A former NFL player is suing the Washington football team over a career-ending knee injury that he claims was the result of a bounty system in which Washington coaches encouraged players who injured the opposition.
Gregg Williams, who ran Redskins’ defenses for four seasons, is meeting today with NFL officials after reports surfaced last week that he offered his players bonuses for making bruising hits on opposing teams’ players.
One of the things we love about the NFL is how consistently entertaining the games can be while at the same time not making a whole lot of sense. After fifteen weeks, here’s the stuff that seems understandable: San Diego and Baltimore are probably the two best teams in the league, Houston really should have drafted either Vince Young or Reggie Bush, the Cardinals should really think about ending their 25-year experiment of not having…
Capitalizing on the playoff fever that gripped the entire D.C. metro area, today the Washington Redskins added Al Saunders to their coaching staff as offensive coordinator. Saunders, a former head coach with the San Diego Chargers, spent the last four years in Kansas City, guiding the league’s top-ranked offense. Saunders was said to be in the running for the head coach position in Oakland, interviewing there multiple times, but Joe Gibbs swooped in with Daniel…
For three quarters on Sunday, the Redskins rode a solid gameplan, gritty defense and a scintillating performance from Mark Brunell, taking a lead on the visiting Seattle Seahawks. In the end, however, it took some late-game heroics and a few lucky breaks to secure the win and remain undefeated as the team pulled out a 20-17 overtime win. What’s to be done when your team has a peerless defensive side but an offense that’s…
It may boil down to one of those oddball statistical flukes that sports devotees cling to as a higher sign — like how the team who wins the media week Madden contest always wins the title — but for the first 27 years of the Super Bowl era in the NFL, there was no game more important than the opening game. No team that lost their opener ever went on to win the Super…
With a 6-10 season wrapped, and the playoffs underway with only the New York Jets representing the hopes and dreams of the –Ist readership, the Washington Redskins turn their attention to the challenges of the offseason. Gibbs’ return to the sideline ended up not being the immediate return to glory that many had desired, but most fans, we’re sure, will simply content themselves knowing that Danny Snyder’s not planning on starting over from scratch…
Coach Joe Gibbs never had a whole lot of success playing out in San Francisco the first time he coached the Washington Redskins. Of course, back then, both the Redskins and the 49ers were frequently atop the NFC, and, along with Dallas, a fixture of the playoffs. At recently rechristened Monster Park last Saturday, fans were treated to two teams trying to get back to that level of play, and the only monster in…