Goat milk anyone?
I was a little confused as to what title I should use for this post. I was gonna call it "Men who stare at goates" or something else with a "Goat" reference. That because we have plenty of goats to go around.
Lets start with the biggest goat of yesterday.
Andy Reid: I love Andy, and its well documented how my love for this man has been manifested in past post. But yesterdays game plan reiked of suckdom. It was as sucky as possibly suckable can be. First off, we only ran the ball 14 times, we used hardly any wildcats, most pass patterns seemed to be designed for deeper routes. No screens, no quick TE hitches, little bootlegs or even shot gun. Or even the use of a quick pitch out to the RB to slow up the rush. Some thing. How bout a quick 1,2,3 and out pass pattern. You know quick drops stuff. But no, we got long developing plays, with a QB known for taking his time on those passes.
We could have used some sucker screens to soften those blitzes, you know, where you let them rush to dink the ball behind the rush. Something. But Andy of course dropped the ball on that.
Offensive line: Max, you sucked horribly yesterday. King Dunlap should be ashamed of himself for getting bullrushed to the ground like he did. Nick Cole looked Horrible. And where was Stacey? I didn't even see him. Was he injured? I saw MJG and Nick alot, and it was unflattering to say the least.
News flash everyone, the Raiders didn't blitz as much as it seemed. Our offensive line couldn't block the front for alone. Time to time you saw a blitz here and there. But most times I was just 4 or 5 defenders coming in. And we just could block them.
Donovan McNabb. Dude, as a NFL QB, you gotta be able to make a quick read and pass. Something for 4-5 yards. Every pass doesn't have to be a bomb. I don't want to remind you that your backup is great at quick short stuff, but you on the other hand think this is Madden '10 and try to throw bombs on every play. Hit the sticking short man from time to time. Are you capable of it? If not, just step aside already. If your weakness is short passes, then maybe all McNabb apoligist should just come to a realization that you can only throw deep. We needed short yesterday!
Trotter looked bad, but how bout Mikel missing a tackle and Asante getting thrown around like a rag doll by Louis Murphy.
Overall, I would have to admit, I would rather lose against the Raiders than the Redskins. So I hope they are humbled and stay hungry and take apart those Redskins.
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I loved the game plan
We established in ’06 when McNabb went down. Our offense had been inconsistent to that point, and Garcia made a new game plan come alive. It was based on short-quick dink and dunk passes, a solid run game…and we won out 5 in a row to take the division.
I really hoped at the time, we would run that same plan when McNabb came back…we didn’t.
Why, on a day when our O Line was TERRIBLE, did Andy insist on running long developing deep pass plays? What’s wrong with running or short passes. We needed one scoring drive…ONE.
"What did it feel like? That collision, I didn't feel nothing, because he was pretty much defenseless. It was like running through a cardboard box. Seriously. Cardboard box."- Sheldon Brown on his pounding of Reggie Bush in the '06 Playoffs
Exactly.
When Kolb was in, we saw the true west coast offense. Coach Reid called all short quick plays. Like he did with Garcia. It worked fine, but the second McNabb comes back, the game plan changes to a deeper route, longer developing play type of offense. More of a big play offense. Why can’t Donovan run the same offense as Kolb and Garcia, or is it Reid overusing McNabbs strenghs. Just run short plays.
Also, for all those who want us the stop the wild cat. Yesterday is what you get.
The wildcat may have helped in loosing up that blitz a bit. Something to get the ball outside those tackles and forcing the LB to focus on the outside to stop the blitz. But I noticed, they didn’t blitz as much as it seemed. Our O Line flat out got beat a few times with just 4 – 5 rushers. That shouldn’t happen. Compound that with no running attack, and a QB that getting rid of the ball, spelled for a formula for suckiness.
Bleed green, or don't bleed at all!
by yophillybro on Oct 19, 2009 10:52 AM EDT up reply actions
Don't remember Mikell missing a tackle...
He got knocked down on a block on the long Zach Miller TD, but I don’t remember any missed tackles.
Plus he had an INT and you gotta love his willingness to sacrifice his body around on that hit on Fargas. That was a monster collision.
Plenty of blame to go around, but don’t bring Mikell into it. He had a good game, and is one of the few players on this team that played with some heart yesterday.























