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Re: Skins vs Eagles Pre Game Thread
Will our defense be out of gas by the 4th quarter? I think it will. Our front 4 doesn't have a deep rotation due to injuries and the group to the ball philosophy is physically demanding on especially on the big guys. The Philly scheme is a variation of the run stretches early to get the defense moving sideline to sideline. You don't get much early but you take over the game in the 4th quarters. That's what they have done in both games so far.
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Re: Skins vs Eagles Pre Game Thread
Meriweather gives Sproles a concussion with a massive helmet-to-helmet hit in the first quarter. After that, we only have to worry about McCoy. Redskins win 27-24.
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but i see merriweather going knee level low .. and of course pissing off the eagles in the process for trying to end sproles or mccoy's career. that leaves us exposed on the back end by bringing merriweather in the box or close to it and we might have to drop a corner back into soft coverage on one side giving foles some easy short looks..... but id rather see if foles can beat us vs sproles/mccoy im interested to see haslett's gameplan |
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If Kelly goes on to be a star coach, I will have a heckuva lot of crow to eat. I can't see this as being an appropriate response for an NFL coach about an injured player:
Zach Berman @ZBerm 7m Chip said he doesn't know what's wrong with Kendricks' calf because he didn't ask. Said all he wants to know is can player play, yes or no and from the full article: Quote:
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Re: Skins vs Eagles Pre Game Thread
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Philly has O-Line problems Colts ran right thru their D-Line WRs are overhyped secondary does not impress me Really pisses me off that we couldn't grab Sproles bc he is my favorite non-Skin player |
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Re: Skins vs Eagles Pre Game Thread
And to Kelly's comment that he doesn't care, I would imagine that snippet (and I am reading more into it for sure) plays into DJax's exit. Just listening to DJax and his answers, he is someone who needs a coach who shows he cares. He had that with Andy Reid, but clearly it isn't Kelly's style. Have there been coaches who succeed without being a "caring coach" sure, but I can't think of many who have just come out to the media and said he's never going to care about the specific degree of injury to his players.
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Interesting side note leading up to this game: our first pick, 2nd rounder Trent Murphy, is already getting a nice amount of defensive snaps even with Rak and Kerrigan ahead of him, plus he's contributing on special teams. Meanwhile, their first pick, 1st rounder Marcus Smith, got 0 total snaps in their first game and was on the inactive list against the Colts, even though the players ahead of him aren't as good as Rak and Kerrigan. May not be the war, but it is a small battle, and we're winning. ![]() |
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Re: Skins vs Eagles Pre Game Thread
This exchange re: Chip Kelly reminds me a little about Tom Coughlin. He's always been strong on Xs and Os. Early on in his head coaching career, he was viewed as a rather cold hardass by his players. He had success, but when things started to slide (which is inevitable in the salary-cap era), players didn't have his back. Over the years coaching the Giants, however, I think he's changed his approach; you get the impression that he's got closer individual relationships with his players, and I don't think it is a coincidence that his greatest success has come in NY.
Kelly may learn that over time as well. It's funny -- one of my favorite quotes about Vince Lombardi by one of his players, was something like: "Oh, Coach Lombardi is great. He treats us all teh same. He treats us like dogs." But I think his players really loved him, and in part because he was a winner (he was THE winner), but also because he was such a great father figure (albeit a tough love father figure, and not in the Adrian Peterson kind of way).
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Re: Skins vs Eagles Pre Game Thread
Looking at the listings and its looking like the Skins, AGAIN, are not on in Baltimore. F'ing sucks.
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last week it rained saturday so we had to push the renaissance fest to sunday and i dvr'd the game so i didnt get to watch it until 8 pm. anytime the ravens play, there cannot be a another nfl game on broadcast tv in balt... .. so anytime the ravens and skins play at the same time = guaranteed no skins game. really wish i could have gotten direct tv in my "historic" building .. i always recommend the skins bar in locust point that used to be known as sly fox (willey grunthier's (sp?) now)) |
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Two words: Sunday Ticket.
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Although when Washington or Baltimore plays on different days (or one or the other has a 4pm kickoff) Washington gets the sound over the speakers. So it's not a total loss.
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I still don't understand why Baltimore fans even care about the Redskins.
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I feel like that's what happens when you have two teams close to each other in proximity and one team is better than the other (at least on paper).
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