GAME THREAD: Redskins v. Giants

[PennSkinsFan]

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[SkinsGuru]

Come on Boys!!! Take down the Gints!! Lets go Redskins!!! RGIII !! RGIII !! RGIII !!

[Spence]

Offsides on a kickoff, Chris Wilson. Get yer head in the game, dude.

[PennSkinsFan]

Redskins must control the clock and sustain long drives.

[Spence]

Gomes got cleaned out on that kickoff. Not sure why, it wasn't a blind side hit. I guess he just wasn't paying attention. That's what happens if you don't keep your head on a swivel.

[Spence]

The first of MANY completed passes for Eli today

[Spence]

Wow. No pass rush followed up by no tackling. Very, very poor start for the defense.

[Spence]

Nice job, London

[Spence]

Jeebus. We get 'em stopped and then give 'em another shot with our second offsides of the day.

Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.

[Spence]

Giants will go for it. I sure would.

[PennSkinsFan]

Two off sides penalties already.

[Spence]

Wow, VERY sloppy by Giants. Locklear offsides by about half a minute!

[Spence]

All right. Nobody said this would be easy. Let's go, RG3

[PennSkinsFan]

Wow, VERY sloppy by Giants. Locklear offsides by about half a minute!

Rather have him on the Giants than here

[PennSkinsFan]

Than you RGIII. Take what you get then get out

[PennSkinsFan]

Redskins are putting together an effective drive eating up clock.

[Spence]

Wow. Big mistake by Fred Davis. Jeebus. What a screwup.

[PennSkinsFan]

Alfred Morris is such a powerful back. The yards he gets after first contact has been missed here for years.

[PennSkinsFan]

Forbath connects a 20 yarder. Would have been problematic for Cundiff

[Spence]

Shame we couldn't finish that drive. Loss of Davis is really bad if it last all game. Or worse -- longer.

[PennSkinsFan]

Shame we couldn't finish that drive. Loss of Davis is really bad if it last all game. Or worse -- longer.

Looks like just an ankle roll

[PennSkinsFan]

Nice stupidity Hall.

[PennSkinsFan]

Davis with an Achilles injury. Out for rest of game.

[PennSkinsFan]

Reed Doughty down

[PennSkinsFan]

Hopefully Doughty returns. Never thought I would say that. However, the Redskins are getting pretty thin at safety.

[PennSkinsFan]

Love those freaking screen to Santana Moss! TD

10-7 Redskins

[Crazy Horse]

Looks like just an ankle roll
I Bet his achilles is torn. Guess cooley will be resigned tuesday because we need him as opposed to being what some folks would call the right thing to do.

[SkinsGuru]

great downfield blocking on that Moss TD!! . . . hopefully they can keep this up . . . they are playing pretty good on offense and eating up the clock on their drives to try to keep the Giants offense off the field . . . if they can keep this up they will have a chance . . .

[Crazy Horse]

Love those freaking screen to Santana Moss! TD
Great call by jr for once!
10-7 Redskins

Hopefully Doughty returns. Never thought I would say that. However, the Redskins are getting pretty thin at safety.

our dbs could not start on any other team but ours!:cool:

[Crazy Horse]

Love those freaking screen to Santana Moss! TD
Great call by jr for once!
10-7 Redskins

Hopefully Doughty returns. Never thought I would say that. However, the Redskins are getting pretty thin at safety.

our dbs could not start on any other team but ours!:cool:

[SkinsGuru]

man they are running all over the giants . . . loving this!!

[PennSkinsFan]

Wow. A kicker.

[SkinsGuru]

well . . . made it anyway . . . was a bit close for my taste . . . hopefully the D can keep this lead going into half time!!

[Crazy Horse]

Wow. A kicker.

Hopefully,we have found a solution to a 10 year problem!

[Spence]

7 total drives in that first half. That's both teams. We've had games where the Skins have 7 drives by themselves in a half. Six of those 7 drives ended in a score. 3-3 by the Skins, 3-4 by the Giants.

[Spence]

Redskins 223 yards of offense in the first half. 77 yards passing, 146 rushing
Giants: 216 yards of offense in the first half. 186 passing, 30 rushing.

Two very evenly matched teams doing it very different ways on offense. Not a lot of very big plays, which is why the score isn't higher. Forcing field goals instead of touchdowns.

[Spence]

DROP. Hankerson should have had that

[SkinsGuru]

DROP. Hankerson should have had that

Ageed 100% . . . you have to catch that!!

[Spence]

I don't like Hankerson. I keep waiting to see something impressive about him and I never do.

[Spence]

Redskins really miss Garcon and Davis. That's going to catch up with them. You can scheme around a lack of talent only for so long. RG3 can make up for a lot, but even he has his limits.

[PennSkinsFan]

Redskins really miss Garcon and Davis. That's going to catch up with them. You can scheme around a lack of talent only for so long. RG3 can make up for a lot, but even he has his limits.

