Mark Solway

Cooley’s Season Ends, Rumors Swirl

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Yesterday, the Redskins surprisingly announced that they had put Chris Cooley on the injured reserve list. I say surprising only because when the veteran tight end broke his finger last week – there was no talk of it being the end to his season.

The decision is likely due to Cooley’s multiple injuries and not just his latest, a mangled finger. Captain Chaos has been nursing a knee injury all year, and while he was playing through the injury, he never seemed to get all the way back to firing on all cylinders. Regardless of the reasons behind the decision to put Cooley on IR, he’s there, and speculation begins to mount as to whether or not he will ever see the field as a Washington Redskin again.

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Sunday Sadness Melts Into Monday Mourning

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As if the 33-20 defeat at the hands of the hapless Carolina Panthers wasn’t enough on Sunday, news didn’t get any better for Redskins Nation on Monday. The Redskins also announced that Tim Hightower had suffered a torn ACL and was done for the year, and that Santana Moss had surgery on his hand, and … Read more

By The Numbers: Panthers

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Numbers are numbers. That’s the beauty of them. There’s something zen about looking at numbers after a game – they remove emotion. Here are the numbers and statistics from the Redskins 33-20 loss to the Carolina Panthers: 279 – Yards passing and 22 of 37, for John Beck. They aren’t huge numbers, but they aren’t … Read more

That Was Gross Man

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Teams win and lose… as teams. No one individual is ever single-handedly responsible for the fate of an NFL franchise. Repeat that over and over to yourself about Sunday’s performance from Rex Grossman, and maybe you’ll believe it. The fact of it is, when you put up four interceptions, and almost nothing of note on … Read more

Eagles Trying to Tackle Injuries

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Word is that King Dunlap may not be able to play on Sunday, and that could become the Achilles heel for the Philadelphia Eagles. Dunlap was expected to play in place of starter Jason Peters, who was officially ruled out of this week’s action.

Not only do the Eagles have to go three deep at left tackle if King can’t go, but the only other option they have, is to play Todd Herremans at left tackle. At first glance, that wouldn’t appear earth-shattering as Herremans is listed as the right tackle, but what a depth chart won’t tell you is that he was already playing out of position. Herremans is naturally a guard.

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