Key Player Match-ups: Bears

One of the two teams will come away with their second win of the season as the 1-4 Washington Redskins travel to Soldier Field to face the 1-3 Chicago Bears. Here are some of the game’s key player match-ups: Thomas Jones vs. Marcus Washington By Dan Hines This week’s match-up features the NFC 6th leading … Read more

Injuries Continue to Add Up for Skins’ Defense

While being helped off the field during the first quarter of Sunday night’s game against the Baltimore Ravens, Redskins safety Matt Bowen was hoping his right knee was not too severely damaged. His hopes didn’t come true. Bowen was diagnosed with a tear of his right anterior cruciate ligament in his knee, which will require … Read more

Scooter’s 6 Pack: Ravens

1. Defense Falling Down on the Job The Skins defense isn’t getting the job done. Oh sure, they’re hitting people, defending the pass, slowing the run and holding offenses to FG’s and FG attempts… but that’s just not enough. The Skins D needs to score 16 points a game in order for the Skins to … Read more

The Pig Pen: Ravens

There was a little “nip” in the air this week. “Football weather”, some may say. Others may say that it’s not really “football weather” until the temperature gets below freezing. For us at TheHogs.Net tailgate, any weather is football weather. This week the tailgate started out with a little 4-wheeling by TheHogs.Net brothers. I was … Read more

Bailey / Portis Revisited: 1st Quarter

The Trade When the news was announced that Joe Gibbs was returning as head coach of Washington Redskins, his harshest critics said that the game had passed him by. They cited free agency and the salary cap as the main reasons Gibbs wouldn’t be as successful in his second stint as a head coach in … Read more

ESPN 2K5 Game Simulation

This is the fifth installment of TheHogs.net 2004 NFL season simulation using the NFL 2K5 title for the Playstation 2 system. Baltimore Ravens (1-3) at Washington Redskins (1-3) The match-up couldn’t be bigger as the battle for Maryland supremacy takes center stage for a Sunday night tilt in front of a packed house at FedEx … Read more

Key Player Match-Ups: Ravens

Both teams come into this game having lost a game that they felt they should win last week. The Redskins were of course defeated by the Browns in Cleveland, while the Ravens were the victim of Kansas City’s first victory of the season. The Ravens’ loss came on Monday night, thus giving Baltimore a shortened … Read more

The House of Joe

(built by The Home Depot) I thought it would be later in the season (or perhaps never) that I would become so disgusted with my fellow Redskin “fans”. You know the ones I am talking about. The ones you had not heard from in years, who came out in droves after the announcement that Coach … Read more