Random Commanders Thoughts

Boone and Fear, both of your statements are true.

It just shows how bad a team we are now.

We cut Mack Brown to pick up street FA lineman that we've already cut this week(Franklin) and now the team is scrambling to work out Rbs because we don't have a third string back.

It's like nothing is thought through......
 
DieselPwr44 said:
It just shows how bad a team we are now.
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We are not a "bad" team, though.
Bad teams, especially when decimated with injuries like ourselves, do not play games close all the way until the end, against the best and most complete team in the league, twice against the Eagles, and against elite teams like Chiefs and Cowboys.

When we start losing to bad teams, or getting consistently dominated on the field, then we're a bad team.
 
Looks like Gruden is definitely calling the plays...
 
D was huge. Kirk did it when it mattered most. Looking back over some of the "questionable" decisions while under pressure, I'm not sure what else he could do. Maybe a very mobile QB has better luck, but we can't run, and pass protection is very spotty. At the end of it, his play contributed to a win. If we can say that, what happens in the middle means little. When the line get's starters back, I expect the offence to pick back up.
 
Boone said:
You guys know what ‘involuntary' means, right? :)


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Yes, yes, it's unlike a fart, which you have control over.... for the most part. I really do understand. Hyper sensitive football fans read way to deep into the simplest things, like a yawn. National audience, and you have many watching who normally don't follow the team so closely. Team down late, coach yawns, and people instantly think the worst. They don't know he was likely burning the candle at both ends for days They perceive it as something bad, instead looking at it's face value, an involuntary action. I only fault Gruden for not having the presence of mind to flip up the ol clip board. A yawn may be involuntary, but you do feel it coming on and have time to react in most cases.
 
DieselPwr44 said:
Boone and Fear, both of your statements are true.

It just shows how bad a team we are now.

We cut Mack Brown to pick up street FA lineman that we've already cut this week(Franklin) and now the team is scrambling to work out Rbs because we don't have a third string back.

It's like nothing is thought through......
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The Skins are not a bad team. Bad teams don't go into Seattle and beat the Seahawks period, even with a couple lucky breaks. Russell Wilson's record at home is ridiculously good.

The Skins are facing some serious adversity right with injuries, but they are handling the situation very well all things considered. Cousins was a freakin' warrior today and we need to pay the man.

The Skins are 4-4, and if they can get healthy they have a chance to make the playoffs. The defense has a chance to be dominant in the second half of the season. Getting DHall back is huge imo as now they can cover, they get good pressure up front rushing 4, and Zack Brown is a wrecking ball in the middle. I just wish they had kept DJax or Garcon, but Doctson is showing signs of how good he can be.
 
I think Graham catches that ball if Hall wasn't where he was.
 
Well I did sleep, and when I awoke this morning I had time to watch the interviews and things and then thought about the game on my commute into work.

As much as I enjoyed the stomping of the Raiders earlier in the season, I think maybe this win is our most impressive of the year so far.

When we faced the Raiders we were a complete team, and the Raiders were flattering to deceive the league a little back then. But this week, when you start listing the items that we were up against it starts to look more and more impressive.

1) We were 9 point underdogs at one point.
2) Seattle at home is a loud, intimidating, difficult place to place. The Seahawks have an impressive home record.
3) The weather, while not as bad as at Fedex last week, still didn't look great on the TV.
4) Seattle were coming off a 4 game win streak, which included a win over the impressive Rams (but also the less impressive Giants!)
5) Our O-line was down to one starter (Moses on 2 sprained ankles) and Scherff (who I think lasted 1 snap?) and then everyone else was either a rookie or a recently signed journey man. This was a line that lacked any experience playing together in the grand scheme of things and were trying to communicate and co-ordinate in a very loud and hostile environment.
6) Cousins commented after the game how loud it was, that he had been suffering with a cold and headache all game and now had a bad throat due to the shouting over the noise. He didn't play his best game, but the man was a warrior yesterday.
7) With Pryor and Doctson ineffectual this season we'd been counting on players like Reed and Crowder... both of whom were out yesterday. We were also without Niles Paul, Kelly is still banged up and we were left with a rookie running back trying to run behind a rookie O-Line... recipe for disaster. Then Vernon Davis went out later with a hand contusion (they put him in the game late just as a decoy!)
8) Our D line is without a key piece in Allen and we're so banged up at the back that we finally re-activated DHall.

Factor all that in and the fact we could win in Seattle this week was all the more impressive. I'm not going to say we stole the win, because we earned that one. Our D played stellar football and our Offense stepped up just enough to take the game when it was needed despite Kirk being treated like a human pinball all night (that throw to Quick on that final drive where he was hit as he threw.... no wonder he had a headache!).

I couldn't be prouder of a team this morning. That game was one where we never gave up and the team willed the victory.

HTTR!
 
stevenaa said:
D was huge. Kirk did it when it mattered most. Looking back over some of the "questionable" decisions while under pressure, I'm not sure what else he could do. Maybe a very mobile QB has better luck, but we can't run, and pass protection is very spotty. At the end of it, his play contributed to a win. If we can say that, what happens in the middle means little. When the line get's starters back, I expect the offence to pick back up.
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Yeah I was on this opinion watching the game last night. He got a battering in the chat channel LOL

But what I was seeing was an O-line coming backwards at speed and sometimes the Defense coming through unchecked. The weather was part rain/part sleet in the earlier going, the running backs couldn't hit gaps that most often weren't there anyway and our receivers had no time to get open.

