Game Wrap: Redskins 24, Ravens 3

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

Team Capsules

AFC East Miami Dolphins Head Coach: Dave Wannstedt 2003 Strength of schedule: 15th (.516) The Dolphins finished 2002 with a 9-7 record and where again left watching the playoffs from home. 2002 was to be the season that they would finally avoid the late season swoon that has haunted this franchise. A week 17 overtime … Read more

Kicking Off the 2003 Season

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

Ken Harvey Football Fan Classic

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

AM Practice

Field Conditions: It was a VERY hot and muggy day at Redskins Park today. The bugs were out and the players were definitely sweating up a storm. Just sitting on the sidelines, I was getting drenched. The Highlights: From a football standpoint, this practice was not one of the best. There were lots of dead … Read more

PM Practice

Overview: OK, What a totally wierd practice. If I thought the morning practice was lax, I was wrong. This practice was intended to be lax. The players came out with no pads AND no helmets. This means there was no real contact of any kind. If I thought it was hot and muggy this morning, … Read more

PM Practice

I’m going to do this write up a little different. I will give an overview of the highlights and then I thought I would do a chronology of events from prior to practice to the end to give those of you who haven’t gone a pretty clear flavor of how these things go. The Highlights: … Read more

PM Practice

Welcome to week 3 boys and girls! Man, this was an intense practice. It did not have the usually light hearted feel during warmups, there was a serious fight (Chad got pissed) and generally a “get to business” type practice one would expect after they got their “you-know-whats” handed to them. It was raining about … Read more

AM Practice

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

AM Practice

This morning I woke up at 5:00 a.m., hopped in the shower, and started by 2 ½ drive to Redskins Park for my one chance (this year) to watch a day at training camp. …and what a day it was!!! Because I got there a little early, my buddy and I were punting a football … Read more