Friday, October 24: Peter King Picks The Lions

Here’s a bright, sunshiny start to an away-game weekend: Peter King picks the Redskins to lose to the Lions, 20-17. His reasoning? Pretty much “just cuz”: It makes no sense, picking Dan Orlovsky to win an NFL game. But I’ve had pretty good luck with the upset recently — Miami over San Diego, St. Louis [...]

Wednesday, October 15: Portis Somehow More Valuable Than Offensively Adept?

I was reading Bucky Brooks’s column over at SI.com this morning, in which he tags Kurt Warner as a frontrunner for NFL MVP. Nothing too earthshaking as far as these types of articles go; he makes a reasonably solid argument for Warner based on the stats so far this year, and then he lists out [...]

Tuesday, September 30: Just Because You’re Paranoid…

Given that I spent a whole bunch of words yesterday reveling in the fact that a couple of sportswriters gave the Redskins credit for a non-fluke victory, I think it’s safe to say that I have a little bit of a complex when it comes to the credit the Redskins get. It’s not just me, [...]

Peter King Makes Up for Lost Time, Others Assess Flukiness

After two straight weeks of my passive-aggressive griping about Peter King ignoring the Redskins, two weeks of debating if it’s better to fly under the radar, the win in Dallas has changed things around juuuuuuuust slightly. In today’s Monday Morning Quarterback column The Redskins move up at least twelve places in the “Fine Fifteen,” from [...]

Attention Redskins Fans in St. Louis and San Francisco (updated)

Awful Announcing has this week’s broadcast maps, showing which areas get which games. As you’d expect, the only NFC late game — YOUR Washington Redskins at the Dallas Cowbys — has pretty much saturation coverage on FOX, with number one announcing team Joe Buck and Troy Aikman attached. This is one of those games that’s [...]

Tuesday Redskins Links – 9/23

Better known as Tuesday’s Jason La Canfora/Vinny Cerrato Tampering Hoo-hah Links, I suppose, since that’s what there’s a lot of chatter about today. Despite my best efforts this morning, I find myself unable to step away from the radio drama. Since my last (theoretically final) update on the subject, Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio has [...]

Tuesday, September 23: Finishing Up (Hopefully) With that Tampering Thing

Well, after I spent yesterday morning rambling about looking forward and getting ready for Dallas Week and so on, much of the rest of the day was spent on pretty much the exact opposite. It would be nice to just let the whole tampering accusations thing recede into the distance, but there is one update [...]

Words Not To Use Capriciously In The NFL: “Tampering”

While the announcement of Vinny Cerrato’s radio show on ESPN 980 was met with two basic reactions (those being mild indifference and frothing apoplectic rage), the actual airing of the show itself was a much lower-key affair. Everyone seemed to realize that it was, after all, just a sports talk radio show and not actually [...]

Monday, September 15: A Much Lighter Mood

Mood around Redskins Park is much lighter today, as you’d expect after yesterday’s win. And with that mood in the air, I was genuinely curious to read the major Monday morning NFL recaps and see if the national writers had revised their opinions, what the general tenor of their commentary was, stuff like that. Peter [...]

Thursday, September 11: On Injuries and Schadenfreude

It’s one of those useful German words, is schadenfreude. It does a good job of reducing a concept that’s a bit of a jumble in English into four syllables. Essentially, it means taking joy in someone else’s pain, and it’s something that provides a lot of joy for sports fans. Your team not doing well? [...]