“OMG, this offense is going to rank 44th in a league of 32 teams.”
That’s how The Team 980 host Chris Russell saw the Friday morning practice. Russell said in his first hour Friday (1-4 pm) that anyone going to that practice may have left practice with that thought in mind.
How bad was the Commanders offense Friday? Here are some select quotes from Russell’s opening monologue of that first hour of his program.
“There is nothing to hide here. Maybe it is because of a really good defense, or maybe because it is a really bad offense that is still learning what the hell they are trying to do. The offense is light years behind.”
“Listen, it is practice. They are going against a good defense. They are learning a new system. I am sure they are tired. I got it. Be better, do better. It was wretched.”
“In every way, shape, or form. The quarterbacks all stunk. The receivers stunk. Too many dropped passes, too many non-catches, too many falling downs, too many balls not fought for correctly, too many balls not held on to.”
The bottom line is the parts I saw (2+ hours) were horrific. A lot of it was of the unforced error variety. I wish I could just attribute it to, ‘Man, the defense was cooking today’. But that wasn’t the case.”
“It is still a work in progress. But we can all be responsible, grown adults and say, ‘They (offense) sucked today.’ And it has been a week since I thought the Commanders offense looked anything close to ‘above average/good.'”
“Since last Friday when Jake Fromm clearly outplayed Sam Howell and Jacoby Brissett, and the offense was sloppy in general (paused) and last Saturday in front of 10,000 fans and all three quarterbacks sucked, and the offense sucked as a whole, but it somehow didn’t stink as bad as it did today.”
“Today just made you want to barf.”
There was more, but we only have so much space…