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Been watching our 'Boys since 1975 and to say this is potentially the most remarkable season in that span would probably be an understatement. There wasn't any doubt about the 77 and 78 teams, everyone knew they were exceptionally good. Wasn't much doubt about the 92-95 Cowboys either, everyone knew we were special. No seasons IMO rank above Super Bowl championship years but this season is special because I don't think anybody saw this coming this year. 10-1 and 10 straight wins with a rookie 4th rd pick at QB, its unbelievable. What's more unbelievable is we're 10-1 in large part because of how GOOD the rookie 4th rd pick is at QB. If we were 10-1 because we had the 1977 Doomsday defense along with the other offensive talent we have, nobody would be all that surprised. But we actually have the ANTI-Doomsday defense and we're 10-1.
1) The stat line will show we "only" gained 353 yards of offense (400 would have set another record, for most consecutive games in NFL history with that number). However we only punted twice and again had no offensive turnovers. We scored on every other series except the final one of each half (kneel down and run out the clock). We averaged an impressive 6.4 yds per play and still had 24 first downs. Our longest offensive play was 26 yds.
2) Prescott continued his amazing season with another good game, although he did miss a couple of reads that could have netted easy TD's. The big one was the one where Dez turned Norman completely around on the post and would have scored easily. The other came on a play where he just missed Butler for a nice TD. Butler was open, but Witten was actually MORE open on the same play and would have been an easier throw. I'm sure these will be things he'll learn from as he plays more.
3) To continue on Prescott, he has now started 11 NFL games and in 9 of them he has posted a game QB rating of 103.7 or better. Only twice has it fell to hit the 100+ mark (NYG week 1, vs Philly game 7) For the season, a ridiculous 108.6 rating, 18 tds, only 2 picks, 8.34 yds per attempt and a 67.9% comp %.
4) 30 rushing attempts, 25 passing attempts. We continue to be the only team that rushes it more than we pass it. Another 160+ yd rushing game this season (that's now 7 out of 11). Thursday 4 different players had runs of at least 12 yards.
5) Thought Dez had a really good game (could have been much bigger had Prescott thrown him that one long one) and he kept his cool well against Norman (who I think definitely tried to bait him). I think the last 3 games (17 receptions, 268 yds and a 3 tds) he has started looking like the Dez of 2012-2014 and should be a huge asset for us down the stretch as teams continue to load the box to try and take Zeke away. By the way, T Williams made another sensational catch. Has knack for that a few times a season it seems.
6) Zeke came up 1 yd short Thursday of hitting 1200 for the season. Would need a huge final 5 games to break Dickerson's record (right now projected to come in around 1750) but he had another solid all around game and after being bottled up for most of the game after the 1st drive until late. In addition to the huge rushing numbers he also has over 300 yds receiving on 24 catches (very impressive for a RB avg of 12.6 now) and has totaled 12 touchdowns (tied for league lead)
7) Defensively. Ugh. Its truly ugly and its frustrating to watch. 500+ yards allowed. 0 sacks in 53 pass attempts. 0 turnovers (4th straight game). Other than decent run defense and holding the Skins to a few FG attempts, this defense is about as bad as can be. They just don't make plays. I thought the Skins O was a bad matchup for us but didn't expect it to be THIS bad. Beating a team 3 times in the same season is difficult (and we have that experience, losing to the Giants in 2007 playoffs after beating them twice in regular season) and I'd much prefer we don't see them (Skins) again until 2017 regular season. The D is what it is and with the other team raking up 70+ plays and 33mins+ TOP, we saw how truly bad it really is.
8) According to Bob Sturm, teams that had 500+ yds offense, 0 turnovers and 0 sacks allowed were a combined 32-1 in NFL history before our game. Make that 32-2 now. Also, we've won 4 straight games without our defense forcing a SINGLE turnover, another incredibly rare feat. We've now gone 7 consecutive games without our defense getting an interception. (On a play that counts). On the positive side, we only have 7 turnovers ourselves in 11 games, tied for 2nd best in the league.
9) How many holding calls have we had this year now on pancake blocks? Vince Mayle's block in the 4th qtr looked pretty damn good to me. The game itself was another hatchet job by league officials. What's amazing to me is Redskin fans are actually complaining and saying it was biased against THEM. It really gets sickening to see some of the ticky tack stuff called on our DB's, only to turn around in the same game and see our receivers constantly getting raped with no calls.
10) Many seem to fret Scott Linehan's future here and maybe he does get another head coaching opportunity (good for him if he does). That said, this offense is so loaded with bigtime young talent that any potential OC would pretty much kill to come here. And while Johnny Walker GM is ignorant, he does have a history of paying top notch assistants top notch $$$. We'll be fine. (On another note, those doing most of the "fretting" were also some of the most vocal AGAINST the Linehan hire in the first place). I think there'd be many candidates but I do wonder if Marvin Lewis and his staff gets whacked in Cinci if Ken Zampese (son of Ernie Zampese) gets major consideration here as OC. Daddy Zampese spent several years here in the 90's and Garrett played for him. Norv might be another, although his comments after he stepped down in Minnesota seemed to indicate to me that if the job wasn't on the west coast he probably wouldn't be interested now.
11) I wonder if they might spend the next two weeks or so scouring practice squads for potential defensive help. When we signed DE Zach Moore from the Vikings after final cutdowns, everyone believed he was going right onto our active roster, but he didn't. Been on our PS all season. From the write-ups on him PS, Viking fans were surprised he was cut and then Broaddus had some pretty encouraging things to say about him after watching his tape. Wonder if he finally gets the call up here. We also have a the extra couple days off after the Vikes game next Thursday. They need to do something I'd think to try and get some upgrade/s, no matter how miniscule the upgrade might be.
