One Night Only: Offensive Packers-Redskins Game Review, Mythbusters Edition

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Robert Griffin III, Washington Redskins: RGIII took a step forward. Once we get past the histrionic analysis about benching Griffin, there's no denying he was more accurate in Week 2. He made a number of nice throws. His biggest problem came in setting protection and recognizing blitzes.



Pressure overwhelmed the Redskins' offense early in Sunday's game. Teams are blitzing the Redskins with impunity, and Washington doesn't have great answers. But Griffin was down 17-0 against Green Bay before he made a mistake. His interception came off a drop. I'm not a quarterback tutor and won't pretend to analyze his mechanics. But a lot of the issues he's being criticized for (throwing while backpedaling) were evident last season. Griffin made a lot of nice throws to well-covered receivers against the Packers, and that has nothing to do with the score.

The Redskins' problems go beyond RGIII. They are trying to change their offense on the fly. They have called just five zone-read plays in two weeks, with virtually no called runs for Griffin. The running game isn't the same without the threat of RGIII running. It's an adjustment period as the Shanahans figure out how to call games with Griffin 2.0, but it can be done. And they don't have time to adjust because their defense is historically bad.


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Robert Griffin III, Washington Redskins: RGIII took a step forward. Once we get past the histrionic analysis about benching Griffin, there's no denying he was more accurate in Week 2. He made a number of nice throws. His biggest problem came in setting protection and recognizing blitzes.



Pressure overwhelmed the Redskins' offense early in Sunday's game. Teams are blitzing the Redskins with impunity, and Washington doesn't have great answers. But Griffin was down 17-0 against Green Bay before he made a mistake. His interception came off a drop. I'm not a quarterback tutor and won't pretend to analyze his mechanics. But a lot of the issues he's being criticized for (throwing while backpedaling) were evident last season. Griffin made a lot of nice throws to well-covered receivers against the Packers, and that has nothing to do with the score.

The Redskins' problems go beyond RGIII. They are trying to change their offense on the fly. They have called just five zone-read plays in two weeks, with virtually no called runs for Griffin. The running game isn't the same without the threat of RGIII running. It's an adjustment period as the Shanahans figure out how to call games with Griffin 2.0, but it can be done. And they don't have time to adjust because their defense is historically bad.


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Sums it up pretty well.

I've been wondering the same thing, and I have no idea

I doubt that will fix the problems we have on defense, but it may be one way to help. With the defensive players talking all during training camp about being a top 10-5 defense this year they are dead last in the NFL.

Fix the defense, but I do not know how we accomplish that during the season. Amerson is getting schooled, Fletch ( I love ya but ) has lost his physical edge entirely, Rambo makes a couple of plays but blows a few more, I imagine the team is really missing the 2 guys on suspension, Rak and Kerrigan have been good but a defense is 11 guys not 2, Hall and Wilson ugg, Riley has been good, Cofield needs the cast off, Bowen is ok, and SS is a problem.

I doubt that will fix the problems we have on defense, but it may be one way to help. With the defensive players talking all during training camp about being a top 10-5 defense this year they are dead last in the NFL.

Fix the defense, but I do not know how we accomplish that during the season. Amerson is getting schooled, Fletch ( I love ya but ) has lost his physical edge entirely, Rambo makes a couple of plays but blows a few more, I imagine the team is really missing the 2 guys on suspension, Rak and Kerrigan have been good but a defense is 11 guys not 2, Hall and Wilson ugg, Riley has been good, Cofield needs the cast off, Bowen is ok, and SS is a problem.

He is, ever since he and Matty pulled that crazy prank he hasn't been the same admin. :laughing-

Haslett is probably afraid to stand on the sideline after Rambo ran over Shanny. (and everyone else)

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Thats good to know. Any word on if Has is going to come back to the sidelines?

We could use the extra person to help tackle. :laughing-

Robert Griffin III of Washington Redskins says Adrian Peterson didn't raise expectations for others with knee injuries - ESPN (http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9688666/robert-griffin-iii-washington-redskins-says-adrian-peterson-raise-expectations-others-knee-injuries)

Robert Griffin III of Washington Redskins says Adrian Peterson didn't raise expectations for others with knee injuries - ESPN (http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9688666/robert-griffin-iii-washington-redskins-says-adrian-peterson-raise-expectations-others-knee-injuries)

Listening to nfl radio today and they were talking at length about Griff and AP and also Peyton Manning. In AP's first two games back he was on pace for almost half of what he wound up with. Also Manning was 0-2 and had worse numbers than Griff through his first two games. The reason Griff is drawing so much attention and scrutiny is because he himself raised expectaions. The entire off season was the "all in for week one" campaign.
Anyway hearing about AP and Peyton gave me hope that Griff will come through this mentally and physically.
Edit: 2-3, not 0-2 for denver

Great write up gtripp. Thank you for putting the time in.

Here is a good write up.

The Quarterback Index: Ryan Tannehill, RGIII trend up - NFL.com (http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000246527/article/the-quarterback-index-ryan-tannehill-rgiii-trend-up)

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Robert Griffin III, Washington Redskins: RGIII took a step forward. Once we get past the histrionic analysis about benching Griffin, there's no denying he was more accurate in Week 2. He made a number of nice throws. His biggest problem came in setting protection and recognizing blitzes.

Pressure overwhelmed the Redskins' offense early in Sunday's game. Teams are blitzing the Redskins with impunity, and Washington doesn't have great answers. But Griffin was down 17-0 against Green Bay before he made a mistake. His interception came off a drop. I'm not a quarterback tutor and won't pretend to analyze his mechanics. But a lot of the issues he's being criticized for (throwing while backpedaling) were evident last season. Griffin made a lot of nice throws to well-covered receivers against the Packers, and that has nothing to do with the score.

The Redskins' problems go beyond RGIII. They are trying to change their offense on the fly. They have called just five zone-read plays in two weeks, with virtually no called runs for Griffin. The running game isn't the same without the threat of RGIII running. It's an adjustment period as the Shanahans figure out how to call games with Griffin 2.0, but it can be done. And they don't have time to adjust because their defense is historically bad.