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Redskins-Broncos Winners & Losers
By Jamie Mottram | November 15, 2009
WINNERS
Hunter Smith — The fake FG/punt TD pass was an absolute jaw-dropper.
Danny Smith — He sucks as a special teams coach, but that play was magnificent. Still not sure how it worked, but it did. It really, really did.
Jim Zorn — The balls on Zorn calling that play … I love it. Also love that he went for it on 4th-and-1, though I didn’t love the play call (tried drawing them offsides before running wide right). Still, he managed the upset and broke the 20-point barrier to boot. For him, this is as good as 2009 gets.
Ladell Betts — Got stronger as the game got longer and finished with 114 yards against a good defense.
Quinton Ganther – No idea who this guy is but he had a nice blitz pickup that led to JC scrambling for a first, and on the next play he caught a screen for another first, which he finished off by ringing Brian Dawkins’ bell.
Fred Davis, Devin Thomas and Malcolm Kelly — They always get grouped together in defeat, so let’s do the same in victory. They combined for seven catches and 105 yards with serious YAC. More of this, please.
Brian Orakpo and Andre Carter – Three more sacks for these two, which makes 15 on the season (thank you, Mr. Haynesworth). Orakpo also knocked Kyle Orton out of the game, which was key.
Rock Cartwright — We’re all Hard Rock fans, so it’s good to see him get nine carries and even better to see him make something of them.
Todd Yoder — Now has two catches for five yards and two touchdowns.
Lorenzo Alexander — Forced a fumble after chasing a play. Also had a massive hit in kickoff coverage.
Rocky McIntosh — Absolutely laid the wood to Brandon Marshall.
Those tailgating in F lot — “Victory=wet t-shirt contest.”
LOSERS
Carlos Rogers – Was all over Marshall on that first TD. Just look at him, like a shadow. A shadow that’s three steps behind.
Shaun Suisham — Put not one but two kickoffs out-of-bounds. Awful.
Antwaan Randle El – Let a punt bounce and roll 30 yards before stopping inside the 10.
MEDIUM
DeAngelo Hall — A rollercoaster of a game for D-Hall: was nowhere close on Marshall’s second TD, rebounded by making a great play on another Marshall deep ball but then ran across the field yelling for the challenge flag because he thought he picked it off but really he didn’t, missed a tackle on Knowshon Moreno, made an easy pick in the end zone and had a nice return but needlessly pitched it to LaRon Landry (though it was fun seeing people try to tackle The Ron). So, yeah, rollercoaster game.
Jason Campbell – Won the game, didn’t turn it over and posted a 100.3 rating, but this was one of his poorer showings. Missed a lot of throws, most notably one to a wide-open Santana Moss down the sideline.
Offensive line — I can’t believe how well they blocked in the run game, but they still can’t pass block for shit.
Bryant Gumbel and Dan Dierdorf — These guys call about as medium a game as one could imagine, and said some silly stuff (i.e. “This is some stadium”), but they totally redeemed themselves by relaying the anecdote about their meeting with Haynesworth, when Fat Albert “walked in with the largest diamond necklace I’ve ever seen … 80 or 90 carats,” before joking that he could bid on the Hope Diamond. It’s funny because it’s true.
Bonus: If you like this sort of thing, Ryan O’Halloran has more. Steinz too.
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November 15th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
I also liked that Zorn didn’t challenge the almost-interception by Hall when Hall ran to the sidelines practically begging Zorn to throw the red flag. There’s no question in my mind that Zorn would have challenged that earlier in the season and wasted a timeout.
November 15th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
I’m scared to make this point, because I hate Vinny more than the law will allow me to acknowledge publicly, but in the six games to start the season — against much lesser teams including St Louis, Detroit, Tampa Bay and KC — the Redskins averaged 13 points per game. In the three games since the change to Sherm&Sherm as primary playcallers, against three teams with winning records, they’ve averaged 20 points per game.
This really doesn’t mean a lot — it just makes me think that maybe Zorn really did need a break, or that they’re seeing things in the booth he’s not seeing from the sideline.
Incidentally, Levi Jones’s rep was as a solid to above average pass blocker in Cincy — he was a mediocre to sucky run blocker. Between him and Rhino, maybe you’ve got one complete lineman.
November 15th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
A blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. While it was a good win that should be celebrated, our problems are not gone. Cerrato, Zorn, and Campbell aren’t magically absolved of everything they’ve done wrong or deserve long extensions. While we played great, we cant just ignore all the problems now and act like nothing is wrong. That kind of thinking is what got us to this point in the first place. At the end of the day, wins like today are detrimental to our future, since our draft pick (which already was at about a 5-6) now drops a lot and now likely can’t be a tremendous impact player for the next decade (If you’d trade one win for a franchise o-lineman you could have for about a decade, wouldn’t you take the o-lineman?)
HAIL
November 16th, 2009 at 6:36 am
Medium - Clinton Portis. It must suck to see the running game actually get somewhere without you in it but it was great seeing him cheering and clapping on the sideline like a little kid.
Can we keep Hunter the Punter pleeease?
November 16th, 2009 at 11:52 am
A shadow that’s three ten steps behind.
/fix’d
Also, what was up with Campbell rocketing the ball through his receivers? He could have had a monster game if he put a little touch on the ball.
November 16th, 2009 at 11:53 am
OK so the tag isn’t working I see…
November 16th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Osackpo98, I’ll take winning over losing any day, unless it’s Week 17 or some such and there’s a Peyton Manning-type on the board.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Wow. Ladell Betts can run. Rock Cartwright run. Who knew?
November 16th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
I smell playoffs.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
I smell booze.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
i woke up this morning and wasnt pissed off. Odd feeling. As for tanking it for a draft pick I am unequivocally against it. I would much rather see this team turn it into a 7-9, 8-8 season then 2-14 any day.