Redskins Recon - The Steelers-Monday Night Football-Hello NFL World!

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Well, here it is-the first regular season game for the Skins-MNF, no less-against the Steelers.

Time to get a first look at what all the offseason maneuvering and football cookery has concocted.

Now to the topic at hand, what are Steelers fans saying about Monday Night?

Well, for one thing, they don't expect to just run the Skins into the ground in a ho-hum opener against a bottom-feeder opponent.

They expect a tough, hard fought game. Some Steeler fans are picking us to win.

I found that kind of surprising, a little bit anyway.

There weren't a lot of forums about the game-first game and all-and nobody's seen anybody play really seriously yet

but there were some forums about the game.

Most of the comments, interestingly enough, involved score predictions on a few boards






darcrav

US 31
THEM 20




ASkQuestionsLater

Pittsburgh: 21

Washington: 24




The Renegade

Pittsburgh 23

Washington 27



The first few picking the Skins to win elicited this response:


vasteeler

i am surprised 2 out of 3 have us losing

Pit 32
Was 24



Things shifted after this but a lot of the scores indicate the Steelers fans are not looking for a blowout.



TerriblrTowelFlying

Us 35
Them 24


Some got really detailed in their predictions


vrabinec

Steelers struggle somewhat in the red zone, resulting in 2 of Boswell's 3 FGs being from there.
AB gets out of the gate with 90 yds, but doesn't punch it in.
Rogers gets 7 for 70 and 1 TD
Wheaton 4 for 60
Deangelo goes 20 for 85, 1 TD
The Skins throw for 300
Reed gets 100 of that including 2 TDs
50 insignificant yards on the ground, with 1 short score.
D-Jax goes deep for a big one.
4 combined turnovers between the teams as they're a bit sloppy out of the gate.
Skins 30 Steelers 23 with most of the Steelers' offensive production coming in the second half after they wake up from a slow start. They play catchup, but just fail in the red zone too many times in the stretch to pull it out.




dmoney6

38-24 Steelers over Skins

Big Ben 26-35, 363 yds, 3 TDs
-AB 10 catches 111 yds, 1 TD
-Eli Rogers 4 catches 63 yds
-Markus Wheaton 3 catches, 60 1 TD
-Sammie Coates 3 catches 57 yds
-Jessie James 4 catches 42 yds, 1 TD
-DeAngelo Williams 2 catches 30 yds

DW: 21 carries 104 yds, 2 TDs

The Boz 1-1 on a 42 yd field goal to end 1st half.




steeltherapy

Pressure between the tackles with Heyward, Hargrave, and Tuitt, get in Cousins face quickly, and force him into bad throws. I've heard quite a few people recently talk about how turnover prone he can be, and that he got very lucky a lot of times last year.

Along with getting an early lead, I think forcing Cousins into mistakes is our best chance to take a tough game on the road to open the season. If he has time, and the Redskins are able to dictate the pace, it could be yet another season opening disappointment.







j-d-s

We win 37-35 thanks to two successful two-point conversions early. AB and DeAngelo score at least two TDs each





HeinzMustard

Steelers 17
Redskins 27

Passing yards- 315

I've already said before, the Steelers will go 2-2 in the first 4 games... with losses to the Redskins and Chiefs. Penalties and inconsistency on both sides of the ball will do us in. I think by the end of the 3rd quarter vs. skins... the score will be 20-7.

I hope I'm wrong.




pczach

Season openers are always tough to predict, especially with all the players out for the Steelers.

I see this being a tough, hard fought, close game that will probably be decided late. I see the Redskins doing everything possible to take AB out of the game. I look for other WRs to make some big plays in this game. Rogers and Coates doing damage would be the best case scenario, with Wheaton expected to do some things. The running game is able to do some damage as well. The defense will probably have some rough patches, and we don't have a healthy or finished product on the field.

If the Steelers win this game, they will be in great shape going forward. It will also mean that many of the backups played well enough to win, which is a great sign of what is to come when they get healthy. It would also allow Tomlin to hold out injured players longer while the team is able to win.

1-0 would be huge.




Rotorhead

We are going to kill them, 35 - 15. Hargrave and Heyward will play. Shazier will play lights out and have a career game. AB will torch Norman in the first half, then Ben will exploit the over protection and Coates and Wheaton will have a great second half. Jesse James will prove himself and Chickillo will have a sack.




