Where do we rank now with #11 @ QB?

Here is what I know about Rusty, he completed less than 60% of his passes in college at a beat up school. Never beat a big school in college. His pro day video looked like a Wheaties commercial of him throwing to 2 other people with no scouts there to watch. Thus far he has turned the ball over once, very well could have been 2 or 3 more. Lucky for him the Redskins secondary is THAT BAD. That's why I don't see why everyone thinks this should be easy because the Texans also have a bad secondary, The Redskins D isn't ranked that much higher.

So with that said, I hope he does well, for the teams sake. If he doesn't, it shouldn't be a surprise or let down to anyone. Sure he has "favorable match ups in the secondary." But the kid still has to go up against Freeney and Mathis 2 times and I don't see that working out so well for him. The Texans still have Mario Williams and The Jags are stepping it up. Anyway, best of luck Rusty, the entire team is going to need it and counting on you!

 

The Miami game was horrible for the defense. No doubt about that. Not against the skins though. If you hadn't accepted this as a bend don't break defense, you weren't paying attention. That's what the team did on Sunday. They held the Redskins to 16 points in regulation, and the playcalling was aggressive. It was good to see.

 

Both bend but don't break and aggressive. See Saints' defense 2009 season.

Again, I'll remind you that our offense had short series almost the entire game. When your offense is playing like that, and your defense still holds the opposing team to less than 20 points, you hardly blame the defense.

Also, looking past the Redskins because of their problems is hilarious. That team got embarrassed the week before. Remember what happened after this team got embarrassed last season? That team had heart, and so did the Skins. That's what won them the game.

 

Seriously, based on our performance over the last 3 games I would place us in the bottom 8 even without losing Vince or Jason Jones.

A large part of our flaws have IMO been down to coaching.

We have been a mess and I don't think thst Rusty Smith worsens that in any way.

The odd things is that I don't think we've been playing that bad. The defense has given up yards all year but has made plays.

Phins and Bolts we didn't but against the Skins we did.

When we got the stops and the turnovers though we didn't capitalise.

We the D has made big plays and the O turn them into points it's lifted the players and given us momentum.

We don't seem to have it in us though to be consistent on either offence or defence.

I'm very much looking forward to seeing Rusty play. I think the team around him is good enough to win out. We are failing to execute though and just as easily could lose out.

If Rusty plays well he could just be the spark we need.

 

Brett Favre's passer rating was 0.00 after his first snaps in the NFL (0/4 2 interceptions). So I don't really know what that has to do with anything.

We'll be as good as Rusty can be, which remains to be seen. All the physical tools are there but if hes too scared to play we'll get beat up bad.