WSH v.s. JAX game analysis

Cooley really had a piss poor day, probably his worst as a pro. He'll bounce back though, I'm sure that performance is eating him up.

He looked really pissed every time he would go to the side lines. I think he will be okay. He still gets to go home at the end of the day and bang out his decent looking wife to release his frustrations. lol :food-smil

Offense:
o playcalling was typical of Kyle all season
-no emphasis on the run
-what happened to the screen game?
-still not using double TEs often/ although it works effectively when used

o OL was solid once again even w/ Stephon Heyer at RT
o Torrain ran hard overall, shows good vision at times
o would have liked to see Armstrong get targeted more often
o Cooley had a terrible 1st half but bounced back strong in the second
o Rex was Rex

Defense
o it was nice to see Haslett get aggressive and attack the Jaguars pass protection w/ blitz pressures especially from the ILBs
o Kevin Barnes shows his versatility as he gave a decent performance at SS
o Macho Harris was okay considering he basically got thrown in there at FS
o Rob Jackson played well and makes you wonder why Chris Wilson almost never plays?
o Anthony Bryant wow, in 2 games he's made me question what the heck was haslett doing playing Kemo for the previous 14 weeks? Bryant was stout at the point he's a keeper
o Carter was solid

Buchanon has had a great season. Best of his career.

X 2. i didn't like it when he was signed but he proved me wrong.

Offense:
o playcalling was typical of Kyle all season
-no emphasis on the run
-what happened to the screen game?
-still not using double TEs often/ although it works effectively when used

o OL was solid once again even w/ Stephon Heyer at RT
o Torrain ran hard overall, shows good vision at times
o would have liked to see Armstrong get targeted more often
o Cooley had a terrible 1st half but bounced back strong in the second
o Rex was Rex

Defense
o it was nice to see Haslett get aggressive and attack the Jaguars pass protection w/ blitz pressures especially from the ILBs
o Kevin Barnes shows his versatility as he gave a decent performance at SS
o Macho Harris was okay considering he basically got thrown in there at FS
o Rob Jackson played well and makes you wonder why Chris Wilson almost never plays?
o Anthony Bryant wow, in 2 games he's made me question what the heck was haslett doing playing Kemo for the previous 14 weeks? Bryant was stout at the point he's a keeper
o Carter was solid

I was kind of flipping around yesterday and didn't watch the whole game. But what is the deal with Kyle Shanahan? He kept calling play action stuff w/out actually setting it up with the run.

I was disappointed in Kyle as well, especially in first half; the announcers showed the stats - we threw 22 times and ran only 8 times? What the hell is that? I know we are to evaluate Grossman, but even any QB won't be likely to play good if he's going to throw all the times (excluding Brady and Manning).. Torain showed he could run, we need to feed him the balls.. I just hope Kyle won't be like that next season..

Anthony Bryant, I'm with 30gut on this one.. I'm wondering why he didn't play much until Kemo went on IR.. But then again, coaches see everything in practices and videos that we don't.. As for Rob Jackson, I don't know if he actually did play well as many claimed.. I thought he played decent, nothing big..

I'm glad Barnes is playing well, I'm curious to see how well he will play as nickel back next season.. Also I hope we will resign Rogers and possibly Buchannon for right kind of money..

I'm aware that people reflexively look at the stats at the end of the game, see that we threw the ball more than we ran, and automatically assume that if there were more rushing attempts, the score would have been higher. I just don't know if that's a given.

Isn't it at least possible that all of the passing set up the good running game we saw in the second half?

Isn't it at least possible that all of the passing set up the good running game we saw in the second half?

Yes definitely. My point is Grossman didn't play well and yet Kyle kept calling for pass plays? We would have thought as if it was Redskins who's trialing behind, but really we were the one who's ahead.. And not to mention, we sucked at 3rd down and long, absolutely terrible.. Giving Torain the balls will take care of the problem most of time because Torain would give us 3rd and short.

Torain had several short 1-2 gains and negative runs too. Overall I thought the Jags were fairly stout against the run and the coaches must have thought attacking through the air would be more effective. We still ended up with 24 rushes so I didn't think the pass/run balance was that bad.

Yeah, we probably should run the ball more -- make it more of an even mix. I just don't know if Torain is a 25-30 carry per game type guy. If we're a 60/40 pass to run team, with a fresh RB deep into December, ***and we're winning***, I'm fine with that.

Matty, you are right.. Right after game, I immediately checked the stats because I felt like Torain was given ball like 10-12 times but I saw that he got ball 20 times, which is good balance.. It's just that I believe that by giving Torain more balls would put us in better position to convert 3rd down plays..

Beem, I'm not sure if Torain is a type of back who can carry the rock 30 times or so neither.. But we do have Williams who showed us that he is a capable of running the ball..