saints post game

[skinsdad62]

Josh Doctson- For the fourth time in the last five weeks, Josh Doctson set at least one new career personal record. He tied career highs in targets (7) and receptions (4) and set new marks in first downs (4) and receiving yards (81). Doctson could have had an even bigger game if he had been able to find a way to haul in two difficult targets in the end zone.

The craziest thing about Doctson’s day is that he broke his yardage record in the first quarter and his first-down record in the second quarter. He was targeted on five of Cousins’ first seven passes, all of which came in the first frame of the game; but after that, he received just one target each in the third and fourth quarters.

Doctson could have had a monster game if they had continued to look his way in the second half.

Jamison Crowder- Crowder led the team with 8 targets and 7 receptions. He gained 72 yards on those receptions and tied a team-high with 4 first downs. It was certainly nice to see Crowder hold onto the ball this week, after committing multiple drops against the Vikings.

The diminutive third-year slot receiver took his only rush of the game for 4 yards. He has run the ball at least once in each of his last five games.

It should be noted that 3 of his 7 catches and 41 of his 72 yards came on the Redskins’ final drive of regulation. Nevertheless, Crowder has been on a hot streak as of late.

After not topping 7 targets and 52 receiving yards in each of his first six games, Crowder has received 8 or more targets and gained at least 72 yards through the air in his last three contests. He averaged 3.2 receptions for 25 yards in his first six games and 6.7 receptions for 90 yards in his last three outings.

He now leads the team in both targets (62) and receptions (39).

Ryan Grant- Ryan Grant played on both his second highest snap total (53) and snap share (77%) of the season. He caught all 3 of his targets for 59 yards, 2 first downs and a touchdown.

This was the fourth time this year Grant has caught every ball thrown in his direction. His 59 receiving yards in the game represent not only his second highest receiving total of the year, it was the second highest total of his career.

Grant was wide open on his 40-yard touchdown from Cousins, which was both the longest play of the game for Washington and the longest play of Grant’s entire career. Grant also set a new single-season career highs in first downs (19), 20-yard receptions (4) and touchdowns (3) with that play.

Literally the only major counting receiving statistic that Grant has not set a single-season career high in yet is targets (39 targets), but he is only four passes away from doing so (42 targets).

Maurice Harris- Mo Harris had a career day against the Vikings last week, but he was merely an afterthought in New Orleans. Harris only played on nine snaps in the first half and was not targeted.

Terrelle Pryor- Terrelle Pryor’s season has mercifully come to an end. The 28-year-old former quarterback will be placed on injured reserve after undergoing ankle surgery on Monday.

His PFF grade of 43.1 ranks him 108 out of 115 qualifying receivers this season.

He was only able to muster 20 receptions for 240 yards, 15 first downs and 1 touchdown on 37 targets and 378 snaps.

There have been 86 30-target seasons by a Redskins’ wide receiver since target data became available in 1992. Pryor’s 240-yard year ranks 80th on this list. Only Bill Brooks, David Patten, Josh Morgan, James Thrash, Chris Doering and Joey Galloway had less receiving yards on 30 or more targets.

This isn’t just about volume and sample size, either. Terrelle Pryor ranks in the bottom-25 of that list in yards per game (26.7), yards per reception (12) and yards per target (6.5).

In a nutshell, Terrelle Pryor’s 2017 campaign was one of the worst seasons ever by a Redskins starting wide receiver. Pryor has probably played his last snap for the team.

Brian Quick- Quick was held out because of a concussion for the second straight week. When he returns, he should see increased opportunity now that the Pryor experiment has officially ended.

 

[skinsdad62]

He caught 3 of his 6 passes for 67 yards and 2 first downs. Old man Davis has now gone for over 58 or more receiving yards in seven of his last eight games. He’s hit 65 yards in six of those games.

Two of his receptions came on on a touchdown drive in back-to-back plays , a 5-yard catch on third down and a gain of 26 on 4th-and-5. He caught a 36-yarder on a fourth-quarter scoring drive.

He leads the team and is tied for 8th in the NFL with 7 receptions of 25 or more yards this season. Here are the players who have caught more 25-yard passes in 2017: Brandin Cooks, T.Y. Hilton. Adam Thielen, Antonio Brown, DeAndre Hopkins, Tyreek Hill and Marvin Jones.

Davis was far from perfect on Sunday, though. He failed to haul in a 2nd-and-7 first down and flat-out dropped a first-down pass in overtime. The Redskins went three-and-out on that OT drive and never got the ball back. He leads the team with 5 drops this season.

