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Thursday, November 5: Guy Fawkes Day Links

Posted by Matt Terl on November 5, 2009 – 11:19 am

None of these links have anything to DO with Guy Fawkes day, but still.

One of the things that’s the most frustrating about watching — and trying to write about — Redskins practice is that the team, like so many other NFL teams, doesn’t actually tackle. It makes it incredibly hard to judge how successful a play actually is, and how good defensive coverage actually is. A guy may get there every time in the game just like he does in practice … but in the game, you have to actually finish the play, and THAT doesn’t always happen.

Joseph White of the Associated Press thinks there might be a correlation there. (On the Redskins side of things, Chris Chase at Shutdown Corner seems to think this applies to DeAngelo Hall.) It’s certainly an interesting argument.

More links….

• ESPN‘s NFC East blogger Matt Mosley takes another run at Albert Haynesworth: “Haynesworth was supposed to help transform the defense into a dominant unit. I haven’t seen anything close to dominance. The Redskins were handed one of the easiest opening stretches in the history of the league (seriously) and they found a way to lose five of those games. In the early games that I witnessed, Haynesworth was often too winded to stay on the field when the Redskins needed him most.”

  I’m sure we’ll the now-traditional rebuttal at Mr. Irrelevant soon.

• Chris Cooley is keeping busy with pottery during his rehab, which will help out with his November 30th art show.
• Speaking of Cooley’s art show, I hypothesized on Twitter that the Washington Post — having added KidsPost to their list of “sections that have taken shots at the Redskins” — would have their Arts beat reporters at that event, knives sharpened and ready to go.
• And Rich Tandler does a great job inadvertently articulating my thoughts on John Riggins’ latest comments over at his Real Redskins blog. I mean, he articulates his own thoughts on purpose; it’s inadvertent that they mirror mine.

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