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b murf, homermcfanboy.com

Lets be honest - if you’re a fan of the Washington Redskins, then you have plenty of reason to give thanks during this holiday season. For starters your favorite football franchise matters again for the first time since Vietnam.* *Okay, maybe they’v

Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com

Nick Foles‘ broken hand means Michael Vick is going to be back in the starting lineup one more time for the Eagles in Week 17. Vick was at a charity event Monday when he found out that he would go from not dressing against the Redskins to starting again…

Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com

DeMarcus Ware was already hurting, and it only got worse. But Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said Monday he expects his star pass-rusher to play Sunday in the loser-leaves-town game against the Redskins. Ware, who was already battling other problems, misse…

Brian McIntyre, yahoo.com

Rookie quarterback Nick Foles played the second half of Sunday's loss to the Washington Redskins with a broken right hand, an injury that will keep the third-round pick out of the regular-season finale against the New York Giants, said Philadelphia Eagl…

Matt Loede, redskinsgab.com

By Troy Jefferson It wasn’t the Washington Redskins best performance but it got the job done. The Redskins (9-6) are a win away from taking the division after defeating the Philadelphia Eagles (4-11) 27-20. The game got off to a bad start as the Eagles …

Andrew Walker, redskins.com

The weekly NFL rookie award that has seen nine Redskins winners in the first 15 weeks of the 2012 season has, yet, another Washington player among its candidates for Week 16”²s games. Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III today was named a nominee for…

Andrew Walker, redskins.com

(Photo by Brian Murphy // ExtremeSkins.com) If you were watching the FOX telecast of Sunday’s Redskins-Eagles game, then you might’ve seen their cameras catching Redskins linebacker London Fletcher tossing his cookies on the sideline. Whether the foot…

Andrew Walker, redskins.com

Your eye on the Redskins sidelines was there with his camera ready to go in Sunday’s game against the Philadelphia Eagles. ExtremeSkins.com‘s Brian Murphy was patrolling the sidelines and got several great shots of the game that you can’t find elsew…

Rajan Nanavati, redskinsgab.com

The NFL announced yesterday that the Week 17 matchup between the Redskins vs. Cowboys will be moved to the primetime slot of 8:20pm, and will be broadcasted accordingly on national TV on NBC. The league originally had slated a matchup between the Green …

Dan Steinberg, washingtonpost.com

"As the day grew late and victory had been assured, a clamor rose in the stands behind FedEx Field's northwest end zone yesterday afternoon," my former colleague Les Carpenter once wrote, back in Jim Zorn's first season. "It started small…

ESPN.com

One week to go in the NFC East, and for the second year in a row we will have a Week 17 division title game. Sunday's game between the Redskins and the Cowboys at FedEx Field will determine the 2012 NFC East champion, The Redskins can still get in as a …

Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com

With 11 NFL games played simultaneously early Sunday afternoon, there were half a dozen big ones with playoff implications. The Vikings pounded the Texans. The Bengals snatched the final AFC playoff spot away from the Steelers. The Redskins held on to b…

NBC Sports, yahoo.com

In 6 in :60, Rodney Harrison says that he believes the Redskins will win the NFC East. He says the Cowboys don’t have the confidence to get the job done in Washington. He says that there isn’t just one person to blame for the Steelers’ disappointing…

NBC Sports, yahoo.com

In the latest edition of Tony Dungy’s Playbook, Dungy says that he thinks the Cowboys will win. While the Redskins have gotten Robert Griffin III back after his knee injury, Dungy thinks the Tony Romo-Dez Bryant connection is what can put Dallas over th…