Washington Redskins' Jason Campbell chats with Lavar Arrington
by KevinE on Jul 21, 2009 9:50 AM EDT
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The maiden voyage of WJFK's Lavar Arrington show was yesterday from 2-6pm. I listened to 3 hours of it, including the Jason Campbell interview. All in all, I thought the show was entertaining and Lavar did a good job of being funny yet insightful. The first few minutes of the show they established that neither of them were gay. So that is settled.
The heart of the show was the lead-up to the interview with Jason Campbell. Lavar boldly predicted the Auburn quarterback would not be a Redskin next year, comparing his situation where he was pushed out to Jason's situation. Lavar went into thorough detail of how he was forced out of DC stating that the coaches kept saying he couldn't learn Gregg Williams' defense. He said there was nothing further from the truth and that he was the fall guy. He backed his opinion stating Gregg Williams is on his second team in as many years and was rejected the head coaching job in D.C. Lavar then said it's going to be the same thing for Jason. When the offense still sputters, it's going to be the coaches and team saying that Campbell couldn't learn his offense. I'm paraphrasing over an hour's worth of discussion, but Lavar made some good points.
Ryan O'Hallaran from WaTimes blogged some of the interview with #17:
* (on feeling the pressure to perform): "The one thing people don't understand - we live in such an inpatient business. All of the pieces of the puzzle have to fall into place - from top to bottom on the whole team.
* (on if the pieces in place to be explosive offensively): "Last year during OTAs, we had maybe 58 pass plays and this year, we finished OTAs with more than 130. It was much a more wide open book and wide open format. ... The coaches [Zorn] hired, it wasn't like they were together on the same team before they got here. They had to learn together. They're more sure of the plays we were able to add. We were learning as we went from game to game last year."
It's almost comical to hear that the Redskins only had 58 pass plays in OTA's last year. Breaking down film against the Redskins offense must have been laughable by opposing teams.
In the middle of the interviewwith Jason, Chad Dukes asked Campbell if they could put him on hold for a quick commercial break. (Pause). "Sure." Haha. Man. I don't think I would have been as nice.
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The fact we only had 58 pass plays in the begining of the season still doesn’t explain why our offense SUCKED the second half of the year, thats more of an excuse for the first half of the year when we were actually moving the ball (with a lot of running i know).
Maybe we just didn’t expand our playbook since the few plays were working and thats why we became so predictable?
by travisjh86 on Jul 21, 2009 11:18 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I'd say it explains it pretty well...
As soon as teams had film on us, they knew exactly how to stop the few things we could do successfully. They didn’t expand the playbook because it’s not easy to do in the middle of a season. A strong running game and tough, durable offensive line can cover up a lot of the difficulties of learning a new offense (See: Flacco, Joseph and Ryan, Matthew). It makes me feel more confident to know that the offense has expanded so dramatically. Of course, we still have to see if Campbell and Co. can execute when it matters.
I listened to the show for a little yesterday but I didn’t catch the Campbell interview and the station website doesn’t have their shit together to get a recording up. You’d think with the same ownership and plenty of time running up to the format switch they would have it together a little better on the production side. I like Chad Dukes in small doses but I really didn’t feel like Lavar added much. I’m sure they’ll work some of the kinks out but their rapport was a little awkward at times.
They started talking about the rumor that Snyder is looking to buy the station and opened up the lines to people calling in to bitch about the propaganda on “the other station” (they interupted a caller when he almost said “980”) and call Snyder a midget. All in all I’d say… eh.
by Boo. on Jul 21, 2009 11:55 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I would love to know
the % of passing plays the Redskins had that were a screen or a dink and dump. We have an interview this week with the Football Scientist so he can probably answer these questions for us.
by KevinE on Jul 21, 2009 1:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
As soon as teams had film on us, they knew exactly how to stop the few things we could do successfully.
Agree. Among other problems, Zorn didn’t adapt last season. Hopefully he does this season.
by smutsboy1 on Jul 21, 2009 1:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Who cares what Lavar thinks
He was overrated and tough to coach when he was healthy. Then he was hurt and never stopped running his mouth and was a negative presence all while not contributing to the team. The only thing he has ever done as a Redskin was end Aikmans career. He was supposedly railroaded out of town and then did nothing for the Giants. He has done nothing but whine(he also trashed Joe P. after leaving Penn State) after he cashed all those checks we gave him while providing nothing to the team for 2 years. He is a pathetic man who needs to grow up and stop acting like everything bad that happened to him was the Skins fault. Why would anyone give him a radio show? I know all his restaurants flopped and he needed the money but still.
by BayAreaBullet on Jul 21, 2009 2:22 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
In the 30 mins I listened
He must have plugged his restaurant 4 times.
by Boo. on Jul 21, 2009 4:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sidelines
I remember the one big plug he did but thought nothing of it really. He started the showing reading all the comments of people that gave him no chance (on Sports Bog). i wouldn’t say he out-right sucked…i mean, I remember Hogs Haven’s first podcast…nothing is smooth the first time around! haha.
by KevinE on Jul 21, 2009 4:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
He was overrated
Are you kidding? Butkus Award, Bednarik Award, three Pro-Bowls….overrated? You can say what you want about the guy personally but he was most certainly not overrated as a player. When he was healthy he averaged 85 tackles a year. He was a beast. C’mon!
by Yankees#7 on Jul 21, 2009 11:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
He WAS a beast
No doubt. Lavar had above NFL-average athleticism. If he was more self-disciplined and had focused more attention on learning the plays (instead of always relying on his athleticism), he would have been great.
RAK EM UP!
by VA_Skin on Jul 22, 2009 7:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
LAVAR was a beast
I do not believe some of the comments that are being posted. I think alot of you’ll are drinking the juice. Lavar was a monster. Not even speaking about the injuries. Lavar is a downhill, sideline to sideline, attacking LB. If you put LaVar (before injuries) on the Steelers squad or Raven’s he would have a dominating LB. Just like S. Merriman (freelance attack dog with limited coverage skills). Sugg’s and Merriman are used according to there talents and G. Williams believed that players need to adapt to his system without catering to his players strength. That’s why Greg was not selected as head coach. Remember when the skin’s played the titans and Coach Fisher stated that he has forgot more defenses than William’s knows. Oh was he right. If you want to talk about coaching. A SYSTMEM can be taught but at the same time that SAME SYSTEM has to be modified to fit within the talents of the team. The Redskins did not have a pass rush so the used Lavar for the extra pressure and put him a situation that was not suited for the type of player that he is. Look at the Raven’s T. Suggs. Same type player utilized differently. LaVar would have been a beast over his career if it wasn’t for the injuries.
by ranroc on Jul 27, 2009 3:35 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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