REal DEal Steel

Going to be a tough game. No proven second wide receiver and I don't have any reason to believe in Weahton because he's dissapointed when given previous chances. I'm thankful for Eli Rodgers in the slot; I hope he and JJ will allow Ben to get the ball out of his hands as quickly as possible. I'm going to assume we'll be able to run the ball. So...

Steelers 23
Redskins 16




Steelerfan26

I have faith in the Steelers to get the win over the Redskins. I am not going to post a score. I do horribly with predications.


Well, dagone, I have trouble doin'them "predications " mah self which is why I don't much.



SteelerBark

Steelers 31
Redskins 30




Blast Furnace

Steelers 24
Redskins 21





SteeleReign

27-24 Steelers. Jordan Reed is gonna eat up the middle of the field. Both defenses struggle, but Jordan Berry will help us with the field position game. Difference is a 48 yard Boswell field goal with less than a minute to play.




st33lersguy

Steelers lose 31-24 because half our starters and key backups will miss the game due to injuries




Edman

Washington does their damage with Jordan Reed over the middle, but that's it.

Defense bends but doesn't break.

Redskins jump on the Steelers early and actually play very well through the first half, but Pittsburgh stays tough and wins it in the end.

30-24 Steelers.


I would really love to see a season opening win over the Steelers-kind of a "Here we are get used to this" statement game.

Go Skins!!​

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[Henry]

Thanks Serv. Love these things.

 

[DieselPwr44]

Crisp mornings...

The smell of fresh cut grass...

McD5 predicting SuperBowl appearances

And a brand new Redskins Recon.....

The football season is now here!

 

[JohnssBass]

Well, I am more hoping and trying to believe that the Skins can break their recent habit of totally sucking out of the gate and just being totally flat.
Last Week 1 win - 2012. Last Week 1 Home win - 2011. And who have they lost to? Eagles, Texans & Dolphins last year. Really - the Fish - at Home?

The money says go with the Steelers. But if both teams break 30, which is very possible, then the Redskins should have the advantage. Last season, Washington won every game that they scored 23 or more points in so that's pretty good. Pittsburgh had six 30+ point games last year (Skins had 5) but the Steelers only had one of those games on the road.

Redskins ~ 35
Steelers ~ 31

That being said, I did take the Steelers in the Pick 'em pool so tells you how confident I am.
It'll probably come down to who makes the fewest mistakes and penalties versus outstanding execution.

 

[Cycleans]

31 -24, Skins go 1-0. HTTR.

 

[Burgundy Burner]

Been missing the Recon. So good to see.

 

[Gulf Coast Redskin]

Crisp mornings...

The smell of fresh cut grass...

McD5 predicting SuperBowl appearances

And a brand new Redskins Recon.....

The football season is now here!

Ya know...Sunday has become my Saturday (which kinda sucks, because I love watching football all weekend & now I have to work on Saturday's, but I'm not complaining. I GET to work, so, I'm thankful) & I usually relax on Sundays. But not today. I got up early, started to mow the lawn & it started raining on me & I had to wait a few hours before I could finish, but when I was done...man, I just love the smell of fresh cut grass & come inside & there's football on the tv.

Oh, & Dallas lost. LOL

 

[Gulf Coast Redskin]

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm excited. I know we have a horrible record on MNF AND we're playing a team whose fans always seem to overrun FedEx Field like a new strain of the flu or something. But, after watching how... "together" we seemed to play in the pre-season, I'm excited to see what's in store for this year! I've run into a lot of Redskins fans down here in the last year & I'm trying to get a faction started at this place called Baumhower's which is kind of like a BWW. I'm planning on going & hoping to see more Redskins than Steelers fans & taking my own towel too! HAIL

It was so much fun watching NFL football again today & as always, watching Dallas lose is a HUGE +. Bahahahaha

 

[SkinnedAussie]

Once upon a time, the Washington Redskins were a good team, a really good team. A team every other franchise feared. It was the trouncing of Denver in THAT SB that eventually convinced me that the Redskins were the team I was going to support.

The years before that, all the NFL action I was privy to was the occasional VHS tape (remember those?) of a 49er's game. The game was played 2, 3, sometimes 4 weeks previously, and it was just a passing interest. The only game we got live was the Super Bowl, and even then I was totally clueless how the game was played. All I knew was that one player either threw the ball or gave it someone else, and hopefully that player would go beyond the yardage needed. I didn't know how many points were scored for a TD, or the names of the various positions, or even the names of players other than the top notch players.

