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I wanted to announce that this blog now has a sponsor for the season. We were approached by Comcast, who is looking to get the word out about Comcast Redzone, and they knew the best way to reach hardcore NFL fans was through SB Nation blogs. We’re proud to have them as a sponsor and it shows just how much this blog has grown and the kind of community we have here. What does this mean? Well, if you're a Comcast subscriber, this Sunday, Oct. 4th, they’ll provide Redzone for free on Comcast from 1-4 PM where you can watch all the red zone action from every game. Unfortunately, now the entire United States gets to see the Redskins run left on 4th and 1 in the red zone and not make it. Exciting!!

We won’t be bombarding you with marketing messages, but we’ll remind you every once in a while about some of the great sports features available from Comcast, like Redzone. For a little cash a month, you get the Redzone Channel which shows all the redzone action on NFL Sunday as its happening.

Plus, they got stuff like On Demand content from the NFL network including game recaps of every game, every week; draft profiles, player profiles, etc.

So just wanted to say thanks to Comcast for sponsoring the blog and let you guys know about some of the stuff they have for NFL fans. I wonder if Zorn is subscribed to Red Zone....he could take some notes.

Here are some outtakes for Ovechkin's upcoming Easterns Motors commercial where Ovie wants to play "American futeball". Chris Cooley and Randle El have trouble keeping it together. So great.

Lost in the Locker Room from Tanner Cooley on Vimeo.

via www.drkorpeck.com

Hey all. We didn't exactly move into a fixer-upper here (this site was nice when we got here)--but we are in the process of renovating the HogsHaven experience. You'll notice small changes up and down the sides of the homepage as we continue to put our stamp on the site. We think it's time to change the HogsHaven main logo. We thought of a great idea of integrating "HH" as the logo in the Skins 75th anniversary logo, but we just realized that's major copyright infringement. Grrr. It makes sense since none of the other SBNation blogs incorprate team logos. So, we thought we'd hit up the community to hear what you think.  Let's first start if you like the current logo with a poll. If you have ideas or suggestions, please comment below. 

I know some people would like to have Adam Archuleta in a sarong, or Bruce Smith lying sprawled across a tiger rug, but those options of course are not viable either. The one thing to keep in mind is that whatever logo we go with, it gets printed on banners and documents...so you'll be seeing it everywhere...even in your sleep.

Redskins do their best to keep DeAngelo Hall before free agency (Washington Post)

Santonio Holmes gets a pat on the back for auctioning his Super Bowl gloves from an unlikely source: the district judge hearing his pot case. I wonder how that judgement is going to go?

Can you get enough of Clinton Portis being Clinton Portis? Maybe you can...if not:

Hawaii says "No" to the NFL on taking the Pro Bowl back in 2011, 2012. Whaaaaaaa?

In other news that blows my mind, Manny Ramirez is still seemingly undecided as to whether he will play for $25 million this year and hold an option for $20 million the following year. Do these guys have any cluewhat is happening th eworld around them at all?

• The Skins have faced a top-10 ranked offense in five of their seven games this season. Washington's defense has held that team to a season-low in yardage on every occasion.
• Detroit has been outscored 54-0 in the first quarter through 6 games.
• Washington enters week 8 with the leagues 7th ranked offense, and 6th ranked defense.
• Sunday breaks a streak of 51 straight Lion sellouts dating back to their final game at the Silverdome. (Today's game will be blacked out in the local Detroit market).
• The Redskins set a (team) record last Sunday: they have gone 332 passing attempts without an interception, breaking the Raiders' record of 281 set in 2001. (Collaborative effort from Jason Campbell, Todd Collins, Clinton Portis, and Antwaan Randle El).
• Chris Horton ranks 3rd in tackles amongst rookies this season.
• The Redskins are one of just six teams with fewer than 10 sacks this season, while the Lions are only one of four teams to allow more than 20.
• If Clinton Portis surpasses the 120 yard mark against Detroit, he will become the second player in NFL history to do so in 5 consecutive weeks for the second time in their career. (Joining O.J. Simpson).
  
• A win today would mark Washington's third consecutive road victory, a feat that has not been repeated since 2005.

Hey guys -- Skin Patrol recently honored me by asking if I wanted to jump up to the author position at this site, and I'm flattered to take him up on it. Thanks for having me, and I hope I can provide some good stuff.

Down to business -- my suspicion that Greg Blache is awesome was recently confirmed. Read this story in the Post ... the quotes in this article are completely ridiculous.