Jeremy Sprinkle- The rookie tight end saw his snap count drop with the return of Niles Paul. The Redskins like to show two and three-tight end looks to start games, so he did make his fourth start of the year, despite the reduced playing time.

Sprinkle received a target for the second time in the last three weeks, and for just the second time this season.

He caught his first career pass for a 7-yard touchdown which put the Redskins up by 15 points with just under six minutes left in the game (that hurts to type).

Sprinkle is the third Redskin this season whose first catch of the year came on a touchdown (Doctson and Harris).

Niles Paul- Paul played on 34 offensive snaps against the Saints, his highest total since Week 3. He caught both of his targets for 11 yards and a first down. This was Paul’s first multi-target and multi-catch game since the final week of the 2014 season.

He took a fake-punt run for 5 yards and the first down. Had he not moved the chains there, the Saints would have taken over possession of the ball inside of Washington’s red zone. Instead, the Redskins finished the drive with a touchdown.

This was easily Paul’s most active game of the season.

Jordan Reed- Reed was inactive for the third straight game and for the fourth time this season. His ailing hamstring looks like it may keep him out of this week’s game against the Giants, as well.

He is three more missed games away from matching the seven contests he sat out of in his rookie season. With Reed’s luck, he will tie or beat that personal record in 2017.

 

[skinsdad62]

Chris Thompson (Rushing)- Thompson took his four rushes in New Orleans for 17 yards and 0 first downs. He lost yardage on two of his runs (-2 and -1) and picked up gains of 4 and 16 on his other two totes.

Through 10 games, Thompson led all Redskins running backs in both number of runs for a loss or no gain (17) and in the percentages of his rushes which did not gain a yard (27%), but he led this group in both the number of percentage of his runs that gained 5 or more yards (23, 36%), 10 or more yards (8, 13%) and 15 or more yards (4, 6%).

He also led the RB corps in both yards per carry (4.6) and missed tackles forced (13).

Chris Thompson (Receiving)- It was fitting that Thompson caught his only target in the game for a 16-yard touchdown. He scored on a receiving TD in the first week of the season, too. He was truly spectacular as a receiver out of the backfield this season.

Chris Thompson (The GOAT)- This hurts, but let’s take one last 2017 look at the GOAT.

• Thompson set new single-season career highs in receiving yards (510), yards from scrimmage (804), receiving touchdowns (4) and total touchdowns (6).
• He caught 39 of his 54 targets for 510 yards and 4 touchdowns. He is still tied for the team lead in receptions and sits alone at the top with the most receiving touchdowns, total first downs, total touchdowns and yards from scrimmage.
• Here are Thompson’s totals next to totals of the player who ranks second on the team in a few of those aforementioned statistics: total touchdowns (6 to 3), first downs (33 to 22) and yards from scrimmage (804 to 527). He’s produced at least 150% of the level of the next closest guy on the team in all three of those major offensive stats.
• CT currently ranks 5th in yards per route run (2.34), 4th in passer rating when targeted (125.4) and 4th in PFF receiving grade (87.2) among all qualifying running backs.
• His 510 receiving yards leads all running backs, which is 63 yards more than what 2nd place Alvin Kamara has.
• Chris Thompson is the king of YAC. Thompson leads the NFL with 485 yards after the catch. That is 90 more yards than Alvin Kamara’s 385 yards of YAC.
• Thompson’s 510 receiving yards this season ranks 10th all-time by a Washington RB in team history.

Samaje Perine- Perine finally broke out and had the game the team and fans had been waiting to see from him.

The fourth rounder out of Oklahoma set new career highs in nearly every major statistic: snaps (48), snap rate (70%), rushing attempts (23), rushing yards (109), rushes of 5 or more yards (6), long rush (30), yards per carry (5.1), yards from scrimmage (126), first downs (4) and rushing touchdowns (1). Wow, Samaje really had himself a day, didn’t he? That’s not all, though.

He ranked 3rd in the NFL this week in both rushing yards and yards from scrimmage. His 4.2 yards after contact average ranked 4th among all running backs in Week 11.

This was Perine’s first 100-yard game and the first such game by a Redskin since Rob Kelley crushed the Packers for 137 yards on SNF almost a year ago to the day. That was also the last time a Washington runner toted the rock 23 or more times in a game. There have only been six other 100-yard rushing performances and three other 23-carry games by a Redskin since 2015.

