Where was Keiland Williams???

This coaching staff shows the propensity to quickly abandon the running game when it's not as productive as it possibly could be early in games. Abandoning the run, then running play-action fakes is what's confounding to me. No defense is going to honor the fake when you've shown an inability to run successfully.

With the o/l being the mixed bag it has become, it's very difficult at this time to get any consistency going in either phase of the game. Last week o/l gets a game ball, this week further demonstrated the up and down nature of this team.

You know it's bad when we're asking about a 3rd string RB.

I don't know if as a whole the Redskins were out coached yesterday. Now where I question the coaches and have consistently questioned the coaches is:

One, continuing to play Casey Rabach.
Two, misusing/underutilizing Haynesworth.

The fact is that at this point in the season, Minnesota is more talented than us and Favre did not give us any turnovers. We made more mistakes than them and we just aren't good enough to overcome that.

As far as the running game, I don't think we are ever going to be able to run consistently if Rabach is hiking the ball.

You have to run the ball with the RBs more then 9 times.
We have no idea how the running game would have panned out if we actually tried to run the ball.
We're an outside zone/outside edge running team (and the Vikings run weakness is on the edge w/ their Jared Allen and a back-up! LDE) yet we ran inside w/ our least experienced RB: James Davis when Keiland Williams was perfectly healthy.
But it either way 6 carries for James Davis and 3 carries for Keiland Williams is not enough to establish a running game.

You have to run the ball with the RBs more then 9 times.
We have no idea how the running game would have panned out if we actually tried to run the ball.
We're an outside zone/outside edge running team (and the Vikings run weakness is on the edge w/ their Jared Allen and a back-up! LDE) yet we ran inside w/ our least experienced RB: James Davis when Keiland Williams was perfectly healthy.
But it either way 6 carries for James Davis and 3 carries for Keiland Williams is not enough to establish a running game.

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You have to run the ball with the RBs more then 9 times.
We have no idea how the running game would have panned out if we actually tried to run the ball.
We're an outside zone/outside edge running team (and the Vikings run weakness is on the edge w/ their Jared Allen and a back-up! LDE) yet we ran inside w/ our least experienced RB: James Davis when Keiland Williams was perfectly healthy.
But it either way 6 carries for James Davis and 3 carries for Keiland Williams is not enough to establish a running game.

I saw nothing to make me think that more carries would have made a difference.

Keiland Williams is not a starting runningback in the NFL (he didn't even start in college). We do not have the personel on the line or in the backfield to have a legitimate running attack. We certainly don't have the players to run on Minnesota.

I saw nothing to make me think that more carries would have made a difference.

Keiland Williams is not a starting runningback in the NFL (he didn't even start in college). We do not have the personel on the line or in the backfield to have a legitimate running attack. We certainly don't have the players to run on Minnesota.

He had good games against Philadelphia and Tennessee who have just as good of a D or better. By abandoning the run after 13 attempts you have no way of knowing or getting into a rhythm of the game.

I saw nothing to make me think that more carries would have made a difference.
That could be said for the first carries of many 100+yard rushing efforts.

Keiland Williams is not a starting runningback in the NFL (he didn't even start in college). We do not have the personel on the line or in the backfield to have a legitimate running attack. We certainly don't have the players to run on Minnesota.

This is a defeatist post.
Keiland Williams isn't some washed up journeyman that's never been able to get it done.
He's a rookie, a rookie who has shown well in his limited action this season.

Also lets not act like the Vikings cannot be run on.
The Bears OL is worse then ours yet they were able to run the ball against the Vikings.
They ran the ball 32 times for 102 yards.

That could be said for the first carries of many 100+yard rushing efforts.



This is a defeatist post.
Keiland Williams isn't some washed up journeyman that's never been able to get it done.
He's a rookie, a rookie who has shown well in his limited action this season.

Also lets not act like the Vikings cannot be run on.
The Bears OL is worse then ours yet they were able to run the ball against the Vikings.
They ran the ball 32 times for 102 yards.

THANK YOU !!! :food-smil

He had good games against Philadelphia and Tennessee who have just as good of a D or better. By abandoning the run after 13 attempts you have no way of knowing or getting into a rhythm of the game.

His yards against Philly were meaningless.

We had a different line vs the Titans. Yesterday's line wasn't getting 100 yards. You think Mike Shanahan doesn't want to run the ball? He knew that it wasn't going to happen.