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Research, logic, and intuition on the Washington #Commanders .

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Haven't felt this good about Washington's collective leadership (owners + scouts + coaches) in my adult life. I'm 43.
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Check this out. 2018. Devin Funchess got worked up, had a minor altercation with Scott Turner at practice. Funchess apologized, explained his cousin had just been killed, he was rattled. Rivera pulled him aside…
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We did it. We actually did it. We made Dan Snyder #FireBruceAllen .
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6 years
This happened tonight at FedEx Field. I hope Snyder was still there.
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3 years
Tremendous shot of Heinicke scanning and re-scanning the field before finding McKissic for the game-winner.
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4 years
Alex Smith's leg is made of titanium and his balls are made of steel.
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4 years
Deshaun Watson? All of the picks.
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Curtis 4.31 McLaurin 4.35 Gibson 4.39
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F*** it. I can't hate this team. I'm back in.
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6 years
Bruce Allen goes or we riot.
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5 years
Rivera. Language. Really bad language. But 🔥.
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Oh boy. W13 2018. Panthers on three-game losing streak. Rivera goes absolutely HAM on his defense for not being accountable.
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Proud of the #WashingtonFootball Team for this game, and this season. The culture is actually damn good.
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Trent is trying his hardest to get Bruce canned. I will remember him as fondly for this as for any game he ever played.
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4 years
I hope Alex Smith is a part of the #Redskins organization till he's old and gray.
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5 years
"Terry McLaurin, with great reverence I say that Terry might've taken over the title as the best I've ever had." –Urban Meyer
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4 years
Chris Thompson will be one of the easiest former #Redskins to root for in another uniform, ever.
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4 years
Hey Chris and Al. Shut up about the #Giants ' feelings. They won six games.
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@BurgundyBlog
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8 months
@DMRussini Not doing something advantageous because it's "too complicated" is the mark of every great leader.
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@BurgundyBlog
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9 months
Rivera springs into action.
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4 years
This Team is finally a team.
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4 years
I am not aware of any flaws in this player.
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5 years
The catch was impossible but my favorite part is what he did with the ball right after.
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1 year
Schefter: “Where are you, on the name of the franchise? … Do you like the #Commanders name? Are you sticking with that?” Harris: “You know, it’s not important what I like. It’s important what the fans in the city like.” Schefter: “They don’t like the name.” 😂
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3 years
Giving fans zero notice for the retirement of Sean Taylor's number is both stupid and insulting.
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4 years
The streak is over. Brandon Scherff made first-team All-Pro. That's an expensive development.
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3 years
Chase Young just got a roughing penalty on a play where he actually didn't hit the QB hard enough.
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All I want for Christmas is for Dan Snyder to #FireBruceAllen .
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5 years
Listen up, this is important. Trust me. I've learned something. The #FireBruceAllen hashtag needs to come back, and come back hard. It matters. Go.
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4 years
Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.
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3 months
So far, my favorite coach on the staff.
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2 years
One year later, "Commanders" is still terrible.
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6 years
Don't buy tickets. Don't buy merch. If you do, you are complicit.
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2 years
Foolish to spend money and picks on Carr when you have a guy with Howell's ceiling on a rookie deal.
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Every loss was worth it.
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5 years
Snyder's best public interface. Ever.
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5 years
Del Rio historically a 4-3 guy. It's coming. Chase and Montez will hunt.
@AdamSchefter
Adam Schefter
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Soon-to-be Redskins’ HC Ron Rivera is expected to target former Jaguars’ and Raiders’ HC Jack Del Rio as his new defensive coordinator in Washington, per sources. He is the leading candidate.
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2 years
I'm ready for new HC with new owner. But assuming Rivera back, #Commanders should fire Turner, promote Zampese, let Howell and Heinicke compete (Howell will win), draft an OT, re-sign Payne, roll the dice.
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5 years
Save us, @JeffBezos . Please. PLEASE.
