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Week 5 Thank Yous

Proudiddy

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*Beason, for always being a leader, bust especially this week... If I'm not mistaken it was either the sack or the safety by Pep, Beason was the first guy to run up and show him some love.

*Pep, for showing up. There was a clear difference in his demeanor and body language today. Yeah, he had a sack and a safety, but I was amazed at the effort he gave to chase Jason Campbell out of bounds for no gain - hustling all the way.

*Jake, for being the old Jake aka Good Jake. Another 4th Quarter Comeback notched. I've always been fair minded about him. When he's sucked, he's sucked. When he's been great, he's been great. IMO, more often than not, he was a Top 10 QB, b/c he did enough for us to win. Today he looked like the 2003 Jake. Great touch on his throws, with only maybe two exceptions. And the INT wasn't a great throw, but it should've been caught. Regardless, great heart and fire, which made Jake what he was - hopefully he hangs onto it for the rest of the year.

*Coach Fox/Davidson, thank you for being semi-creative when it mattered, the naked bootleg was a great call after setting them up with the repeated, usual, vanilla power runs and tosses. I was hoping we would do something out of the ordinary but didn't count on it... Obviously the Redskins didn't wither b/c it caught them completely off-guard.

*Hollis Thomas for stepping in there and making a difference. Great presence... Question is, is it legit... We'll see in the coming weeks.

*Ron Meeks/Entire Defense - Way to finally be aggressive. It feels good to finally have their QB pissing in his pants every play, scared of being sacked.

*The Refs - For not making several calls on us. Thanks guys, we needed that turnover on the punt and the non-call on Richard Marshall's interference on the deep ball.

All is not fixed though... But, if we build off this and win the next couple weeks, I'll feel a lot better about things - at least we know we actually have heart.

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I agree. As I said, all is not well with this team. But the winning will only help build confidence, especially in the fashion we won this one in, even if it was the Redskins. The team also can rally around Jake now too.

I also have a feeling that JStew's performance is going to jump start DWill. Same thing happened last year... DWill was looking pretty bad, JStew started killing it and around week 4 or 5 DWill was getting huge lanes to run through.

But those runs that were being called... P.U. I kept wondering why they weren't running misdirection at all, whatever direction the run appeared to be going to pre-snap, was the direction it went after the snap... The Skins were all over it.

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The D played very well, Beason is truly a Beast, even Peppers showed up. Offense needs to step up, we gave the skins 14 points with turnovers near the endzone. Need better play calling. The secondary needs to step up also. I was shocked at the last play, the Jake run, that run shows Jake has some heart, when he saw the defender coming could have run out of bounds or went down.

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It seems as if Davidson wants to run when he should throw and throw when he should run.

I also agree with you about running more counters. Don't really recall seeing that much at all today. Especially with the way Washington seemed to be jumping to the hole and crashing the line. The more I think about it the more I do not understand the thought process of JD. You want to be hard to read with your next move but its almost like he is trying to do the unexpected by doing the expected.

The 4th and Goal was very irritatting. I understand wanting to send a message by pounding it in but you are not very likely to ever run over top of Haynesworth on the GL. Getting the call in late only exacerbated the issue, very poor job all around.

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Good points House. I'm hyped about today too. Not so much that we won, but HOW WE WON IT. You can't build more confidence than by winning on a 4th Quarter comeback. Defense played outstanding 2nd half, and offense decided to show up for about a quarter.

But we cannot string together wins unless the playcalling gets better. As you said, it does seem like he thinks doing the same thing repeatedly will somehow throw them off, lol. It's ridiculous. Honestly, the best two called plays in the game were the 2 point conversion and the naked bootleg... Why? Because those are probably the only two times we those plays the entire game. Other than those and about 5 other pass plays, every play looked the same.

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It felt like the reverse of how these games usually go. Instead of playing great the first half and sucking the second half, it went the other way around.

Can't emphasize enough that the running game has to get going if we're going to have a chance of winning games going forward.

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Fox and Davidson tried there hardest to lose that game today....no point thanking them. The only reason they won is b/c Zorn is the HC and Campbell is the QB.

So b/c they called a Jake bootleg at the end of the game that made up for a horrfiic game from the coaches? Run that play 10 times in the situation and it works maybe 3 and that is being generous.

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Fox and Davidson tried there hardest to lose that game today....no point thanking them. The only reason they won is b/c Zorn is the HC and Campbell is the QB.

So b/c they called a Jake bootleg at the end of the game that made up for a horrfiic game from the coaches? Run that play 10 times in the situation and it works maybe 3 and that is being generous.

That's like saying flea flickers only work 3 times out of 10. It's a trick play, bro. That's kinda the point.

just be happy about the damn win, poo.

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That's like saying flea flickers only work 3 times out of 10. It's a trick play, bro. That's kinda the point.

just be happy about the damn win, poo.

a bootleg isn't a trick play.

also, calling a bootleg doesn't offset everything they did to try not to win the game today. That was horrible playcalling throughout the game.

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go cry somewhere else about winning.

lol. Fox did everything he could to lose that game today.....he was just lucky we played the Redskins. The Panther offense and the playcalling have been horrible for 4 consecutive weeks.

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