NFL 2009/10

Terrible Terrible Terrible

No other way to describe how the Skins played last night.

Game Notes

Positives

London Fletcher - By far our best defensive player, seemed to make almost all of our tackles

Antwaan Randle-El - Okay so he made a boneheaded move by not getting rid of the ball earlier on but other than that he was very effective from the slot.

Chris Cooley - Solid all round as usual made the catch for the TD.

Hunter the Punter - By far the best of the off-season acquisitions, boomed some very nice punts and got the Redskins off the mark for the season on a beautiful FG fake. Guy has some speed.

Negatives

Jim Zorn's playcalling. It was so predictable, it went run, run, pass, punt on just about every occassion. Someone should tell him that you can actually call a pass on 1st and 2nd down occassionally.

We still had our usual stupid penaltys - See Santana Moss's fight with Corey Webster as an example

Jason Campbell - Now i will admit i'm not a big fan of Campbell but last year thought he was put into some awful positions, last night it was just his own stupid decision making. He must have known that he was past the line of scrimmage so why throw the ball? Then there was the fumble he waited and waited for someone to come open when he should have stepped up and took off when the gap appeared.

Still not enough pressure on Sheli. Orakpo who is supposed to be helping our pass rush was practically non existant.

3rd down defense. I lost count of the number of times we had the Giants on 3rd down and just couldnt make the stop.

Tackling - There were far too many missed tackles, see Manningham's TD for an example of two players missing tackles.

Overall

Personally i am very disappointed in the performance and feel that the scoreline of 23-17 doesnt reflect how bad we were. The Giants let us off the hook on numerous occassions. We had no offense until the game was over and the Giants were playing prevent defense.

Need to improve drastically for next week

First England get stuffed by the Aussies at cricket,then Blues lose at home to the Villa and to round it all off the Skins are humbled by the Giants ! All in all a sporting weekend to forget.

So near yet so far for the Raiders,after scoring a 57 yard touchdown off a fourth and fourteen to put us 20-17 up with over two minutes left,The Chargers then went 90 yards downfield to score the match winning TD.

1. Richard Seymour got two sacks,Greg Ellis got one.Good debuts for the pair.
2. Didn't give up a hundred yards on the ground for the first time in ages.
3. Louis Murphy scored one TD,should have had two.
   

Negatives;

1. Penalties at crucial times.
2. JaMarcus Russells innacuracy
3. Darrius Heyward-Bey didn't catch a ball.
4. Starting the game with two rookie wide receivers
   

On the whole it was encouraging,our achilles heel our passing game was the weakness.The defence performed very well,we just couldn't make them pay when we had possession,because the Chargers didn't play well and they where there for the taking.

Results from WEEK 1

1. Tennessee 10 Pittsburgh 13
   Miami 7 Atlanta 19
   Denver 12 Cincinnati 7
   Minnesota 34 Cleveland 20
   Jacksonville 12 Indianapolis 14
   Detroit 27 New Orleans 45
   Dallas 34 Tampa Bay 21
   Philadelphia 38 Carolina 10
   Kansas City 24 Baltimore 38
   N.Y. Jets 24 Houston 7
   Washington 17 N.Y.Giants 23
   San Francisco 20 Arizona 16
   St. Louis 0 Seattle 28
   Chicago 15 Green Bay 21
   Buffalo 24 New England 25
   San Diego 24 Oakland 20
   

WEEK 2 FIXTURES

1. Houston @ Tennessee
   Carolina @ Atlanta
   Arizona @ Jacksonville
   New Orleans @ Philadelphia Live on Sky Sports 3 @5.30pm
   Oakland @ Kansas City
   Cincinnati @ Green Bay
   Minnesota @ Detroit
   St. Louis @ Washington
   New England @ N.Y. Jets
   Tampa Bay @ Buffalo Live on Sky Sports 3 @9.00pm
   Seattle @ San Francisco
   Baltimore @ San Diego
   Pittsburgh @ Chicago
   Cleveland @ Denver
   N.Y. Giants @ Dallas Live on Channel Five @00.50am
   Monday Night Game
   Indianapolis @ Miami
   

Heres hoping for a better performance this week!

And for PollowPants who might need cheering up after tonights games..

anyone know why we dont get monday night football anymore?

(20-09-2009 15:18 )craigiex3 Wrote:  anyone know why we dont get monday night football anymore?

Here's an interesting blog written by Sky Sports Nick Halling on the NFLUK website about the current tv coverage/deals. Nicks NFLUK blog

WOO-HOO The Raiders won against the Chiefs,but boy was it ugly! but the win is all that matters.The Raiders only had one decent offensive drive in the entire game,but it came when mattered going 69 yards in the last two minutes,when RunDMC went over from five yards to put the Raiders up 13-10.

Redskins just edge Rams 9-7 sounds like a thriller. At least Campbell threw for 242 yards but no skins TD's all game.Chalk that win up to the Defence.Still a lot of questions about Jim Zorn far from convincing.