Commanders lose 41-0!

[Mansta54]

No, that's the Commanders "chocolate", for whenever they want to mix it up a bit.

This is Commanders Vanilla Deluxe:

Simply awesome!!!

 

[5Stars]

Wow, I'm famous.

So is your boy Satan Moss!

2 catches for 12 yards? Very impressive! He's gonna tear the league up this season!


:dissskin: Good dog, Gibbs! Good boy...

 

[Bob Sacamano]

I think you misunderstood me. My meaning was that I am not a Commanders employee, much less a member of the coaching staff. I.E. I do not know to what extent the offsense if vanilla. I do not know if they are really concerned or what they expect out of the team in preseason. In no way did I mean that Gibbs is planning failure in the preseason. I'm sure he wants to succeed, but I'm not sure they want to play their offense or defense in the preseason.

Since the injury to Portis, they have clearly scaled back the offense and played with caution.

then what are they doing out there? anything but playing your O, esp. a new one, and D, is wasting your time, Gibbs is a HOF coach, so I don't think that's the case, it's time to face the music, the Commanders probably aren't going to be making that next step like you guys so often claimed

 

[5Stars]

We got our butts handed to us last night. Our defense was decimated by their offense, and our offense was non-existant. Everything looked terrible.

That was one of the worst excuses for a football team I've ever witnessed.

However, it doesn't mean a damn thing. I know, I know...cliche. It's not an excuse though- it's a fact. There is a reason these games don't mean anything. It doesn't mean anything more than 11 v 11 drills. Sure, it might measure the talent between two teams before they are at full strength.

Do I think we looked pathetic last night? Yes.

Do I think we're ready for Sept. 11 yet? No.

Do I think that's what our team is actually going to look like in the regular season? No.

Am I worried? No.

When we lose 41-0 in a regular season, I will come here and let you verbally beat me.

If the Boys lost 41-0 in a preseason game (which obviously they haven't), I would also take joy in poking fun, but in the back of my mind I'd remember that it doesn't mean a damn thing.

If you don't think winning a game of football, ANY game of football, is not important, then you automatically become a loser, period!

Winning breeds winners! Losing breeds losers...any athlete learns that at an early age.

Yes, it's just preseason, but if you think for one minute that losing like this is nothing to worry about, then you got serious issues!

If the Cowboys would have been beaten like a rented mule like your team was...I would be raising hell right now...

:dissskin:

 

[Fla Cowpoke]

Why would a Commanders fan come unsolicited to a Cowboys board to tell us not to worry about their pre-season showing? And for us to take our success with a grain of salt. Can anyone explain this at all?

 

[5Stars]

cowboy fans,dont read to much into the preseason..I realize you guys enjoy seeing the Commanders struggle,and we are struggling in all 3 phases of the game..you would be foolish to think the Commanders are that bad,and on the flip side you would be misleading yourselves if you think your team is really that good,based on how they have been playing in preseason...Trust me the Commanders are not that bad,when it starts for real the real team will show up for the Commanders and cowboys..until then, enjoy your preseason showing!!!

Hey, redstink1...I am enjoying the Cowboy preseason...almost as much as I'm enjoying the RedStink's preseason!

Oh, I'm sure "the real team will show up" for the Cowboy game...they have no other choice!

:dissskin: That's a damn good dog right there!

 

[Cowboy from New York]

Watched the replay of the skins-pats just now on NFL network. The Pats MURDERED them with their TEs. Bodes very well for Witten and Fasano.
As for playing vanilla, the skins blitzed a helluva lot for vanilla. Granted our line would have to what the pats did and pick it up but they got zero pressure without the blitz and when they did the TEs were open all over, particularly the middle of the field was WIDE open again and again.
The corner back play was crappy too.

 

[5Stars]

theogt,thats cause we are bad team just like the 49ers..we suck,we have no talent,and we have bad coaching...

Reverse psychology don't work on Cowboy fans, redstink1...we have not been brain washed like you sheep at extremestinks!

Bad try...!

:dissskin:

 

[DBoys]

That game was a slaughter

 

[superpunk]

Watched the replay of the skins-pats just now on NFL network. The Pats MURDERED them with their TEs. Bodes very well for Witten and Fasano.
As for playing vanilla, the skins blitzed a helluva lot for vanilla. Granted our line would have to what the pats did and pick it up but they got zero pressure without the blitz and when they did the TEs were open all over, particularly the middle of the field was WIDE open again and again.
The corner back play was crappy too.

