I really enjoyed this interview between Dan “DC Sports Bog” Steinberg and Chris “Chris Cooley’s Official Blog” Cooley. It made me feel a bit bad for Fabini. Also, when Cooley mentioned that his blog gets ten or fifteen thousand hits a day, it made me feel a bit bad for myself.If you don’t have time [...]

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Joe Gibbs retired. Not shocking, but interesting.

I was extremely hopeful about Joe Gibbs’s tenure when he returned to the team, and although it hasn’t been all rainbows and puppy dogs I have to say he did a pretty good job. They made the playoffs twice, and more importantly they have a stability and patience from [...]

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I’m still not sold on Gibbs as Head Honcho (can’t we get him out of the coaching box and into an office?), but there’s no arguing with the results of the last three games. He makes his mistakes, but the man is a great motivator and a diligent game-planner. The Redskins have dominated three teams [...]

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Yeesh.

The Redskins started out the game with 10 players on the field—the missing safety was a powerful tribute to Sean Taylor’s untimely death last week. That was a great start to a game with a miserable finish.

First, let’s be fair: it looked like that kick would have been good from the original line of scrimmage. [...]

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Certainly it would be terribly easy to rush toward some sort of instant judgment based on what we think we all knew about Taylor and the sort of life he once, and for all we know, still led. But really, we know nothing at the moment, and until we do, “may he rest in peace” [...]

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Sean Taylor, one of few standout players on the Redskins, died last night from an injury he suffered confronting an intruder in his Florida home. He was shot in the femoral artery, lingered through a long surgery, but succumbed to the injury early this morning.

On the one hand, this is a minor story. Taylor was [...]

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I’m back from New Haven, where I hung out with Fletch and Lauren at the “Big Game,” which is the annual battle between Yale and Harvard’s football teams. It was pretty great, not the least because we didn’t spend a single minute actually watching the game. Rather we wandered a parking lot stuffed to the [...]

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In terms of our record, losing 52-7 is no worse than losing 17-16.

In terms of our record, winning 23-20 in OT is just as good as winning 48-3.

Portis finished with almost 200 yards. Maybe our rushing game is finally coming together.

We’re 5-3. If we keep at this pace (and win most of our division match-ups), [...]

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