Redskins disappoint in loss to the Packers, 17-14

by Skin Patrol on Oct 14, 2007 9:20 PM EDT in Redskins Recaps

I've been driving all day and have a lot of work to do prior to tomorrow, just picked a big fight with my steering wheel for about 3 hours (I won) and am emotionally and physically drained from the game. Some quick thoughts first this evening, though a closer analsyis of what went wrong, horribly wrong, pending this week.

Offense: Owes the defense a beer and an apology. Fumbles and dropped passes were totally unacceptable and killed any chance we had at winning the game. I don't think Santana Moss has played a worse game in his career, and his fumble, recovered for a touchdown, was the reason we lost. Couldn't catch a cold, though neither could anyone else. Chris Cooley played very well, and I was impressed with Jason Campbell, who wasn't being helped much by anyone. The line flustered me as well, especially late in the game, and it will get worse before it gets better. We are destroyed by injury.

Defense: Total waste of an excellent defensive performance. Sean Taylor had two interceptions and forced a fumble. They had 56 rushing yards on just 2.8 YPA. They had just 150 net yards passing as well. I don't know what more we could have asked from these guys; if you hold the opposing offense to 7 points, you should win the game. That is unless your offense is blowing the game in ways boring (3 and outs, punts, etc.) and unforgivable (fumble returned for 6).

Troy Aikman: I'm done with him. He needs to pipe down, ASAP, yesterday, etc. He is nakedly anti-Redskins, which I don't fault him for given the rivalry, but if we're going to have a partisan broadcast, it should be admitted. I'm not saying everything he spouted was wrong, or that the refs called a perfect game, but he couldn't help himself from alternating criticism or praise of the refs depending on whether they pointed towards burgundy and gold.

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The clock management was bad...

There is no reason to call a timeout on 3rd and then when you come up short, on 4th.

There were times where the offense looked flat out confused. For a supposedly "good" team, that shouldn't happen.

by TexSkins on Oct 14, 2007 10:36 PM EDT reply actions

Clock management is always bad

They always take a timeout to "think" about the decision, and always come out with a shitty play to run. Seriously, you don't need a timeout to think about whether or not you're going to go for it or not. It's a simple decision, not one that needs to compromise your chances later should you not make it, and they usually don't make it because it's a predictable dive play, a hopeless sweep, or a stupid screen pass instead of hitting Cooley underneath.

/end rant

Talkin' Sports

by BlackOps on Oct 15, 2007 10:44 AM EDT up reply actions

This game was handed

to the packers on a silver platter.

There is almost nothing else we could have done to give the game away.

Its almost like our offense was on the packers payroll and our defense new nothing about it.

Santana moss should just put a packers jersey on, as i am almost positive he collected a 1 million bonus from the packers for that performance.

A full play(about 30 sec.) was wasted by not calling timeout before the 2 minute warning when we were on D.

I mean who the fuck is watching the clock, i couldnt dream this shit up if i tried. Gibbs and his stick together crap after every game like this is officially old!

Somethings' gotta change, someone has got to go. Our offense lays down like fucking lap dogs in second halves of these games for some reason.

Gibbs and Saunders cannot co-exist, i am convinced of this. One of them has got to go and Snyder should go with them and we need a GM. It seems like these two are in a tug of war, i dont care what they say, they are lying to us!

Right about now Snyder should be doing two things, handing in a application for this team to become part of the big ten, and selling this team to someone else.

I'd rather see us lose the way we did last year,YES LAST YEAR, then to throw away games like this. If i was GW i'd be trying to switch this defense to another team!

And what are they feeding these guys, i've never seen a team so injury prone like we are. At this rate we will have to forfeit the last 3 games of the year.

by Sincethebeginning @ Hogs Haven on Oct 15, 2007 6:57 AM EDT reply actions