Re: Believe it or not I saw some positive signs
 

This was a frustrating game because there were positives mixed in with the negatives. Finally, Davis hangs on to the ball (except that one in the endzone, but he makes the next catch). Thomas actually showed some promise and broke a few tackles. McIntosh is starting to play to his potential. London Fletcher -- it's hard to overstate how impressive he is. He brings it every play and makes everyone around him a better player. And he's total class -- a real Redskin of the Darrell Green, Charles Mann, and Monte Coleman variety. I thought Haynesworth was disruptive and is allowing Carter to beome a real impact player. And while I know some will disagree, I thought JC played remarkably well considering he had no one blocking for him. He threw for nearly 300 yards (when it was pretty obvious we were going to throw), 2TDs, and had a pretty good completion percentage. And he fought the whole time. He does need to take better care of the ball, but with defenders draped on him so frequently, that's a pretty hard thing to do.

Overall, the D was fantastic, except for two long plays for TDs. (I know, that's like saying, "But other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?") But the long run and the long TD reception by Philly was most of their offense for the entire game -- 67 of 127 yards and 57 of 156 yards, respectively. Take away those two plays, and the Eagles had a whopping 60 yards on the ground and 99 yards in the air on all other offensive plays combined. Given that our offense struggled so mightily to sustain drives, that is really impressive.

Having said all of that, unless we can get some improvement on the offensive line, we won't beat anyone. That was as bad a performance by an offensive line as I can ever remember. Heyer, Montgomery, and Rabach were beat all day -- Heyer and Montgomery looked like whipped dogs on the sidelines.

Re: Believe it or not I saw some positive signs
 

There were some positive signs at the game last night.

They said, "EXIT."

Re: Believe it or not I saw some positive signs
 

The only positives I can see is that a game like last night's will force the younger players in more on-field action. You never want to lose someone like Chris Cooley, but we do get to see a lot more of Fred Davis. Hopefully we will continue to see Devin Thomas improving as well. I still have high hopes for Thomas. Kelly, not so much.

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[quote=redsk1;616949]I was going to make that point too. [B]Gruden said several times that this team has talent[/B].[/quote]


It's funny...now we have to be skeptical of anything Gruden or any other potential coaching or GM candidate that currently works as a TV analyst says. They won't say anything too negative about the FO because they dont wanna piss DS off. But right now, thats exactly what we need.

Re: Believe it or not I saw some positive signs
 

Positive signs? Those must have been signs created by Danny and Vinny to replace the negative ones they weren't allowing in. Where they written in crayon? What did they say?

"Dan and Vinny Rulez!"

"Playoff Bound!"

"It's everyone else's fault!"

Oh, those kind of signs... :D

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[quote=skinsguy;617146]The only positives I can see is that a game like last night's will force the younger players in more on-field action. You never want to lose someone like Chris Cooley, but we do get to see a lot more of Fred Davis. Hopefully we will continue to see Devin Thomas improving as well. I still have high hopes for Thomas. [B]Kelly, not so much[/B].[/quote]

Yeah, coming out of pre-season, it surprised me that Kelly was named the #2 receiver because I thought Thomas was playing way better than him. I was just hopeful that they were seeing something I was missing. This makes me think that there's also a few others on the team that they have misjudged like Marko Mitchell and the running backs that they recently let go.

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[quote=Lotus;617119]There were some positive signs at the game last night.

They said, "EXIT."[/quote]

AAAAHahahahahahahaahahahhahahaahaha

Re: Believe it or not I saw some positive signs
 

[quote=GhettoDogAllStars;617261]Positive signs? Those must have been signs created by Danny and Vinny to replace the negative ones they weren't allowing in. Where they written in crayon? What did they say?

"Dan and Vinny Rulez!"

"Playoff Bound!"

"It's everyone else's fault!"

Oh, those kind of signs... :D[/quote]

No it said:

[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=7][COLOR=red]F[COLOR=black]ind[/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=7][COLOR=red]O[COLOR=black]thers to[/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=7][COLOR=red]X[COLOR=black]ecute![/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

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[quote=SBXVII;617324]No it said:

[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=7][COLOR=red]F[COLOR=black]ind[/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=7][COLOR=red]O[COLOR=black]thers to[/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=7][COLOR=red]X[COLOR=black]ecute![/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/quote]

too bad the game wasn't on fox :p

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[quote=tryfuhl;617512]too bad the game wasn't on fox :p[/quote]


No but the next one most likely will be. Unless I'm wrong and CBS is taking over cause FOX can't fix their video feed problems. Funny that CBS had the same problem also during the Chiefs game I think.

Edit: or was that ABC.

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[quote=tryfuhl;617512]too bad the game wasn't on fox :p[/quote]

How about this then:


[FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=7][COLOR=red]E[SIZE=4][COLOR=black]XECUTE[/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=7][COLOR=red]S[SIZE=4][COLOR=black]IMPLE[/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=7][COLOR=red]P[SIZE=4][COLOR=black]LAN[/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=7][COLOR=red]N[SIZE=4][COLOR=black]ITWITS![/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=4][/SIZE][/FONT]

Re: Believe it or not I saw some positive signs
 

there ya go

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[quote=SBXVII;618050]No but the next one most likely will be. Unless I'm wrong and CBS is taking over cause FOX can't fix their video feed problems. Funny that CBS had the same problem also during the Chiefs game I think.

Edit: or was that ABC.[/quote]

Not sure but they had to explain that it was not an attempt to switch to better game. Now that was funny. With us in last place we get the crew that ranks among the bottom for games and I'd bet that's part of the problem.

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[quote=firstdown;618225]Not sure but they had to explain that it was not an attempt to switch to better game. Now that was funny. With us in last place we get the crew that ranks among the bottom for games and I'd bet that's part of the problem.[/quote]

They way I see it if the team keeps getting worse I guess we will see the crews that work the college games. LOL>