Mark Solway Eagles RBs vs. Jeremiah Trotter Rich Hilts The Philadelphia Eagles, like the Redskins, have been platooning their running backs this year, partially due to Duce Staley’s hold out that took so long to resolve. Unlike the Skins, however, the Eagles haven’t shown the same success the Skins backs have shown. Their main back has been … Read more
The Redskins and the Patriots meet Sunday at Fed Ex in a game being billed as the battle between the offensive genius of Steve Spurrier vs the defensive genius of Bill Belicheck. Both coaches will have to find ways to get players in the following match-ups to win their individual battles: Patrick Ramsey vs. Tom … Read more
Game three and people are already throwing around terms like ‘must win’ and ‘critical game’. While there is no doubt that a win for the Redskins against a divisional rival would be huge, it is still a little early to be ‘critical’. A win would put the Redskins alone atop the NFC East by as … Read more
The Redskins will try to stay undefeated and go 3-0 this weekend when they face division rivals — the New York Giants. Here are some of the key player match-ups: Laveranues Coles vs. Will Peterson Rod Gardner vs. Will Allen Jeremiah Trotter vs. Tiki Barber Laveranues Coles vs. Will Peterson By Martin Collinson Steve Spurrier … Read more
As the final whistle went on Sunday, the Redskins had staked a 2 and 0 mark in the standings for the first time since the season of their last Super Bowl victory, 1991. By no means does this team look Super Bowl bound yet, but they rallied from a 17-0 deficit to post their second … Read more
The Redskins head into Atlanta for the second game of 2003, fresh off of their 16-13 victory over the Jets. They will be trying to start the season 2-0 for the first time since 1991. Here are this week’s featured match-ups: Bruce Smith vs. Bob Whitfield Laveranues Coles vs. Ray Buchanan Patrick Ramsey vs. Falcons’ … Read more
Football fans were treated to a gem to kick off the 2003 NFL season. Well-played, well contested, the game had everything that a fan could ask for — especially a Redskin fan. As John Hall took his three step backs from the ball, looked up and saw 8 seconds on the clock, could he have … Read more
Logic tells you that every game in a 16 game schedule counts the same towards the final won and loss record right? Wrong. The opening night game against the Jets at Fed Ex is about as a big a non play off game as the ‘Skins will play this season. Is the season over if … Read more
The Redskins announced their practice squad today, QB Gibran Hamdan, WR Scott Cloman, DL Nic Clemons, LB Clifton Smith and TE Kevin Ware. The addition of Hamdan was inevitable due to the dubious decision to carry only two quarterbacks on the active roster. Despite playing very little late in training camp, the rookie from Indiana … Read more
If you combine the nine players that Redskins.com are reporting have been cut and the ten players that the Washington Post are going to be cut, you get 19 players to be removed from the 73 man roster. Add to that Chris Clemons, who was placed on the injured reserve list because of a sprained … Read more