Thousands of Redskins fans woke up on Monday morning with an odd crispness to their step. They hit the ground running with a fresh outlook on the day and week that would have been unrecognizable to any Redskins fan prior to today.

"It was like I had the will to face just about anything that came my way when I woke up this morning," said one Redskins fan who admitted that the smile on his face on this Monday morning was usually reserved for Mondays after weekend trips to Vegas, or when he opens a fresh box of frozen waffles. He explained, "When you open a fresh box of frozen waffles, you know they are going to be fresh. You can eat five, maybe six of those things and you know they are all going to be as good they can possibly be. Of course, the next time you go for waffles, you are going to have to eat those freezer-burned leftovers...I like to save those for when I am drunk."

Sweet.

No loss for the Redskins yesterday means a week that Redskins fans can start without the fresh pain of mediocrity stinging the heart, mind and soul. We asked another burgundy and gold fan what it was like to get this week started without the day-old memory of coming up short in yet another loss.

"Huge...just huge. This changes my whole week. Not only do I still have enough Jack Daniels to get me through the week for once, but my girlfriend is actually talking to me today. When the Redskins lose, I can't deal with her problems, especially since all her problems are somehow my fault. I haven't celebrated a 3-week anniversary during a football season with a girlfriend in years."

As we conducted our man-on-the-street interviews to gauge the euphoria today in D.C., we noticed a man wearing a Darrell Green jersey walking with a decided limp toward the Metro stop. His walk suggested great pain, but he wore a giant smile on his face as he carried what appeared to be luggage for a trip he was about to embark upon. We asked him if we could help him carry his bags, but he enthusiastically denied our help. We asked what was causing his limp.

"Son, I am doing just fine. Couldn't be happier about the non-loss yesterday. Unfortunately, even though the team did not play this past weekend, Daniel Snyder continued his sexual assault on my 5-hole. I suspect I'll have this limp for some time. He's killing me!"

Hate him or love him, Tom Cruise has put out a lot of quality movies. Since Mr. Snyder loves mingling with Tom Cruise as his fan base aches, I thought it'd be clever to expose all the Redskins problems via Tom Cruise movie posters. Enjoy. 

More Tom Cruise movies after the jump...

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Based on the humor level the Tony Romo Facebook hack and the Vinny Cerrato Gmail hack posts gave everyone, we thought we'd give it a go with Michael Vick. Especially since there was a LOAD of potential jokes to play around with. Click to view the full-size picture.

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Update 7/27/2009:  He did it!!! Mike Williams was on Redskins Nation today where he confirmed he is currently 343 pounds...2 pounds UNDER his goal of 345 pounds with a few days to spare. A couple of interesting facts:

- Mike went from a 50 to 42 waist size
- Mike currently has 22% body fat (only dropped 3 lbs of muscle with all the weight lost)
- Currently feels very strong
- Lost 107 lbs in the last 4.5 months
- Williams was 375 lbs when he was drafted 4th overall [Scout]

Congrats Mike! The only issue left is can he catch up with the speed of the NFL being out of the league multiple years. The good news is he'll be training against one of the best DL's in the league.

 
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We know everyone is antsy for the #21 Numbers post, but unfortunately we are stalling while we wait for some notable people to get back to us. So, in the meantime, we're pulling out the unicycles and flaming batons in an attempt to entertain these slow June weeks.

I am a constant visitor and fan of Break.com, and I got to thinking, "I can apply the NFL as captions to a lot of these Break.com pictures." So here goes...more after the jump. I'm sure that you guys can come up with some great ones too. So let's do this...a contest. If you think of a good caption, post it in the comments and if you like a comment, then "Rec" it. Whatever comment has the most "Rec" (votes) by 5pm on Friday will get this Redskins t-shirt mailed to them.  To "Rec" a comment, click the 'actions' link below the comment, then obviously "Rec." Let's get after it....

