We Need to Be More Careful with the Joe Gibbs Parallels

Everyone's going to be the next Joe Gibbs. Stop it.Last week Hall of Fame coach Joe Gibbs, twice the head coach of the Washington Redskins, three time winner of the Super Bowl, was back in town for an appearance at Redskins Park, nominally it was about some Joe Gibbs charity, the real significance was as plain as the picture you see above; to link the Redskins' past glory with its hopeful future.Joe Gibbs and Mike Shanahan, standing side by side,...

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Time to Let Them Smoke Up

Or at least stop caring if they do it on their own timeInteresting story in Sports Illustrated this week, you can look at this piece as a serious cultural commentary or you can look at it as a bullshit fluff piece of the type that spontaneously erupts in the vacuum between NFL free agency and the draft.Actually it is the former, marijuana use has achieved such a commodity status in society that we can now talk openly about first round NFL talent...

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I Need to Be the Best Player I Can Be for the Seven in Ten Plays I'm Out There For

I guess you could call that a paraphraseSo everyone is not on board. Is anyone surprised that the one that is not all in with new coach Mike Shanahan's plans and offseason regimen is defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth?I will go ahead and give you the bottom line up front, the BLUF as my brother the writer Marine calls it: prima donna with guaranteed money coming has no motivation to subordinate his ego to the team dynamic.First it was the musings,...

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An FYI to the PTB

Tailgating is apparently not a food related activityFood bloggers and sports bloggers should NEVER mix socially.Clique t-shirt from he...

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How Did I Get On This List?

For thirty five bucks one lucky fan gets to walk the plankI got some bacn mail today, a season ticket offer from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, it is the first email I have ever received from the team, I have no idea how I got on this list......unless they still have me on their list from the time I used a cracked password to buy illicit playoff tickets then flew into Tampa for twenty two hours, got hammered and laughed in their little inbred faces as...

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2010 Free Agency Open Thread

2010 starts todayUpdates...2200 Saturday 6 March 2010: There has been a signing, and it is a good one, history will now always remember that the first incoming free agent signed by the new Redskins management regime of new real actual general manager Bruce Allen and head coach Mike Shanahan was... an offensive lineman. Say hello to Artis Hicks, 31 years old, late of the Minnesota Vikings and earlier with the Eagles, Artis has played both guard...

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THURSDAY NIGHT MASSACRE

Shit bummerThe Redskins closed out football year 2009 with slash and burn, the reality of new management, a new coach and no NFL salary cap all smashed into Redskins Park together last night as the team released ten players., two of them career Redskins and five with six or more seasons in Washington. The team will save seventeen million dollars against the cap in salary. The released players:Tailback Ladell Betts, career Redskin, eight seasons,...

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Thank You Chris Samuels

Leaving a hole in our hearts and one along the lineAnd so it ends, ten year Redskin left tackle Chris Samuels is formally retiring today, the spinal stenosis that ended his 2009 season is simply too great a risk to his health, his mobility and his life to continue playing the violent game of professional football.It was a no brainer of a decision and he has the full support of every Redskins fan in the world. His shoes would have been hard to fill...

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