Mark Solway The Redskins have pared their roster down to 73 players including 8 that were assigned to NFL Europe last season. The NFL requires rosters down to 65 by 4:00pm August 27th, but the NFLE players receive exemptions until the final cutdown (to 53) on September 1st. Here are the first round of cuts: Tre Johnson, … Read more
Well the Redskins finally did something in the preseason to get excited about — they won a game. After two luckluster efforts against both Carolina and New England that resulted in losses, Washington came out on Saturday and played with intensity and sharpness. They treated the over 70,000 in attendance at Fed Ex Field to … Read more
With less than two weeks left to go before the Redskins’ opening kickoff, we’re kicking things back in to high gear at theHogs.net. It’s been a whirlwind first offseason for the website with our new message board, our exclusive draft section, player profiles, the Ken Harvey Football Fan Classic and the 2003 training camp. We’ve … Read more
Saturday, July 26th, 2003 marked the proudest day of this website’s short history. Melanie Pierce, the marketing director for Ken Harvey’s marketing company JAKA and for the Redskin Alumni, invited us to help with the Football Fan Classic that was being put on at Splashdown Park in Manassas, Virginia. So BossHog, NewsHog, Scooter, and the … Read more
My first ever Redskins practice and it’s is a hot, hazy day in Ashburn with practice starting off with a little bit of rain. The team stretched for the first 15 minutes and then split into offensive and defensive units. I’ve been reading in here that Dockery was massive, but you kind of have to … Read more
Saturday Aug. 02 AM Practice Just back from Saturday morning’s kickoff to Fan Apreciation Day, and Redskin Park is an absolute zoo today. There are probably 10 times the people here today than have been at any other practice. their is a scrimmage today at 4:00pm, so the morning session was once again, a no-pads … Read more
Just back from Saturday morning’s kickoff to Fan Apreciation Day, and Redskin Park is an absolute zoo today. There are probably 10 times the people here today than have been at any other practice. their is a scrimmage today at 4:00pm, so the morning session was once again, a no-pads affair. After the warm-up, practice … Read more
AM Practice I just want to say soething before I post the summary of this morning’s practice… I have had a little more time to folow the local news around here (all sources) and I have to tell you… I don’t know what training camp they’re watching, but it isn’t the Redskins. Nearly everything I … Read more
It’s Friday afternoon and today may be the last real practice that I get to see with tomorrow being Fan Appreciation Day. There is a practice tomorrow morning at 9:00am too, but with festivities kicking off at 12:30, I’m not sure how hard they will practice. It was another hot, humid afternoon here in Ashburn. … Read more
I just want to say soething before I post the summary of this morning’s practice… I have had a little more time to folow the local news around here (all sources) and I have to tell you… I don’t know what training camp they’re watching, but it isn’t the Redskins. Nearly everything I reads is … Read more