Honey, get me the defibrillator paddles, the Redskins are on.

They never make it easy, do they?  First a dominating performance turned into a loss last week, and then another dominating performance almost turned into a potential loss this week.  They should ship a free season’s supply of heart medicine with my subscription to Sunday Ticket.  They can call it an ugly win, but hey, it’s a win nonetheless.  You know what they say about bad sex – and if you’re not old enough to know what they say about bad sex, then what they say is that you should wait until you’re married for bad sex, so don’t do it.  The rest of you know what I’m talking about. 

And let the critics critique.  Let them say that we lost to the lowly Rams (Strahan even went so far as to say that the Rams beat us ‘handily’ – what?) and barely beat the Browns.  If you watched those games from start to finish, you’d see that the Redskins – most of the time – are winning the game.  They punish the opposition on offense and defense.  The problem the past two weeks have been untimely mistakes.  As the season progresses, you would expect that those mistakes will fade, and the true talent of this team will shine through. 

Once again this week, a snooze-fest in the first half made it difficult to generate any drivel, but, alas, if you wait long enough, the drivel will come.  As Master Yoda says, ‘There is no try.  Drivel or don’t drivel.’

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Gameday Preview: Week Eight

The Redskins travel to Ford Field on Sunday to face the Detroit Lions, this is the only time this season the Redskins will play in a dome, Kickoff is at 1 pm. Detroit faced the Houston Texans last week and Lions’ quarterback Dan Orlovsky finished with 265 passing yards and a 99.6 rating, and wide … Read more

Redskins Lose Crummey To Bengals, Fill Void

The Cincinnati Bengals signed offensive lineman Andrew Crummey from the Redskins practice squad. Crummey, who was signed as an undrafted rookie free agent out of Maryland, is now on the Bengals active roster. The Redskins filled the void by signing guard Isaiah Ross to the practice squad. Ross, entered the NFL in 2004 as an … Read more

JJG’s Z-Men

You have to give credit where credit is due… Zorn has everybody focused on the task at hand. With two losses this team should be in the dumps. Not because of the the losses, but to whom and how. Week one against the Giants it looked bad when the final whistle blew but Zorn and … Read more

THN Weekly With Andre Carter

Andre Carter THN Weekly

Following a tremendous four-game winning streak, the Redskins morale came crashing down with one swift 49-yard kick from Josh Brown. That field goal resulted in the Redskins first loss since the opening week of the season and a defeat to the previously 0-4 St. Louis Rams, who had undergone several major changes two weeks leading … Read more

You may ask yourself, ‘How did I get here?’

Sorry it took me so long to post about this week’s game, I must have blacked out.  The last thing I remember is Josh Brown kicking the game-winning field goal as time expired, and then the next thing I know I wake up on the floor of my living room and it’s Friday night.  The sad part is that the wife and kids didn’t even notice me lying there all week.  I had crumbs on my back, which means that I may have been used as a coffee table at some point.

To say that the Redskins lucked out this week is an understatement.  Is losing to a win-less team at home when you’ve been on a roll embarrassing?  Sure is, but it could have been worse.  All of the REAL NFC East teams also lost this week, so no damage was done in the standings.  Plus, although the Redskins seemed to play well save for a few very costly mistakes, this game will be a good reminder not to let their guard down.  With the cresting Browns in town this week, I’m sure there’ll be no lack of fire on the Redskins bench.

So, if it’s not too late, I do have a few pieces of drivel that I need to get out of my brain, lest they drive me crazy…..

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Week 7 Preview: Cleveland Browns

The Washington Redskins will play their first inter-conference game of the 2008 season against a team that has never visited Fed Ex Field, when they host the Cleveland Browns this Sunday. Kickoff is at 4:15 pm. The Cleveland Browns faced the defending Super Bowl Champion New York Giants as huge underdogs in week six. In … Read more

The Six Pack: Officially Perturbed

1) I’m not going to spend too much time dwelling on the Redskins loss to the Rams, enough has been said about that already. I will say that the optimist in me sees the loss as a potentially useful one. If the team comes away from that game knowing that they aren’t likely to blow … Read more