bobtheflob said:
It's now early in the second quarter and they're losing 7-0 to what looks like a really bad Jets team playing with their backup quarterback. Their defense has been ok but not great and is depending on lots of crazy blitz schemes to get pressure on the Jets who are starting 2 rookie offensive linemen. DT Griffin got hurt, not sure how bad it is.
The offense has gotten nowhere. Obviously this is minus Portis, but this shows that if he isn't back to full strength soon they've got some serious issues.
Well, the game wound up 27-14, but it really wasn't that close... the Skins racked up a ton of passing yardage in the 4th quarter, when the Jets basically went to a prevent with their 3rd stringers... Todd Collins got fat off of that, but wound up throwing an int...
Some notes of concern for Skins fans:
Their quarterback of the future went 6 for 13 in this game, for 83 yards... no TDs, 1 int... a quarterback rating of 35.1, leaving his rating for the preseason at a robust 50.0-- 28 attempts, 17 completions, 182 yards, 0 TDs, 2 ints...
The Jets absolutely gashed the Skins' run defense, even without Curtis Martin... they gained 216 yards on 41 carries, and average of 5.2 yards per carry...
More injuries... the one to Quentin Griffin happened before I turned the game on, I don't know how bad it is... but the one to TE Robert Johnson looked pretty bad (it was an ankle injury, they took him off on a cart, but X-rays were negative, so it's not broken)...
I watched the first half of this game at home, but had to leave for work at halftime, so I tuned it in on the radio... the Skins' team of Sunny Jurgensen, Sam Huff and some new guy last year who replaced Frank Herzog, and whose name I've never bothered to learn... well, their call of the game was freakin' HYSTERICAL, I swear there were a coupla times where I almost had to pull the Jeep over, I was laughin' so hard...
Most comical was Huff, who was THIS close to havin' a nervous breakdown in the 4th quarter... he kept throwing out words like "humiliating", and "embarrassing", and one point grumpily observed "I'm not gonna get any sleep at all tonight"... on the final Skins drive, with about 4 minutes to go and the Skins threatening to get back in the game, he was openly rooting for them to run the clock out... ROTFLMAO...
I figure any Extremeskins homer who was listening to that radio call is now seriously reevaluating his belief that the Skins are legit Super Bowl contenders... in fact, if he takes that crew seriously at all, he's probably wondering if the Skins are gonna win a single game all year long...
Of course, this is preseason, and it doesn't really tell you a lot about how the Skins are gonna fare this season, if only because the starters got limited playing time (though Gibbs did have a number of starters in for virtually the entire first half)... further, it was predictable that the backups would struggle mightily in this game, since about a half dozen of them were only brought in over the course of the last 2-3 days... so all in all, it would be unwise to get TOO carried away with their preseason struggles...
But what we have seen quite clearly over these two preseason games is validation of the criticism I've been aiming at the Skins for some time now-- their depth is substandard, and if injuries force them to rely too heavily on that depth, it will be reflected in a disappointing record (perhaps even a sub-.500 record)...
I wonder if those mediots who have touted the Skins as favorites to win the NFC this year have reconsidered those opinions in light of the Skins' play the last two weeks??