The rookie has definitely improved as the season has gone along. He was only averaging 3 YPC through the first six weeks of the season, but has gone on to average 4.75 since then. He posted a success rate above 33% in just one of the first four games he rushed the ball; he has topped 50% in each of his last three contests (50%, 56%, and 52%).

Samaje Perine is now the unquestioned lead back of the Washington Redskins. He leads the team in carries (89), rushing yards (327) and yards after contact average (2.8).

Byron Marshall- The team’s newest RB only played on 3 snaps and took his only carry of the game for a gain of 2 yards on 1st-and-17. With Chris Thompson out for the season, Marshall looks to be in store for a lot more work.

Marshall has a 70-plus catch, 1,000-receiving yard season on his college resume, so we have at least some evidence which shows he is capable of producing as a third-down back.

perine did step up dean for this game

 

[skinsdad62]

Offensive Line (Pass Blocking)- The line only allowed 4 hits and 2 sacks on the road to a Saints team that ranks top-10 in sack percentage and adjusted sack rate. Half of the hits and all of the sacks didn’t come until the Redskins’ last four offensive plays of the game.

No Washington O-linemen were called for holding penalties on Cousins’ dropbacks.

Offensive Line (Run Blocking)- The line paved the way for the team’s second best day of the year in terms of rushing yards and rushing average and only committed one penalty in the process.

Trent Williams- After missing both Weeks 8 and 9 with a knee injury, Williams was out there with the offense for 100% of the snaps for the second straight game.

The Redskins are averaging 145 rushing yards in 2017 contests which Williams takes every snap in and 74 yards rushing in games that he does miss a play in. Coincidence? Maybe. Small sample size? Well, yeah. Still interesting, nonetheless.

Shawn Lauvao- Lauvao aggravated his stinger and left the game after just 30 snaps, a season-low for the eighth-year guard. He jumped early on one of his last plays of the day and was flagged for a false start.

Chase Roullier- The rookie out of Wyoming finally looks to be getting the hang of things. He didn’t allow any pressures and posted an 84.4 PFF grade, the third best rating on the offense.

Roullier reportedly just had surgery on his hand, which casts extreme doubt on his status for Thursday night’s tilt with the Giants. Expect our next player to step in and man the pivot for the offense.

Tony Bergstrom- Bergstrom stepped in for Lauvao at left guard and took the last three snaps of a late second-quarter drive.

It looks like he will be the third center to start a game for the team this season. Unbelievable.

Brandon Scherff- Scherff’s 90.0 PFF run blocking grade was tops in the league going into Sunday Night Football.

Scherff wasn’t as great in pass protection, though. He gave up a key sack to Cameron Jordan in overtime.

His overall rating of 89.0 ranked 1st on the offense and 2nd on the team.

Morgan Moses- Moses was in on 100% of the offensive snaps for the eighth time this season. He ranks second on the team in offensive snaps (5 behind Cousins) and fourth in snaps from scrimmage. Only D.J. Swearinger has played on more total snaps than Moses (includes special teams).

Moses did commit a face-mask penalty against the Saints which negated a 6-yard run by Perine on first down and that was the primary catalyst for a stalled drive in the fourth quarter. He also recovered Cousins’ fumble on the last play of regulation.

Ty Nsekhe- Bergstrom would be replaced by Ty Nsehke at left guard. Nsekhe played a season-high 36 snaps in the game (13 snaps in 2017 prior to Sunday). The last time he played more was Week 13 of last season against the Cardinals, the last game of Trent William’s suspension.

Arie Kouandijo- Kouandijo was a healthy scratch. He has only played in two games all season (Weeks 8 and 9 vs. Dallas and Seattle), but he may get an opportunity against the Giants because of Lauvao’s recurring stinger injury.

Spencer Long- Long was inactive for the third time in the last four weeks. He had only missed 50 of the team’s last 1,130 snaps going into the Week 7 matchup against the Eagles. He has missed 259 snaps since that game.

Long was placed on injured reserve today.

great , our starting LG and both our top centers out vs giants and maybe even trent

 

[skinsdad62]

Redskins Vs. Saints - Studs and Duds

dean gripes about KC playing outstanding while his defense buddies played like urine

 

[deanpet21]

Redskins Vs. Saints - Studs and Duds

dean gripes about KC playing outstanding while his defense buddies played like urine

who is griping? I was wrong on the IG call.

 

[gkekoa]

Kirk Cousins (Passing)- This was arguably Cousins’ best game of the season. He completed 22 of his 32 passes for 322 yards, 3 touchdowns, 15 first downs and 0 interceptions. He was not sacked until the final play of regulation.

