{"id":4783,"date":"2011-12-19T17:35:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T21:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehogs.net\/blogs\/?p=4783"},"modified":"2016-12-29T05:36:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T09:36:59","slug":"22-21-the-good-and-the-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/2011\/12\/19\/22-21-the-good-and-the-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"22-21.   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Making solid tackles.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00\">The bad:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Red Zone scoring\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dominating the game, but letting an opponent hang around\u2026<\/p>\n<p>MacIntosh is getting slow\u2026\u00a0 (Kerrigan should have gotten credit for that sack, btw.\u00a0 He knocked Kolb to the ground\u2026 then, Rocky fell on him.)<\/p>\n<p>Why in the world would you get away from the run when it is killing your opponent???\u00a0\u00a0 (Kyle says he\u2019s committed to the run, yet he still seems to get cute when he has a short field).<\/p>\n<p>We continue to lack a quick strike capability.\u00a0 How nice would it be to have a weapon like Fitzgerald?<\/p>\n<p>We still give up too many big plays, to wit:<\/p>\n<p>Hall in man coverage on Fitz\u2026 Dude!\u00a0 How do you let him get that open when you have no help over the top???\u00a0 You can NOT allow that to happen.\u00a0 Sucks being a corner\u2026 hero&gt;goat&gt;hero&gt;goat.\u00a0 You must get awfully dizzy.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; It\u2019s good to be 2-0, and atop the NFC East\u2026 again, this is a game that we would have lost last year\u2026 and the year before.\u00a0 Progress is being made.\u00a0 Yet, there is still concern that the team is not finishing drives in the red zone.\u00a0 When you dominate on the offensive side of the ball, as they did yesterday in the first half, you MUST get touchdowns.\u00a0 If you allow a quality team, like the Cardinals, to hang around, they will bite you\u2026 and they nearly did.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was a game played by a Redskins team that is still learning how to win against a good team&#8230; in the end, they figured out a way to do it. \u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s very different from years past\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0And, that\u2019s a very good thing.\u00a0\u00a0 HTTR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Skins dominated possession.\u00a0 It was a good win, one that, in prior seasons, would have been a loss&#8230;\u00a0 but, there was good and bad to be gleaned from yesterday\u2019s victory over the Cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[221,909,955,975,1655],"class_list":["post-4783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-washington-redskins","tag-deangelo-hall","tag-roy-helu","tag-sav-rocca","tag-tim-hightower","tag-washington-redskins"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>22-21.  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