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Michael Vick Is A Beast
ESPN reports that disgraced quarterback Michael Vick signed a two year contract with the Philadelphia Eagles. The news emerged as the Eagles were losing their preseason game against the New England Patriots. National Football Post's Michael Lombardi tweeted that Vick will compete...
Five Things to Watch in Tonight's Redskins-Ravens Game
We are in the NFL version of Shark Week to amp up fan support for pro football. It's only preseason, folks; a live version of fantasy football under game conditions. These events are to evaluate players for who makes the cut and who can help in a new role. So, it's best not...
Five Things to Watch in Tonight's Redskins-Ravens Game
We are in the NFL version of Shark Week to amp up fan support for pro football. It's only preseason, folks; a live version of fantasy football under game conditions. These events are to evaluate players for who makes the cut and who can help in a new role. So, it's best not...
End of the Road for the Red Snapper?
Football is a numbers game at it's core, and is so at no more obvious a juncture than the annual September cuts.For the longest tenured Redskin, there's serious concern that his last day in B & G might be approaching. The Redskins are in an incredibly unique situation...
Mosley: Improved Redskin Defense Helps QB Campbell
A quarterback's best friend is a great pass rush. Matt Mosley, who covers the NFC East for ESPN.com, weighs in on how the Skins going from a solid defense to a dangerous defense with Haynesworth and Orakpo helps the whole team.This Q&A comes from Mosely's Mailbag:Nirav...
Rocky McIntosh is the Lynchpin of the Redskins Defense
Two years.That's the book on players who suffer ACL injuries. It supposedly takes two years before an athlete to get the explosiveness lost to return to the injured knee. Just look at Edgerrin James: he averaged 4.2 and 4.4 yards in his first two seasons, then lost the final...
Redskins Need More Than Campbell to Break Out This Season
Jason Campbell was to be the focus of a Hog Heaven story this week. The thrust was to be how close he was to his break-out year because of stability in other parts of the organization.Mark Steven at The OM Field wrote one of those "I wish I said that" posts that nailed it...
Redskins' Brian Orakpo vs Ravens' Michael Oher, The Earth Rumbles
Greg Trippiedi's story yesterday, Hayer, Jansen, or Other..., brings to mind that the Washington Redskins could have gone in another direction on Draft Day.They could have taken OT Michael Oher instead of DE Brian Orakpo. There's something to be said for building strength on...
Heyer, Jansen, or Other: The Redskins RT Position
I have more thoughts about the offensive line to add in the future, particularly how Randy Thomas' health could mean potentially disastrous things for the OL, given that we can't project improvement from Casey Rabach, but today's post will focus on that troublesome RT position...
Jason Campbell: Due For The Big Bucks
Jason Campbell strikes the oddest pose for the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine. If Washington Redskins head coach Jim Zorn ever sees Campbell passing the ball in a game in that fashion, he will kick him in his ash can and properly so. So how did the SI people catch Campbell in...
Can Chad Rinehart Succeed in the NFL?
2008 3rd round draft pick Chad Rinehart, who is running with the No. 2s this week at Redskins camp, is kind of an interesting dynamic from a prospect on the offensive line. Playing his college ball at Northern Iowa, a school most famous for producing Kurt Warner, he was a leader on...
Redskins Bloggers, Unite
Training camp is open. Preseason games are at hand. So blogs covering the Washington Redskins are at hand.Our fellow MVN blog site, DC Pro Sports Report, put up a views guide of media and fan sites covering our favorite team. See The DCPSR Redskins blog viewer's guide with rankings...
Redskins Bloggers, Unite
Training camp is open. Preseason games are at hand. So blogs covering the Washington Redskins are at hand.Our fellow MVN blog site, DC Pro Sports Report, put up a views guide of media and fan sites covering our favorite team. See The DCPSR Redskins blog viewer's guide with rankings...
Ex-Skin Martin Mayhew is Surprisingly Alive and Well in Detroit
One of the more shocking developments of the 2008 NFL season is that former Redskin D-back Martin Mayhew survived the purge of Matt Millen from the woebegone Detroit Lions.Mayhew more than survived. He was named interim, then full time, general manager of the team.Big Al of the excellent...
Michael Vick Will Not Be Coming To A Team Near You
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So far, 27 of 32 NFL teams have said no to Michael Vick according to a story on www.usatoday.com. "Teams that have not made public comments about Vick: Arizona Cardinals, Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers, Houston Texans,San Diego Chargers."Most team statement are more...
The 8-year Rebuilding Plan: Re-Visited & Advanced
Prior to the 2008 NFL Draft, in this here space, I introduced an easy rule of thumb for diagnosing areas of need perhaps not currently apparent. The theory, verbatim, from March 12, 2008:"a team is justified to draft a replacement for any positional player
who has 8 or more service...
Can Anyone Make Michael Vick Go Away From the Redskins?
Washington Redskins head coach Jim Zorn could have been more emphatic when asked about Michael Vick joining the team.The coach's response?"I think Michael is on his journey," Zorn said. "I want to wish the
best for him. There's a way that he and [NFL Commissioner...
After Baugh, Sonny Jurgensen, Darrell Green are Greatest Redskins
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The Value of Hurries and Hits, Part Two
In part one***, I discussed the merits of the Redskins blitz packages on factors such as hits, hurries, tipped passes, and sacks. Today, we address a much bigger picture, and try to find out whether the pursuit of increased pressure and sacks are actually a good thing.***I've...
The Value of Hurries and Hits, Part One
"We applied for a job at Giant and couldn't get it because we couldn't sack groceries," -- Redskins Defensive Coordinator Greg BlacheI've given Greg Blache a hard time in this here space for multiple reasons. His inability to adjust fundamental errors in divisional...
Will the Redskins Play in the Michael Vick Sweepstakes?
Today's news that Michael Vick will be reinstated to the NFL next week will flush out all the teams who've been laying in the weeds on the issue. Will the Washington Redskins cast their net for Vick? Should they?Anyone not named Snyder or Cerrato who answers the first question...
Do the Redskins have a Defensive Weakness?
In my game previews, I often like to try to put myself in the shoes of the opposing offensive coordinator. It's a fun, effective way to pose the question: how would you best attack the Redskins offense?For example, last year the easiest ways to pass on the Redskins defense was...
Redskins' Sonny Jurgensen, Bobby Mitchell Heroes of the 'Sixties
Washington Redskins legends Sonny Jurgensen and Bobby Mitchell exploded in the 1960. They are touted last week by Cold, Hard Football Facts as two of a group of 16 players who revolutionized pro-football in the birth of the Super Bowl era.Cold, Hard Football Facts writes with bombast...
Redskins land Jeremy Jarmon in Supplemental Draft
This is the kind of thing that you just have to be right on.The move will cost the Redskins third rounder in 2010. Vinny Cerrato later defended the move by saying that the Redskins had a second round grade on Jarmon.Jarmon tested positive for a banned substance in May, which cost...
Redskins land Jeremy Jarmon in Supplemental Draft
This is the kind of thing that you just have to be right on.The move will cost the Redskins third rounder in 2010. Vinny Cerrato later defended the move by saying that the Redskins had a second round grade on Jarmon.Jarmon tested positive for a banned substance in May, which cost...
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