Category: My Beloved Redskins
Redskins Fans – Change Your Calendars on the 23rd. Oh, and They Could Make the Playoffs, Too…
The league has decided to move the Redskins/Vikings game on December 23rd to the Sunday Night feature game, since it (amazingly enough) has big-time playoff implications. Yeah, you read that right. After this week’s games, the Redskins are still in the thick of the playoff hunt. After a Thursday night win against the Chicago Bears [...]
Redskins Lose to a Worse Team. Again.
Even with the emotion of Sean Taylor’s death lifting them, the Redskins managed to let an inferior team beat them today. The Buffalo Bills played steady football, worked back field goal by field goal, and took advantage of a Redskins offense that was, again, far too conservative and beat them. Joe Gibbs also to a [...]
On Sean Taylor
This afternoon, the Washington Redskins will play their first football game without Sean Taylor. I’m not quite sure how they will do it. Football seems like such a kid’s game next to the stark realities of life and, this week, death. But, and I say this with a lot of confidence, football is a lot [...]
This is How a Journalist Should Work
For those of you who were fans of Sean Taylor and are interested in tracking the latest news from Redskins Park, there is no better place than the Washington Post’s Redskins Insider. Jason LaCanfora, the Post’s Redskins beat reporter has been doing an extraordinary job. I can only imagine how difficult his job must be, [...]
RIP Sean Taylor
For those of you who follow professional football, this is likely to be a big story. For every one else, a story of a young man who lived a dangerous life, managed to make a good name for himself, and died far too young. Washington Redskins starting strong safety Sean Taylor died in the hospital [...]
“Giving Him the Business”
For years, I’ve talked about the referee who, during an NFL game called a personal foul on a player for “giving him the business”. What made the penalty call so great to me is that the referee – the veteran official Ben Dreith – added some helpful gestures to show what “giving him the business” [...]
The Redskins Stink Up Another One
It’s time for Joe Gibbs, or someone very close to Gibbs to get the axe. Their season is, for all intents and purposes, over. They can not make the playoffs at this point with a 5-6 record. Gibbs and his staff needed to whip the team up into something resembling a sense of urgency and [...]
My Beloved, Pathetic, Meek, Redskin Kittens Let Another One Go
Here’s a perfect quote that sums up the difference between a team like the Redskins and a team that’s actually good enough to contend for a playoff spot. “We keep making the big plays,” coach Wade Phillips said. “I just think it shows the character of this team. We’ve done it all year and we [...]
That’s What You Said