" brought 'em from where we didn't think they were coming from. "We weren't smart enough to know where they were coming from," he said. Spurrier used the word "confused" when he talked about his players' inability to pick up blitzes. See, the decision to go away from being "NFL-ized," as Spurrier said last week, back to Fun 'n' Gun can only work if the Redskins coaches and players can protect the passer, and nothing that's happened in the past six games suggests they can do that. What he needed, in the absence of effective blocking, was a corner man to throw in a white towel. I've seen Mike Tyson go 12 rounds and not get hit as hard as Ramsey was hit by the Cowboys. He was just crushed a couple of times by Roy Williams. He was hit at least twice that many times. Ramsey, bless his heart, was sacked four times Sunday. An offense that doesn't have that as the first priority, by whatever name, is worthless. The most basic and most fundamental tenet, whether you're Don Shula, Don Coryell, Bill Walsh or Joe Gibbs, is don't expose your quarterback. It's written in stone, and without being faithful to that first commandment you've got no offense, not in the pros. The first rule of offense, any NFL offense, is, Protect The Quarterback. And if the Redskins can't solve this issue, can't find a way to protect their talented and tough-as-nails but increasingly battered young quarterback, they've got nothing of consequence going on this season. Don't think they won't do exactly what Parcells had the Cowboys do to Ramsey. What fun? What gun? Whatever the great Joe Bugel did in consultation didn't help the offensive line, and whatever Foge Fazio did in consultation didn't help the defense get after Quincy Carter, who was sacked once, and that in name only since he was looking to run on the play anyway.įor those keeping count, it's four straight losses for the Redskins, five in the last six games, with Seattle, Carolina and Miami on deck. And the Redskins were helpless in the face of the Dallas onslaught. So the Cowboys set out to bury Ramsey, knowing that's what every team believes is the way to beat Washington, knowing the Redskins have no viable backup, no second or third quarterback who had ever thrown an NFL pass before Sunday. "We looked at a lot of film of the Redskins this season, and we kept seeing they couldn't handle the pressure being put on him." "They just couldn't pick it all up," Woodson said afterward of the Cowboys' blitz. The only time veteran safety Darren Woodson got popped all day came when he and teammate Roy Williams converged at Ramsey on a blitz, knocking each other silly.
The Cowboys called about the most creative blitz package you'll ever see, bringing linebackers and safeties around corners, sprinting like Carl Lewis to hit Ramsey.
The final score of 21-14 doesn't tell the story of what happened here nearly as much as the welts and bruises and lumps on Patrick Ramsey, or for that matter the way Dallas simply beat down Steve Spurrier's offense. Never mind the final score, or that the Redskins scored late to pull within a touchdown. Remember that? Buddy Ryan killed that gimmick offense, didn't he? Well, Bill Parcells might as well have put the Fun 'n' Gun in a coffin at Texas Stadium on Sunday. You can put the Fun 'n' Gun in the Smithsonian, okay? Right alongside the remnants of the Run 'n' Shoot.
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