Dancing Queen.....

"You are like a firefly in heat chasing after a quarterback on the field. You go boy!" Bruno Tonioli, TV Judge - Dancing With the Stars







Mamma mia, here I go again, My my, how can I resist you? Oh sorry about that - Doing the Pasa Doble oh I mean playing the 4-3 Jason Taylor and his partner. Well that did not take long. After a very quiet off-season the Skins circus is back. I hope they don't up ticket prices due to this acquisition. A pretty big loss losing Daniels on day 1 but SNYDER and Cerrato pulled another one out of their sleeve. As much as I did not like to think about Taylor coming to the Skins I am not complaining at this point. I've been cursing him since he stepped on the dance floor saying no team would rightfully take him back after his embarrassment to the NFL - twinkle toe fairy, and even cursing about him when I first thought about the possiblity of him coming to the Skins when Daniels went down, but in a matter of seconds as I watched the "Breaking News" scroll along the bottom of my screen I became elated and was happy as hell to have signed him. I have never been a big fan of his but his sack numbers speak for themselves. We just need to stop the run behind him and Andre Carter and we should be good.

This move has SNYDER written all over it. He probably could not wait to get Taylor into his office and talk about Hollywood and maybe even go over a few of the steps Taylor used on TV. I heard they started out with the Electric Slide today, but it was cut short with the DANNY pulling a hammy. I know Mario Lopez is probably bummed as he will be replaced for the big Dick Clark's Rockin' New Years Eve party by Taylor, as Taylor will be Ryan Seacrests' new butt buddy. I actually heard Taylor finally agreed to come to the Skins after hearing from "Choo Choo" Portis who has promised to dance with Taylor each morning in hopes of them making it big after their football careers are over.


Hold on everyone as we have only gotten through 2 days of camp and we are already all over ESPN. Please keep Favre with Madden in the cruiser far away from Redskins Park!

New Season, New Leader, New Hopes, SAME OLD DISAPPOINTMENTS??

Wow what a fast off season and for the most part a very quiet one for the Redskins after we finally got a new coach. Oh you don't remember how all that went down? Take a look at this to refresh your memory. Again I don't know if Jim Zorn should be proud of his new position or flat out embarrassed. I guess we will see very soon.

As for the draft SNYDER, Cerrato, and zorn decided to go for playmakers on the offensive side of the ball. Forget line players we are getting pass catchers. One of them decided he could not tell time very well and ended up in zorn's office during the first off season practice he tried to attend. At least we did not trade half of the team to get Chad Johnson as it appeared we might pre-draft.

As normal we need to get through pre-season and training camp with limited injuries as McCintosh, Rogers, Jansen, and Thomas are all working on returning from last year's injuries. Unfortunately with 5 pre-season games most likely there will be some problems before the regular season starts.

As for the predictions of the upcoming season. I will leave this to Tyler to see how he does. As you can see he is deep in thought.


9/4 @ New York Giants - No Tiki, No Toothless Strahan, and the Skins ground the Giants with a "Win"

9/14 vs New Orleans - The Saints might come in but they will be leaving Washington with a loss. The Skins "Win" again!

9/21 vs Arizona - Nothing to say here but another "Win"

9/28 @ Dallas - I pooped on my Dallas diaper but the girls still won. "Loss"

10/5 @ Philadelphia - 2 years in a row we beat the ugly fat bastard in Philly! "Win"

10/12 vs St. Louis - Can't lose this one at home "Win"

10/19 vs Cleveland - Another easy one at home "Win"

10/26 @ Detroit - Poop on the Lions we win again. "Win"

11/3 vs Pittsburgh - We drop one at home to the dirty coal miners. "Loss"

BYE - No opportunity to lose this one!!