I've seen alot of the Skins so far. I'm sick of hearing this vanilla BS. Maaybe they get off hugging their vanilla teddy bears going to sleep at night, but you don't get beat that bad in preseason without something being seriously wrong. They blitzed the hell out of Cincinnatti. That's the only way they can get pressure. Archuletta was getting his *** handed to him all night last night.

Bottom line, everyone is vanilla in preseason. The good teams just line up and beat you, vanilla or not. The Commanders just aren't a good team yet.

 

[5Stars]

Why would a Commanders fan come unsolicited to a Cowboys board to tell us not to worry about their pre-season showing? And for us to take our success with a grain of salt. Can anyone explain this at all?

I can!

Fear....! They want to downplay their lousy team's play to mask their fear...

They have been so brainwashed over at extremestinks...that's how they were taught.

They are scared....period! And they should be...

 

[Tuna Helper]

Since the injury to Portis, they have clearly scaled back the offense and played with caution.

Scaled back to what? Lying down on the field while the Pats run all over them.

I just watched a replay of the game. Honestly, why even play your starters if Gibbs is shellshocked by the injury to Portis?

I did see some blitz schemes from the Commanders that I would hardly describe as "vanilla", especially when they were getting their backsides handed to them.

It is preseason, but thus far, the Commanders appear to be less talented and deep than any other team in the NFC East.

 

[Waffle]

Scaled back to what? Lying down on the field while the Pats run all over them.

I just watched a replay of the game. Honestly, why even play your starters if Gibbs is shellshocked by the injury to Portis?

I did see some blitz schemes from the Commanders that I would hardly describe as "vanilla", especially when they were getting their backsides handed to them.

It is preseason, but thus far, the Commanders appear to be less talented and deep than any other team in the NFC East.

I just watched the game reply as well. The Commanders played even worse than the score indicated...if that's possible.

 

[kapolani]

I have to call bull***** about the Foreskins scaling back their offense and defense.

Any athlete no matter what sport should want to win on the field regardless if it's preseason or not.

I hate losing. I hate losing period. I have to beat my girlfriend to the car. I have to beat her to the front door.

Any athlete worth their salt are prideful in what they do. Losing this bad has got to seriously demoralize the Foreskins. Thus far they have shown nothing that leads me to believe they are going to be all right during the regular season.

Has there O even scored a point yet?

The Foreskins faithful are getting really worried where I live.

I can't wait for the season to start....

 

[Hostile]

I think you misunderstood me. My meaning was that I am not a Commanders employee, much less a member of the coaching staff. I.E. I do not know to what extent the offsense if vanilla. I do not know if they are really concerned or what they expect out of the team in preseason. In no way did I mean that Gibbs is planning failure in the preseason. I'm sure he wants to succeed, but I'm not sure they want to play their offense or defense in the preseason.

Since the injury to Portis, they have clearly scaled back the offense and played with caution.

No, I understood you perfectly, you misunderstood me. You do not have to be a Commanders employee to have listened to Joe Gibbs last week saying the effort given has not been acceptable. You don't even have to be a Commanders fan. Anyone with a shred of honesty in them should be able to tell that there's some concern.

Sweeping that under the rug or looking for a hidden thing to hope for won't change the fact that things are not going as planned.

So how about it, Famous One, you got a shred of honesty in you to admit that?

 

[johnnycomelately]

No, I understood you perfectly, you misunderstood me. You do not have to be a Commanders employee to have listened to Joe Gibbs last week saying the effort given has not been acceptable. You don't even have to be a Commanders fan. Anyone with a shred of honesty in them should be able to tell that there's some concern.

Sweeping that under the rug or looking for a hidden thing to hope for won't change the fact that things are not going as planned.

So how about it, Famous One, you got a shred of honesty in you to admit that?

The Portis injury may have caused some players to become tentative in their pre-season play. It's not that the players deliberatively say to themselves, "I am going to dog it so I don't get injured." It can happen in a sort of sub conscious way.

What the Commanders have done however is create a confidence problem. After the beating they took for New England they have to be questioning themselves and their coaches.

The Commanders need to get off to a good start or they could be in for a long season. The Vikings need to put a hurtin on them in the opener.

Let's just hope that the Cowboys don't breathe life into the Skins in week two like they did last season on Monday night.