Redskins vs Bucs Post Game Reaction

Looks like DeAngelo Hall didn't make the trip with the team and stayed in Tampa to evaluate some injury he suffered. Hope it's nothing serious.

Okay. Slowly emerging from the debbie downers to enjoy the victory. While I long for a game ending "Victory Formation". I don't think we will be seeing one of those for a bit and shouldn't have expected it.

We lost our best D player and someone who the D was intended to be built around. If he was still playing, I think we are 3-1 and this game was nearly as close. Who knows.

On offense, sorry. Anyone calling for MS or KS heads right now, are you seeing the point production I am? Sure, the D's we've been playing have not been the best in the league, but they aren't exactly pansies either. TBay was the number 1 rush defense (admittedly in part b/c their back end is as bad as ours) - we handled them. The offense is working and working well. We have had four games of 24 points or more. Let me say that again - FOUR GAMES OF 24 POINTS OR MORE. I cannot remember that happening. The number of hits on Griff was substantially reduced this week. The line, still a weak point, is (seemingly) playing better as the season goes on. The coaches are putting RGIII in a position produce points and possibly win the game, and he is doing more than we could have expected a rookie to do. Not as much as we maybe hoped, but more than we had a right to expect. He's both physically and mentally tougher than anyone gave him credit for at the beginning of the year. All those stories we drooled over about his character barely scratched the surface.

The D needs to tighten up. If it can, we can win more games than we lose. I don't know if it can, b/c I don't know if it has the personnel to play the type of pressure D MS/JH want it to do and I don't know if MS/JH know how to adjust for the loss of Orakpo and Carriker.

As others have said, we simply aren't good enough to blow teams out. Maybe by the back-end of the season, our O starts being the scary good it can be. Maybe, by the back end of the season, some of the young O-line can step up. I got nothing on D except prayers that JH has a come-to-Jesus moment and gets it turned around.

From this point on, except for the Cleveland game, I don't see us favored to beat anyone on the schedule (maybe the Panthers at home). I think we stealing a few that we should lose and maybe, just maybe, break .500 mark. All the NFC East teams are flawed and I don't think anyone in the Division is unbeatable.

It's early, we have a tough schedule and our D needs to get it's sh** together. We have a long ways to go, hopefully, it is exciting football all the way to the final Dallas game.

HTTR


Yes sir. If we get the pass defense to play at an above average level this team could make the playoffs and then who knows what might happen. Not saying we can't do it this year but one more year of draft and shuffling FA we should be playoff bound and anything less unacceptable.

I think at the end of the first half it was more about lack of execution than anything else. I also think the Tampa D at the end of the game was giving up a lot more underneath because they didn't fear a long Cundiff attempt.

And I know, I know I'm a Kyle apologist, a kool aid drinker, etc...but I'm not sure I'll ever understand why fans spent so long saying Mike and Kyle are too stubborn, too unwilling to play to their player's talents. That the offense does nothing. But when the offense does something and we do play to our player's talents they get grief for that too. I mean what do you want exactly?

They ran the ball twice i believe. They certainly looked content to me. I dont think deep was imperative. We had almost two minutes. Im sayin metriculate the ball down the field. There was an obvious difference between the two min drive at the half and the one at the end of the game rite?? There was urgency at the end and pressure beyond belief and rg3 went down and got points. If we had urgency at the end of half maybe the game would have been in the bag. Credskin you said we knew we were gettin the ball in the second half. So what though? Is it a crime to pour it on. Lol. We also knew our d was probably going to come back down to earth in the second half.

I like that kind of aggression, especially when the other team seems to be playing in a "prevent" defense but sometimes conservative play calling has its place. I was personally dissappointed to see us go conservative at the end of the half but I understood that they were probably concerned about the possibility of stopping the clock and giving TB just enough time to score 3 or 6 on our weak defense just before the end of the half.

I agree that with RG3 we should certainly stay more aggressive than usual but to ALWAYS stay aggressive is going overboard. It is the inverse of being too conservative.

If there was any lack of confidence from MS/KS in RG3's ability to run the 2 minute drill before this game I would be willing to bet that they are CERTAINLY more confident now, after the two-minute drill at the end when the headset failed. I don't think there is enough evidence to have reason for concern there.

Geesh. From the pregame collision:

Meriweather - MRI but minor
Aldrick Robinson - concussion, was knocked out for a minute!

Brandon Meriweather to undergo MRI on knee (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/football-insider/wp/2012/09/30/brandon-meriweather-to-undergo-mri-on-knee/)

When the score became 21-19...my wife asked me if the Skins are cursed in some way. Freak incidents like this make me wonder...

I for one am ecstatic about the play of our offense. I would like to see alittle more of the "urge to kill" factor. I believe this team is capable of winning on any given sunday. partly because for years now we are in almost every game, and also the parody of the league this year i think allows for it. I will be disappointed as a Redskins fan if we dont make the playoffs this year because - well - im a Redskins fan. If we dont make the playoffs again next year I will be in a deep depression because I think that will mean it is almost time start over again. uggh.

I agree that with RG3 we should certainly stay more aggressive than usual but to ALWAYS stay aggressive is going overboard. It is the inverse of being too conservative.



Yes - when we have a lead of two touchdowns and there is under 5 minutes to play it is ok to take your foot off the pedal and milk the clock. Or of course if your backed up on your own one and its a close game you may want to go conservative and live to fight another day - agreed conservative has its place
yeah how great was that two min drive man? holy cannolis

I for one am ecstatic about the play of our offense. I would like to see alittle more of the "urge to kill" factor. I believe this team is capable of winning on any given sunday. partly because for years now we are in almost every game, and also the parody of the league this year i think allows for it. I will be disappointed as a Redskins fan if we dont make the playoffs this year because - well - im a Redskins fan. If we dont make the playoffs again next year I will be in a deep depression because I think that will mean it is almost time start over again. uggh.

After every game we lose I wake up from a trance two hours later while I am doing something illegal.

Yes - when we have a lead of two touchdowns and there is under 5 minutes to play it is ok to take your foot off the pedal and milk the clock. Or of course if your backed up on your own one and its a close game you may want to go conservative and live to fight another day - agreed conservative has its place
yeah how great was that two min drive man? holy cannolis

It's been great every time he does it - rams, bengals, and bucs. every time

this is the most confusing Post Game Reaction thread of all time.

We won; people still pissed or wondering why. We won; people hate Shanny. We are 2-2 after the first 4; we are the worst team in football. RG3 is exceeding all expections along with the offense; why hasnt Shanny turned this team around? We won; people are mad at the kool aid.

I must be confused about the expectations of this team.