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As always a great breakdown from HH with unique insight on the players.
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The Redskins brain trust envisioned a 2015 team that would be able to control the clock and entire games by running the ball down opponent's throats with their bigger and nastier offensive line and a new power running scheme. Bill Callahan's offensive line would pave the way for the two-headed backfield monster of Alfred Morris and Matt Jones to punish opposing defenses, and when those defenses began to sell out against the run Jay Gruden and Sean McVay would dial up a perfectly timed play action pass to keep them off balance and make them pay
Meanwhile, Joe Barry's defense would keep opposing running games in check and would create more big plays with an aggressive and attacking one-gap system and improved personnel in the front seven.
For a few weeks, their plan actually worked. They finally had something to hang their hat on week-in and week-out. They finally had found an identity. But like that, it was gone.
After rushing for 558 yards with a 4.43 yards per carry average in the first four games, they rushed for just 172 yards with a 2.29 average in the last four games. That's three times fewer yards with a per rush average that's almost cut in half. In those last four games they have not rushed for more than 51 yards once. Per Rich Tandler that is the worst such streak in the franchise's 84 year history.
What's even worse is that there have only been seven other four game streaks of 51 rushing yards or fewer by any NFL team since 1940. The Redskins rushing attack truly has been historically bad in the team's last four games. Bill Callahan and company should be incredibly embarrassed by this performance.
I wish I could say that only the offense has fallen apart in the rushing department, but the defense has been nearly equally as bad when it comes to stopping the run. In the last four games combined the Redskins have allowed 748 rushing yards. I'll let John Keim give you a little more perspective on that.
In the Redskins' last 4 games, they've allowed 187 rushing yards per game -- 31 more than anyone else.
— John Keim (@john_keim) November 9, 2015
Per Kiem the 187 rushing yards per game allowed in this span ranks last in the league and the 5.34 rushing yards allowed per attempt by the defense ranks 31st.
In each of the past four games the Redskins have allowed for a single player to rush for 129 or more yards (Freeman, Ivory, Martin and Blount). In the last four years combined (2011- to Week 4 of 2015) they had only allowed four running backs to rush for 129 or more against them.
Washington has also allowed the opposition as a whole to rush for 161 yards or more in each of those games. This is the 15th time that this has happened to any team since 2000 and only the sixth time that it has happened to the Redskins since 1940.
The team was setting a blistering, record-setting pace with their time of possession numbers in the first four games of the season, as theyranked first in the league by a good margin (time of possession of over 36 minutes per game); but their futility on the ground since then has changed all of that. Their average time of possession per game has dropped by nearly ten minutes since Week 5, and they rank second worst in the league in that span.
The coaching staff and the players just had a bye week to address these problems and it doesn't look like they've done anything to fix them. If they don't figure out something, and do it fast, then many of them will be looking for new jobs in a few months.
Excerpt
The Redskins brain trust envisioned a 2015 team that would be able to control the clock and entire games by running the ball down opponent's throats with their bigger and nastier offensive line and a new power running scheme. Bill Callahan's offensive line would pave the way for the two-headed backfield monster of Alfred Morris and Matt Jones to punish opposing defenses, and when those defenses began to sell out against the run Jay Gruden and Sean McVay would dial up a perfectly timed play action pass to keep them off balance and make them pay
Meanwhile, Joe Barry's defense would keep opposing running games in check and would create more big plays with an aggressive and attacking one-gap system and improved personnel in the front seven.
For a few weeks, their plan actually worked. They finally had something to hang their hat on week-in and week-out. They finally had found an identity. But like that, it was gone.
After rushing for 558 yards with a 4.43 yards per carry average in the first four games, they rushed for just 172 yards with a 2.29 average in the last four games. That's three times fewer yards with a per rush average that's almost cut in half. In those last four games they have not rushed for more than 51 yards once. Per Rich Tandler that is the worst such streak in the franchise's 84 year history.
What's even worse is that there have only been seven other four game streaks of 51 rushing yards or fewer by any NFL team since 1940. The Redskins rushing attack truly has been historically bad in the team's last four games. Bill Callahan and company should be incredibly embarrassed by this performance.
I wish I could say that only the offense has fallen apart in the rushing department, but the defense has been nearly equally as bad when it comes to stopping the run. In the last four games combined the Redskins have allowed 748 rushing yards. I'll let John Keim give you a little more perspective on that.
In the Redskins' last 4 games, they've allowed 187 rushing yards per game -- 31 more than anyone else.
— John Keim (@john_keim) November 9, 2015
Per Kiem the 187 rushing yards per game allowed in this span ranks last in the league and the 5.34 rushing yards allowed per attempt by the defense ranks 31st.
In each of the past four games the Redskins have allowed for a single player to rush for 129 or more yards (Freeman, Ivory, Martin and Blount). In the last four years combined (2011- to Week 4 of 2015) they had only allowed four running backs to rush for 129 or more against them.
Washington has also allowed the opposition as a whole to rush for 161 yards or more in each of those games. This is the 15th time that this has happened to any team since 2000 and only the sixth time that it has happened to the Redskins since 1940.
The team was setting a blistering, record-setting pace with their time of possession numbers in the first four games of the season, as theyranked first in the league by a good margin (time of possession of over 36 minutes per game); but their futility on the ground since then has changed all of that. Their average time of possession per game has dropped by nearly ten minutes since Week 5, and they rank second worst in the league in that span.
The coaching staff and the players just had a bye week to address these problems and it doesn't look like they've done anything to fix them. If they don't figure out something, and do it fast, then many of them will be looking for new jobs in a few months.
. This paragraph from the article...crazy