He went 6-for-9 for 89 yards, 3 first downs and 2 touchdowns on third down. His pair of third-down scores ties a season-high.

He averaged 10.1 yards per attempt and finished the game with a 132.6 passer rating, both of which ranked 1st among all starting quarterbacks in Week 11. These were Cousins’ best numbers in those statistics this season outside of his Week 3 trouncing of the Raiders.

KC also completed over two-thirds of his passes for the eighth time this year (68.8%), which is something that only Drew Brees, Tom Brady and Alex Smith have done more often in 2017.

Kirk Cousins (Red Zone)- Remember how Kirk Cousins sucks in the red zone? Well, guess what, that was a totally false narrative driven by two end-zone interceptions which took place in Weeks 1 and 2 of 2016.

Two of Cousins’ three TD passes on Sunday came inside the Saints’ 20-yard line. He has tossed 11 scores and has only thrown 1 pick in the red area this season.

Kirk Cousins (Rushing)- Cousins scrambled three times for 11 yards and a first down. Two of his rushes came on third down, he picked up a first down on one of those plays and set the team up a yard short of the sticks for the fourth-down conversion on the other one.

He leads the team with 14 rushing first downs and is tied for the fifth most chain movers in the league by a quarterback.

Kirk Cousins (Advanced Stats)- Cousins earned an 84.7 PFF grade for his efforts on Sunday. That was the third highest rating on the team and one of the highest grades handed out to a quarterback in all of Week 11.

He also posted the third highest QBR and raw QBR by a quarterback this week (83.7 and 82.2). Only Matt Ryan and Tom Brady outdid Cousins here.

Kirk Cousins (Records)- Captain Kirk either surpassed or tied Mark Rypien for several team records.

Cousins’ 42nd consecutive start moved him into second all-time in Redskins history, behind only Joe Theismann’s 60 straight starts.

He surpassed Rypien in career completions (1,255) and now sits alone with the fourth most completions in franchise history. Cousins is just over 1,000 yards for jumping Rypien for fourth place in passing yards, as well.

Finally, he tied Rypien for the most 300-yard passing games by a Redskins signal caller, with 13 300-yard performances. Two more 300-yard efforts will move Cousins into second on the list.

This was Cousins’ eighth 300-yard game with 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions since the start of the 2015 season. That is tied with Tom Brady for the most such games in this time frame.

The only other players who have done this five or more times since 2015 are: Drew Brees (6), Russell Wilson (6), Aaron Rodgers (5) and Ben Roethlisberger (5). Every one of those guys has one won a Super Bowl and is going to the Hall of Fame.

another myth about KC debunked . performance in the red zone is pretty darn good

But Dad...he sucks.

 

[gkekoa]

We need to make an effort to get the ball to Doctson more. This will open up the run game.

 

[skinsdad62]

We need to make an effort to get the ball to Doctson more. This will open up the run game.

i think we are , he is learning and the qb is starting to trust him more

 

[gkekoa]

i think we are , he is learning and the qb is starting to trust him more

He didn't receive a target in the second half.

 

[skinsdad62]

He didn't receive a target in the second half.

well other stars have had that happen

 

[gkekoa]

well other stars have had that happen

I can’t think of any.

 

[Sportster 72]

well other stars have had that happen

Agree, it isn't odd that an opposing team tries to take something away during a football game or other things open up do to the success of a particular player during a game. As Dox develops he may make that harder. Clearly he is becoming more important to the team. I am happy to see that.

 

[skinsdad62]

4th Quarter Comeback Misery- It doesn’t matter which win probability site you look at, they all pretty much had the Redskins with higher than a 99% chance to win the game late in the fourth quarter on Sunday.

As we all know things did not go to plan and the team blew a 15-point 4th-quarter lead and lost the game in overtime. Let me try to quantify how bad this was for you:

• Drew Brees was 0-50 in games that he trailed by 14 or more points in the fourth quarter prior to Sunday’s contest.
• The Saints had never won any of the 234 games they trailed by 14 or more points in the history of the team. Again, this changed in Week 11.
• The last time an NFL team blew a 15-point lead with under five minutes to play was in 2011 when Tim Tebow and Dolphins came back to beat the Broncos in overtime.
• The Redskins entered the fourth quarter with an 11-point lead. They were 215-11-2 with an 11-point lead going into the fourth quarter of games since 1940.
• They only led by 15 or more points at any time during the fourth quarter in three of those eleven other losses (Steelers in 1962, Giants in 1970 and Cowboys in 1999). This was one of the greatest collapses in Redskins history.

for the people who dont get the defense blew the game

 

[skinsdad62]

Anthony Lanier- Lanier had a career game as a pass rusher.