11/16 vs Dallas - Well rested and beat the girls this time. "Win"

11/23 @ Seattle - Will we ever win at this place "Loss"

11/30 vs New York Giants - Sweep the Giants. "Win"

12/7 @ Baltimore - Ravens SUCK we "Win"

12/14 @ Cincinnati - The Bengals could not field a team since they are all in prison. "Win"

12/21 vs Philadelphia - Donovan is benched by now or injured. "Win"

12/28 @ San Fran - A long road trip but we get a "Win"

So Tyler has the Skins going 13-3. We already have him brain washed as you can see!

Make sure to check out Portis's pre-season costume shopping on this video. Please just stay healthy and be ready for the first game to carry the full load whomever you are acting as on that Sunday.

Any rumors you hear about Favre going to the Skins are completely false. He is joining John Madden in the booth after the honeymoon.

The Danny Called...

The Danny called earlier this week and of course I, and most Redskins fans answered. Yes - it's that time of year again to cut a fat check to the Danny for next years seasons tickets. As promised the ticket and parking prices did not increase, but he found a way to get a few extra bucks from me and others. Handling fees for the tickets went from $14.00 to $25.00! In addition to that charge the Skins did add a new online payment feature to eliminate the mailing process. But guess what, there is a $3.00 fee for that as well. So all in all the Danny is getting his extra $14 dollars per season ticket account, maybe this was Cerrato's big idea that got him promoted.

I guess we will see how many calls the Danny makes over the next day or two to free agents and who will answer??

It's About Time

It only took about a month but we finally got a coach! I dont know if Zorn should be excited or embarrassed. I just find it interesting that Zorn has never even called a play and now he is going to be the play caller and HEAD coach.

I was in the Redskins Store today and even without a head coach (at that time) people were still buying stuff up including me. I guess we will never learn.

What The Hell??

What a mess and of course it's has to be with the Redskins. Forget "The Danny" I will now refer to him as "Little Jerry"; and I am not talking about Kramer's pet rooster I am talking about Jerry Jones. Forget little it's going to be "Big Jerry" since the Danny one upped Jones with picking his Offensive and Defensive Coordinator before he even gets a head coach on board!! Who in their right mind would want to come on board as the coach with this circus going on? All of the respect Big Jerry got by bringing back Gibbs well he just lost all of it plus more. He would have been better off keeping the "Ball Coach" for the last 4 years as we would not have gotten our hopes up.

At least for now with them keeping Blache and what appears to be some of the defensive staff we have not entirely waisted the last four years. But don't worry Big Jerry and Cerrato are still working on that for us.

WHAT'S NEXT??? Maybe Big JERRY will remove Sean Taylor's sign from the inside of Fedex? Yeah that's a great idea to piss everyone off and lose even more fans. "Get on it Cerratto"

p.s - At least I don't have to see that lousy reverse called by Uncle Al anymore!

The BEST and worst of the 2nd Coming of Coach Joe

As you can see it has been a while since the last posting for me. When the Skins got on a roll with a few wins I was not blogging so I knew we were all in this together so I did my part with holding off on my blogs. Well the season has now ended with a short and disappointing run in the playoffs. I thought for about 7 minutes we were going to steal one in Seattle but it did not work out that way.

The bigger news is Gibbs resigning so I figured I would sum up the 2nd Coming with a best and worst list -

Best Assistant Head Coach Hiring - Buges - He brought a spark and was entertaining to the media and fans. Tried to get a new nick name for the O-Line "dirt bags" which never got going. He kissed Gibbs on the sidelines towards the end of the Dallas game to get into the playoffs.

Worst Assistant Head Coach Hiring - Saunders - The team went from 10-6 (2nd rd of the playoffs) to 5-11 with his play calling and more talented players. Everything Buges is and was, Saunders was not. Very rambling old man talking about the X/Y/Z position on the field that nobody could figure out except for his lousy crap reverse play call. It's a possibility his significant other is 100+ years old after seeing her get off the Greyhound in Seattle.

Above Par Assistant Head Coach - Gregg Williams - I did not want to leave him out. A very harsh article was written about him after the 2006 season in which he was portrayed as an ego maniac. I hope he will be named the next Head Coach of the Team.

