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Hoping for the best viewing season in years.


New 55" is set up with the built in Roku stuff so I can have Hulu show the Redskins on both rooms TV's so if customers come in to shop while the games on, which I've never understood, I can not miss a thing switching from one set to another and with the recording option I can go back and watch it over and over again anything I miss.

My official prediction for the Redskins this year is 5-11 although I wouldn't be surprised if they went 6-10.

The defense looks amazing so aside from injuries they should be alright. The offense, not so much. Case Keenum is solid but not spectacular, the O-line is missing it's best player and appears to have a problem with both run and pass blocking, as stated earlier in this thread I have scant confidence in the receiving corps. I do think they have a plethora of good to great Running Backs although it remains to be seen what exactly Guice will look like in actual game situations. Plus I'm sure that opposing defenses will stack 8 men in the box and dare the Skins to pass.

What this all means to me is that to win games the defense will have to play lights out and generate turnovers, possibly score points themselves and the offense will have to be ball control, eat the clock and sustain drives. They'll have to win 14-10 or 9-7, there's no way they can win in a shootout. Falling behind by two scores might be Game Over as I don't see them being capable of scoring quickly.

Hope I'm wrong and despite what I said I will still pick them to win every game in our competition!

Now I'm in the 6-10 boat as well if Gruden is stupid enough to not take advantage of having two great running backs with a share the load run most attack. After putting Davis on the street yesterday that's enough. Fire up the coaching carousel again. Who's out there wowing people in college wanting to come make us look stupid next year?

My prediction for the Ravens this year is 11-5. Won't be enough for a first round bye, but will be enough to win the division and get the #3 seed.

I think the two big factors to this prediction are that Lamar Jackson is going to progress significantly as a passer, but still be extremely dangerous running. And the other is that the defense will be just as good as it was last year. Combine an improved offense with a top 5 defense and signs point to this team looking good this year.

The thing with the defense is that a lot of pundits are talking about how much talent the Ravens lost in Eric Weddle, Terrell Suggs, C.J. Mosley, and Za'Darius Smith. Which would be a good point except for the fact that those same pundits have spent the last few years talking about how Weddle and Suggs have lost a step and the Ravens defense was going to be terrible specifically because they refused to replace those players. (Mosley was a legit really hard loss, but I can't blame him for the absurd amount of money the Jets threw at him. And Smith is the latest in a long line of pass rushers who leave the Ravens after their rookie contract expires.)

So the Ravens are worse with Weddle and Suggs on the team... but also worse if they leave. Go figure.

Okay, so in the first three drives of the Ravens/Dolphins game:

1st drive: Top offensive free agent acquisition Mark Ingram breaks a 49 yard run and later scores a TD.

2nd drive: Top defensive free agent acquisition Earl Thomas intercepts Ryan Fitzpatrick.

3rd drive: 1st round selection Marquis Brown scores a TD.

That's both a good way to start the season and a good way to feel validated by off-season moves.

Scary Terry for 70 yard touchdown!!!!!!

Gruden's winning me back with a 17-0 start.

Back on the Fire Him Wagon. Nothing I saw looked better than AP last year or his one carry in preseason this year. A run heavy attack in the second half would have helped keep the defense off the field and more rested while dealing with the loss of Allen on the line. Scary Terry was wide open a second time and Keenum missed him. He should have finished the game with better stats and highlights than Jackson.

48 Derrius Guice 10 carries for 18 yards 1.8 yd per carry average. That's 5.4 feet per carry which in comparison is less than AP should have gotten if he just fell down forward 10 times since he's 6' 1"s tall.

He finished 48th in the league for the week and there's still two games to go so he may easily get bumped into the 50's as 4 or 5 more runners do better falling down.

If he hadn't missed a wide open Scary Terry in the 2nd half Kennum would be #1 in passing this week and the rookie would have finished #1 in receiving. They managed to finish #5 in passing right now for the week, 11th overall and the defense finished #7 overall for the week.

Gruden on AP


That was yesterday when you were supposed to be protecting a lead and chewing up clock!!!!!!!

Has any coach ever been fired after week 1? I know Dan has pulled the trigger mid season before. There has to be someone who can watch some early 80's Redskins tapes and design a half dozen running plays to feature two great backs although Guice hasn't shown anything yet to deserve the accolade. AP had more yards on 1 carry in the preseason than Guice had the entire game.

Best news to hope for this week is a new coach that knows to keep greatness on the field dressed up. If he was worried that much about tackling Sprioles on punts then just tell Way to kick every single one out of bounds, problem solved!! That and Trent returning to the team. Even when Trent was here last year he wouldn't run enough to take over games and wear opponents down by the 4th quarter.

