Jay Gruden Hired as Redskins New Head Coach

[DarthMonk]

Concerning Haslett and Kerrigan covering McCoy:

Defensive coordinator Jim Haslett said Thursday there was “a blown assignment” during the Washington Redskins’ loss Sunday at Philadelphia on the play on which Eagles running back LeSean McCoy had a long gain on a catch while being covered one-on-one by linebacker Ryan Kerrigan.

Haslett did not specify what the missed assignment was. But he suggested that the Redskins could have stopped the play if they’d executed the defensive call properly as they did, according to Haslett, in a similar situation that resulted in linebacker London Fletcher sacking Eagles quarterback Nick Foles.

“We ran it 10 times during the game and he covered him like six other times,” Haslett said of the Kerrigan-McCoy matchup. “We did have a blown assignment on it on that play. … We ran the same play and London got the sack — same exact play they ran versus the play we ran, he got a sack. So we missed an assignment on it. It probably wouldn’t have happened. It’s one of those situations where we ran it 10 times during the game and we just had a missed assignment that got him open.”

McCoy beat Kerrigan for a 49-yard catch to set up the Eagles’ first touchdown in their 24-16 triumph.

The Redskins did manage to limit McCoy to 77 rushing yards on 20 carries Sunday, one game after they surrendered a relatively modest 75 rushing yards to Minnesota Vikings tailback Adrian Peterson on 20 attempts. Next up is San Francisco’s Frank Gore, as the Redskins face three of the league’s current top seven rushers in a three-game span.

“I thought we did a good job on McCoy,” Haslett said. “We’ve faced three of the best in the league back to back to back here. I think Frank’s different than Peterson and obviously McCoy’s a jump-around guy [who] jump-cuts you and all that. This is different. This is a violent runner who goes downhill. He hides behind people. He has great power and strength, great leg drive. It’s a different type of guy. But we’ve seen three of the best the last three weeks. So this is a great test for us because I think we’ve done a pretty good job on the other two.”

[DarthMonk]

Jay Gruden - C - Redskins

Coach Jay Gruden will handle play-calling duties on offense in 2017.

Former OC Sean McVay, who is now the Rams' head coach, was the play-caller the past two seasons. Gruden handled those duties when he got the job in 2014 and called plays for the Bengals when he was their OC. It's obviously not foreign to him. McVay developed a reputation for being a bit too pass happy last season. Look for Gruden to hammer the ground game more this year.

Source: CSN Mid-Atlantic Feb 13 - 12:31 PM

[Deadskins]

Jay Gruden - C - Redskins

Coach Jay Gruden will handle play-calling duties on offense in 2017.

Former OC Sean McVay, who is now the Rams' head coach, was the play-caller the past two seasons. Gruden handled those duties when he got the job in 2014 and called plays for the Bengals when he was their OC. It's obviously not foreign to him. McVay developed a reputation for being a bit too pass happy last season. Look for Gruden to hammer the ground game more this year.

Source: CSN Mid-Atlantic Feb 13 - 12:31 PM

That sounds good on paper, but one could also point out that our team didn't do so great when Jay called the plays before. Now, that could be because we had a different QB most of that year, but it could also be that it's too much responsibility to be the HC and the play-caller too. I'm hoping it's the former.

[riggofan]

Complaining about the HC calling the offensive plays (not saying your're doing that specifically Deadskins) always strikes me as one of those really lame excuses when you're losing games. You can google this same complaint with Mike McCarthy and the Packers. Its only a bad thing for McCarthy when they're not doing well.

From what I read the past two years, Gruden was still involved in play calling. I believe they had some kind of committee thing going on with Gruden/McVay/Callahan.

1) Its Gruden's offense. He knows it. He's called it for years. He's been a QB himself. 2) What exactly do we expect him to be doing otherwise while the offense is on the field?

[Burgundy&GoldForever]

Look for the Skins to dump Lauvao like a load of manure and replace him with a Brandon Scherff type. That'll help the run game.

[riggofan]

Look for the Skins to dump Lauvao like a load of manure and replace him with a Brandon Scherff type. That'll help the run game.

Man they can draft o-line and d-line all day long. You won't hear a peep out of him in complaint.

Find THOSE guys in the draft. Spend your FA money on Garcon or DJax and Cousins.

[Burgundy&GoldForever]

Look for the Skins to dump Lauvao like a load of manure and replace him with a Brandon Scherff type. That'll help the run game.

Man they can draft o-line and d-line all day long. You won't hear a peep out of him in complaint.

Find THOSE guys in the draft. Spend your FA money on Garcon or DJax and Cousins.

This would be a sensible strategy so we can pretty much eliminate it as being the Redskins' plan.

[SkinsJock]

Man they can draft o-line and d-line all day long. Find THOSE guys in the draft.

Spend our FA money on Garcon, DJax, Cousins and any other defensive guys we may need

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