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Well, that didn’t take long. After five games of decreasing returns by Rex Grossman, “the genius,” Mike Shanahan decided to cut bait and switch his quarterback to John Beck. Needless to say, this move didn’t stir the passions of anyone involved, but it was the checkmate in the world’s most uninspiring chess match of mediocre [...]
Redskins excise roster abcesses
In: NFL
28 Jul 2011The No. 1 priority for the Washington Redskins entering the free-agent frenzy and truncated training camp was not filling in the numerous holes on the roster. Instead, it was removing two players from the team whose mere presence when camp opened would have cause migraines from the locker room to the front office. Donovan McNabb [...]
Snyder passes the buck for his latest folly
In: NFL
11 Feb 2011By now I’m sure you’re aware of Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder’s frivolous libel lawsuit against the alt-weekly Washington City Paper for its scathing article picking apart the pernicious owner’s ridiculous schemes and scams over the years. Ol’ Danny wants the writer, Dave McKenna, fired for publishing lies, although no one in the Redskins camp can point [...]
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- Tags: bad PR, dan snyder, dumb lawsuits, redskins, tony wyllie
OTPB NFL Picks: Week 9
In: NFL
6 Nov 2010The Washington Redskins have the week off, but that doesn’t mean anyone has stopped talking about Mike Shanahan’s curious decision to bench Donovan McNabb – the quarterback he traded for in the offseason – down the stretch of the Redskins’ eventual loss to Detroit. From a football perspective, removing McNabb – for Rex Freakin’ Grossman, [...]
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- Tags: mcnabb, nfl picks, redskins, shanahan
Redskins season preview: The circus is still in town
In: NFL
8 Sep 2010Over the past decade, the Washington Redskins have been a fiasco on the field and even worse off it, with lavish player contracts, curious coaching hires, strange handling of draft picks, Machiavellian ownership schemes and increasingly irate fans all becoming the trademarks of a once proud organization. Last season seemed to be the nadir, with the overmatched and underwhelming Jim Zorn [...]
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- Tags: haynesworth, mcnabb, redskins, season preview
In which I compare Albert Haynesworth to a beached whale
In: NFL
10 Aug 2010Through some sheer superhuman levels of intestinal fortitude, Albert Haynesworth somehow found a way to pass a grueling conditioning test aced by a 61-year-old reporter and has returned to active duty at Washington Redskins training camp. The Haynesworth saga has been covered breathlessly and ad nauseum here in the nation’s capital, first with a rancorous [...]
Redskins building brittle, moody Voltron at RB
In: NFL
3 Jun 2010In their seeming quest to add every 30-something running back to their roster, the Washington Redskins let it be known that they are more than interested in bringing the oft-concussed Brian Westbrook into the fold, where he would join four other runners in a crowded, aged backfield. The Redskins already have Clinton Portis, and during [...]
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- Tags: johnson, parker, portis, redskins
Money For Nothing: The Redskins story
In: NFL
4 Mar 2010There are few certainties in this world: death, taxes and Dan Snyder wildly overpaying free agents to fill out the roster of his personal plaything, the Washington Redskins. Even in this strange, uncapped season, where teams are likely to approach Friday’s free-agent frenzy with caution, the Redskins seem like they will be the team to [...]
OTPB now a bi-coastal enterprise
In: Various
4 Feb 2010When Chris and I first started this little site about a year ago, our focus was to be primarily on the Seattle sports scene, with a sprinkling of national news for good measure. Things, however, don’t always go the way you plan them. I have recently moved to the Washington, DC area, which makes keeping [...]
Dan Snyder has become Al Davis Jr.
In: NFL
23 Oct 2009Just when we were getting comfortable with the fact that there wasn’t a worse owner in the NFL than Oakland’s Al Davis, along comes Washington’s Dan Snyder. Sure, Snyder has been at the bottom of the ownership barrel for some time, keeping company with the NFL’s dregs — Davis, Detroit’s William Clay Ford, Cleveland’s Randy [...]
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- Tags: dan snyder, jim zorn, redskins
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