First Mover Advantage

Some exclusions applyVia the great @FakeDanSnyder Twitter feed through Oliver Willis, I have seen the future of Redskins fandom, and it is this: selling your allegiance to another team on eBay:After years of constantly being subjected to disappointment, bad decisions, bad draft picks,bad contracts, overpriced tickets and overall Mediocrity, I am deciding to sell my loyalty to the Washington Redskins for the rest of the 2009- 2010 NFL season. I will...

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Funeral for a Friend

RIP 2009 Redskins, 31 July - 27 SeptemberTakeaway drill: This must be rock bottom, a rookie quarterback made to look like a star, poor tackling, poor schemes, poor blocking, poor decisions, no semblance of discipline; lock it down for a long week in Washington.=====Monday walkthrough: The Redskins team up and break the Lions nineteen game winless streak as they lose in Detroit 19-14 and fall to 1-2. This was as near a complete breakdown as you can...

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Game 3: Redskins (1-1) at Lions (0-2)

vs. Out of the box: From fans to players this town is hopping mad as the Redskins travel to Detroit to play the Lions, 1pm ET on FOX, one team has not won since 2007 and the other is getting a taste of what that feels like.=====The story so far: The week began with the team dealing with the injury loss of right guard Randy Thomas, Randy tore his right triceps in the Rams game and was placed on injured reserve, this is the second time in three...

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Stepping on a Land Mine

Above coach's paygradeAfter the Redskins barely won their game last week against the Rams, a game in which the Redskins were booed all the way into the tunnel... as winners, head coach Jim Zorn and Hall of Fame quarterback Sonny Jurgenson got into a little tiff over coach Zorn's decision to run a halfback option to Clinton Portis on third and goal.Coach Zorn said the play was the play, Sonny said he would have been pissed as Redskins quarterback...

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The End and the Beginning

This has all happened beforeAs I prepare Curly R's preview for today's game it seems appropriate to remind Redskins fans of a bit of history as pointed out in a column by the Washington Post's Mike Wise on Thursday, this is not the first time an untested Redskins head coach has been on the hot seat early in a season:...[T]his is nothing new, the notion that a local media guy asked the embattled coach to address his job security. And the coach headed...

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Just Win

You do all realize how sad this is, right?The Redskins played a piss poor game on offense against the Rams and still won, thanks to the defense and no thanks to head coach and playcaller Jim Zorn. At the end of the first half and all through the second half the fans in Redskins Stadium, all 87 thousand of them, at least four thousand short of a full house, booed regularly, culminating in the final insult, booing the Redskins as they closed the game...

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Department of Bad News: Randy Thomas

DoneRedskins Right guard Randy Thomas tore his right triceps in the second quarter of the home game against the Rams on Sunday, he has had surgery and was placed on injured reserve, he is lost for the season.The Redskins went into the 2009 season paper thin along the offensive line, now the team will play the next fourteen games without a stalwart starter, albeit one with accumulating surgeries.=====Randy Thomas came to the Redskins as a free agent...

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EPIC FAIL

Actually Robert I would not be all that psyched to trade with you right nowRobert Henson really stepped in it, insulting anyone that actually works for a living while bragging how far above reproach his 310 thousand dollar NFL rookie salary puts him, the rest of us are just untouchables living down here in the shithole, handing up our money to him once a week and thanking him for being inactive again.After the Redskins disappointing win against the...

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Enabling

At my er, fingertipsCurly R is now a Mac operation, the fifteen inch Macbook Pro is the first new computer I have had in nine years, all previous computers have been chop shopped PCs, I had a string of failures and just decided to make the jump. So far so good, I am a little intimidated by this new system, there are elements that are fundamentally different than Windows, a system I have been using professionally since at least 1995.Now that I have...

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Another Shit Bummer for Dan Snyder

Family fun Grab a Bucket and Start Bailing Day specials!Disclaimer: The floods in north Georgia are devastating, 22 inches of rain in just a a few days, the 100 year flood plain submerged, nine people, including a two year old swept away by the waters, killed, at least three horses dead, 20 bridges damaged, 250 million dollars in property damage, and to top it all, most damaged structures are not or cannot be covered by flood insurance. It is a tragedy...

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