The Redskins Offense

For the first three games the Redskins ran the ball effectively.... for the past four or five weeks the run game has been nonexistent... it's not like defenses are shutting it down.... let's be honest.... Gruden and McVeigh have deliberately gotten away from it....they purposefully have abandoned the running game.... why? Because their ability to coach and coordinate the offense is very bad....they are unfit to coach!!!!! This was never a problem under the Shanahan, Zorn, Gibbs, Schottenheimer, & Turner regimes.....

For the first three games the Redskins ran the ball effectively.... for the past four or five weeks the run game has been nonexistent... it's not like defenses are shutting it down.... let's be honest.... Gruden and McVeigh have deliberately gotten away from it....they purposefully have abandoned the running game.... why? Because their ability to coach and coordinate the offense is very bad....they are unfit to coach!!!!! This was never a problem under the Shanahan, Zorn, Gibbs, Schottenplaying heimer, & Turner regimes.....

No they have not deliberately gone away from the run. You can chalk it up to about 1.5 yards per carry and the frequent position of playing from....way behind.
What remains is neo conspiratorial nonsense that is soon popular in Redskinville....

For the first three games the Redskins ran the ball effectively.... for the past four or five weeks the run game has been nonexistent... it's not like defenses are shutting it down.... let's be honest.... Gruden and McVeigh have deliberately gotten away from it....they purposefully have abandoned the running game.... why? Because their ability to coach and coordinate the offense is very bad....they are unfit to coach!!!!! This was never a problem under the Shanahan, Zorn, Gibbs, Schottenheimer, & Turner regimes.....

You have to be joking right?

Yeah, they deliberately abandoned the run...just like they deliberately sabotaged the strength and conditioning program to create more injuries, and unintentionally put the best QB on the field, and mistakenly signed a better kicker...O how I miss the glory days under Zorn with his mastery and swinging gateness...

:puke:

Well the title of this thread fits a stat I found as I was browsing around. Per Rotowire, 2015 NFL Team Offense Stats | RotoWire (http://www.rotowire.com/football/redzonestats.htm?pos=TM&season=2015&range=Year), the Skins have 4th most opportunities in the Redzone. I would not have guessed that. A couple more clicks on the headers and you find that we have the 2nd most redzone pass targets (2nd to NE) and the 12th most rushing attempts.

So I guess that means that we are in fact a pass first team, at least in the redzone. Time will tell if it pans out because right now we have the 28th most redzone fantasy points (yes I know that isn't the real football, but for comparison purposes, NE has 851 fantasy points and we have 550).

more meaningless stats from Football Outsiders.

Our offense's weighted rank is 20th, with our passing offense being ranked 10th, and our rushing offense ranked 30th. Interestingly, according to them, FOOTBALL OUTSIDERS: Innovative Statistics, Intelligent Analysis | 2015 OFFENSE EFFICIENCY RATINGS (http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/teamoff), our opponents defenses rank the 3rd toughest.

It's the defense's fault [/sarcasm]

All jokes aside, while not taking away anything from Cousins, we are in some trouble if he's the best thing on offense. That and the pass blocking.

Our receivers are terrible and our running game/run blocking is non-existent. Matt Jones looks okay, but he fumbles. Morris is holding on to the ball, but can't seem to run past 3 yards.

Hopefully this o-line can gel and get their act together in the run blocking aspect. And I hope Scot can get some good receivers in the offseason. Because right now it seems to be just Reed and Crowder (also he did have a drop last week as well).

Just like the defense, we're still a few players short on offense. We need a true stud #1 wr and a center that doesn't get pushed around. Morris is gone so we're going to need another back but we can get someone there in FA.

But a stud wr, a 6'3 guy that can go up and get a ball in traffic, that's really what we're missing. Hate drafting wr's high but Treadwell from Miss looks like an interesting player.

I think the skins are experiencing an identity crisis on offense. Are they a short pass WC offense, a zone blocking team, a power running team? It seems they are trying to do a little of everything and not doing anything well.

Since the pass protection has been so good, maybe it would make sense to sprinkle in some draw plays. The game against the Saints should really let the offense open up, since the Saints cannot stop anyone.

I think the run success we had the first few games may have mislead us into unreasonable expectations. This is pretty much a brand new O line unit.

Besides Trent (who missed 1 game); long, leribeus, schref and moses did not start or play together last year.

Cooley said 2 things yesterday:
- Mcvay is absolutely calling every single play; and
- While Callahan does not dictate the play calls, he helps preparing the weekly offensive game plan and Callahan likes to run out of 1 back sets, uses TE in run formations and doesnt like to run out of the I or strong formation = stud FB darrel young is getting very few snaps.

The loss of Paul and Paulsen was a huge loss for the type of run game Callahan likes. Add to that our coaches collective inability to adjust scheme to personnel = trending to a historically bad run game.

Ive never seen a 4 game stretch where any team has run for 51 yards or less.

this is historically, record breaking bad.

Coaches had the bye to "self critique" and come up with some new looks and I didnt see any change to the run game against NE.

run out of the I, get DY in there, hell give DY the ball 5 times a game.

Do something besides ask Reed and Carrier to be the point of attack (good call weeks ago 30 gut).

stacks - good call on some draw plays, do something besides what we have been doing the past 5 games or so.

You have to be joking right?

Yeah, they deliberately abandoned the run...just like they deliberately sabotaged the strength and conditioning program to create more injuries, and unintentionally put the best QB on the field, and mistakenly signed a better kicker...O how I miss the glory days under Zorn with his mastery and swinging gateness...

:puke:

Under Zorn Clinton Portis had 925 yards rushing through the first half of the season though.