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A Few Good Post-Cardinals Game Reads

I’ve made an interesting discovery today: apparently if you spend all of a largely meaningless fourth preseason game tweeting and writing up blog posts, and you depart the game and immediately board an airplane for a four-plus hour overnight flight, and during that flight you lose three hours of your life to time changes, your memories of the game itself quickly become surprisingly vague. So I was pleased, today, to find a few good reads that offered some illumination of events that are already getting a bit hazy for me.

The folks over at Hogs Haven have had a good relationship with Robert Henson for some time now, so last night was both fortunate for them — when Henson was looking like the Redskins’ defensive star of the game — and grim for them, when Henson went down with a knee injury. Despite that nasty turn of events, he did check in over there to review his performance, which is worth a read. An excerpt:

I have to switch subjects for a second and speak my mind about being injured in the 3rd quarter. I do not really know what happened…I just felt a sharp pain, and the training staff decided to pull me just to be safe. I honestly felt like I let my teammates down by not being out there, and I broke down emotionally. This is my job and I want to be the best at it, and I cannot do that from the sidelines. I played beside so many great players tonight and no matter what happens we will be brothers for life!! HTTR!!

Plenty more at the link.

Also:

• Doug Farrar, new-stats guy and Football Outsider, loves the Redskins’ new 3-4 defense.
• Bill Simmons, Boston Sports Guy and Teen Wolf fan, really likes Donovan McNabb.
• Gregg Rosenthal, ProFootballTalker and ubiquitous NFL writer, really enjoys writing about Albert Haynesworth.
• Ryan O’Halloran, CSNWashingtonian and first guy to officially predict no Malcolm Kelly on the 2010 Redskins roster, offers up his latest projection of the final 53. (He likes Devin Thomas and Terrence Austin, not so much for Brandon Banks or the backup tight ends.)
• Rick Maese, Washington Poster and proud New Mexican, uses the end of preseason to answer the questions from the start of training camp.