Goal Line Offense

[Over the Hill Skin]

We can all complain about the officiating, our lack of clock management, and our usage of timeouts, but the turning point in last nights game was our inability to score a touchdown on first and goal from the one. It should have been a 7-7 game at half, not 7-3. The Redskins must improve this aspect of their game quickly. Gibbs has got to get more creative inside the ten. Everybody is ganging up on Portis right now. We neeed a quarterback bootleg, an end around, a double reverse, or more throws to ey to loosen these defenses up. Yea, it was a bitter pill to swallow last night. 13-14 sucks big time, but there's no way anybody should give up the ship just yet. Gibb's teams get stronger as the year rolls on. December is usually his best month. The Eagles are banged up, four players gone for the season. It will catch up with them. The Cowboys have no running game to speak of, it will catch up with them. The Giants are playing well above their heads right now, it will catch up with them. The Redskins are starting out slow, we will get much better. Keep the faith Redskin fans!

[redskindave]

I agree with you Over the hill Skin, We have to get the ball in the endzone in those situations, I think your also right on how the other teams in the division are playing, The Redskins will be fine, Im keeping the faith, Im just so upset about that game last night, I hate seeing us lose to the Pukes

[TheMagicThree]

I agree as well, all the other teams are starting out hot. And there's still 14 games left. I think Gibbs has lost some instinct on the game, but he's quickly regaining it through mistakes, and I won't hold that against him. The second Dallas game should be a lot easier to overcome.

[Redskin in Canada]

We can all complain about the officiating, ...

It stunk! But in this regard, Do zebras or the NFL actually analyze the (lousy) calls made in each game in video as a group?

We are used to play against the refs. We did before and we will in the future. We should play every game as if we -know- that we have the refs against us. We should not allow them to make the difference in the game as it did last night.

[welch]

Goal line offense depends so much on the OL. The Dirt Bags aren't quite there yet. Much better than last year, but not quite ground-shaking hogs-like.

I imagine that some of it is practice and precision. Gibbs had the team work on the mistakes last week; I expect he and Bugel will repeat goal-line plays over and over.

And...maybe Gibbs will start more bootlegs, play-action, more variety. Maybe even Cartright or Betts...or someone else who can move a ball a half-yard on his own.

[redskinz4ever]

i say use more cartwright and betts ...but not always !!! PORTIS is still the man !!!

[JPFair]

I made a commitment on January 7th to keep the faith. Nothing has changed. I have complete, utter, and total faith in Joe Gibbs. Even if the Redskins went 1-15, I will still have total, undeniable, unequivocal, complete, and utter faith in Joe Gibbs. As this poster put, December is his best month. My feeling is that Joe Gibbs needs to get his feet wet before he can get completely comfortable. Right now, he's getting them wet and getting ready to do his thing.

[tnathan]

as i asked in my earlier post, couldn't we be using cooley on the goalline? he played fullback before... he could take a handoff and barrel through, i think. anybody think so, or am i totally off base with the cooley thing?
i like that kid so much, i'm tempted to get a jersey. must remind myself, "free agency, free agency" and wait til i know he'll be here a while.

[JPFair]

I was thinking that about ey as well. For some reason, when I got him on my fantasy team, he's listed as a TE/RB.

[hkHog]

Exactly, I really liked the play where Gardner went in motion though, that was a good call.