Week 9
Redskins WIN
Carolina WIN
Chiefs WIN
Baltimore LOSS
3-1 ATS
Also played Bears but didn't post.
Redskins @ Vikings Thursday night football.
In my season preview I picked last year's playoff Vikings to go 4-12. Show me anybody else that predicted that. The team is currently 1-7 right now thanks to their IGNORANT head coach Leslie Frazier who has no business being an NFL head coach. Sorry Rooney Rule, you failed yet again. Thanks for wasting away Adrian Peterson's career because you can't coach.
Idiot coach challenges things that can't be challenged, he doesn't even understand the basic rules of the game. He started Josh Freeman after 2 weeks of being on the team and Josh Freeman had one of the worst starts I have ever seen. You think you were looking out for Brah but you only made him look foolish, and yourself too.
Good job drafting Christian Ponder. You reached big time on him and he sucks. He probably wouldn't even be a good backup QB when the Vikings cut him loose in the next couple years. Matt Cassell sucks and would be the best option at this point yet he rots away on the bench.
The Vikings offense has the best RB of the last 20 years, a true 2000 yard back, maybe the best overall athlete in the NFL and they average 316 yards per game. Their coach is a "defensive guy" and they give up nearly 400 per game. What is he good at? Not X's and O's, not talent evaluation, not rallying the troops, he is worthless. He is there for one reason and one reason only, to be a token head coach.
The Redskins have their share of problems also. Whenever they win RG3 is awesome, and whenever they lose it is OC Kyle Shannihan's fault. RG3 was terrible, awful a few weeks ago in Denver. The only reason at all that they were in the game was due to a Peyton Manning pick 6 and a turnover by Denver around their own 30 yard line. That kept it close until Denver blew them away.
RG3 is not a good quarterback. Last year the red option worked and he got tons of cheap completions off of read option play action. This year the read option is contained so he isn't getting those cheap completions, something else I predicted.
People just look at RESULTS, not the PROCESS. They see RG3 with XX number of Tds and only 1 pick and think he is god. This guy can run, throw TD and NOT make mistakes. It is not because he is super QB, it is because people had no idea how to defend that offense last year and he had some of the easiest completions I have ever seen. The Redskins coaching is good, very good. Now you take away the read option and you make him play QB and he is not very good.
RG3 had a much better game last week against SD but still, the Redskins should have won that game by 10-20 points but barely won in OT and actually could have lost if Danny Woodhead was 5'7 instead of 5'6.
Thursday night adds a huge X factor, so much to the point where I don't know if I want to play it but I like the Redskins again this week.
Vikings have no QB. Josh Freeman sucks, Christian Ponder sucks, and Cassell sucks. None of them are capable of consistently running a moderate passing attack. They will run the ball and throw dump offs, all of them. Part of the problem is the WR talent and coaching around them, but it is just a bad mix here.
Redskins offense is inconsistent but they have the opportunity to be efficient. RG3 should be much faster playing in a dome on turf, on Thursday night football. Alfred Morris has been running great. The Vikings D-Line is not what it used to be.
Here are some other notes.
- Short week road game for Wash, playing an out of division opponent but I believe this will be their 3rd year in a row playing Minnesota.
- Redskins did get into an overtime game last week, in a short week but the defense didn't even have to take the field in the over time period.
- Short week means less time to game plan, but the Vikings don't offer anything on offense to game plan against. It is AD and a bunch of dink and dunk. This is one of the easiest teams in the NFL to game plan against.
- Redskins offense has struggled against 3-4 defenses, but the Vikings run a 4-3, I see this as an added boost for Washington after playing 2 34 defenses consecutively. Redskins ran some new triple option plays to get outside.
- Redskins are maybe the healthiest team in the league with little to no major injuries. Vikings are also pretty healthy but they lost big target TE Kyle Rudolph last week.