Redskins v. Cowboys – Postgame, Several Ways of Saying the Same Thing

As noted, there wasn’t a lot to be said about this loss. The team didn’t protect Jason Campbell, didn’t get to Tony Romo, and just basically didn’t convert its opportunities. How many different ways are there to make that point? At least a few. Here’s Coach Zorn’s effort. Wordy, and with his characteristic optimism (which [...]

Redskins v. Cowboys – First Quarter Thoughts

There were a lot of nice moments in the ceremony presenting Darrell Green and Art Monk with their Hall of Fame rings, most of them presented with tremendous pomp and circumstance. But for me, the best image was of Fred Smoot breaking off from pregame practice and enthusiastically congratulating Darrell Green, and Green slapping him [...]

Posing For Pictures: So Easy, Even blah blah blah

Guess who’s posing for pictures on the sidelines pregame. HINT: It isn’t Johnny Damon. Today’s game is presented by GEICO, whatever that means, so the caveman is making appearances wearing a Jason Candle Campbell jersey. For what it’s worth, the makeup looks much better in person than it does on TV or in photos. And, [...]

Gameday, Redskins v. Cowboys: Portis To Start; Springs, Kelly Out

Well, it looks like the early report on Shawn Springs was wrong, and it looks like the doom-n-gloom on Clinton Portis was also premature. Springs is out, Portis is slated to start at running back. Malcolm Kelly is down, as Zorn promised Fred Smoot will start for Shawn Springs, and Demetric Evans starts for Jason [...]

Wednesday, November 12: T.O. Calls Out Redskins Fourth Cornerback

The headline on the Dallas Morning News Cowboys Blog sounds like serious bulletin board material, up there in big, boldface sans-serif type: “T.O. on DeAngelo Hall: ‘At the rate he’s playing, I’m looking forward to a big day’”. This seems like an awfully roundabout way of saying “I hope the new guy is covering me, [...]

Tuesday, November 11: It’s Washington Week!

It seems like every time the Redskins and Cowboys square off, there’s another round of articles and blog posts trying to figure out if the Skins/Boys rivalry is still alive and relevant. There’s been something of trend recently claiming that the Redskins (or at least their fans) take the rivalry vastly more seriously than the [...]

Monday, November 10: Trying to Avoid a Repeat of the Steelers Fan Thing

Now that it’s a week after the fact, I didn’t feel like there was much left to the whole OMG STEELER’S FANS!!!111!!! thing from last Monday’s game. I mean, sure, I thought it was the main storyline of the game even while the outcome was still in doubt. But plenty was written about it afterward, [...]

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 [...]

Thursday, October 9: Player’s POV – Casey On the Bus

Let me get the bad news (at least for some of you) out of the way first: I won’t be at practice today, so there won’t be a practice update on the blog. Sorry about this, but don’t panic, it’s not the start of a trend or anything like that. The good news is that [...]

Friday, October 3: Redskins Fans are Dedicated

Last week, I posted a couple of reminders that the buses were leaving earlier, so people who were planning to see the buses off should adjust their schedules accordingly. These weren’t particularly controversial messages, but they did generate some email, most of which contained a variation of “Do people really see the buses off?” Yes. [...]