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I might be hammered right now, but i seem to remember my skins dropping maybe double digit passes today against the giants!

If we drop that manypasses a game we are in big trouble!


Did anybody else notice the huge amount of dropped passes today or am i just drunk.

Santana, Patten, and Royal!!!! Royal dropped at least 3 and the others did their share! We have to make plays and dropping first downs and passes in our hands is not oing to get it done!!!


but lets catch balls in our hands....please!!!

Yes, there certainly were a lot of drops. A lot more than I can remember recently. Hopefully, that will not continue in upcoming games.

Some of this falls on Brunell who only managed 65 yards in 3 quarters. Patten had one dropped pass, MOss isn't supposed to catch passes over the middle, and Royal just sucks. in general, aside from the 49ers game, the Redskins offense has been inconsistent and usually only able to make adjustments in the 2nd half. The Redskins can't afford to play catch up against the Eagles either. The last Redskins qb to beat the eagles was tony Banks.

gilbertarenas wrote:Some of this falls on Brunell who only managed 65 yards in 3 quarters. Patten had one dropped pass, MOss isn't supposed to catch passes over the middle, and Royal just sucks. in general, aside from the 49ers game, the Redskins offense has been inconsistent and usually only able to make adjustments in the 2nd half. The Redskins can't afford to play catch up against the Eagles either. The last Redskins qb to beat the eagles was tony Banks.

This was one of those games that things just mushroom out of control. It was a horrible game for drops! The only people that had balls thrown their way that didn't drop one were Thrash and Jacobs, but they only had one or two balls come their way. Moss dropped a pass (I don't care if it was in the middle - but he exemption because he has been 1/2 of our passing O so far), Patten, Portis, Betts, Rock, and even the sure handed ey dropped one. But Royal had four drops and he has had a drop in the three privious games that killed drives. He is worst right now than the orriginal 50/50 - Zeron Flemister. That got at least caught every other ball like clock work. Catch, drop, catch, drop ...
Royal I think has more dropped balls this season than catches, by a wide margin.

Joe Gibbs will not forgive or forget the drop in the end zone by Royal.He had a great opportunity to make us forget many of his drops with one play and he did just the opposite.

I -was- a supporter of Royal prior to this season. No more. What a difference a good TE makes to San Diego, KC and Denver.

ey should not have come back to game if he was not nearly 100%.

gilbertarenas wrote:Some of this falls on Brunell who only managed 65 yards in 3 quarters.

I agree 100% with this statement.

Since NOBODY could catch worth a lick, and Clinton couldn't find any running room, Brunell should have scrambled a lot more and scored all of our points.

As a staunch Brunell supporter, I am upset at his not doing more for this team.

Perhaps next week he might try to hit his receivers in places other than their hands.

I'm not sure why, but Brunell seemed tentative, indecisive and uncomfortable from the first play of the game.

He was dancing around like he has a match burning between his toes, his accuracy was a little off, he didn't see open receivers, he didn't throw the ball away to avoid sacks, he didn't scramble when there was no where to throw and room to run.

This was Brunell's worst performance of the season. I won't give him too much grief because he has been outstanding this season and the whole team seemed tentative and out of sync, but you can't honestly believe that he played well, can you?

They were not dropped passes, they were knocked down by the ghost of Wellington Mara

JansenFan wrote:I'm not sure why, but Brunell seemed tentative, indecisive and uncomfortable from the first play of the game.

He was dancing around like he has a match burning between his toes, his accuracy was a little off, he didn't see open receivers, he didn't throw the ball away to avoid sacks, he didn't scramble when there was no where to throw and room to run.

This was Brunell's worst performance of the season. I won't give him too much grief because he has been outstanding this season and the whole team seemed tentative and out of sync, but you can't honestly believe that he played well, can you?

No way, did he play well, but, in fairness, the guy was getting killed, and the o-line was not giving him time.

Many will try to restart the QB controversy by saying that Patrick performed well when he came in, which is true. But, by then, you can be sure the Gints had their backups in.

All in all, we stunk up the joint. Joe took the blame, but, ultimately, it rests on the players for not executing the plays.

As for Brunell, the wily vet never got into a rhythm, and his 'mates did little to help him get in sync with them.

NikiH wrote:They were not dropped passes, they were knocked down by the ghost of Wellington Mara

Well, FOX did show him every 2.3 seconds, so something was definitely at work.

I disagree that the Oline didn't give him enough time. I thought they gave him plenty of time, at least before Samuels got hurt. He just didn't throw it. Maybe the guys were covered, although I find it hard to believe that no one was open as many plays as Brunell held on to the ball for 5 or 6 seconds.

Where the defense of Brunell as it pertains to not laying the whole game at his feet, is that when guys were open and he did throw it, it was dropped.

I also can't blame this game on the officials, because we were beat in every facet of the game, but at the end of the day, it seemed like they called holding on all of our early runs and none of Tiki Barber's runs when there was clearly holding that caused would-be tacklers to not be able to pursue the runner.

JansenFan wrote:I disagree that the Oline didn't give him enough time. I thought they gave him plenty of time, at least before Samuels got hurt. He just didn't throw it. Maybe the guys were covered, although I find it hard to believe that no one was open as many plays as Brunell held on to the ball for 5 or 6 seconds.

I'll take your word on this, simply because I am not in a position to debate this point, since I was unable to fully focus on the game, as we were at a going away lunch for a cousin, and the TV I was trying to focus on was 30 feet away. I kicked myself for not having ditched the party to root for my Skins, and numero ocho.

Consider yourself lucky that you didn't witness the carnage.

NikiH wrote:They were not dropped passes, they were knocked down by the ghost of Wellington Mara

The Curse of Wellington Mara!!!