Opposing QB's completing nearly 70% against us

[E CaT PanTHer]

Thought this was pretty interesting. Not sure how we compare to other teams in the league, but we have to be amongst the worst. 70% is unacceptable.

Donovan Mcnabb: 10/18

Kevin Kolb: 7/11

Matt Ryan: 21/27

Tony Romo: 22/33

Jason Campbell: 17/23

77/112 = 69%

[Jangler]

So much for playing the ball...

[Fireball77]

Before this game, passer rating allowed against this defense was 94.6. I doubt it will improve with Campbell's 104.4 yesterday.

[CarolinaSock]

That puts us 4th worst. We're in front of Jacksonville, Tennessee, and Detroit. Interesting note, Peppers is actually tied for the team lead in pass defenses... at 2. We have 12 pass defenses in 4 games as a team, dead last in the NFL.

[pantherj]

The secondary is very clearly playing a lot better than in the first two games. I don't know if they just now learned the defense or what, but the coverage was so much better. Captain and Marshall had me excited on a couple of plays, you could see they knew where the QB would go with the ball. They were making some hard breaks for the ball, now they just need to get the timing down. When you're exactly where you're supposed to be, you get opportunites (even in cover-2) to make plays on the ball and blast recievers.

No question the secondary was playing well against the Skins imo, and that gave the pass rush more time. The first 2 games, I just felt terrible because we had blown coverages all over the place. It was sad. Nothing sad about the coverage against the Skins, not perfect, but damn good. We do that against the Bucs and Bills and we're 3-3, unless Jake has another meltdown.

[Dilla]

It would an added bonus for the defense to force more turnovers. . .

[Panthers128]

part of this is by design. fox would rather a qb beat him than a rb, which i agree with, but they have to do something about these easy slant routes. it's fine if you want to give them up a lot, but how hard is it to get a LB to sneak into that zone and pick it off once or twice?

also we got beat bad on a screen, didn't like that, but we sniffed out a screen later in the game so the defense is slowly improving

[House]

The secondary is very clearly playing a lot better than in the first two games. I don't know if they just now learned the defense or what, but the coverage was so much better. Captain and Marshall had me excited on a couple of plays, you could see they knew where the QB would go with the ball. They were making some hard breaks for the ball, now they just need to get the timing down. When you're exactly where you're supposed to be, you get opportunites (even in cover-2) to make plays on the ball and blast recievers.

No question the secondary was playing well against the Skins imo, and that gave the pass rush more time. The first 2 games, I just felt terrible because we had blown coverages all over the place. It was sad. Nothing sad about the coverage against the Skins, not perfect, but damn good. We do that against the Bucs and Bills and we're 3-3, unless Jake has another meltdown.

There is a very logical reson for this, it has nothing to do with the coaches, it has nothing to do with Washington sucking, it has everything to do with getting Chris Harris back on D.

While Harris was out Godfrey was making the secondary calls. This is one of the reasons Harris was sucking it up so bad. He was so worried about pre-snap reads and assignments that he was over-thinking the game instead of playing it. Godfrey played a better game today than he did all year. Not perfect but decent.

Harris being back is really going to help this team out in the long run. I know that he did not show up on the stat sheet that much but his presence was definetly felt out there yesterday.

[Montsta]

Godfrey seemed to be in position more, but the guy is still afraid to tackle anyone. I don't get it. I think it was Sellars who caught a pass in the flat on 3rd down and someone had him from behind and Godfrey could have really given him a lick to prevent the first down and he just dove underneath him instead, giving him the yardage for the first. What I wouldn't give to see that kid just tackle someone hard one flipping time.

[CRA]

kinda hard to evaluate Godfrey or the secondary making any improvement when Jason Campbell is the opposing QB.

[beastson]

Past 2 games, QB's only thrown 1 TD against us. If we can keep it like that, we'll be fine

[Wither]

Godfrey seemed to be in position more, but the guy is still afraid to tackle anyone. I don't get it. I think it was Sellars who caught a pass in the flat on 3rd down and someone had him from behind and Godfrey could have really given him a lick to prevent the first down and he just dove underneath him instead, giving him the yardage for the first. What I wouldn't give to see that kid just tackle someone hard one flipping time.

What if he gets hurt? Who is going to replace him? People will just call out that guy as much as they have Godfrey for not doing the "correct" things. I mean, it would be awesome if Godfrey could do that, but maybe he's just not physically up to the challenge?

Past 2 games, QB's only thrown 1 TD against us. If we can keep it like that, we'll be fine

That's obviously the most important thing.

Also, Campbell always has good numbers on paper, regardless of whether the Redskins win or lose (even without many points scored).

[holderoftruth]

Good thing the pass D is only giving up 165 Yds/Game.

[jramsey4]

kinda hard to evaluate Godfrey or the secondary making any improvement when Jason Campbell is the opposing QB.

I like Campbell, he is just hopelessly out of system. And to tell you the truth he looked pretty good to me this game. He would be a perfect fit for our O, as he has a good strong accurate long ball. But the genius' at DC tries to take a guy with a Gunslinger arm and turn him into a WCO dink and dunk QB. He will be a available this off-season we will probably sign him if our FO is intact (Unlikely)