Mickey: Tis the season of giving, thanking, and remembering, and I found myself thinking about that sentiment quite a lot this past Sunday during the Week 13 slate. The Panthers were putting the finishing touches on an ugly, Silver Foxian 16-6 win against a 1-win team with a rookie quarterback who flinched every time he [...]
Posts Tagged ‘washington redskins’
Ten Steps To A Redskins Recovery
Today was the first in quite a while that I didn’t throw on my typical Clinton Portis #26 Washington Redskins jersey early Sunday morning and stay within eyeshot of the TV for an entire afternoon. Last week, with the Redskins on a bye week that couldn’t have come sooner, I felt like my life was [...]
Weak Side Late Assignment: South Korea Is One Of The Best Countries Around
So I’ll start this post by begging for your forgiveness: I’m sorry for my absence. I’ll use just returning from a work trip to Korea (South, that is, Kim Jong Il and his rocket firing didn’t even phase faze? us) as an excuse. Or maybe you were happy to have a break from me. I return to the Cube, [...]
NFL Week 5 Status Meeting: Party in the USA
Mickey: When the Panthers schedule came out in the spring, I reviewed it and immediately emailed Joseph to ask, “Charlotte road trip October 11th?” That’s right, we signed up for the first official Cubicle GM field trip. Besides the inevitable epic battle betwixt the Panthers and Redskins that would pit the two of us against [...]
NFL Week 1 Status Meeting: Shell Shock
Smokey: There’s this priceless moment in David Mamet’s film “State and Main” where the big Hollywood star played by Alec Baldwin crashes a car with a 15-year-old fan, and when he gets out of the mangled wreck his response is a drunkenly gleeful, “So…that happened.” The numbness of his understatement is a feeling I know [...]
NFL Oh-Nine Previews: NFC East
Back when Smokey and I were doing our own thang at the Sports Brethren, we would double-team a weekly post about every Carolina Panthers game. We might not see eye-to-eye on everything, but we always brung the heat and the passion in our weekly chronicles of the NFL’s greatest team. Here at the Cube, we’re [...]
It Pains Me, Pat, But I Beg To Differ
There’s an NFC South blogger named Pat Yasinskas – no idea how to pronounce that – who has, with responsibilities for Buccaneers, Falcons, Panthers, and Saints, determined that he has eminent domain over Michael Vick banter on ESPN until he signs with another team. Pat cut his teeth with The Charlotte Observer before ESPN. As [...]
