Daily Slop: Orakpo Had Best Game Rushing on Left Side; Redskins Have 15 Players under 6' Tall
by Kevin Ewoldt on Jan 4, 2012 9:10 AM EST
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In what may be a preview of things to come in 2011, Defensive Coordinator Jim Haslett put OLB (and sometime DE, with his hand in the dirt) Brian Orakpo (+2.8) on the left side for the majority of his snaps, even though Orakpo usually always plays on the right side. In this game, he only ended up rushing from the right end twice, and once was after he began the play walking around over the middle. Before he got hurt on a strip sack near the end of the first half, this move led to what could have been one of Orakpo’s best days of the year.
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Thank god we held on to Johnathan Crompton!
I guess we can’t draft Kellen Moore according to Sally Jenkins.
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I noticed the Orakpo/Kerrigan switch.
Something I was planning to do a breakdown on, but I guess that’s saved me some work. Looked more effective against RT’s than LT’s. Just moving him around in general will help get him more 1-on-1s, or at least make the QB and Oline have to account for his whereabouts every play, meaning less attention will be paid elsewhere.
Pretty amazing that Kerrigan played every defensive snap this year, I wonder who the last rookie to do that was.
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B/c just about every Skins beat writer said it yesterday. And b/c I read A LOT
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No, I was referring to the "I wonder who last rookie to do that was" part
I’m pretty confident you knew Kerrigan never missed a snap.
I can't read, I thought you said "how do you know that", my bad
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I read it the same way too
Just one of those times that you read what you are expecting someone to say
Snap counts and playing time
are always available after a game through a link right here under CSWashington.,com
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by Skins Fan '77 on Jan 4, 2012 9:44 AM EST up reply actions
jerry gray's no longer a DB coach, he's the defensive coordinator for the titans
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
*Socrates*
thanks...that def fell through the cracks for me.
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Why is B Mitch acting like a B Bitch?
Also, it’s cool to see RG3 likes DC.
And Steve was right, Jammal Brown blows.
I see it as more cushion for the pushin'
yea i had previously thought the coaching staff was high on brown
but that’s obviously not the case anymore….competition’s a coming for that RT spot
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
*Socrates*
seems like his contract/cap hit wouldn't be a hurdle in getting around either if we cut brown
“Despite his new contract, Brown has a murky future. Only this past season’s $2.75 million base salary was guaranteed, and to carry him on the 2012 roster would mean a $4.6 million salary cap hit. (The Redskins would suffer a cap hit of $4.4 million if they cut Brown before June 1, but if they cut him after that date, the cap hit for 2012 would be only $1.1 million, and $3.3 million of it would be deferred to 2013).”
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
*Socrates*
haha, you'd be the world's greates trash talker if it was 1997
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for reals
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Hightower/Helu/Royster will be an excellent three headed monster next year.
I hope we don’t waste any picks in the draft on more RBs. However, I wouldn’t mind if we checked out UDFAs to put on the practice squad to replace whoever gets injured.
"If a man speaks and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong???"
Lil' Shanny said last week that even if we do sign Hightower, that we will bring on another RB to the threesome
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Really?
Even with Helu and Royster’s performance? SMH on that one.
"If a man speaks and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong???"
It's the great Shanny runningback tradition.
To be honest, all three of our runningbacks this year had injury issues, so I’d be comfortable with one more.
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Seems like you're going to be disappointed when we select trent richardson with the 6th overall pick in the draft
or so says 75% of the most recent mock drafts…
According to you, we were taken Weedon at #6
by mbedner on Jan 4, 2012 9:38 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
that's impossible
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Then how the heck do you ever get recs?
Or is that your GF coming behind you and rec’ing for you?
No Danny, Nooooooo - Tom Landry, 1982., and Washington Redskins fans, 1999-
Why are people still interviewing Beck?
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Cause he's a loser baby/ watching him play nearly killed me!
Gettin’ crazy with the cheese wiz!
I see it as more cushion for the pushin'
weren't you clamoring for him all last summer/fall?
by mbedner on Jan 4, 2012 9:37 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
All you have to say is you were wrong and people will leave you alone.
It’s a little known/exercised tactic around these parts. Took me awhile to figure out also.
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I admit I'm wrong like everyday and that I'm a flip-flopper.
I think I’ll just start saying that someone hacked my profile and I’ll deny things that I’ve said.
