EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- There's nothing like adding a little intrigue, secrecy, and skullduggery to a season-opening contest between two longtime NFC East rivals, the New York Giants and Washington Redskins.
The Redskins' signing of former Giants quarterback Andre' Woodson to their practice squad on Sunday has New York coach Tom Coughlin and players thinking the move is as sinister as a twist in a Tom Clancy novel. Or some plot hatched by the Skins' northern Virginia neighbor, the CIA.
Woodson spent all of last season on the Giants' practice squad and was among New York's final cuts this weekend. He knows all the plays and, even worse, all the audible calls.
Coughlin was blunt in saying it was obvious why Woodson was signed.
"I have been a part of it," Coughlin said Monday when asked whether he has ever signed a player released by a team he was about to play. "I have seen it done. A guy doesn't get in the door two seconds, and he is in a classroom being grilled."
I knew that some people having connections in Langley would help us some day!!!
Daniel Snyder has defined incompetence, failure and greed to true Washington Redskins fans for over a decade and a half. Stay away from football operations !!!
New Yorkers are not entirely unfamiliar with spying, ever hear of industrial spying? What if they bring Woodson back to the to the regular season 53 at the end of the week? He'll know a lot about the defensive game plan.
Go Skins!!!
I was reading in the paper today about this dwarf that got pick pocketed. How could anyone stoop so low?
Tom C wrote:New Yorkers are not entirely unfamiliar with spying, ever hear of industrial spying? What if they bring Woodson back to the to the regular season 53 at the end of the week? He'll know a lot about the defensive game plan.
Don't we have priority to signhim to the active 53 if they try to pick 'em up?
...any given Sunday....
RIP #21 Sean Taylor. You will be loved and adored by Redskins fans forever!!!!!
GSPODS:
The National Anthem sucks.
What a useless piece of propagandist rhetoric that is.
Tom C wrote:New Yorkers are not entirely unfamiliar with spying, ever hear of industrial spying? What if they bring Woodson back to the to the regular season 53 at the end of the week? He'll know a lot about the defensive game plan.
Don't we have priority to signhim to the active 53 if they try to pick 'em up?
Good question. I don't know the answer.
Go Skins!!!
I was reading in the paper today about this dwarf that got pick pocketed. How could anyone stoop so low?
Yeah Coughlin knows he did the same to us with hasselbeck; forget coughlin, Justin tuck said he's looking for a fight on sun. I feel like our O Line is ready to fight back, I have faith in Jason and actually have been encouraged with the offense this pre-season; use marko and Fred Davis in the Red Zone!
This is sooo funny - the Giants have picked up a number of our wantaways and castoffs over the past few seasons for exactly the same reason. What goes around, comes around....
Just sour grapes from the beady-eyed, vertically challenged, Coughlin
Until recently, Snyder & Allen have made a lot of really bad decisions - nobody with any sense believes this franchise will get better under their guidance Snyder's W/L record = 45% (80-96) - Snyder/Allen = 41% (59-84-1)
Associated Press wrote:"Coughlin was blunt in saying it was obvious why Woodson was signed.
"I have been a part of it," Coughlin said Monday when asked whether he has ever signed a player released by a team he was about to play. "I have seen it done. A guy doesn't get in the door two seconds, and he is in a classroom being grilled."
If you read that particular Coughlin quote more carefully then the reporter did, he didn't actually say that's "why" we signed him, just that since we did they'll have him in and grill him. The Giants kept two QBs, we kept two. Maybe we just liked their castoff better then our two. But sure, since we signed him we'll see if he can help more. Maybe he thinks that's "why" but after saying he was blunt he didn't even say it. Typical AP unfortunately.
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Hail to the Redskins!
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rjames66 wrote:What about when they signed Tim Hasselback a few years back and he was calling our signals out to their D-fense on their sidlines........
I specifically remember Wynn, Pierce, Hasselbeck, Arrington to name a few that Coughlin signed. For him to play dumb makes no sense, it happens all the time. Anything within the rules to gain an advantage IMO is fair game.