Need to target Moss on those long passes.

[PennSkinsFan]

Good job defense. Giants to punt

[Spence]

Hey, we forced a punt. Let's have a two minute silence.

[Crazy Horse]

Davis is gone for the year! welcome back captain chaos!
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/21/skins-lose-fred-davis-for-the-season/

[PennSkinsFan]

Davis is gone for the year! welcome back captain chaos!
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/21/skins-lose-fred-davis-for-the-season/

Welcome back Chris Cooley

[PennSkinsFan]

That sucks.

[Spence]

Wow. What a disaster. Get a run down to the Giants 13 called back because of a phantom penalty and then Morris fumbles. That's a game-changing two plays right there. Great field position for the Giants and they do not need great field position to score on our defense.

Let's see if the Redskins can recover from this. That's just a huge swing away from the team. Huge.

[PennSkinsFan]

Redskins front seven just can not get any QB pressure at all.

[Crazy Horse]

These A-HOLE refs are pathetic today!

[Spence]

Thank you, Jeebus. That interception may have just saved the game for the Redskins. If the Giants score there I think they have a 90% chance of winning.

[Spence]

Redskins front seven just can not get any QB pressure at all.
Noticed that, huh?

[SkinsGuru]

OUCH . . . the loss of Davis really hurts . . . hopefully if they bring back Cooley he still has something left . . .

at least the defense responded to the turnover with a turnover of their own . . .

[Crazy Horse]

I Think they almost have to bring cooley back cause i can't see paulsen taking over for davis and being as productive as cooley would be.

[SkinsGuru]

creative play call . . . i wasn't expecting robinson to carry the ball for a first . . . got lucky on that one (fumble recovered by RGIII)!!

[PennSkinsFan]

Wow. Take care of the freaking football

[PennSkinsFan]

Bad throw by Grif

[SkinsGuru]

that one just was a bad pass . . . come of D!!

[Crazy Horse]

Bad throw by Grif

Looked like paulsen just stopped or ran the wrong route.

[jporterweb]

No matter what we have to be proud of what this team has done so far. After what the Giants did to the Niners last week we have fought hard. We have to know that RGIII is still only human and he will make mistakes. We have two rookies that make up our offense with Santana Moss coming up big from time to time. So we are going to have mistakes, but they have proven that they can come back from those mistakes numerous times this year. This game is great, back and forth tough NFC East fight just like it should be. Win or Lose I love this team. Can't say that over the past few years.

[Spence]

Tough going for the Skins. Not having a ton of success running the ball and penalties keep hurting our drives. And, of course, the two turnovers. Pretty horrible since halftime. Let's see if the Redskins have got anything left. Going against a veteran team in their building and down by 7 in the fourth quarter, we'll learn something about the Redskins now. Are they ready to become grownups or do we have longer to wait?

[SkinsGuru]

That was a balsy call that i probably wouldn't have made . . . kudos to ShannyCo . . .

[jporterweb]

That was a beautiful pass on 4th down. BEAUTIFUL.

[Spence]

Hankerson keeps diving to the turf. What's up with that?

[PennSkinsFan]

Another Griffin turnover.

[jporterweb]

If the ball pops out at the same time the knee hits the ground does the tie go to the ball carrier?

[Spence]

Skins not ready for prime time yet. That's tough. They've just fallen apart in the second half. Just not ready for this level of competition in a big division road game. Whether that call goes as a fumble or not, the Redskins have just come apart here. We haven't really seen that yet this year, not with the offense, anyway.

[PennSkinsFan]

Easy call for the Refs

[Spence]

Can the defense do anything to stop the Giants?

[jporterweb]

If the defense can come up big it's not over.

[Spence]

I guess they can.

[jporterweb]

Just like that!!!!

[Spence]

2 INT for Rob Jackson this year.

[SkinsGuru]

WOW!! huge play by Jackson . . . NEED a TD here!!

[jporterweb]

This team seems to be so much better at answering adversity than teams we have had in a long time.

[PennSkinsFan]

Why the hell are you running an option with a TE?

[Spence]

THAT'S THE CALL???? An option wide right on third and 5??? WTF?

[jporterweb]

A field goal still puts us in position if the defense can hold here. Griffin has shown he can run a two minute offense so it's all up to the D now.

[PennSkinsFan]

Forbath now 4-4 as a Redskin

[Spence]

Well, that was very bad. They had first down at the 32 yard line of the Giants and they got a grand total of five yards. The FG still leaves them needing a touchdown to avoid a loss.

Still don't understand that option call on third down and five yards to go. Very, very strange.

[jporterweb]

Forbath the biggest acquisition for the Redskins since Alfred Morris in round 6 of the draft.

[Spence]

Defense is going to have to make a play. Eli is too good to give us another gift like that.

