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I looked it up and NO is near the bottom in offense. I think they average less than 200 yards passing per game -- I mean literally like 150 passing yards per game.
The league has a full season of tape on how Washington's defense runs under del Rio and knows better how to attack it. He hasn't adjusted. I'm pretty sure he's been known for awhile as a DC who is slow to adjust strategy, and is more a "we run what we run" guy.
With the high number of missed communications in the back 7 this year, it's pretty obvious that whatever del Rio's trying to accomplish is not working on the field. Sometimes I've even seen multiple missed communications on one play. There have been numerous receivers for other teams weaving through Washington's zone defense and making easy catches despite having 2-4 defenders within 3-4 yards of them. The defenders look lost, like they're guarding spots and ignoring opposing players. They look too much like Perry Rileys out there. I'd say it's clear that either his scheme is too complicated, or that it's not communicated well, due to the constant mistakes on defense by lots of players.
So 3 decent defensive players have been signed by other teams in the last week.Johnny Utah #9 said:
TBH i dont think the issue is the personnel its the coaching and execution. Not sure signing folks who need to learn the system will fix the problem we currently have.
Still hard to imagine that the WFT paid $84 million for an inside-the-box strong safety that is a liability in coverage.fatness said:
Personally, I think it's just stubbornness on his part, an idea that changing what he does would show weakness. It's hurting the team.
Snyder turned over his supposedly independent investigation of his team to the NFL to keep the results shut up, and it worked. Until now. Since Gruden's emails were discovered only during investigation of Bruce Allen, I'd say the next trove of emails releaseed or leaked will be those from/to Bruce Allen, who's a total #### by the way.
Yes, they are. And this is just the beginning of the tough part of the schedule. This is the point in the season where things could start coming apart. Not "will come apart", but "could come apart", because of such predictable repetitive losses. Criticism of Rivera is going to get audible this week.dgreen said:
No news on Gibson is pretty foreboding. I’m kind of expecting the worst at this point. They really just need to put him on IR and shut him down. Let him get healthy. This garbage team isn’t winning anything this year anyway. Let’s see what we have in Patterson.
That, and see exactly how far McKissick can get us.
From Rotoworld:
Great post. In retrospect Herbert definitely should have been the pick over Chase, but that’s one of the few draft decisions I can’t rip the front office for since few people were right on Herbert and Chase was a consensus pick. But the other picks, totally agree.
Not saying Hopkins is a stud kicker, but the timing here is suspect IMO. Hopkins was 14-16 for the year on FGs, tied for 11th in the league in FG %. OK, so maybe he was a bit erratic at times. BUT...it's not like he is the reason the WFT is losing. The reason we are losing is because our defense has disappointed and our offense has regressed. But instead of holding guys like Landon Collins or WIlliam Jackson III accountable by totally benching them, we have a "public hanging" of Dustin Hopkins to prove that "we hold players accountable." The problem is, Hopkins has not been SO horrible this year so as to replace him with a untested kicker who only made 70% FGs as a college kicker at Pitt. It's all very suspect to me and I just think it's a public hanging of the sacrificial lamb to get other people's attention, which sucks and is a clear sign of weak, ineffective leadership from the coaching staff. HOLD THE RIGHT GUYS ACCOUNTABLE. If this is the last "accountability move", it's gonna be exposed as a weak, ineffectual ploy.
Blewit kicked for the Pitt Panthers. Maybe Rivera thought he was getting another former Carolina player.
It's almost certainly and accountability move. Whether it's for show for the fams, or something to get the locker room on their toes, remains to be seen.
Don’t disagree that Hopkins got made an example of here, and of course more fitting players should have been cut/benched (Collins) or better yet fired (Del Rio). And yes, it is another sign of weak leadership for a guy who leadership is supposed to be what he is known for (Ron).
