The Redskins need to realize that along with their play calling, their entire "drive" of playing football needs to formalize out of the old way of playing to the new way. Every other team is doing it. In this new day and time, football has become almost "blind to defense", and popularizes offense and the excitement in scoring. Teams like Green Bay (8-0), Patriots (5-3), even the Dream Team Eagles, who I love to introduce as (3-5), push countless passing and rushing yards a game down the feild.
Now here are current NFC Divisional Standings as of Week 10 of the 2011 season:
We need to stop relying on safe "Slant" plays and use the Shotgun formation to get key 20+ plays. The conservative method of playing football only wastes time and the energy of our defense as they are constantly at work on the feild from the offense going "3 and OUT". Our "Strong Eye" formation however is decent. The only problem is, Tim Hightower has torn his ACL and is out for the season. Not to mention our other key offensive players being hurt: Santana Moss, Chris Cooley, Anthony Armstrong, Oshiomogho Atogwe, Kedric Golston, Etc. Not to my surprise, the redskins head coach "Mike Shanahan" explains to sports media in a early monday press conference that "he's comfortable with his son, Kyle Shanahan, play calling so far. But how can you be comfortable after coming off a game with only 178 yards of total offense?! This is the lowest since 2007! This is also just an example of one of the past 4 straight loses since week 5 of the 2011 season. What is the issue? Mike claims to want a "balanced" offense at the begining of the preason. Since then, the offense has been no where near balanced. One game consisted of 28 pass plays and only 8 run plays, where the offense only generated shortly over 200 yards. Could it be that our injuries are really having this impact? Or is it that we just suck?
Now heres a clip of the 3rd Preseason game the skins played against the Ravens. Although it is of course only the preseason, it's interesting to view the loose play-calling the Redskins offense uses against a dominant Ravens defense. You should also consider that all starters played this game disregarding its frivolous meaning:
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