Thursday, November 5: Guy Fawkes Day Links
None of these links have anything to DO with Guy Fawkes day, but still.
One of the things that's the most frustrating about watching -- and trying to write about -- Redskins practice is that the team, like so many other NFL teams, doesn't actually tackle. It makes it incredibly hard to judge how successful a play actually is, and how good defensive coverage actually is. A guy may get there every time in the game just like he does in practice ... but in the game, you have to actually finish the play, and THAT doesn't always happen.
Joseph White of the Associated Press thinks there might be a correlation there. (On the Redskins side of things, Chris Chase at Shutdown Corner seems to think this applies to DeAngelo Hall.) It's certainly an interesting argument.
More links....
One of the things that's the most frustrating about watching -- and trying to write about -- Redskins practice is that the team, like so many other NFL teams, doesn't actually tackle. It makes it incredibly hard to judge how successful a play actually is, and how good defensive coverage actually is. A guy may get there every time in the game just like he does in practice ... but in the game, you have to actually finish the play, and THAT doesn't always happen.
Joseph White of the Associated Press thinks there might be a correlation there. (On the Redskins side of things, Chris Chase at Shutdown Corner seems to think this applies to DeAngelo Hall.) It's certainly an interesting argument.
More links....
- ESPN's NFC East blogger Matt Mosley takes another run at Albert Haynesworth: "Haynesworth was supposed to help transform the defense into a dominant unit. I haven't seen anything close to dominance. The Redskins were handed one of the easiest opening stretches in the history of the league (seriously) and they found a way to lose five of those games. In the early games that I witnessed, Haynesworth was often too winded to stay on the field when the Redskins needed him most."
I'm sure we'll the now-traditional rebuttal at Mr. Irrelevant soon. - Chris Cooley is keeping busy with pottery during his rehab, which will help out with his November 30th art show.
- Speaking of Cooley's art show, I hypothesized on Twitter that the Washington Post -- having added KidsPost to their list of "sections that have taken shots at the Redskins" -- would have their Arts beat reporters at that event, knives sharpened and ready to go.
- And Rich Tandler does a great job inadvertently articulating my thoughts on John Riggins' latest comments over at his Real Redskins blog. I mean, he articulates his own thoughts on purpose; it's inadvertent that they mirror mine.
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11-05-2009 @ 12:15PM
plackfat said...
I hate Matt Mosley, his writing is so bias its not even funny. I have even gone to the lengths of formally complaining to ESPN about him. Its not the NFC East blog, its the "Cowboys with those other 3 teams occasionally sprinkled in blog". I hate that dude.
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11-05-2009 @ 1:09PM
punchdaclock said...
Riggins is a terrible person. He is always in it for the attention. "Attention Whore" really fits him. Remember a few years ago when the Redskins had the 70th Year Aniversary Riggins didn't show. But he didn't have a problem making it to his paid time slot with Andy Pollan on the radio.......
He criticized Joe Gibbs his entire second time he was here. He talked about Gibbs like he was senile and could walk himself across the street.
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11-05-2009 @ 3:56PM
da_wagner said...
Agreed, re:the ESPN blog.
Matt, not quite sure where to put this in so here will have to do. The first few weeks you ran updates before gameday on the team's inactives, and after gameday you posted breakdowns of individual players' time in the game by # of snaps. Where did that stuff go?
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11-05-2009 @ 3:58PM
Matt Terl said...
I've been doing the inactives via Twitter; I'll start doing it as a post again as well.
The snap breakdowns weren't me, but Ryan O'Halloran at the Washington Times. I'll be sure to post the links to that information as it goes up.
11-06-2009 @ 1:51PM
Eric B said...
just to clarify, it's Guy Fawkes Night...
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11-06-2009 @ 1:52PM
Matt Terl said...
Huh. How about that. Thanks for the correction.
I'll just pretend that i live in the Bahamas, I guess. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night
11-06-2009 @ 1:18PM
Nathan said...
Riggins was 100% correct. Snyder is a worthless human being. The people who are paid by him really need not bother defending him, it only hurts their credibility. P.S. I saw a lot of lethal weapons... I mean signs... at the Saints-Falcons game. I can't believe how irresponsible the security is down there. Someone could have gotten their head poked!
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