I see it as more cushion for the pushin'
So I didn't think much of Jenkins height argument. I just look it up out of curiosity
Players under 6 feet
Saints: 12
Packers: 9
Giants: 5
49ers: 9
Patriots: 14
Steelers: 10
Texans: 12
Broncos: 14
So you’re telling me, if we have one player grow an inch then we can win a division!
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I think you need to love a little closer
The Giants have the fewest small people of any team on that list by far… and it is the division we play in.
It would be interesting to count the number of players on Philadelphia’s roster, I would not be surprised if it was closer to 15 then five
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by Skins Fan '77 on Jan 4, 2012 9:53 AM EST up reply actions
'77 is a big Dierks Bentley fan
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Ah fudge,
I have a cold and my dictation program is really having a field day screwing with me… likely there will be much more fun to be had today
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by Skins Fan '77 on Jan 4, 2012 9:59 AM EST up reply actions
I really need to start keeping track of those... Best of '77
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Ha ha! Exactly
Actually I would like to have that one instead of the one I have, probably would work better
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by Skins Fan '77 on Jan 4, 2012 10:06 AM EST up reply actions
Sadly, my only reason for asking about you dictation program
was simply so I could find an excuse to post a picture of the dictabird from that awful Flinstons movie…
Come on, I think I supply enough straight lines
Without you having to conjure up your own
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by Skins Fan '77 on Jan 4, 2012 10:10 AM EST up reply actions
AWFUL?
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Well it does kind of look like the Eagles mascot
Never seen the libido (that was posed to say "the movie though")
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by Skins Fan '77 on Jan 4, 2012 10:14 AM EST up reply actions
So that's two new "Best of" posts.
“I think you need to love closer”
“Never seen the libido”
Put together like that, they kind of show a pattern……
No Danny, Nooooooo - Tom Landry, 1982., and Washington Redskins fans, 1999-
Flinstons falls into that category where it is so awful that can be enjoyable
yet still be entirely awful.
If that's the movie with Rosie O'Donnell in it...
Yabba Dabba don’t swing that way.
And yeah, it looks like we have our new Eagles Mascot logo picture for the next year…..
No Danny, Nooooooo - Tom Landry, 1982., and Washington Redskins fans, 1999-
Wait… is that your screensaver?
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by Skins Fan '77 on Jan 4, 2012 10:13 AM EST up reply actions
I have a recently acquired
Neuromuscular problem, my body no longer works as well as it did and I cannot type at all (or using mouse)
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by Skins Fan '77 on Jan 4, 2012 10:05 AM EST up reply actions
No worries
The only thing guaranteed in life is change. You just have to keep your mind on positive change… just like being a Redskins fan (oh the irony)
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by Skins Fan '77 on Jan 4, 2012 10:07 AM EST up reply actions
hahahahaha
You just have to keep your mind on positive change… just like being a Redskins fan (oh the irony)
Thanks!
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by Skins Fan '77 on Jan 4, 2012 10:09 AM EST up reply actions
Eagles have 14. Apparently the Giants truly are Giants
It’s incredible that we beat the Giants twice despite having 10 more “short” players. Truly, a cinderella story, how did we ever overcome that severe handicap?
Cowboys have 7.
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Apparently, they were victories of biblical proportion
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by Skins Fan '77 on Jan 4, 2012 10:00 AM EST up reply actions
Hah I see what you did their
The Blue Royster Cult needs more cow bell.
by 64ShagginWagon on Jan 4, 2012 10:43 AM EST up reply actions
Steelers just put 5'8 Chad Spann on the acitve roster, they are screwed!
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Quick!
Somebody find spud Webb’s phone number…
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by Skins Fan '77 on Jan 4, 2012 10:36 AM EST up reply actions
Anyone have Verne Troyer's number?
Looks like he could also fit in as either a Cowboy or a Giant.
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seems like chris chester was playing better near the end of the year
hopefully he’ll continue to make improvements into next year…i guess adjusting to the zone scheme takes time as well
looks like at least two positions on the line may be in flux (LG and RT)…i’d also like to see some competition at center brought in…i like will montegomery, but i think he’d be better in a depth/swing position for us
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
*Socrates*
I never felt chester was apart of the problem on the oline
does anyone know how many sacks, pressures he gave up this year compared to other RGs around the league?
yea, he's a good second level blocker too
but i don’t know the answer to that question
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
*Socrates*
It's no problem
It would probably take someone with a considerable amount of time and energy to look up those statistics.