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As we all know, Hogs Haven likes to make fun of people. We've done Romo, our own Vinny Cerrato, and now we direct our attention to the Birds. I'm not trying to one-up our other posts, but I thought this was definitely good enough to fuel some trash talking. I've been saying for years that the Eagles really pooped the bed not giving Donovan McNabb better weapons. I think this flow chart sums it up properly (click to enlarge):

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* - Before the Eagles' fans blow up the comments section, let me add a foot note here. I actually sent this flow chart to a great friend of mine last week, who happens to be a season ticket holder for the Eagles. His first reaction was this flow chart is crap because of DeSean Jackson. My response, "Well, follow the line, it ends in another NFC Championship loss." Not only that, DeSean is only one WR. Great teams don't win with one good WR. I of course brought up Todd Stinkston Pinkston and Freddie Mitchell (yes, those 2 WRs on the Super Bowl roster). No rebuttal there. The Eagles had a chance to get Anquan Boldin earlier this year, and they passed instead drafting Jeremy Maclin. My same friend pointed out that no stud WRs have come out of the Big 12 the last ten years, which worries him. Roy Williams certainly has mad skills, but he has yet to really be that big impact player. So yes, DeSean Jackson is a great player, but how good would he be without McNabb?  It doesn't matter. The Eagles have had 7 playoff appearances this decade and of course no Super Bowls. It's pretty safe to say the WR position has been the weak link.

Since the Vinny Cerrato gmail hack post was so popular, we decided to continue the fun, this time going after our NFC East foes, specifically Tony Romo. Click the picture to enlarge Tony Romo's facebook profile.

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I recently came across a Washington Post article from 2005, where Mike Wise spoke with Vinny Cerrato about his worst decisions and lessons learned:

"Biggest regret? Probably in 2000, signing all those older guys," Cerrato said. "I learned you can't put a lot of signing bonuses on veteran players cause they're not going to play out those years. That was a mistake I made and learned from. Bruce Smith, Deion and Mark Carrier were the big ones...Now, we try to avoid dead money, money that counts against your cap and doesn't go to anybody."

(The Redskins are among NFL leaders with $16 million of their 2005 salary cap devoted to players no longer on the roster).

This is pure comedy. Fast forward four years to today and the Redskins are almost exactly at $16 million in dead cap money (Brandon Lloyd leading the charge at $5mil+). In my opinion, Cerrato correctly fixed the problem with signing veterans past their prime, but we certainly have not fixed the problem of building through the draft. It's the blue-print every Super Bowl team has, yet the Redskins front office chooses to go the George Steinbrenner route. Assuming Washington doesn't lose a draft pick for the Haynesworth tampering, the Redskins will have all their 2010 draft picks (minus the 6^th round pick due to the Jason Taylor acquisition). Not bad! Let's just pray the Skins stay healthy so the trigger happy front office doesn't unload them for more free agents.

Even today, the distaste for Cerrato in DC is quite high, so that got me thinking (it is known to happen), how many similarities does Cerrato have with Matt Millen, arguably the worst GM of all time? Here's my findings:

Matt Millen		Vinny Cerrato
	loves to draft WRs in the first 2 rounds1
	has drafted only bust QBs2
	passed on Demarcus Ware & Shawn Merriman in the 2005 draft3
	had/has a website lobbying to getting that person fired
	supported by the owner but none of the fans
	under .459 total win percentage in tenure
	less than 1 year as an ESPN analyst
	given extension/promotion despite not making the playoffs
	has a Super Bowl ring with the Redskins
	fired by potential future Hall of Fame coach4
	demoted draft day decision-making by Hall of Fame coach5
	had a losing record in his collegiate playing career
	has cool, Chuck Norris-esque mustache
1	Calvin Johnson, Mike Williams, Roy Williams, Charles Rogers <---> Devin Thomas, Malcolm Kelly, Fred Davis, Taylor Jacobs
2	Joey Harrington, Drew Stanton <---> Patrick Ramsey, Todd Husak, Sage Rosenfels, Jordan Palmer
3	Joe Gibbs was running the show this year so Cerrato cannot take all, if any, of the blame. We'll dole this one out to the Skins as a whole (although Cerrato did take some credit for the Sean Taylor pick, which I thought was all Gregg Williams).
4	Marty Schottenheimer
5	Joe Gibbs

I couldn't find much on Cerrato's times at Notre Dame when they won the championship, though Dan Steinberg uncovered a gem, which led the NCAA to add a rule named, the "Vinny Cerrato Rule."

Cerrato's resume included a stint as chief recruiter for Lou Holtz at Notre Dame, where he'd gained notoriety for impressing prospective recruits by standing on the Notre Dame sideline during televised games feeding them play calls in advance via cell phone--a tactic the NCAA later banned with a special "Vinny Cerrato rule."

I guess when it comes to tampering, the Redskins' front office know how to safely tip-toe around the boundaries!! 

"They were all watching the game," Cerrato said. "I knew they would be. So I called their houses all over the country, and I said: 'This is Vinny Cerrato from Notre Dame. I'm on the sidelines at the Orange Bowl. You watching?' And then I'd tell them what the next play was going to be."