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Cogan
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There is no way the Washington Commanders should have beaten the Dallas Cowboys on Monday night! They should never even have scored!
In fact, I was sitting there watching the game, thinking, "If we keep playing this same defensive scheme with the same intensity, it could be weeks before the Skins score".
For 3 and a half quarters, our strategy was perfect. We were blitzing from all angles, and using several different players, including Nguyen, Shanle, R.Williams, Spears, etc. to keep Mark Brunell running for his life, and making bad plays. Wow, just like the 3-4 is supposed to work.
Then, something happened. Zimmerman decided somewhere in the middle of the 4th quarter that, "hey, these guys have to score now, or they lose the game". So, does he keep doing what has been effective ALL night? Does he keep the heat on or even increase it, knowing that Brunell was pretty much out of running options? No, he changes the whole game plan. Roy Williams, who by this juncture of the game, was playing world-beater because of the great plan of putting him CLOSER to the line of scrimmage, where he can take advantage of his greatest assets, was working like a Rolex.
So, Zimmer, being the defensive genius that he is, puts Roy out in centerfield....no man's land. He takes our best defensive player who had been cut loose to do what he does best-create chaos, for over 3 quarter, and puts him in a defensive situation, where he was told to retreat. The man knows only to attack.
O.K., then Zim must have been planning on using some of the other penetrators to reek havoc on poor Mark B. Nope. He trims the rushers down to four & increases the amount of fast, little guys who, the thinking must have been, would blanket the WRs of the Commanders and, game over. The problem with this thinking is that, it has hardly ever worked in the anals of the NFL. No, that was not a spelling error. It's called "prevent" defense, & all it does is "prevent" you from winning.
Folks, our players overmatched theirs, especially when our "D" was on the field, that I almost felt sorry for them. Almost, until I reminded myself of their colors. We NEVER should have lost that game. Not one of our players are at fault. We had a perfect scheme, a team on the ropes, & we change our strategy to the famous, play "not to lose". Nothing makes me madder, nor deflates me faster. We put a superior team out on the field last night, then allowed fear to handcuff them. If we aren't going to play lights out, blow them out of the water, for an ENTIRE 4 quarters, then the 3-4 was just a waste of time.
In fact, I was sitting there watching the game, thinking, "If we keep playing this same defensive scheme with the same intensity, it could be weeks before the Skins score".
For 3 and a half quarters, our strategy was perfect. We were blitzing from all angles, and using several different players, including Nguyen, Shanle, R.Williams, Spears, etc. to keep Mark Brunell running for his life, and making bad plays. Wow, just like the 3-4 is supposed to work.
Then, something happened. Zimmerman decided somewhere in the middle of the 4th quarter that, "hey, these guys have to score now, or they lose the game". So, does he keep doing what has been effective ALL night? Does he keep the heat on or even increase it, knowing that Brunell was pretty much out of running options? No, he changes the whole game plan. Roy Williams, who by this juncture of the game, was playing world-beater because of the great plan of putting him CLOSER to the line of scrimmage, where he can take advantage of his greatest assets, was working like a Rolex.
So, Zimmer, being the defensive genius that he is, puts Roy out in centerfield....no man's land. He takes our best defensive player who had been cut loose to do what he does best-create chaos, for over 3 quarter, and puts him in a defensive situation, where he was told to retreat. The man knows only to attack.
O.K., then Zim must have been planning on using some of the other penetrators to reek havoc on poor Mark B. Nope. He trims the rushers down to four & increases the amount of fast, little guys who, the thinking must have been, would blanket the WRs of the Commanders and, game over. The problem with this thinking is that, it has hardly ever worked in the anals of the NFL. No, that was not a spelling error. It's called "prevent" defense, & all it does is "prevent" you from winning.
Folks, our players overmatched theirs, especially when our "D" was on the field, that I almost felt sorry for them. Almost, until I reminded myself of their colors. We NEVER should have lost that game. Not one of our players are at fault. We had a perfect scheme, a team on the ropes, & we change our strategy to the famous, play "not to lose". Nothing makes me madder, nor deflates me faster. We put a superior team out on the field last night, then allowed fear to handcuff them. If we aren't going to play lights out, blow them out of the water, for an ENTIRE 4 quarters, then the 3-4 was just a waste of time.
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