One of the stat geek sites will release it soon, if not already
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I don't know, it looks like Montgomery could have been wearing a Rabach jersey
a lot this year
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by Skins Fan '77 on Jan 4, 2012 9:57 AM EST up reply actions
haha right
he did get blown up a lot…saw him pushed back in the backfield quite a bit
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
*Socrates*
I'd be surprised to see a change at center
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Pleasantly surprised for me
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by Skins Fan '77 on Jan 4, 2012 10:01 AM EST up reply actions
you're probably right
but i’d at least like to bring in a better backup…eric cook just didn’t seem capable to me
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
*Socrates*
you like everyone on the Redskins
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Well technically he is no longer a Redskin
He is a free agent right now
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by Skins Fan '77 on Jan 4, 2012 10:17 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
But that hatred just spawned out of your love for Beck
I bet if you were here last year with the McNizzle benching you would have been all about Rex after the Cowboys and Jags game
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Hell yeah I was.
But now I hate him and it’s on to the next.
I see it as more cushion for the pushin'
I agree with you on Eric Cook
But we need to upgrade the center of the line… no matter who is playing quarterback, he is not going to do well with the jailbreak that happens all too frequently write up the middle into the vase of quarterback.
(I didn’t try to edit this at all)
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by Skins Fan '77 on Jan 4, 2012 10:04 AM EST up reply actions
totally agree
because it also hinders the ability of the tackles to protect, because the quarterback can’t step up in the pocket….all the defense ends have to do is worry about rushing in one direction
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
*Socrates*
We should draft Tech's punter
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That boy truly has
A one track mind
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by Skins Fan '77 on Jan 4, 2012 10:23 AM EST up reply actions
I actually was thinking the same thing...
But not as punter, as a reciever. Coale has only punted in five or six games but is the second all time leading receiver for Tech. The guy is a clutch possesion receiver and has 4.4 speed. I know that we are crowded at WR position but I would be surprised if Coale is not playing for someone on Sundays next season.
That was an absolutely boneheaded call on Beamer’s part, but not the first time that he has made a boneheaded ST call on a bowl game.
by WestCoastHokie on Jan 4, 2012 1:18 PM EST up reply actions
Beamer sad he gave coale the option today's it or punt it
Coale is a beast though he is highly underrated.
OH YEAH!!!
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Oh no, it was italics last time
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by Skins Fan '77 on Jan 4, 2012 10:35 AM EST up reply actions
B/c today is a bonus day at Hogs Haven, your comments mean twice as much and count more towards the power rankings
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Holy crap! I knew it was bad, but I didn't think it was this bad…
This from Rich Tendler…
At this point, it seems nearly certain that head coach Mike Shanahan, offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan, and defensive coordinator Jim Haslett will return to their jobs for the 2012 season.
In most organizations, that would not be a noteworthy event. Many successful organizations can keep their top three coaches together for many years. Not so for the Redskins. This would be a first for the Redskins since Dan Snyder bought the team in 1999.
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It's about time.
I think Gibbs’ team could have been special if he didn’t bring in Saunders.
Sigh
I see it as more cushion for the pushin'
by iH8dallas on Jan 4, 2012 10:38 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, that guy always looked like
Somebody had urinated in his Kool-Aid
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by Skins Fan '77 on Jan 4, 2012 10:39 AM EST up reply actions
Oh, and by the way…
That was a very bold statement
(thank you, I’ll be here all morning)
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by Skins Fan '77 on Jan 4, 2012 10:41 AM EST up reply actions
totally agree
saunders just muddied the waters and complicated everything…. it was either brunnell or moss that said upon hearing of his hiring that we went to the playoffs, if ain’t broke don’t fix it
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
*Socrates*
I think that was Moss
But he’s short so what does he know
The Blue Royster Cult needs more cow bell.
by 64ShagginWagon on Jan 4, 2012 10:46 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
+1
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remember it's double points day, so that's actually 2 points!
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I like Shanny Jr. as a playcaller.
Just wait until we trade up for Andrew Luck…CHAMPIONSHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!
I see it as more cushion for the pushin'
Why isn't Beck counting himself out?
You’re out dude, count yourself out.
Really? It’s just sad at this point.
Im not saying give up all the time.
He was given two shots, he’s getting old, and he’s not going to be given another shot.
Off the subject…just listening to the Dan Patrick show and he’s talkin to Christian Ponder. He asked him about any hits he remembered during the year. He mentioned fletchers smackdown. Awesome. Sign the Man!
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