Orakpo Lost for Season

[Elephant]

So, in the offseason many of you were lamb basting me for suggesting Rob Jackson could fill the spot had we traded Orakpo for an OL or if we were able to package him as part of the Griffin deal with St. Louis. Looks like Fisher knew what he was doing when he said no to packaging Orakpo in the deal. I like Brian Orakpo and would love to see what he could do if we'd stayed in the 4-3 but that's all water under the bridge. Go Rob Jackson! Now, after the couple of mistakes by Chris Wilson, let's see what Markus White can do in his place!

 

[tshile]

I personally believe Jackson is an upgrade to Orakpo....who I believe is one of the most overrated players in the entire league.

Same here.

It's just one game, so we can't get too carried away.

I don't know if Orakpo isn't as good as we (redskins fans) have made him out to be, or if he just isn't playing up to his potential, or isn't put in the right situations.

All I know is he's not doing his job as well as he should, or as well as majority of redskins fans seem to think he is.

I believe his contract is up this year? While I'm not advocating we don't resign him, I have a hard time believing the amount of money he will demand will be in line with what his performance deserves...

 

[Lanky Livingston]

Rob Jackson played a helluva game, but runs left weren't all "stops" - let's not turn the kid into Greg Lloyd after one game.

 

[tshile]

No one said they were all stops, but since you mention it I thought i'd look at what the results actually were.

Here's the break down of runs going left*. I've bolded the plays Jackson made the tackle, and italicized the plays that were bad (for me that means 5+ yards on the play). Now it's important to note that i've never done this for orakpo so I don't know how it compares, and they also switch the out OLB's so some of these plays Jackson had absolutely nothing to do with (both good and bad) and there's no way to know without reviewing the game film
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(10:53) 42-B.Green-Ellis left guard to CIN 16 for 3 yards (24-D.Gomes; 56-P.Riley).
(9:42) 42-B.Green-Ellis left tackle to CIN 40 for 2 yards (91-R.Kerrigan; 59-L.Fletcher).
(8:22) 42-B.Green-Ellis left end to WAS 40 for -2 yards (50-R.Jackson, 59-L.Fletcher).
(5:40) 74-D.Roland reported in as eligible. 28-B.Scott left end to CIN 34 for -8 yards (50-R.Jackson).
(5:00) (Shotgun) 14-A.Dalton scrambles left guard to WAS 49 for 17 yards (59-L.Fletcher).
4:12) 16-A.Hawkins left end pushed ob at WAS 38 for 11 yards (24-D.Gomes; 59-L.Fletcher).
(15:00) 16-A.Hawkins left end pushed ob at CIN 39 for 5 yards (51-C.Wilson).
(3:49) 18-A.Green left end to WAS 1 for 11 yards (26-J.Wilson). CIN-18-A.Green was injured during the play. End around
(9:45) 42-B.Green-Ellis left tackle to CIN 29 for 1 yard (23-D.Hall; 56-P.Riley).
(3:02) (No Huddle) 42-B.Green-Ellis left end to CIN 47 for no gain (26-J.Wilson). FUMBLES (26-J.Wilson), RECOVERED by WAS-26-J.Wilson at CIN 47. 26-J.Wilson to CIN 47 for no gain (42-B.Green-Ellis).
(1:41) 42-B.Green-Ellis left end to CIN 13 for -1 yards (50-R.Jackson, 59-L.Fletcher).
(8:34) 42-B.Green-Ellis left end to CIN 39 for 9 yards (56-P.Riley, 41-Mad.Williams).

by my math that's 12 plays, 48 yards, averaging 4 yards per play.

I have absolutely no idea if that's good or bad, I have nothing to compare it to and I'm not doing that work. Just wanted to break it down for those that care.

In my opinion a 4 yard average means (theoretically) a team can just run the ball left and get 12 yards ever 3 plays which means constantly moving the chains.

If you strip out dalton's ridiculous scramble that average drops to 2.58 yards/play, which is much much better. Kind of subjective how much, or even if, that matters though. Not sure how I feel about it yet.

*I came up with this by simply searching through the play log for the word 'left', and weeding out redskins plays and Bengals passing plays. This may or may not be a flawed strategy for compiling such a stat. Were this to be done for a job I'd expect the person to actually go over every play on film. I'm obviously not doing that