Dan Snyder landed himself a marquee coach to go with his new GM, and the trio was out celebrating last night. It wasn’t long before the local media showed up to greet the new coach (just like last time) with cameras rolling. That means it’s time for another edition of the “Inside a Tailgate Classy Steak Dinner” series.
0:01 – Ooh, The Palm. It’s the place to see and be seen. I hope Mr. Snyder remembered his 837 card.
It was one of those days when it’s a minute away from snowing. And there’s this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it, right? And this ball was just… dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. That’s the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid. Ever.
Video’s a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember… I need to remember…
Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world I feel like I can’t take it… and my heart is going to cave in.
via SB Nation
Your Meast this week is “The Polish Rifle” and yinzer non grata Bruce Gradkowski, who possibly murdered the Steelers season with three 4th quarter touchdowns, including a game-winner with nine seconds left to Louis Murphy. Gradkowski had previously started two games on the road in Pittsburgh, with the Bucs in 2006 and the Browns in 2008, leading his offense to a combined total of three points. Judging from his first dropback, it looked to be more of the same.
Then, bam, fourthquarterkkake. Ape no smirre. This was a boon to flubby and retards who send subject-free e-mails to bloggers.
Quite the burn, Patty.
To recap: Ted Ginn, Matt Stafford and now Bruce Gradkowski have won the Meast this season. (None for Peyton!) What a time to be alive.
Your Least is Shaun “Shazam” Suisham, who has cost the Redskins no fewer than two games this year. And probably a few last year too. Ask Maj. He could tell you how many.
People love it when overpaid Redskins free agent acquisitions fail spectacularly, and, yeah, that’s always nice. But I also admire the poetry in one of the lesser paid and easily replaceable cogs in the Snyder Failbot Factory causing things to go awry.
Another week, and another demoralizing loss for the Redskins. As if things weren’t quite bad enough the team will now have to do without Clinton Portis for a while after the running back sustained a concussion in Sunday’s loss to the Falcons. But fear not, Redskins fans, because Danny and the Sarge (pictured above looking like assholes) know how to keep the offense running smoothly in Portis’ absence.
If you think their plan has anything to do with leaning heavily on the perfectly capable legs of Ladell Betts (93 yards and a touchdown on 16 touches in relief of Portis) then you obviously aren’t all that familiar with the brain-trust at Redskins Park.
You must have some really pivotal fantasy starters in this game (they better be on the Eagles) or else we need to look into some kind of live blog addiction intervention for the lot of you. This game will not be good. It will not be entertaining in the least. Don’t say you weren’t warned. I’m only tuning as a sick form of self-abnegation and to see whether Dan Snyder will dispatch his stormtroopers to cudgel the first poor sap dumb enough to stick a sign in front of an ESPN camera that suggests the team should be sold. Six Flags in PG has been an internment camp for such foolhardy fans for the previous three years. Somehow nobody has noticed.
Snyder incapable of hiring coach or GM, might allow beloved old man to do it for him. The latest rumor surrounding the woebegone Redskins is that Dan Snyder could bring Joe Gibbs back to oversee the franchise a la Bill Parcells in Miami. The biggest difference between the two is that Parcells has always been singularly focused on the NFL whereas Gibbs spends his time running a NASCAR team and spreading the word of Christ. Noble endeavors no doubt, but the fact remains that Gibbs isn’t really in tune with the goings on around the league. After all, this is the same guy who reacted to Snyder’s enthusiasm regarding Jim Zorn as a head coaching candidate by declaring, “That’s neat.” FML. [PFT]
Update: ESPN 980 reports that a Gibbs return is unlikely.
Yesterday Drew wrote a particularly satisfying rant on the topic of Dan Snyder’s inability to run a football team. While I didn’t agree with all of Drew’s points, most of his criticisms hit home for me and many other distressed Washingtonians. Of course not every Redskins fan agreed with Drew’s contentions.
Chris Chase is a writer for Yahoo! Sports who also maintains his own blog, The Player Hater’s Ball. It was there that Chase wrote his response to Drew’s rant. The post includes several questionable defenses of his personnel and front office decisions. So questionable that I felt some FJM style was warranted.
The Washington Redskins proudly boast one of the most visually appealing cheerleading squads in all of football, and as you can see they’re already in mid-season form. The squad has no shortage of uniform options, so head over to Ultimate Cheerleaders, look around, and vote for your favorite look (via Mr. I).
Elsewhere in the world of cheer, The League over at WaPo asks the (ridiculous) question “Should the NFL Get Rid of Cheerleaders?” Fortunately most of the panelists responded with an adamant “no”, including such notables as Dan Levy and the chick in our fantasy league who drafted Eli Manning three rounds too early.
Enjoy this bit of early sexiness, and brace yourselves for another fantastic Mailbag from the esteemed Mr. Ufford.
It’s that time of year again, when we’re so devoid of content that, rather than spending time covering Cutler’s attempt to make nice, we run through our predictably inaccurate prognostications for the upcoming year, division by division. Up next, it’s the NFC East, where every fan expects to go to the Super Bowl every year.
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