What nobody is talking about...

[ufcrules1]

What you are all missing is Romo threw a bad 7 yard pass to Hanna on 2nd down. Hanna was open and it was an easy pass and Romo blew it. If it were a 45 yard field goal we would have kicked it.

[AKATheRake]

Originally Posted by percyhoward

All Moorman had to do when he saw that they had 14 men on the field was wait until we were set, then call for the snap.

Flag. Bring in Bailey for 3 points.

Yes Sir.

Fundamental ST's preparation throughout the week, along with being a vet in the league, would surely contribute to 2 things.

1) Be alert to the oppositions gameplay transgressions and provoke penalization of them.

2) Know that we did not attempt a 52 yard FG and opted to punt so that we could pin our opponent into the 20 yard line and hopefully inside the 10.

This guy and Joe D have to hit the bricks.

[AKATheRake]

Originally Posted by ufcrules1

What you are all missing is Romo threw a bad 7 yard pass to Hanna on 2nd down. Hanna was open and it was an easy pass and Romo blew it. If it were a 45 yard field goal we would have kicked it.

Romo was stiff and off all game. The o-line actually had one of their best games yesterday and was picking up the blitz rather well.

Romo was getting rid of the ball either to soon when he had time or was very inaccurate where he was throwing the ball towards all routes when pressure did get to him. Early on he was not hot routing well and when he did we were not winning the battles while being blitzed. All of this was contributive to his lack of timing, accuracy and at times poor decision making.

3 things as usual sum it up. (1) The play calling throughout the games circumstances (adjustments), (2) Romo being stiff and not trusting his o-line (bad decisions and throws) (3) offensive starters going down in key downs which hindered the next play execution.

His HC was even stiffer than him.

You think a team is a model of its coach?

[Shinywalrus]

Originally Posted by Irving Cowboy

You do realize that if he misses then Washington gets the ball at their own 42, right? They punted instead. Made sense to me.

With the time on the clock, any reasonable analysis would favor kicking that field goal. That this play was followed by yet another example of poor awareness - not snapping when the Redskins were out of position with >11 on the field - shouldn't be surprising to anyone. The team isn't prepared by our coaches for those types of situations.

[erod]

The wind was coming from that end zone and Bailey.couldn't get it there. Notice how short the kickoffs were going that way. The radio broadcast said it took about 10 yards off Baileys distance, making it about a 62 yarder..

[slogriff]

Romo messes up the 3rd down play. He throws a poor pass (throw away?) down the right sideline to a double covered Dez. He had time to throw to Witten for short gain (5 yes?) to the left and even Harris? looked more open coming across from the left. He gets us those 5yds and we likely get 3 pts.

[JPM]

Originally Posted by Word Mofo

That was pathetic, I agree! Collinsworth's head almost exploded when he saw that

The Skins had like 20 men on the field, the FG and punt team at the same time. It was Joe D'ish

[links18]

What's worse is that he did it again in the second half. On the verge of a makeable FG, we need maybe 5 or 6 yards and he plays it like he needs 30. Surprise, surprise, Romo gets sacked and we punt.

[davidyee]

Originally Posted by JPM

The Skins had like 20 men on the field, the FG and punt team at the same time. It was Joe D'ish

...practice something very good with this team.

Unusual situations. Things like 4th and forever with the game on the line what do you do?

It's all about preparation. The players only know how to react when they have been presented with the information beofre so they can act accordingly.

Knowing to catch the other team with too many men on the field is a learned behavior. You need to practice it.

It's no secret that the best time to catch a team with too many men on the field is when:

1. They are changing from a run defence to to a nickel or dime package. Teach you team to take advantage of those situations.

2. Going from a 3rd down to a 4th down. Especially when you can go from a place kick to a punt or vice versa.

Being able to take recognize and then take advantage is extra yards. Yards that could make all the difference. Too bad Moorman missed it along with Ladouceur. They should be better considering they are multi year vets.

[Word Mofo]

Originally Posted by links18

What's worse is that he did it again in the second half. On the verge of a makeable FG, we need maybe 5 or 6 yards and he plays it like he needs 30. Surprise, surprise, Romo gets sacked and we punt.