So then it came down to Cousins making the decision to either throw the ball away or cover and take the sack.

He chose to hold it, and I can't really blame him for that. Two reasons really... the last few games behind that same swiss cheese o-line he's tried to force it in a hurry and thrown interceptions. Last nights game was so close that an interception could have swung the momentum heavily in Seattles favour. I think he wanted to avoid that at all costs. Secondly they were coming so fast at him that if he'd cocked his arm to throw and been hit we're talking instant fumble, again instant game changer in the game that we were in.

Traditionally this season we've also been great in 3rd and long. I don't think this team is necessarily scared of being in that position.

All week the Skins have heard pundits saying that there is no room for error, that they need to play perfectly and not give anything away in order to win. After that first fumble for a safety the team pretty much did that. Kept the ball safe and didn't do anything to beat themselves. Might not have been pretty but not all games are.

I'm hoping that this was the breakout game for Doctson too, and I'm hoping Quick starts to get more burn time.

I said it in channel, but I have a real hope for the rest of the season and the injuries early could be a blessing in disguise. All teams get injuries during a season, and generally (unless you have an Aaron Rodgers type disaster) the injuries usually kind of even out for all teams across the year. We got hit hard and early, which means we've been forced to rest our best players to heal up during a particularly brutal stretch...

We're currently going through a period where these are coin-toss games, games that could go either way. With our Defense getting some of it's players back we're looking stronger on that side of the ball again. If we could split the next 2 games to end up 5-5 just as we start seeing some of our key O-line come back, Reed come back, Crowder come back, Kelly get healed up... We could be fielding the team we are SUPPOSED to be just as we hit the last 6 games of the season.

That would be Giants twice, Cowboys possibly without Elliott (maybe), Chargers, Cardinals and Broncos.

If we have a team close to what we had early season, and if we use the next couple of weeks to get our rookies and second stringers a bunch of valuable experience... I could see closing out the season with 5 or 6 wins. That would leave us 10-6 or even 11-5. I don't think I'm being overly optimistic, I feel like that's in play. Especially if other teams start to get hit by the injury bug, even the Eagles! I mean look what happened to Oakland last year... Everyone's Superbowl darling till Carr busted his leg.

Of course it could all derail fast. Maybe we don't shake the injury bug. Maybe we lose the next two and don't get players like Scherff or Trent back anytime soon. If that happens then I can just as easily see an 8-8 season playing out or worse.

That's why I love football. As last night proved, it ain't over till it's over! :D
 
Fear The Spear said:
D-Hall I love you.
DH won it on the last play.
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I mentioned this in channel to Boone last night.

I felt all game like having DH back was a huge lift for this D. I think for all the talent you put on the field, you NEED leaders on the field to keep the boat steady and keep everyone focused. As much as I love Kerrigan, I've never seen him as that person. DHall always struck me as the veteran leader on the field, but then we were robbed of that when he got injured. Twice. I don't think he can do that job from the sidelines.

Then last year we got Norman, who I feel took control of the secondary and started to give it some swagger, oddly especially Breeland who I think after being sullen last year has risen to the ocassion this year to prove that we have 2 shutdown corners. Then this year we got Swearinger and you can't deny his effect. Then I felt like Allen was quietly leading by example on the D-Line, influencing them to lift their game too. Also.... Manusky!

Our Defense just FELT different this year. Then the injuries hit, Allen was out for the season and Norman got banged up and missed a game, so did Bree. We still had DJ, but it's got to be really demoralising to see the team getting so gutted around you.

Then this week we get Bree back, Norman finally looks healthy again and we see the return to the field of a veteran leader. Whatever anyone says getting someone BACK from a long term injury rather than losing someone TO a long term injury must have an effect on morale. Our D just seemed to feed off that energy this week.

Even when they were tired right at the end I enjoyed watching them on that very very last drive. My eyes were glued on Brown as he spied Wilson... It was compulsive watching. LOL

Game ball to the D yesterday, and my special golden ball to DH. I think he was the difference maker who lifted our D to another level last night. Not through his play necessarily, but just through his presence!
 
GRITTY win!

Sometimes one side of the ball has to carry you. And yesterday, it was the defense.

-Lanier created inside pressure all game
-McClain and McGee both stepped up, with McClain getting that huge sack on the last drive
-Compton balled out - who we all usually beat up.
-DHall played every freaking defensive snap! And at least didn't fumble on punt returns.

Yes, the Seahawks had a bunch of penalties. BUT, a lot of them were forced by the front seven creating pressure and generating holding calls, and false starts on their oline. Also, a touchdown was set-up by Pryor (of all people) getting a PI call on Sherman who was mugging him.
 
Saw this stat from the Dan Steinberg article in the Post. Pretty surprising. I can't believe we've been favored by 8 too many times though.

I can't believe Jay Gruden has now won two road games with Washington as at least an eight-point underdog: the Colt McCoy Monday nighter in Dallas in 2014, and this three-hour exercise in absurdist wishcasting. In his four-year tenure, the Redskins have only won once as a favorite of at least eight points. To repeat: they have more wins as eight-point road underdogs under Gruden than they do as eight-point favorites. I can't believe that.
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