[jporterweb]

Well, that was very bad. They had first down at the 32 yard line of the Giants and they got a grand total of five yards. The FG still leaves them needing a touchdown to avoid a loss.

Still don't understand that option call on third down and five yards to go. Very, very strange.

I think it was give Griffin a chance to make a play. The defense just covered it incredibly well.

[PennSkinsFan]

Well, that was very bad. They had first down at the 32 yard line of the Giants and they got a grand total of five yards. The FG still leaves them needing a touchdown to avoid a loss.

Still don't understand that option call on third down and five yards to go. Very, very strange.

An option with a freaking TE at that

[SkinsGuru]

didn't like that play call at all . . . BUT IS nice to have a decent kicker . . .

[Spence]

I think it was give Griffin a chance to make a play. The defense just covered it incredibly well.
Sure, I just don't like the personnel on that. Paul is only fast for a tight end. Should have run that with Moss or Banks. IF you run that play at all.

[SkinsGuru]

BIG sack to start this drive . . . the DB's have to keep this in check

[Spence]

3rd and 15. Redskins ABSOLUTELY MUST get this stop. Cannot let the Giants convert this. Get the ball back in good field position.

[SkinsGuru]

losing Fltech hurts . . . and that was HORRIBLE!!

[Spence]

Shameful. That's just embarrassing. The screen pass is the most obvious pass there and athe Redskins were completely unprepared for it. Just awful.

Giants should be able to just run the clock out now.

[Spence]

Time and time again, there were plays to be made that could have put the Redskins in control of this game and the Redskins have failed to make the play every time.

Skins don't deserve to win this game.

[SkinsGuru]

BAD THROW . . . but that works for me . . . RGIII !! RGIII !! RGIII !!

[Spence]

That call is worse than a tight end option on third and five.

[Spence]

3 minutes left. Got timeouts. No excuses now, folks. Either ready for prime time or not.

[jporterweb]

3 minutes left. Got timeouts. No excuses now, folks. Either ready for prime time or not.

This will define this team for the year. Right here means everything.

[PennSkinsFan]

Pass protection is breaking down. Not good

[Spence]

Offensive line crumbling before the Giants pass rush right now.

[jporterweb]

That was a crazy play by Griffin.

[Spence]

That's... just ridiculous. That's why, win or lose, you can't help but be very optimistic about the future.

But I'd still rather win.

Just an incredible play by RG3. Play is never over until you hear the whistle when RG3 is in there.

[Spence]

Great pass by RG3, but too much wolfing by Moss. Game is a LONG LONG way from over. Skins only up by 3 if they hit the extra point.

[jporterweb]

Moss is the freaking man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SkinsGuru]

WOW!! Now we need the D to shut this down!! . . .

[Spence]

Lots of time for the Giants. Lots of time is nowhere close to being over.

Giants deserve to get their asses burned on that drive. They kept blitzing RG3. Not sure why they did it. RG3 kills the blitz usually.

[jporterweb]

Just worried about the time left on the clock

[SkinsGuru]

NICE start . . . need to keep pressure on manning and disrupt his timing!!

[SkinsGuru]

Come on!!

[Spence]

Our defense is just so awful. The only thing you can't allow and they let it happen after two plays.

[PennSkinsFan]

Secondary blows it has all year

[SkinsGuru]

at least the Skins will have a chance time wise . . .

[Spence]

There are no words in the English language to express how awful and disappointing this is.

RG3 deserves better than this defense.

Told you the game was far from over.

[PennSkinsFan]

Where is the criticism of Raheem Morris?

[SkinsGuru]

this is what stars are made of . . .

[PennSkinsFan]

No time to do 10 yard passes in middle of field

[Spence]

Moss is the freaking man, eh? Pathetic. One thing a veteran wideout can't do there and he just did it.

That's every bit as awful as what the defense just did.

Shameful.

I feel bad for RG3. Best player on the field, but completely betrayed by his teammates.

[SkinsGuru]

never going to win with those kind of turnovers . . .

[Spence]

Well, this is actually the score I predicted: Giants 27 Redskins 23.

Not happy to win the pick'em contest this week.

[jporterweb]

They just aren't ready yet. But there is a ray of hope. No want thought we were going to win the Super Bowl this year, but obviously our weakness are a lot less than they were last year. We have a QB who can make up for mistakes. It didn't happen today and it hasn't happened in 4 games this year, but all the games we have played this year, no matter what we've been in EVERY one. I'm disappointed in today's outcome, but how many times last year did we lose and weren't in contention to win? We have to continue to look at the positive and focus on it. This isn't going to be a perfect year at all. We have A LOT of injuries in the secondary, we're probably going to have to give Chris Cooley a call, I imagine he will be signed tomorrow if not by the end of the day. But our secondary has been decimated by injury and suspension. We'll be ok, it's just going to take time.

[Crazy Horse]

we got an offense
that can play with anybody,and a defense that can't stop anybody