That's Romo.... he is always trying to make a big play. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

[AdamJT13]

Originally Posted by Irving Cowboy

You do realize that if he misses then Washington gets the ball at their own 42, right? They punted instead. Made sense to me.

If Garrett knew that a 52-yard field goal would be too long to attempt in that direction, then he should have managed the game according to that. If he's afraid to give the Redskins the ball back, then he shouldn't have needlessly called timeout before the third-down play. We still had three timeouts -- we could have let the clock run before third down, then either used our timeouts or just let the clock run down, depending on what happened on third down. With much less time on the clock -- say, less than 20 seconds -- there's a much better risk-reward scenario in going for it on fourth down if you don't make it on third down. If you make it, you can still run two or three plays (we had all three timeouts) before trying a field goal, if necessary. If you don't make it on fourth down, then the Redskins get the ball at their own 34 with 15 seconds or so on the clock -- an even worse scenario for them than getting it at their 20 with 38 seconds left. The potential reward was great, and the risk was almost zero. But no, we called an early timeout and then punted because Garrett got scared.

We had a golden opportunity to score AND get the ball coming out of halftime, and we somehow mismanaged ourselves right out of that. It's inexcusable.

[AdamJT13]

Originally Posted by davidyee

...practice something very good with this team.

Unusual situations. Things like 4th and forever with the game on the line what do you do?

It's all about preparation. The players only know how to react when they have been presented with the information beofre so they can act accordingly.

Knowing to catch the other team with too many men on the field is a learned behavior. You need to practice it.

It's no secret that the best time to catch a team with too many men on the field is when:

1. They are changing from a run defence to to a nickel or dime package. Teach you team to take advantage of those situations.

2. Going from a 3rd down to a 4th down. Especially when you can go from a place kick to a punt or vice versa.

[View Full Quote]Being able to take recognize and then take advantage is extra yards. Yards that could make all the difference. Too bad Moorman missed it along with Ladouceur. They should be better considering they are multi year vets.

It looked to me like Moorman was calling for the ball while the Redskins were still scrambling.

[Word Mofo]

Originally Posted by AdamJT13

If he's afraid to give the Redskins the ball back, then he shouldn't have needlessly called timeout before the third-down play.

Didn't they call timeout because Romo just got killed and a rib broken on the previous play?

[davidyee]

Originally Posted by AdamJT13

If Garrett knew that a 52-yard field goal would be too long to attempt in that direction, then he should have managed the game according to that. If he's afraid to give the Redskins the ball back, then he shouldn't have needlessly called timeout before the third-down play. We still had three timeouts -- we could have let the clock run before third down, then either used our timeouts or just let the clock run down, depending on what happened on third down. With much less time on the clock -- say, less than 20 seconds -- there's a much better risk-reward scenario in going for it on fourth down if you don't make it on third down. If you make it, you can still run two or three plays (we had all three timeouts) before trying a field goal, if necessary. If you don't make it on fourth down, then the Redskins get the ball at their own 34 with 15 seconds or so on the clock -- an even worse scenario for them than getting it at their 20 with 38 seconds left. The potential reward was great, and [View Full Quote]the risk was almost zero. But no, we called an early timeout and then punted because Garrett got scared.

We had a golden opportunity to score AND get the ball coming out of halftime, and we somehow mismanaged ourselves right out of that. It's inexcusable.

...reason why we need an OC.

A respected dissending voice was needed on that sideline to counter Garrett's thoughts.

Even using a timeout to gather your brain trust together and talk things over would have helped.

The job of OC and HC is too big for him right now.

[davidyee]

Originally Posted by AdamJT13

It looked to me like Moorman was calling for the ball while the Redskins were still scrambling.

...Ladouceur for not snapping the ball.

Obviously something the Special teams coach should have been addressing.

Preparedness for the all game situations is the reason why you are hired as a coach.

Too many men on the field is not some airy fairy hokey situation. It comes up often in all football leagues and should be accounted for.

I agree with Collinsworth.