He played 30 snaps for the defense and made a tackle for the first time since Week 8. The tackle came on a sack of Drew Brees, which was the first sack of Lanier’s career. He also registered a team and career-high 2 quarterback hits.

Lanier is only 24-years-old and has played fewer than 200 defensive snaps in his career. He needs to play a lot more over the final six games of the year.

Stacy McGee- McGee started for the sixth time this season, but only recorded 1 assisted tackle in the game. On the plus side, he was able generate some pressure on Drew Brees.

Terrell McClain- Terrell McClain left the game with a foot injury after 11 snaps. He did not record any traditional stats or pressures for the second week in a row.

lanier was a bright spot for us , hope he can continue and be next years ionman

 

[skinsdad62]

D.J. Swearinger- For the seventh time this season Swearinger played on 100% of the defensive snaps.

After intercepting Case Keenum in the third and fourth quarter of last week’s game, Swearinger picked off Drew Brees on the third play from scrimmage on Sunday. Brees had not thrown an interception in 111 consecutive attempts prior to this play.

That makes it two straight games and three straight quarters with an interception by Swearinger. This is the first time in his career he’s scored a pick in back-to-back games, and it’s the first time any Redskin has accomplished this feat since Bashaud Breeland did in Weeks 5 and 6 of the 2015 season.

Swearinger’s latest pick tied the single-season career high 3 interceptions that he recorded in 2016, and tied Kendall Fuller for the team lead in interceptions this season.

He also recorded 5 solo and 6 total tackles against the Saints; unfortunately for Swearinger and the Redskins, New Orleans picked up a first down on every single one of them.

Montae Nicholson- The speedy rookie out of Michigan State started for the sixth time this season, but was forced to leave the game with an injury once again.

He hasn’t been able to play a full game since Week 6 (72 snaps over the team’s last 4 games). In fact, Week 6 (at Philadephia) was the only time Nicholson has played on more than 88% of the snaps this season.

He made 4 solo tackles before exiting the game, even though he only played on 18 snaps

PFF has Nicholson as the highest graded safety on the Redskins’ roster (77.5).

DeAngelo Hall- DeAngelo Hall was pressed into action for the final 53 snaps of the game after Montae Nicholson went down.

He was great against the Seahawks in his 2017 debut, but his play has fallen off a cliff since then.

He did record a season-high 5 solo and 6 total tackles, but all 5 of his solo tackles came 18 or more yards from the line of scrimmage. The rest of the news on Hall is bad. First, he missed 3 tackles, which may or may not include when Mark Ingram broke his ankles on a 36-yard touchdown run.

He was just as bad, if not worse in coverage. All 4 of the targets thrown in his direction were caught for a total of 67 yards and a touchdown.

PFF gave Hall a grade of 24.6 for this absolutely atrocious performance.

Sunday was both Hall’s 34th birthday and the day we all accepted the fact that he will probably only be playing pro football for another month-and-a half. I’ve actually grown pretty fond of D-Hall, but the truth is the truth. Hall had a run, but he is done.

Deshazor Everett- I know Everett probably isn’t the Redskins’ “starting safety of the future,” but tell me why he didn’t play a single defensive snap when the team saw Hall struggling so badly in the game. Everett has averaged fewer than 13 defensive snaps per game since Week 3.

nicholson is the future . hall is done period

 

[SoCalWizFan]

• The last time an NFL team blew a 15-point lead with under five minutes to play was in 2011 when Tim Tebow and Dolphins came back to beat the Broncos in overtime.

Tebow played for the Dolphins? I think you mean that the Broncos beat the Dolphins. Just giving you a hard time - thanks for all of the related info. I hope that the Skins at least beat the Giants tomorrow. This loss is still not sitting well w/ me, and really has me concerned w/ how Gruden's teams do poorly in the clutch. We have seen this trend way too often in the last several years. I give Gruden all the credit in the world for handling this awful injury crisis, but at the same time his inability to inspire players down the stretch has to be criticized.

 

[skinz2winz]

Re-watching game again on NFLN. First drive results in a 38 yard FG. Because of our TERRIBLE luck, the pass interference on Lattimore against Doctson does not get called. Really? Not only did Lattimore trip Doctson, (we'll call that incidental) he grabbed Doctson's arm at the point the ball arrived to create the drop. Never mind the LOB hand checking all the way down the field on the route. All I can say is these refs did SUCK!!!