Snow might make a strong return to D.C. during the 2012-2013 winter.
First off, allow me to completely disqualify everything I’m about to say. Your guess as to how the Redskins will perform this year is just as good as mine.
I can say with relative certainty that last winter did serious damage to Washington’s already-fragile wintertime mindset. It feels like everyone has resigned themselves to the fact that a massive blizzard — like the kind we experienced twice last year — is coming, and this entire city will find itself shut down for several days all over again. Far from a certainty, dear reader!
Photo by Kevin H..Maybe we should have known that it was too good to be true, something that was never meant to last. Our own utopian vision of a perfect summer romance — a riveting and competitive campaign by our Washington Nationals — seemed less like a pipe dream after Baseball Prospectus’ highly-anticipated PECOTA projections predicted that the Nationals would finish the season with a record of 82-80. PECOTA even suggested that the Nats would…
It’s finally here. The dreadful 2009-2010 campaign of the Redskins, the one in which the team played poor football in spades and was exposed to more drama and controversy than any one should endure in a decade, is a mere 60 minutes of football away from ending. For many in the organization, this afternoon’s matchup in San Diego could mean the end of their time in Washington; for some, that scenario is all-but-inevitable. Coach Jim…
There are few teams in the NFL more enigmatic than our Washington Redskins. Fresh off an impressive road victory in Oakland — yeah, the Raiders are terrible, so what? — the D.C. club put together an historically poor performance at home against the New York Giants. Two weeks after going toe-to-toe with the undefeated New Orleans Saints, the ‘Skins had all sorts of trouble containing a depleted Giants pass rush, putting quarterback Jason Campbell in…
My, how the tables have turned. It was just under two years ago that Coach Gibbs was saying goodbye to the Redskins for the final time, and Daniel Snyder and his adopted son, Vinnie Cerrato, were in search of a new coach. The man everyone thought deserved a shot in the job, Gregg Williams, was told to pack his bags. As the team’s defensive coordinator during the Second Gibbs Era, Williams had taken a defense…
On offense, the Redskins have — or had — a small handful of players that other teams might be interested in, at least before this debacle of a season unfolded. They are — or were — as follows: Chris Samuels, Chris Cooley, Randy Thomas, Santana Moss, and perhaps Clinton Portis. Of those five, only Moss will play today, cementing an already depleted and inept d’oh!-ffense as a complete non-threat. And, oh yeah, the league’s third-best…
This time last year, the Washington Redskins were fresh off an election-eve home beatdown by the Super Bowl champs–elect, the Pittsburgh Steelers, in a game noted for the stunning prevalence of Steelers fans at FedEx Field. A little past the halfway mark of the season, that game officially kicked off the team’s late-season demise, where they’d go 2-6 and labor to put up points in virtually every game. The offensive line looked slow, tired, and…
I don’t know about you, but I enjoyed a Sunday devoid of heartbreak, frustration, incomprehension, incompetence, and the ungodly combination of the four. It was a restful day, one which got my week off to a nice start. Of course, that will all change tonight — when the Redskins new play-calling system proves to be the glorious failure we all knew it would be in a 24-9 loss to the visiting Eagles — but at…
