Smoot Doesn't Lay The Smack Down (Mooby Does) (Redskins V. Cardinals)

If we stall out in the redzone against Dallas, we will get slaughtered. We wont be able to keep up with their offense.

Cofield was one on one with Sendlein a lot in the first half in pass rush, and never really made an impact.

When I looked at the stat sheet, Cofield was the only Dlineman with a tackle. Also, I think time of possession was somewhat of a factor. We nearly doubled their TOP.

Smackdown on Haslett. I think our defensive scheme was lackluster in the 2nd half. Kolb had a terrible 1st half and our secondary played relatively well early in the game. We should have come out (defensively) in the 3rd quarter expecting them to try to pound the pigskin w/ Wells, as they did. We should have put more guys in the box and not let them get anything going. Something is up w/ the right side defensively as most of the big gains on the ground seem to go there. Orakpo struggling in run defense/containment? Doughty? Hard for me to say.

Also within the defense Cofield looked very average today i.e. no impact out there. Why didn't Nield get more action today?

I think in the second half, the Cards took advantage of our banged up secondary to run the ball. They came out several times in the spread, and given the status of the secondary, we didn't pressure much and defended the pass trying to contain Fitz. Of course, they ran the ball very well against our spread defense. If Wilson doesn't get hurt, we probably do a better job against the run.

Although NTs are not supposed to be flashy on a 3-4, I do agree with you that Cofield has looked very average. I'd be curious to see what the folks that review the games can say about his play. I just hated seeing getting manhandled by the Giants' rookie center last week.

What's up with these scab threads? Boo

Well I approached Smoot and Scud week after week and said "dudes you got put an R or a TM at the end of your thread title." And they were like "dude no way" and I was like "but DUDE you got to protect your brand."

Why do you think Coke sends hit squads to peoples houses that are ruining their business?

I think in the second half, the Cards took advantage of our banged up secondary to run the ball. They came out several times in the spread, and given the status of the secondary, we didn't pressure much and defended the pass trying to contain Fitz. Of course, they ran the ball very well against our spread defense. If Wilson doesn't get hurt, we probably do a better job against the run.



I agree completely, sometimes you gotta give credit to the other teams play caller.

If it felt like Cofield did little in this game, thats partially because he didn't play a whole lot.

But Arizona could pass as much as they wanted as long as they could block him one on one.

Smackdown on Haslett. I think our defensive scheme was lackluster in the 2nd half. Kolb had a terrible 1st half and our secondary played relatively well early in the game. We should have come out (defensively) in the 3rd quarter expecting them to try to pound the pigskin w/ Wells, as they did. We should have put more guys in the box and not let them get anything going. Something is up w/ the right side defensively as most of the big gains on the ground seem to go there. Orakpo struggling in run defense/containment? Doughty? Hard for me to say.Arizona ran 3 times in the first half, so if Haslett was going to think they would come out and try to shove it down our throats, he would have been totally guessing. I don't like it when halftime adjustments are total guesses in the dark.

The truth, in my opinion, is because the onus was on the Cardinals offense to change its approach, the Redskins needed to have more than a 3 point lead at half and kicking off based on the way they dominated. It's too easy to go in at half and find one thing about the defense you can attack.

The Cardinals did win the halftime adjustments, but that's to be expected when the Redskins were utterly schematically dominant in the first half. The only place to go for the Cards coaches was up, despite the score.

Hightower isn't as good in pass protection as we've all been lead to believe. He's adequate at best, but he doesn't exactly go and stick people.

Tsk, tsk.