Unbelievable. You do the unimaginable to piss off AP justifiably and now Guice is out so you need him again immediately. Let's hope he plays with a chip on his shoulder Sunday and takes it out on Dallas to make Gruden look really, really stupid!!!!

This just in: Eagles Fans Gang Up On 76ers Player For Wearing Redskins Jersey
Typical Philly Phan.

Now if we can get Trent back, fire the head coach, fire the defensive coordinator, hire one of the Ryan kids to run the defense and be head coach and hand off the offense to whoever's still here with instructions on how to design a few running plays life may turn around. Someone, somewhere in the organization must have a Beta or VHS tape of any game from the Gibbs era.

Will it never end?

Antonio Brown is facing a civil lawsuit for allegedly sexually assaulting a trainer.

The details released so far by the plaintiff sure seem quite damning, though I always try to be skeptical of cases like this where a civil lawsuit is filed where no criminal charges were attempted to be filed.

Apparently the NFL is considering putting Brown on the commissioner's exempt list, which would prevent him from playing.

The other stuff was funny. The frozen feet, helmet, threatening to punch the GM, etc. This, not so funny.

Apparently he is not denying that sexual activity happened but he is saying that it was consensual. I'm withholding judgement right now until I hear more. The alleged incidents happened a year or two ago and were never reported to the police. The only two people who know what really happened are Brown and the woman. Man, I hate this (banned).

So he makes the Commisioner's exempt list, gets cut from the Patriots, clears waivers and signed by the Redskins and sometime in November or next summer at camp he breaks his ankle on his first play at practice.

That sounds like a formula the Redskins have used before.

Yeah, but Antonio Brown doesn't do practice so no worries there.

Dallas week and the news is light.

Trying to rub my crystal ball to see how Sunday plays out.

AP for 300 yards and a score. Scary Terry for 125 yards and a score. We lose by a field goal late as Kenum gets hurt and Haskins for some unknown reason is in street cloths as a Healthy Inactive addition. Good news is Gruden gets fired by 6PM and the Ryan Brothers take over the team in time to get us in the playoffs as a wild card.

On his exit interview conducted in the parking lot Gruden mumbles some nonsense about not wanting to punt out of bounds and needed an extra body for punt coverage so Haskins was inactive since he doesn't play special teams.

Some horrifying stats about Cam Newton.

The Panthers are 0-8 in the last 8 games he's started.

He hasn't thrown a TD pass in his last 4 games.

He hasn't run for a TD in his last 9 games.

And, the dagger to the heart, on a 4th and inches late in the game, he never touched the ball... not even on the snap.

(And that's not getting into the old Russian woman look he had going on in the post game.)

Good news for the Panthers is that if they cut him after this season, he'd only count for $2m in dead money next year.

Guice and Brantley are now on the IR List. Colt McCoy is continuing to tie up a roster spot. The only bright spot is Robert Davis is back on the team safe from getting snatched off the practice squad by another team after getting named the #1 PS player in the country today by CBS.

Now if they'll go ahead and get


signed before someone snatches him.

Been trying to put last week's game out of my head so before I forget about it completely, here's what I think.

What kind of moron leaves their Offensive MVP on the sideline in street clothes without any chance of getting into the game? Jay Gruden's rationale for putting Adrian Peterson on the Inactive List was ridiculous, inane and downright stupid. There is NO scenario ever in which you don't want your best player to play or at least be available if he's healthy and sometimes even if he's not healthy. Apparently AP was healthy but JG wasn't planning on running the ball 51 times or something. Hey, maybe if you had run Peterson 50+ times you would have won the game you anti-genius!

Speaking of dumb coaching decisions, why switch from Man-to-man to the Zone? In the quarter and a half that Quinton Dunbar covered DeSean Jackson DJ had only 3 catches for 17 yards plus an Unsportsmanlike Penalty because he was so frustrated. This plan was working so well that the "brain trust" decided to go to the zone "prevent" defense and on the very next Eagles drive Jackson caught a 53 yard touchdown pass. Not to be deterred, the Redskins coaches continued with this brilliant strategy and DeSean ended up with 155 yards on 8 catches and two 50 yard plus TD's. Bravo.

Here is what I said last week:

Defense - played well for the first 20 minutes or so and then collapsed
Offense - See above.

When you have a 17 point lead the game plan should be to . The first three drives for the Skins offense in the 2nd half were: three and out, three and out, three and out. Maybe if you had a workhorse running back on the field who could pound out yardage on the ground...

Defense had no turnovers, didn't score points and looked worn down after having spent 3/4 of the second half on the field.

Well, now that Derrius Goose-Egg is on IR Gruden will have no other choice than to play AP. Unless they can't afford the spot because they decide to carry a second punter this week. You know, just in case.

Uh-Oh!!!

Remember when the Steelers had The Three B's? Bell, Brown and Big Ben.

Not anymore. Steelers season over