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5 years
Jeff Bezos is reportedly keen on buying an NFL team
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4 years
Well, the QB ain't the problem.
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5 years
The #Redskins have a bad owner, bad president, bad senior VPs, bad coaching staff, bad roster, bad stadium, bad field, bad marketing, and bad PR, and most of them don't even know it. But the culture…
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I don’t think Peters and Quinn plan on sucking this year.
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. @KirkCousins8 , I've rooted for you before, but never harder than tonight. We are counting on you to humiliate Bruce Allen. Please throw at least six touchdown passes and stomp Bruce's ego into the Minnesota dirt.
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Step back and consider how much has changed in two weeks. Bruce gone. Schaffer going. Hess replaced. New HC, OC, DC. Yes, same owner, but this is sweeping change, people. Things may or may not get better but they will not be the same. Couldn't have hoped for much more.
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3 years
Props to Heinicke. That win was mostly him.
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8 months
Gonna be very hard to lose to him. But I believe in my team.
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Adam Schefter
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Jets’ QB Trevor Siemian will start Sunday vs. the Commanders.
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5 years
Welcome back, Trent Williams!
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JP Finlay
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Redskins have fired head trainer Larry Hess, source tells me. He had been with the team 17 years.
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5 years
Glad to see Haskins slowly improving, and Guice rolling, but this winning streak is a very bad thing.
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4 years
I almost never complain about refs. But this crew is ass.
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5 years
Thus concludes the 2019 season for the NFC East. Let us never speak of it again.
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Del Rio is the most legitimate defensive coordinator hire by the #Redskins since Gregg Williams. Rivera obviously understands defense too. We'll see about the ceiling, but I know the floor just went way up.
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Burgundy Blog
4 years
The following is a fringy, unconfirmed rumor, so take it FWIW. I'm told by a new source with a convincing connection to the #Browns that a trade for Trent Williams is "done," with #Redskins expected to receive a 3rd or 4th in 2020 and a 2nd in 2021.
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Burgundy Blog
3 years
So lemme get this straight… The NFL is WAIVING its max debt limit, so one of the WORST owners in history can get MORE power, amid a PENDING investigation into personal and organizational misconduct? That's what's happening here, in real life?
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6 years
Pretty cool.
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3 years
That whole game was drunk.
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He wasn't just a good player, and this isn't just a jersey. It's a memorial. If you can't do it intelligently and respectfully, don't do it at all.
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3 years
DeAndre Carter is who Steven Sims Jr was supposed to be.
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7 years
Swearinger is a lunatic and I like it.
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5 years
New year, new decade, new era. The Rivera Era.
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4 years
You could blindfold Romo and lock him in a closet and he's still be better at this than Aikman.
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3 years
Heinicke lives too dangerously to be trusted, yet too fearlessly to be denied.
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Sam Howell deserves better.
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Swearinger is PFF's #1 -ranked safety in the NFL.
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They suck. But they didn't suck tonight.
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5 years
Out of the hunt. #FireBruceAllen
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This concludes the meaningful portion of Ron Rivera's coaching career.
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9 months
You can see that in his new role as defensive coordinator, Rivera is going a little more with left-over-right.
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4 years
Jon Allen on @kevinsheehanDC today: "I texted with (Chase Young) after the draft, just congratulations, excited to be working with you. And then the next day he texted me if he could come over and just kick it. And I was like, man, of course... I was really impressed with him."
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Burgundy Blog
4 years
This QB swap costs incalculable experience, but Heinicke is not new to Turner's scheme and is extremely intelligent. College coach called him a rare "five-read guy." Playbook will be open. And he likes to chuck it. I'm kinda pumped.
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Burgundy Blog
4 years
Chase Young probably already a top-5 overall NFL defender.
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Burgundy Blog
5 years
Del Rio on Sweat and Kerrigan: "It just makes more sense to have them covering less and rushing more."
