Ringing In the New Year

The more things change...I hope everyone is in place to have a great New Year's Eve, we are down in Fredericksburg Virginia, home of lifetime Eagles fan, season ticket holder and Curly R reader/lurker Wilbert Montgomery, we have celebrated New Year's Eve family style with the Wilbert Montgomerys every year but one since 2003, and as the wife reminded me, we were also together for New Year's Eve exactly ten years ago in 1999, when we all thought it...

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How To Kill the Rooney Rule - Part Two

If I interviewed this Cheeto could I count it?No one was expecting the transition from Vinny Cerrato to Bruce Allen, it caught everyone by surprise. In the excited aftermath of the team hiring its first ever general manager under owner Dan Snyder details of how the team fulfilled the Rooney Rule were vague. Then we found out. The process is now repeating itself for the head coach, and the Rooney Rule is reduced to irrelevance. Curly R's two part...

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Department of Bad News: Mike Williams

DoneThe Redskins placed their twelfth and hopefully final player on injured reserve yesterday, right tackle former 400 pound man Mike Williams tore foot muscles near his toe in the first half of the game fifteen loss versus the Cowboys, Mike was placed on the season ending list at the same time as teammate safety Reed Doughty, who suffered a high ankle sprain in the same game. To take Mike's and Reed's roster spots the team signed a tailback and...

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Department of Bad News: Reed Doughty

DoneSafety Reed Doughty yesterday became the eleventh Redskins player to be placed on injured reserve in this injury plagued 2009 season, Sunday in the second quarter of the game fifteen loss versus the Cowboys Reed leaped for a tipped Tony Romo pass, he came down with the interception and returned it twelve yards, he was hit at the sideline and rolled his leg, suffering a high ankle sprain.Reed said he had never had this type of injury before and...

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How To Kill the Rooney Rule - Part One

"Hey Morocco can I talk to you for a minute?"Although the 2009 season may not yet technically be over, change is already here for the Washington Redskins. In the past three weeks the team hired its first actual general manager in eleven years under owner Dan Snyder, head coach Jim Zorn is on the way out and every player is already under offseason scrutiny. But before any of this could be set into motion, the team had to satisfy the Rooney Rule, not...

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Washington Times to Kill Off Only Really Good Section of the Paper

WTFA story broke today, still unconfirmed, that if true would signal the plague killing off traditional media outlet by outlet has finally arrived in Washington, no another corner box rag has not disappared, no other longtime niche papers with a better web model than paper model have not stopped printing, it is much worse than all that.The Washington Times, Washington's other enterprise daily, is ceasing regular sports coverage at the end of this...

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Versus Cowboys, After Further Review

Wants a head job so bad he believed what they saidDay and a half later and a few things stand out from Sunday night's latest debacle, the game fifteen shutout versus the Cowboys:Nothing new to say about the team's play. Same shitty blocking which of course leads to terrible offense overall. The running game was a big fat zero and unlike the Giants blowout the game was never out of reach until the fourth quarter. No running, no run blocking.In...

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"I want to punt."

... and ye shall be puntedTakeaway Drill: Another primetime humiliation, a complete zero on offense and death by short play on defense; I would cancel the last game if I could to spare Jason Campbell further injury and LaRon Landry further embarrassment.=====Quick jump toMonday Walkthrough :: Soapbox :: Chattering Class :: Omnibus Spotlights :: Recaps and Stats===== Monday Walkthrough: Say thank you Dallas fans, the Redskins got your team into the...

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Game 15: Redskins (4-10) vs. Cowboys (9-5)

vs. Out of the box: Mercifully the end is near, all I see is black curtains as the Dallas Cowboys come to Washington the rivalry's hundredth game and what easily could be another national humiliation at 8pm ET on NBC, come, sit down with us and watch as the team feasts on it own corpse.=====Quick jump toThe Story So Far :: Curly R Aside :: Oppo Research :: Trainer's Table Gameplan :: My Take in 60 Words or Less :: Preview Generalia====The Story...

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Our Own Norma Rae

From many come one has multiple meaningsOh man this story keeps getting better. Thanks to neighbor Paul this morning for the tip, yesterday at 5pm ET, Brad Biggs at the National Football Post, a football omnibus site I love, reported that defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth's tardiness and subsequent dismissal from practice on Christmas Day were about more than just him mouthing off about leadership and tossing defensive coordinator Greg Blache...

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"I disagree with their whole scheme."

Boy no one could have anticipated this (not)The end stage of Washington's 2009 season began in earnest today, a star player who expressed unsurprising frustration following an epic blowout is now attacking the entire coaching staff and has said he cannot see himself getting through another NFL season if there are not big changes on the team.Yesterday as I drove home with my family after Christmas dinner with my parents featuring the original Redskins...

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