What a tremendous effort from the Washington Redskins in defeating the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday at Texas Stadium. In what was the Skins last ever trip to Texas Stadium, they scratched out a 26-24 victory to stun the Dallas crowd and seemingly ‘football experts’ everywhere. Here are some links to help you relive it all again today:
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Hognostications: Week 4
Congratulations to BigRedskinDaddy for going 14-2 in last week’s hognostications. There were many close games in which several games weren’t decided until the clock reached zero.
What happened to the Pats? Colts? Da Bears?
It looks like anything can happen this season so choose wisely. That said, below are my picks for week 4.
Redskins Haiku’s: Dallas Week
If you are unfamiliar with Hiaku’s check out the link in BossHog’s first Haiku blog. Here’s a few to get us started. The season is young The Zornskins are 2 and 1 Get em air cowpukes Tony Romo’s good at least when its september playoffs — not so much T. O. can make plays but … Read more
THN Retro Wallpapers – Ken Houston
New to THN this year, we will be periodically releasing “retro” wallpapers of some of the Greatest Redskins. This week, we are proud to introduce the Ken Houston Wallpaper. It is also available in a widescreen version. Check out all of the Redskin Wallpapers available in the Fun Zone
Redskins Haikus
Over the years, we’ve had a lot of fun doing Redskins Haikus. If you’re not familiar with what a Haiku is, its a poem with three lines, that has five, seven, and five syllables in the lines. You can read all about it at Wikipedia.
Here are a couple of examples – a couple of these rhyme, but they don’t have to:
By The Numbers: Saints
The Redskins struggled a little early on, but finished with a bang to defeat the New Orleans Saints 29-24 at Fed Ex on Sunday. Here are some of the more interesting numbers from the game:
Know Your Opponent: Arizona Cardinals
So, I took a little heat last week for simply hurling schoolyard insults at the Saints in “Know Your Opponent: New Orleans”Not as much heat as the Saints took in FedEx, but I digress.
I intend to still hurl my schoolyard insults this week because, c’mon, it’s the Cardinals, are we really afraid of a team that has named itself after a perching songbird?
Lucky Underwear 1, Saints 0
Okay, so I know what happened here. I wrote about how Durant Brooks did so well last week, taking that shot to the groin and all, he read it, got all cocky, and went out and had a bad week. My fault. However, it’s a good thing I was wearing my lucky underwear to help the Redskins pull out the win. I forgot to wear my lucky underwear last week, and look what happened. So far, my lucky underwear is 1-0 versus the spread.
And just a quick note to my friends at DirecTV. I pay you two hundred fifty some-odd dollars for my Sunday Ticket subscription. I pay you ten some-odd dollars a month for my HD service. And now you want me to pay ANOTHER one hundred some-odd dollars to get my Sunday Ticket games in HD with your ‘SuperFan’ offering?!? Have you gone mad?!? How many ways can you possibly screw me out of more of my hard-earned some-odd dollars?!?
And now back to our regular programming (which is probably slighty more random than usual, given that I was irrate and distracted for most of the first half, after learning that I could not watch my game in HD)….
Redskins vs Saints Post Game
The Redskins valiantly fought back to erase a 9-point 4th quarter deficit, and beat the Saints 29-24 at Fed Ex Field on Sunday. With the win, the Redskins moved to 1-1, and while it may not have always been pretty, the improvement shown from week one was substantial.
Run CP! Run!
This week, Clinton Portis will run against a defense that yielded 146 rushing yards (7.3 YPC) against Tampa Bay last week. The Redskins will have to look to equal, or better that, to give themselves a good opportunity to win the game this weekend.
It won’t be easy for Washington, considering that after last week’s offensive performance, its safe to assume that opposing teams are going to make the Redskins beat them in the air and stack the box. Portis will likely see eight and nine man fronts until the Redskins can establish some sort of rhythm in the passing game.