Receivers dominated in Seattle game...

[freetimmysmith]

Aldrick Robinson's speed (and what is left of Santana's) is wasted when playing on the goat track surface at FedEx.

[TomE]

What exactly happened to Garcon, I remember him winching once and then went back in.

I heard at one time that Garcon needed to have his shoulder popped back into place.
Not sure exactly when it happened but I do recall him being yanked by the arm by a CB, no call of course.

[jly0784]

i saw griffin unable to move around and make the big throws to wide open receivers, if we had any kind of competent pass protection outside of trent williams then maybe we could have won, but when you cant expect griffin to sit in a pocket, when there is none, and make throws while getting teed off on, it doesnt work like that.... and for those who say cousins did it vs cleveland, rewatch that, they moved him around on bootlegs and killed them with play action, which wouldnt have worked vs seattle had we tried it with griffin

edit: where are we going to get the money to get any kind of talent better than what we have at wr? we have about 4 million going into next year... if we can find a way to get rid of that cap penalty id say go for it, but youre going to be bargain bin shopping for another year before we can go get some expensive toys....

[justice98]

That's what I explained to my Seahawk buddy that claimed that after the first quarter, when Seattle's D established themselves, the Redskins simply had no answer.

It's hard to answer when they were playing with one arm tied behind their back with RG3 gimping around in the state he was in.

[shakinaiken]

I don't believe that. It wasn't like Griffin couldn't read coverage, what I saw was him not being able to make the tight passes between airtight coverage. A big reason why is because our guys weren't getting open enough. Our guys were getting hit and well covered because oddly enough they really don't blitz that much. Our offense is good at getting people open, but wasn't enough to match up against the way they play Defense. Griffin would've had to run the ball more to get first downs and sustain drives then he was able to, and that's why we lost.

I'm not sure why your more qualified to make that statement, when you didn't have access to game tape, but instead researched the fox broadcast. interestingly enough, I agree with Greg Cosell. with my limited view that the fox broadcast allows, I saw lots of receivers open. one play specifically comes to mind which was a play action fake with Morgan and Garçon running double moves on the outside. Both were literally wide open, but griffin hesitated and was sacked.

[justice98]

I listened to Cossell as well on the Sports Reporters and heard the same thing.

He pretty much said "Redskins WR's were WIDE OPEN the entire game"

I think we could add 1 more WR but I don't think its a serious area of need. Kyle has proven he can get guys open.

I concur with this, Kyle deserves a lot of credit. Even in games where the offense didn't do much, the WRs generally are still open. The Pittsburgh game was a perfect example. They were open all day against the top ranked defense, they just kept dropping it.

[REEGSKINS]

aldrick wasnt used in the last 4 games. i dont know why,

[CGSKINS]

Dude, If RG3 was 100% we wound have dump trucked The seahags. Not even close.

[Pride]

I heard Greg Cosell on ESPN radio a couple of days ago. He's one of the best at breaking down film, imo. He was talking about our game and the decision to leave Griffin in, in the context of having spent time breaking the film down.

He was talking about how leaving RG3 in the game was something he really questioned as the game was happening, but how much worse it looked after watching the tape. His statement was that there were "recievers wide open all over the field", but Griffin was unable to do anything about it.

Thats what I saw and I posted that the night of the game (or the day after), our receivers weren't man handled we had wide open guys ALL game long.

[Tarpon75]

I heard Greg Cosell on ESPN radio a couple of days ago. He's one of the best at breaking down film, imo. He was talking about our game and the decision to leave Griffin in, in the context of having spent time breaking the film down.

He was talking about how leaving RG3 in the game was something he really questioned as the game was happening, but how much worse it looked after watching the tape. His statement was that there were "recievers wide open all over the field", but Griffin was unable to do anything about it.

Exactly,if someone wants to say the team needs an upgrade at reciver I can see where there is room for improvement but it isn't because they were man-handled by Seattle.With a semi-healthy Griffin the Seahawks were in trouble.When they knew RG couldn't throw or run they were able to play a totally different style of defense.Put the shoe on the other foot,how effective would Seattle have been with a severely hobbled Wilson?Take it a step further and imagine Zach Miller was on IR.

[SkinsFanMania]

Yes, but only if we get cap relief. If we don't get relief then the money should go to resigning players, db, and OL

[NoCalMike]

Seattle's corners are big and physical but they often get burned if the WRs can get a good clean break off the line of scrimmage.

The problem is that once RGIII got hurt and could no longer plant on his throws, it removed any threat of a vertical passing game.

Seattle's defense adjusted to RGIII's injury, it is as plain and simple as that. Their corners were no longer afraid of the deep ball, so they were able to get physical at the line of scrimmage because without the ability of the QB to make accurate deep throws, they had no concern about being beaten.

The best example is on a playaction pass play after RGIII's injury, he fakes the handoff to Morris, drops back, Garcon is deep down the sideline, waiting for an easy run and catch for a TD, and RGIII looks like he is about to throw it, but pulls it down and 6 points are left on the board. If RGIII is healthy and makes that throw, it is 21-0.

RGIII's injury didn't only effect his play, it affected the entire offense. This is why I was so annoyed with Seattle's cornerbacks gloating after the game was over, because it was clear they weren't able to stop anything at all, until an injury to the 'Skins best player bailed them out on national TV,

[Warhead36]

The receivers are fine. A healthy QB and we would have lit up Seattle.

[skinny21]

Could we improve our WR Corp? Sure. Do we need to improve it? No, of course not. Should we expend precious resources to improve it? God no. We have too many other areas we need to focus on.

Seattle did not stop our receivers, not being able to make the throws did. Blaming our wrs would be like blaming our defense for the loss.

[JMUSkins]

Our receiving corp is based on speed/playaction. We still dont have a true possession receiver. To evolve this offense we need to find a dominant TE or #1 WR

Agreed. Hankerson rightfully got crap for his alligator arms. I would be happy with someone who fights for the ball the way Boldin is doing in this game... and WHAT a game!

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Could we improve our WR Corp? Sure. Do we need to improve it? No, of course not. Should we expend precious resources to improve it? God no. We have too many other areas we need to focus on.

Seattle did not stop our receivers, not being able to make the throws did. Blaming our wrs would be like blaming our defense for the loss.

I don't know... Hankerson kind of played like a *****.