The Washington Redskins are setting at the top of the NFC Eastern Division of the NFL with a 2-0 record early in the 2011 season. This makes keeping up with Washington Redskin News quite easy. When you are on the top; there is always plenty of media coverage to be found. However, when you have a 4-12 record like the Redskins did in 2009 or 6-10 like they did last year; there is little news coverage and what there is, you don’t want.
This week the Washington Redskins travel to Dallas to take on the 1-1 Cowboys. The Cowboys are actually favored by 4 at home; even though many of their star players; including QB Tony Romo are not at full strength. The Redskins are hoping FB Mike Sellers will be ready to play because he has played 21 games against the Cowboys in his career. In addition, no active player has had more 25 yards plus receptions against Dallas then any player on active status then WR Santana Moss.
To top it off, no active tight end has caught more yards against the Cowboys (574) then Chris Cooley. Redskin OLB Brian Orakpo would like to pick up 2.5 sacks in this game because it would put him in a tenth place tie on the all time Redskin list with Dan Wilkinson and Monte Coleman. Some interesting Washington Redskin News would be that the Skins have not jumped off to a 3-0 start since 2005. A 3-0 start this year would be the 9th time in Redskin history that this feat has been achieved. In all but one of those seasons the Redskins made it to the playoffs.
Washington has a great head coach in Mike Shanahan of Denver Bronco fame and they have a young team that is hungry for prime time. This is the type of news that fans have been waiting for and it has really shown as Redskins tickets sellout for every game.
