Predictable play-calling has been a topic this week: Do the Redskins have too many tendencies? If you re-watched the Dallas game, despite some cries of predictable play-calling, there were definite plays available that were missed, or that penalties wiped out, or that could have been executed better. That’s why it’s not as easy as to say they’re simply too predictable.
“You’re not going to catch them by surprise too many times,” Redskins left tackle Trent Williams said. “We get looks where we know what’s coming and they get looks that they know what’s coming. It all comes down to execution. You’ll see the same thing across the league. If you’ve got five receivers on the field, you know it’s a pass. If it’s seven linemen, you know it’s probably a run.”
The Redskins self-scout this every week, seeing what their tendencies are, and if the percentage of, say, runs with a certain grouping is too high. With tackle/tight end Tom Compton and receiver Ryan Grant in the game, for example, the Redskins run 74 percent of the time, according to ESPN Stats & Information. It doesn't help that they're sometimes having to use two tackles (including Ty Nsekhe) as tight ends because of injuries. It limits what can be called -- and the effectiveness. A tight end will be quicker to blocks in space than a backup tackle.
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