't be employed.
That's a very simplistic view of it. And if Jim Haslett doesn't know how to disguise a blitz, you are right, I wouldn't want him coaching my team knowing how much he blitzes. But the 3-4 is supposed to be very effective at disguising the blitz because you don't know if it's the LOLB or the ROLB who's coming. You know the blitz is coming, but you don't know where. That's what the 3-4 provides.
Nobody said he has to blitz though. That worked in our favor tonight, because if Kolb expected us to blitz when he went in, well obviously we didn't, and we won because of it.
hooskins
10-03-2010, 11:22 PM
I love how people just think crazy blitzing will solve all our woes. Blitzing makes thinks worst if you team D is not playing well as a unit. Ex. Houston game. Sure Kolb isn't playing that great right now, but if blitzes are coming in he has easier quick passes. Also the Philly oline is hurt and not playing well. I think we got pretty good pressure with 4 rushing. Go back and watch the film but there were about 10 more holds on Rack that were never called and Fat Al was actually drawing some double teams.
End result: 12 points. Against one of the better offenses in the NFL, that is a huge success. Our team has improved quite a bit. We would have lost this and the Dallas game last year, and I doubt we would have made the Texans earn a W. Teams rarely go from 4-12 to legitimate contenders overnight. We are taking the right steps.
Now just calm down.
GMScud
10-03-2010, 11:24 PM
Can't we just send this garbage to thread hell where it belongs?
Slingin Sammy 33
10-03-2010, 11:27 PM
Well if Jim Haslett doesn't know how to disguise a blitz then he shouldn't be employed.How about our OC who has 1st-GL from the 3 and calls a couple gimmick plays to a guy just put back on the roster this week.....when we just slammed the ball down the Iggles throats a few minutes prior.
How about our special team "guru" whose units have been far from adequate for the last three years at least.
SportsFanatic
10-03-2010, 11:31 PM
How about our OC who has 1st-GL from the 3 and calls a couple gimmick plays to a guy just put back on the roster this week.....when we just slammed the ball down the Iggles throats a few minutes prior.
How about our special team "guru" whose units have been far from adequate for the last three years at least.
The OC was kind of foolish too when h called a 60 yd pass on
3rd and 8 in the 4th qtr.
CRedskinsRule
10-03-2010, 11:34 PM
The OC was kind of foolish too when h called a 60 yd pass on
3rd and 8 in the 4th qtr.
We made a similar play earlier, and I am guessing, either McNabb or KS knew of an Iggles corners tendency to jump the short route on those plays.
mooby
10-03-2010, 11:40 PM
The OC was kind of foolish too when h called a 60 yd pass on
3rd and 8 in the 4th qtr.
Well to honestly think that was his only option on that play is kind of ridiculous. I'm sure he had a secondary option, probably with a shallow to mid type route he could've gone to, and then probably a third option if he needed to check it down, but in the end it was McNabb's decision to go long because he thought he had Armstrong open. I would've preferred to have a deep inside post rather than an straight deep route just to give Armstrong more room to work with but in the end does it matter? We won.
Slingin Sammy 33
10-03-2010, 11:42 PM
The OC was kind of foolish too when h called a 60 yd pass on
3rd and 8 in the 4th qtr.Yup, but at the end of the day we got the win. There's plenty of improvement to be made in all three phases of the game.
If we're finger pointing at coaches, I'm pointing more at KS than at Haslett. Haslett hasn't been great, but he's making adjustments. Once KS gets off his original script.....well 3 points over 45 min says it all and we saw the same thing against Houston and STL.
I'm still seeing little creativity in the run game when there's so much we could be doing. This ain't Houston, and ain't the AFC South (dome, good weather, good weather, and Tenn). In the NFC East you must be able to run the ball and find many different ways to do it. KS needs to get to adapting or we'll struggle offensively all year.