Worst Coaching Position Created - In Gibb's first season he hired a retired referee to sit up in the box on game days and help with challenges. All thought this was a great idea and Gibbs seemed ahead of the league. The problem was I don't think we won a challenge all season and Gibbs decided that position was not needed by seasons end.

Where did he go Coach? - Offensive Coordinator Don Breaux started side by side with Gibbs on the sideline until mid-way through the first season when he disappeared into the box. I thought maybe he was trying to avoid the cold weather at his age but he he never reappeared on the sideline. Only mention I heard about Breaux since the 2nd coming was Gibbs talking about eating Turkey at the Breaux's house and how Breaux falls asleep yelling at the games on tv.

Worst Free Agent - Adam Archuleta

Best Free Agent - London Fletcher

Best Trade - Santana Moss

Worst Trade - B.Lloyd - The Skins gave up a draft pick and signed B.Lloyd to a new contract before he ever stepped on the field. He could be the happiest about Gibbs's departure as he still is on the roster. I also have to include the trade for TJ Duckett. What a powerhouse he was for us.

Worst Draft Pick - O that's right we did not have that many picks.

Best Draft Pick - Sean Taylor

Worst Post Game Comment - "He kind of fell on his butt out there". Gibbs talking about Moss's injury/fumbles against the Packers in 2007.

Most Fired Up- Gibbs weekly presser prior to the Detroit game in 2007. He made sure that everyone knows he wants balance in the offense. The players must have been scared and were swinging souls that week with a big win.

Best Win - Midnight miracle against Dallas in 2005. Seeing Snyder jumping in the box and pulling up his pants was great.

Worst Lost - Home loss against Buffalo after the death of Sean Taylor.

Best Moment - The announcement Gibbs was returning to the Skins.

Worst Moment - Sean Taylor's funeral.

Best Release of a Player - Lavar Arrington - This reminded us all that one player was not the TEAM.

Hard Fought Award - Lorenzo Alexander in the 2007 pre-season making a tackle without his helmet. This earned him a spot on the Offense, Defense, and Special Teams during the season.

Worst Luck - Jon Janson missing 2 out of the 4 full seasons during Gibbs's tenure. One of his "healthy" seasons he played with both of his thumbs broken for the whole year. The others were major injuries - Achilles tear and broken foot/ankle.

Front Office Mistake - Keeping Vinny Cerratto - Can we ever get rid of this guy?

Best Play Call - Portis pass - I think this worked all but once over the 4 years.

Worst Play Call - Jumbo package during the 2007 season

One lasting line - We are all in this together fighting our guts out.

R.I.P. SEAN TAYLOR

Wow...Where to start?? It's kind of odd how it ended for Taylor "on the field". Going down with a sprained knee in the first half against the Eagles on November 11th. The injury was not odd or strange but his exit was. Usually the player would get checked out on the field by a trainer and helped to the sideline with a fans applause. In Taylor's case he went down in the end-zone after the play was over got up after a few seconds and hobbled directly into the tunnel by himself. Most of the fans and players did not even see him leaving the field since the next play was already started when Taylor got into the tunnel. Who would know this would be the last time we would see him in the Skins uniform and on the field or more importantly lead up to the last few weeks of his life?

It definitely seemed Taylor had changed this year. In years past you would see him on the sidelines sitting by himself or standing with a kicker or punter? But this year I saw him sitting with the rest of the defensive players and actually giving high-fives to all. The players actually elected him as a "committee" member to represent them in talks with Coach Gibbs. Just when everything seems to be falling into place for him this happens.

As for my shining moment with Taylor - Outside leaving FedEx after a pre-season game 3 years ago I was able to scoot around a security guard and "accost"(basically go crazy in excitement in meeting him!)Sean on his way to his car. To my disappointment I think he was more surprised with me then I was with him not hitting me back and actually shacking my hand....maybe this guy was not so tough off the field?

Video of his first season (#36) highlights - Seems like enough plays for an entire career...

R.I.P - #36/21