12) If we finish 4-1, we will have home field advantage regardless of what Seattle does the remainder of the season. 3-2 would guarantee us a 1st rd bye as long as the Giants don't win out.
1) The stat line will show we "only" gained 353 yards of offense (400 would have set another record, for most consecutive games in NFL history with that number). However we only punted twice and again had no offensive turnovers. We scored on every other series except the final one of each half (kneel down and run out the clock). We averaged an impressive 6.4 yds per play and still had 24 first downs. Our longest offensive play was 26 yds.
2) Prescott continued his amazing season with another good game, although he did miss a couple of reads that could have netted easy TD's. The big one was the one where Dez turned Norman completely around on the post and would have scored easily. The other came on a play where he just missed Butler for a nice TD. Butler was open, but Witten was actually MORE open on the same play and would have been an easier throw. I'm sure these will be things he'll learn from as he plays more.
3) To continue on Prescott, he has now started 11 NFL games and in 9 of them he has posted a game QB rating of 103.7 or better. Only twice has it fell to hit the 100+ mark (NYG week 1, vs Philly game 7) For the season, a ridiculous 108.6 rating, 18 tds, only 2 picks, 8.34 yds per attempt and a 67.9% comp %.
4) 30 rushing attempts, 25 passing attempts. We continue to be the only team that rushes it more than we pass it. Another 160+ yd rushing game this season (that's now 7 out of 11). Thursday 4 different players had runs of at least 12 yards.
5) Thought Dez had a really good game (could have been much bigger had Prescott thrown him that one long one) and he kept his cool well against Norman (who I think definitely tried to bait him). I think the last 3 games (17 receptions, 268 yds and a 3 tds) he has started looking like the Dez of 2012-2014 and should be a huge asset for us down the stretch as teams continue to load the box to try and take Zeke away. By the way, T Williams made another sensational catch. Has knack for that a few times a season it seems.
6) Zeke came up 1 yd short Thursday of hitting 1200 for the season. Would need a huge final 5 games to break Dickerson's record (right now projected to come in around 1750) but he had another solid all around game and after being bottled up for most of the game after the 1st drive until late. In addition to the huge rushing numbers he also has over 300 yds receiving on 24 catches (very impressive for a RB avg of 12.6 now) and has totaled 12 touchdowns (tied for league lead)
7) Defensively. Ugh. Its truly ugly and its frustrating to watch. 500+ yards allowed. 0 sacks in 53 pass attempts. 0 turnovers (4th straight game). Other than decent run defense and holding the Skins to a few FG attempts, this defense is about as bad as can be. They just don't make plays. I thought the Skins O was a bad matchup for us but didn't expect it to be THIS bad. Beating a team 3 times in the same season is difficult (and we have that experience, losing to the Giants in 2007 playoffs after beating them twice in regular season) and I'd much prefer we don't see them (Skins) again until 2017 regular season. The D is what it is and with the other team raking up 70+ plays and 33mins+ TOP, we saw how truly bad it really is.
8) According to Bob Sturm, teams that had 500+ yds offense, 0 turnovers and 0 sacks allowed were a combined 32-1 in NFL history before our game. Make that 32-2 now. Also, we've won 4 straight games without our defense forcing a SINGLE turnover, another incredibly rare feat. We've now gone 7 consecutive games without our defense getting an interception. (On a play that counts). On the positive side, we only have 7 turnovers ourselves in 11 games, tied for 2nd best in the league.
9) How many holding calls have we had this year now on pancake blocks? Vince Mayle's block in the 4th qtr looked pretty damn good to me. The game itself was another hatchet job by league officials. What's amazing to me is Redskin fans are actually complaining and saying it was biased against THEM. It really gets sickening to see some of the ticky tack stuff called on our DB's, only to turn around in the same game and see our receivers constantly getting raped with no calls.
10) Many seem to fret Scott Linehan's future here and maybe he does get another head coaching opportunity (good for him if he does). That said, this offense is so loaded with bigtime young talent that any potential OC would pretty much kill to come here. And while Johnny Walker GM is ignorant, he does have a history of paying top notch assistants top notch $$$. We'll be fine. (On another note, those doing most of the "fretting" were also some of the most vocal AGAINST the Linehan hire in the first place). I think there'd be many candidates but I do wonder if Marvin Lewis and his staff gets whacked in Cinci if Ken Zampese (son of Ernie Zampese) gets major consideration here as OC. Daddy Zampese spent several years here in the 90's and Garrett played for him. Norv might be another, although his comments after he stepped down in Minnesota seemed to indicate to me that if the job wasn't on the west coast he probably wouldn't be interested now.
11) I wonder if they might spend the next two weeks or so scouring practice squads for potential defensive help. When we signed DE Zach Moore from the Vikings after final cutdowns, everyone believed he was going right onto our active roster, but he didn't. Been on our PS all season. From the write-ups on him PS, Viking fans were surprised he was cut and then Broaddus had some pretty encouraging things to say about him after watching his tape. Wonder if he finally gets the call up here. We also have a the extra couple days off after the Vikes game next Thursday. They need to do something I'd think to try and get some upgrade/s, no matter how miniscule the upgrade might be.
12) If we finish 4-1, we will have home field advantage regardless of what Seattle does the remainder of the season. 3-2 would guarantee us a 1st rd bye as long as the Giants don't win out.