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4 years
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3 years
Friends, we can do better. Let's try to cut that number in half by Week 10.
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John Ourand
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"The Washington Football Team ranked last among the 32 NFL teams in average attendance through Week 6 with just 51,082 fans at 82,000-seat FedEx Field."
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Burgundy Blog
3 years
#Cowboys are in last place.
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6 years
#Redskins finally brought in competent, reputable, untainted outside help to repair their reputation. Gave 'em a few months. Didn't get it. Fired 'em. They like their insulated bubble of chronic failure. Worst organization in North American pro sports.
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Burgundy Blog
4 years
The right thing, a week late.
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2 years
Can't think of one good reason for Howell not to start in W18.
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@BurgundyBlog
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4 years
Never let that man field a punt again.
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5 years
It gets weirder by the day to recall a real era in which the #Redskins were truly great.
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4 years
He is the f***ing man.
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10 months
Here’s where I’ve landed on the Chase Young trade, with underwhelming return. Harris decided the team was not going to tag him, or extend him at market rate, period. Starts there. Just doesn’t love him. Internal scouting report not superlative. Likely a combo of play style,
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Burgundy Blog
3 years
Hell yes. Let's get 'em all out in the open. All of 'em.
@ByMikeJones
Mike Jones
3 years
NFL Players Association urges release of emails in Washington Football Team probe after Jon Gruden resigns via @USATODAY
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5 years
McLaurin has accomplished more in three targets than Doctson did in three seasons.
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@BurgundyBlog
Burgundy Blog
5 years
Let's go.
@JPFinlayNBCS
JP Finlay
5 years
Redskins team president Bruce Allen will be out of running football operations by Monday, per multiple sources. Story -->
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3 years
Nothing imminent. These things take months and sometimes break down. But I have it on good authority that Jay-Z is actively divesting assets to position himself for purchase of stake in #WFT .
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@BurgundyBlog
Burgundy Blog
5 years
Can't even imagine a worse owner/GM combo than Dan Snyder and Bruce Allen. They are impossibly bad.
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4 months
When Christian McCaffrey’s brother averages a touchdown every game and logs the fastest offensive short-shuttle at the Combine, you just shut up and draft him.
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5 years
Justin Ross, Account Executive, deserves a raise.
@SkinsFanInTN2
SkinsFanInTN
5 years
So, back on Dec 11th I got an email from the @Redskins about 2020 Season Tickets (insert laugh here), I replied back with “ #FireBruceAllen ”. Well I got a reply back today. LOL Well played @Redskins .
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4 years
Chase Young is an alien.
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3 years
Impressive win. Wish it mattered more.
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4 years
Boomer Esiason said of Matt Stafford on CBS Sports Radio: "He wants out, from what I hear." I know Mayhew got that number.
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4 years
Chase Young saying "I want Tom Brady" being made into a thing, is dumb. Hell yeah he does.
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5 years
What's more important is who ended it. All of us, together.
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1 year
This is Jon Allen's 7th NFL season. Couple of Pro-Bowls; people know he's good. But I think somehow he's still a little underrated. People tend forget what an elite prospect he was, coming out of Bama, because he slipped a little (phantom shoulder issue). He has lived up to the
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@BurgundyBlog
Burgundy Blog
5 years
Thank you, Trent. On Bruce: "I just don’t understand. In any business world, when the employer has someone who is underperforming, he finds another one. I don't know in the last 10 years if there is a worse record [for] someone who has held their job…"
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Les Carpenter
5 years
Trent Williams on Bruce Allen, Redskins’ exit and the future: ‘Everybody sees how they treated me’
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@BurgundyBlog
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1 year
I've lost confidence in Rivera and I hate the new name. But I am no longer resigned to failure. Burgundy Blog is back and my mind is open. Win.
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2 years
@JPFinlayNBCS Counterpoint: good chance for immediate embarrassment.
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