Defensive coordinator Greg Blache recently compared Rogers to a "good wine. His time has come. You just watch him. He's grown. It's just like, hey, he's ready to be sipped and savored. He can always get better, but he's got that poise and that confidence..."

"When he goes into the game, Carlos has done his homework," Blache said. "He's a totally different personality in the meeting room and on the field. He's all business. Last year, he was still like a puppy out there, smiling and laughing. But when he walks into the meeting room, there's a coldness, almost like a hit man kind of thing: 'This is where I got to learn. This is what I want to do.' "

A hit man? A fine wine? That's awesome.

Some more random Blache-isms... and there seem to be millions...

"The bottom line in our business is you either make a play, or you don't make a play," Blache said. "There's no half-pregnants; you're either pregnant or you're not. . . . We didn't make the play, and it's not just Leigh. Leigh should have had help. The ball should have had to come out sooner." ...

"Our defense is built like an old automobile," defensive coordinator Greg Blache explained, after his makeshift lineup stymied the Eagles for most of a 23-17 win. "You can buy another water belt or fuel pump or whatever; we don't have all the computer chips."

Hilarious. Zorn and Blache's collective candidness, or just plain silliness if you like, have to be a refreshing approach from the micro-focused Gibbs, the didactic Saunders, and the ruthless Williams.

In the 1970's, George Allen built a winning team in Washington. He assembled the pieces, built the chemistry needed in the locker room, and took his team from bottom-feeders to NFL relevance. It took Joe Gibbs, an unknown coach from the West Coast, to take them to the next level -- a championship-level team.

Does this sound familiar? Proven veteran coach builds the foundation, while a new coach comes in fresh and reinvigorates the team, bringing them to new heights? 

I think that is exactly what Blache and Zorn are doing. Arguing that either of them are "better coaches" than Gibbs and Williams is literally impossible considering the latters' respective bodies of work. And if Zorn and Blache were handed the team the same year Gibbs was, I think everyone would have their doubts as to whether or not they could perform at this level. But Zorn and Blache are the beneficiaries of a hard-working, well-focused group of individuals dying to win. And they've done nothing if not a tremendous job with this team, which struggled to get its identity under Gibbs.

Hail to Blache and Zorn -- let's hope this too-silly-to-be-true tandem can keep working their magic.

via www.laughinggame.com

NAW NAW NAW NAW NAW I'm just kidding nothing like that. But shenanigans nonetheless:

Perhaps [Jason Taylor's] best feat was lacing my[, Colt Brennan's,] helmet and visor with Vaseline, which meant I spent the practice in a slippery helmet and no visor, because I couldn’t see out of it (the Vaseline took forever to wipe off).

This is the tragedy of bad circumstance that has become Colt Brennan's life, as the cruel Football Gods put his locker betwixt Jason Taylor and Chris Cooley. It's a trap.

You know I'm a sucker for the charity bit.

I don't know how lame your middle school pep rallies were but mine were especially stupid. That is largely because Jason Campbell was never in attendence. Last Tuesday at Stuart-Hobson Middle School in D.C., Jason Campbell was in attendence. Whatever sport or team activity I was participating in, were Jason Campbell to have attendend my middle school's pep rally, I probably would've punched the opponent so hard that their head exploded. Feel the exciting.

Briefly:

Washington Redskins QB Jason Campbell will visit Stuart-Hobson Middle School to participate in a pep rally in advance of Wednesday’s International Walk to School day, as well as to “coach” a pedestrian safety clinic, to help keep students safe this year.  This event is part of the 5^th annual FedEx Air & Ground Players of the Week program, which encourages NFL fans to vote for outstanding Air & Ground players throughout the season to benefit pedestrian safety programs nationwide. 

As part of the program, FedEx is teaming up with D.C.-based Safe Kids USA – a national non-profit organization that works to prevent accidental injury among children – to deliver safer kids by making weekly donations in the winning players’ names to local Safe Kids coalitions across the country. FedEx is donating funds to the Washington D.C. coalition to improve pedestrian safety in the local community, especially among the Capitol Hill Cluster Schools.

What'd he do?

Campbell “coaching” a safety clinic and participating in a pep rally to get students excited about Walk to School Day (on Wed)

Campbell acting as crossing guard for the students, to demonstrate safe pedestrian crossing

Campbell and students demonstrating bike helmet safety

FedEx and Campbell announcing donation to Safe Kids D.C.

Since I had these pictures emailed to me, I like to think they're exclusives, though really I haven't the foggiest idea. Anyways, pictures of the event available after the jump.

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