As a Redskin fan, times soon became tough. We would win, but not convincingly, and more often than not, we would end the season with a losing record. I can remember one year we started 7-0, and here I was in a place called Darwin (in the Northern Territory), trying to buy as much info re: the NFL as I could. This was before the times of the interwebz so I had to rely on printed material. Fortunately, my folks knew a couple who lived in Tennessee, so I would send them money and every month I would receive a 'care package' containing NFL information. In the meantime, we have had HC's like Richie Petitbon, Norv Turner, Marty Schottenheimer, Steve Spurrier, Joe Gibbs (again), Jim Zorn, Mike Shanahan, and most recently, Jay Gruden. I can only remember the one owner, but I do know about the previous owner, and his legacy.

All this leads me to week one of the current season. There are new look teams who have either upgraded their offence, upgraded their defence, or both. The NFL Commish seems to have done a lot of teams a favor by suspending players early in the season, and Washington are one of the teams who will benefit. No Bell or Bryant to shred our new look defence. Only an inexperienced WR corp and an unproven RB corp that really has shown nothing in pre-season games. I really don't expect it to get any better once the season starts.

Cousins will look for Reed as often as possible, whilst Jackson and Garcon will spread the defence. This will allow the likes of Crowder, Grant and Doctson to rack up good numbers. On the ground, Matt Jones will be used to batter the defence whilst Rob Kelley will make it look like he's been in the NFL for years. Thompson will be used in third down situations, or when Jones go off injured, whichever comes first! The O-line will more than hold their own, allowing Gruden to experiment late in the game.

On the defensive side, Josh Norman will take Antonio Brown one-on-one, leaving Fuller to take on the majority of the Steelers WR's. He will get help from Cravens and Hall, whereas the front seven will harrass 'Big' Ben in mistake after mistake. Mettenberger and Landry Jones are not 'Big' Ben, so when they come in, the game should be well and truly won.

But, you all have to remember that I am Australian, who lives in Australia, and relies on the interwebz for info, so whatever you do, DO NOT take this as gospel. I am expecting an easy victory (35-10), but knowing our injury past, we'll be hit by the injury stick, lose a few key players and go down 31-21 (after being 21-0 when the injury bug hits).

 

[SkinnedAussie]

I couldn't have been further away in my predictions as I was, so hopefully I'll improve as the season progresses.

I had intended to follow the game at home. with GameCentre as my guide. We don't get any NFL games after Monday's triple treat, so being so far away I have to rely on what I know. I've tried. on many occasions, to 'watch' the game in the chatroom but there are so many different discussions going on during the game I soon lose interest and revert back to GC. Why is it there are 168 hours in a week, but everyone wants to chat, and not necessarily about football, during a game?

I guess the 35-10 victory was not going to happen mid way through the 2nd quarter. They had just scored their 2nd TD, whilst we were f**king around kicking field goals. However, the 31-21 defeat was still looking on the cards (but highly unlikely @ 31-16) when the late offensive movement occurred, only to be snuffed out by one of, if not the oldest players in the league. I bet Cousins is wishing his 'You like that' comments didn't exist as how could any Redskins fan like what they saw today. BTW, here, today is Tuesday.

An interesting fact that I discovered today, and that I found it difficult to not only access NFL.com on my mobile whilst out, but even more difficult to access BGO. I was asked if I wanted to install Tapatalk, but I either had a phone that was incompatible (I have a Windows phone aka Nokia 640XL), or that Tapatalk as no longer available. I'm more than happy to have a Windows phone as it makes it easier to 'talk' to my pc's, but I prefer an android as that is what can 'talk' to Ubuntu.

Anyways, my future predictions will be found in the Blognostications forum, as I have been asked for a 'foreigners' view of being a Redskins fan, and to also see how each week will pan out. I'm going to write how I write, and that could mean there will be a few Australianisms printed, so if you have any trouble understanding, let me know and I'll try to explain.

 

[JohnssBass]

and that could mean there will be a few Australianisms printed, so if you have any trouble understanding,

Can't be any less understandable than some of the Americanism's I've had trouble understanding...