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Redskins don't practice tackling?


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- Redskins don't practice tackling?
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Since:Oct 8, 2007
November 6, 2009 7:57 pm

I read this today on the Redskins site.  I couldn't beleive that a professional football team doesn't practice tackling in practice because they are affraid to get hurt.  According to players they practice technique and just know whther they would have made a tackle or not.  HMMM this kind of explains why DeAngelo Hall didn't seem to know how to tackle Jake Delhomme in the Panthers game.  The only way I have ever been taught to do anything so you become the best is repetition doing it over and over.  No wonder our redskins miss so many tackles they don't practice to finish the play they only practice getting to the opponent.  I wonder how many other teams play with red shirts on all their players in practice.  Good god this is a country club....

http://blog.redskins.com/2009/11/06
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- Redskins don't practice tackling?
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Since:May 18, 2008
November 6, 2009 8:00 pm

I love my skins.  I love my skins.  I love my skins.

I have to chant it anymore.  This is disheartening.  I miss the days of hard nosed smash mouth defense. 

I love my skins.

HTTR.
 
- Redskins don't practice tackling?
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Since:Oct 7, 2008
November 6, 2009 8:49 pm

Why should this surprise anybody.
4 or 5 starters don't practice during the week anyway.
They just like to play and have their position locked in.
Wonder why nobody knows what's going on when a play is called.
 
- Redskins don't practice tackling?
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Since:Oct 8, 2007
November 6, 2009 11:06 pm

Imagine this it could be like gilbert arenas from the wizards starting to shoot then stopping and saying oh that would have been nothin' but net!!!
 
- Redskins don't practice tackling?
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Since:Aug 17, 2009
November 8, 2009 11:22 am

imagine this it could be like gilbert arenas from the wizards starting to shoot then stopping and saying oh that would have been nothin' but net!!!
Amen brother.  Amazing, the softness of this team.  I think that any team/Coach can learn a lot from Navy.  If you watch the team, they aren't talented, they aren't big, fast, or stronger than their oppenents.  But their coach get's the most out of them physically and mentally...and they are probably the most fundamentally sound football team in College football.  Why?  They have to be.  They have to outscheme, out block, and out smart you because they aren't more talented and they are smaller and slower, but those kids play with heart and after watching several games with them in it this year, I know that their coach is first class.

I've been complaining about this for years now, and when we play teams like the NY Giants, it really shows.  Teams with big running backs and big recievers, teams with ball carriers that run through the tackler.  They know the Redskins are soft tacklers, and there are only a few solid tacklers on this team, and even fewer consistant solid tacklers.  It'll be interesting to see who the next defensive coordinator is and who he keeps around from this group and who goes because they don't buy into veterans actually having to participate in practice.  I mean, last time I checked, you still had to earn a Super Bowl right?

HAIL!
 
- Redskins don't practice tackling?
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Since:Sep 18, 2006
November 8, 2009 9:02 pm

I mean, last time I checked, you still had to earn a Super Bowl right?
You are correct my friend!  I just wish a certain owner would learn this simple fact and stop trying to buy one.
 
- Redskins don't practice tackling?
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Since:Apr 4, 2007
November 9, 2009 12:09 pm

The Redskins have become soft from the top to the botom. We have players that don't practice and coachs that do not coach or prepare! Wow what a huge surprise that we have only won 2 games against the bottom of the NFL.

HTTR

 
- Redskins don't practice tackling?
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Since:Jul 6, 2007
November 10, 2009 10:29 am

I heard that they don't practice catching, throwing, blocking, scoring, goal line situations, time-out scenarios, no-huddle offense, prevent defense, pass defense, blitzes, or bump and run coverage...
 
- Redskins don't practice tackling?
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Since:Nov 30, 2007
November 10, 2009 1:05 pm

guys I know you are looking for explanations, but how manyt teams do you think really go live during the season?  My guess would be about 5 and those are probably young bad teams that are trying to set a tempermant (see Jummy Johnson and the Cowboys early on)