Redskins vs Rams Postgame Thread

Team gave up a lot to draft RGIII (and nothing to sign a kicker off the street). After the Morgan penalty and knowing Cundiff's woes beyond 50yards, give RGIII a chance to get a first down while Morgan sits on the bench. I would've been more satisfied with not converting in that scenario. Shanahan has to stay on his toes and show he's a disciplinarian.

Redskins should have gone for a first down after Josh Morgan’s blunder (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/football-insider/wp/2012/09/19/redskins-should-have-gone-for-a-first-down-after-josh-morgans-blunder/)

I must be alone on this.

Team gave up a lot to draft RGIII (and nothing to sign a kicker off the street). After the Morgan penalty and knowing Cundiff's woes beyond 50yards, give RGIII a chance to get a first down while Morgan sits on the bench. I would've been more satisfied with not converting in that scenario. Shanahan has to stay on his toes and show he's a disciplinarian.

Redskins should have gone for a first down after Josh Morgan’s blunder (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/football-insider/wp/2012/09/19/redskins-should-have-gone-for-a-first-down-after-josh-morgans-blunder/)

I must be alone on this.

You are not alone. I would have preferred to go for it. Cundiff had no realistic chance.

Definitely should have gone for the first down instead. I read somewhere that there was about a 15% chance of making that FG, while it would have been about an 18% chance of picking up the first down. Slim chances either way.

I would have preferred to go for it with Griffin. I honestly don't understand why we didn't take a shot, we still had time so we could have gone deep, or try for the first, and a quick spike.

Time to move on...

Definitely should have gone for the first down instead. I read somewhere that there was about a 15% chance of making that FG, while it would have been about an 18% chance of picking up the first down. Slim chances either way.

A guy like RGIII increases your 18% changes. Heck, Banks isn't getting enough work as a returner anyway, throw a screen pass to him and let Morgan block Finnegan for him. Skins should've been the team going empty backfield with Briscoe, Moss, Robinson, Banks, Hankerson. What do I know. Just bummed out about what appears to be. I'll be over it once CIN comes to town. Hopefully that game won't do the same.

I am with you guys. I don't understand why coach felt like we were in field goal range. I mean yes, its possible that he COULD make it but come on - stay in the moment and be realistic. It obviously was a bad decision partly because he missed it but mainly because it was out of his range. His longest fg made was 56 yards and that was a 62 yard attempt.

i could kickoff about 50-55 yards from a tee, but the longest fg i ever made (in practice) was 40 yards. cundiff booms it 75+ yards on kickoffs, but falls several yards short on a 62 yard fg attempt.

does anyone know his longest fg made in warm-ups this season?

Morgan made a boneheaded play at the worst possible time.

Today, RGIII said the Rams game was unprofessional. And calls the Rams out for doing a lot of dirty things and taking cheap shots.

Game is on NFL replay right now if anyone is interested.