Who’s Laughin’ Now?

For those who read my last blog about Grossman (Redskins Start With Grossman) you’ll note I kind of predicted this last weekend’s performance.

For the game, Grossman was 21 of 34 (62% completion) for 305 yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions (though one was close) and one fumble. While Antrel Rolle may whine about how the Giants would beat the Redskins “95 out of 100 times” Rolle has failed to recognize that we didn’t beat New York because our offense was better; we beat them because our defense was.

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Tags: Ahmad Bradshaw, Arizona Cardinals, brandon jacobs, Chris Wells, DeAngelo Hall, Eli Manning, Kevin Kolb, larry fitzgerald, New York Giants, O.J. Atogwe, Redskins vs. Cardinals, Redskins vs. Giants, Rex Grossman, Todd Heap, Washington Redskins, Washington vs. Arizona, Washington vs. New York

BMitchLive Tailgate Show 9/9/11

So, this past Friday I had the honor and privilege of representing TheHogs.net on BMitchLive.TV. You can see the show here.

BMitchLive Tailgate show

I won’t bore you with the minutia that you can see in the show itself, but here are a few highlights and impressions that you wouldn’t see on the show.

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Tags: BMitchlive, Brian Mitchell, Darrel Young, New York Giants, Washington Redskins

Redskins Start with Grossman

Photo courtesy of Jake Russell

We all know that Rex Grossman has been to the Super Bowl, and conventional wisdom says he went on the backs of his defense. We consider it the same as the 2003 Ravens who won the Super Bowl with Trent Dilfer who only started the last half of the season.

Clearly, Baltimore won the Super Bowl in spite of their quarterbacks that year.

Maybe we judge Grossman too harshly. The 2006 Bears were 2^nd in the league in scoring that year putting up 427 points. I’m not sure we can say that Chicago made it on defense alone like Baltimore did.

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Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Chicago Bears, Kyle Orton, Rex Grossman, Trent Dilfer, Washington Redskins

Redskins Held to Victory over Cowboys

I’ve never been a big fan of the officials. I’ve never really made that a secret. When they called unnecessary roughness on London Fletcher, I was fit to be tied. Redskins’ fans are all too familiar with the refs determining the outcome of games, but it’s a strange feeling when the call goes our way.

photo by Terri Russell

A guy I work with told me he was going to root against the Redskins last week. He’s not a Cowboys fan, he just hates the Redskins. He told me about how he, and a bunch of his friends who are Cowboys fans, were going to go out to a bar just so they could talk smack to Redskins fans when they lost.

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Tags: 13-7, Dallas Cowboys, Kyle Shanahan, london fletcher, Mike Shanahan, rodney harrison, Sean Taylor, Tony Romo, Washington Redskins

Redskins/Ravens – Postgame Thoughts

photo by Jake Russell

Okay, so the Ravens game was everything the Bills game wasn’t; it was ugly. That being said, it wasn’t without it’s glimmers of hope. For example, Donovan McNabb’s completion percentage may have been dismal, and at times he looked like he was off target (well, was off target) but when he did connect it was for first down yardage. He completed 11 passes for 206 yards.

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Tags: Albert Haynesworth, Baltimore Ravens, Bobby Johnson, clinton portis, Donovan McNabb, Larry Johnson, santana moss, Washington Redskins

Can Grossman be for Real?

Grossman’s recent performance in his pre-season debut with the Redskins got me to thinkin’; can this guy really be better than I thought? Yeah sure it’s a preseason game, but I expected to see fumbled handoffs, interceptions and stalled drives the moment McNabb took his pads off. I think we all felt the same thing; Buffalo must be really bad if they can make Rex Grossman look like our starter.

It’s easy to have doubts about the abilities of Rex Grossman even though he’s played in a Super Bowl. Everyone knows that Grossman made his way into that Super Bowl on the backs of his defense. When you think about Grossman you see a QB rating of 59.7 since he achieved that rating twice in his career with the Bears.

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Tags: Brian Griese, Chicago Bears, Denver Broncos, Donovan McNabb, Jim Harbaugh, Kyle Orton, Kyle Shanahan, Rex Grossman, Washington Redskins

Expectations Too High?

So, it’s not unusual for there to be high optimism for Redskins fans during the offseason. This one feels real though. With Cerrato, Zorn and Campbell gone, replaced by Allen, Shanahan and McNabb it’s easy to see why Redskins fans are excited.

It doesn’t help matters much that Shanahan has said he expects to “win now.”

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Tags: Albert Haynesworth, Bruce Allen, clinton portis, dan snyder, Mike Shanahan, Washington Redskins

Caps have Montreal Backed in a Corner

With Washington having a 2-1 advantage in the series entering game four, Montreal finds itself staring into the abyss. Montreal dominated Washington for the first 111 minutes of this series holding the highest scoring team in the league to a paltry three goals while scoring seven of their own.

The last 82 minutes however have been quite a different story as Washington has scored ten goals to Montreal’s two.

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Tags: Alex Ovechkin, Andrei Kostitsyn, Boyd Gordon, Brooks Laich, Bruce Boudreau, Carey Price, David Steckel, Jaroslav Halak, Jose Theodore, Michael Cammalleri, Montreal Canadiens, Nicklas Backstrom, Round One, Semyon Varlamov, Stanley Cup Playoffs, Tomas Plekanec, Washington Capitals

Caps may be Without Ovie for a While

So, what I know will come as a shock to many, this past week, the Washington Capitals became the first team to clinch a playoff spot. Now some skeptics will say, “oh, well that’s not a surprise, the Capitals play in the weakest division in Hockey!” Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Alex Ovechkin, Boarding, Caps Recap, Marc Savard, Matt Cooke, NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, Ovechkin Suspended, Washington Capitals

Redskins 2010 Offseason

Here we go with another edition of “How to Spend Dan Snyder’s Money!” Also affectionately referred to as “Who Wants to be a Gazillionare!”

Fans are understandably nervous about the possibility of a lockout in 2011, but in the mean-time, it’s looking like 2010 will go uncapped. The rumors of what the Redskins would do in an uncapped year began the moment someone realized this was an actual possibility.

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Tags: Bruce Allen, dan snyder, Jason Taylor, Jim Zorn, Mike Shanahan, Sherm Lewis, vinny cerrato, Washington Redskins