Cooley, Colt, Yoder, and the Crossbar

Based on this morning’s SportsCenter and the dramatic layout of the Post’s Sports section, I’m still one of about five people on the planet Earth who didn’t think Clinton Portis‘s comments yesterday were the single worst thing ever to occur. We’re at that point in the season where tensions run high anyhow, and this seems [...]

Chris Cooley Spends Tuesday Being A Tour Guide

I wasn’t sure if there would be a player’s day off this week. I’ve written before about the way the workweek can get reset here — “there’s a Monday night game, so Saturday is Friday” and that kind of thing — and, to account for the long trip westward, Coach Zorn has moved travel day [...]

I Wish I Got Austrian TV

It’s easy to make the media horde at Redskins Park look enormous; lord knows I’ve been guilty of it myself. And, numerically, it does tend to be a pretty substantial group, but by this point in the season they’ve all become fairly familiar. Even the guys I don’t know by name or haven’t spoken to, [...]

Zorn on Punters: “Chris Cooley Can’t Punt For Us”

Coach Zorn started his press conference with an update and something of a clarification on the punting situation. “We’re bringing some punters in tomorrow,” Zorn confirmed. “This has nothing to do with [Durant Brooks's] injury.” Zorn described the injury as “a nagging irritation” of the hip flexor or quad on Brooks’s right (kicking) leg, and [...]

Making “The Mayne Event”

Kenny Mayne’s idea for his Mayne Event segment this week centers around the “Hip Hip Hooray” cheer, which appears to have caught the public imagination in a way that I couldn’t quite have imagined when Zorn first broke it out at the Welcome Home Luncheon. As Mayne explained to me when I spoke to him, [...]

Player’s POV – Rabach Asks Cooley About Food

Continuing with the Casey Rabach footage from the Dallas road trip…. The title of the post is actually misleading: Rabach doesn’t actually ask Cooley about food, he just encourages Cooley to talk about whatever’s at hand. In this case, whatever’s at hand is food. So this video can be viewed as an answer to yet [...]

Chris Cooley and Antwaan Randle El: Good Guys

A few people sent me the link to a story in the Frederick News-Post this weekend, about Chris Cooley driving up to Jefferson, MD, (west of Frederick) to visit with Ron Frazier. Frazier is a lifelong Redskins fan who was diagnosed with colon cancer, and a family friend contacted the team to see if they [...]

Chris Cooley is Popular, Part 2,432

In case you’re wondering how the media might react after someone inadvertently exposes a page quiz from the team’s playbook — and, not insignificantly, himself — on the internet, here’s Chris Cooley’s locker from open locker room today. Obviously, Cooley is on the other side of the mob, and to his credit he did an [...]

Redskins Watching Olympics

Among the Redskins, there are two major reactions to the Olympics. The first is exemplified by Todd Collins: “I’m watching when I have time. Maybe now that we’re done with two-a-days I’ll watch more.” Others are not only engrossed, they can relate. “I’m glued to the TV watching some of the gymnastics,” says Santana Moss. [...]

Wednesday, August 6: Your Job is Your Credit

If you stop to think about it, it’s a really impressive job of marketing on the part of the folks at Easterns Automotive Group that everything about their commercials grabs media attention. Previous commercials have been covered in detail by the DC Sports Bog, and less detail by Deadspin, among plenty of other places. The [...]