You could ask Mark Brunell 100 times if his arm feels stronger, if his legs are healthier, if an additional year of recovering from elbow and hamstring injuries from his final days in Jacksonville has allowed him to be a much better quarterback, and 100 times he’ll dismiss it all. He’ll tell you repeatedly he’s able to throw with such improved accuracy and run either to pass or pick up a first down because the Redskins have better personnel and the offense is better structurally.

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Let’s hope Brunell can stay healthy and keep doing what he’s been doing.

Finally, the Redskins beat the Cowboys. The Redskins looked bad most of the game, but they had 2 good plays in the 4th quarter and that was enough to win. I think Madden said this is the first time the Redskins have won in Dallas in 10 years.

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After throwing an interception that was returned for a score, Washington Redskins quarterback [Patrick Ramsey](http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/5918/) rallied for his best performance this preseason in Friday night’s 17-10 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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[Mark Brunell](http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/2485/) continued to look good, too.

Although you wouldn’t know it
from the reaction Patrick Ramsey received from the crowd, from the fans discussing
the game, or from the press, Rich Tandler thinks Ramsey’s performance took a
quantum leap in the positive direction from the Carolina Game to the Cincinnati Game.

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I keep going back to one of the lines in Tandler’s article – “It’s one thing for a quarterback to make a mistake; it’s another for him to make the same mistake over and over again.”

Mark Brunell looked pretty good again, but I’d still like to see how he performs against a first-string defense. When are we going to see Washington’s first-string defense?

Dan Snyder’s marketing savvy pushed the Washington Redskins’ revenues last year to $300 million, nearly double the amount the team was grossing when he bought the franchise in 1999.

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Snyder knows how to make money. Now, if the Redskins could win the Superbowl, all of us fans, including Snyder, would be much happier.

The Redskins have struggled to move the ball against their own defense almost every day in practice. The Ravens sacked Ramsey four times. Then, in Saturday’s 28-10 loss to Carolina, Ramsey and the first-team offense failed to produce a point in five drives over nearly two quarters – even with the Panthers phasing their starters out of the game starting with the third drive.

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I think Patrick Ramsey still looks like a shell-shocked deer in the headlights. I questioned Joe Gibbs’ drafting of Jason Campbell, but maybe we’re starting to see what he saw last year – a problem with Ramsey that isn’t fixable.

On a high note, it looks like the year off may have done Mark Brunell some good. I’d like to see how well he does against a first-string defense.

Washington Redskins Coach Joe Gibbs said yesterday he has not spoken with Sean Taylor since the safety was arrested on felony assault charges in Miami over the weekend.

*You’d think that if you were arrested, you might want to let your employer know if you’re coming back to work or not.*

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So far, Taylor is making Lawrence Taylor look like Harry Potter. Because it’s doubtful Sean Taylor’s behavior is going to change any time soon, the question is pretty simple for the Redskins: Is Taylor more trouble than he’s worth?

I asked that same question on [December 4, 2004](/journal/archives/2004/12/04/311/sean-taylor-pleads-not-guilty/).

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Miami-Dade County police were looking Friday for Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor, who they describe as a “person of interest” in an assault case.

This guy is screwing up again! Note to Redskins: NO MORE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI PLAYERS!!!!!!

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LaVar Arrington criticized the Washington Redskins for a failing to support him during his recent knee injury, an injury that forced him to have another surgery last week.

It’s another offseason, and Lavar is complaining again.

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Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder sat down with beat writer David Elfin for an hour yesterday in his first on-the-record interview with a newspaper reporter in more than two years.

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The Washington Redskins set the NFL’s regular-season home paid attendance record for the fifth consecutive year, the league announced Monday. The Redskins, whose 91,665-seat stadium is the largest in the NFL, drew 707,920 fans — an average of 88,490 — for eight home games. The New York Giants (629,874) were second, followed by the Kansas City Chiefs (623,264) and New York Jets (622,985).

*(Redskins set attedance record again and have a losing record again…)*

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“It’s just too sexually oriented, you know, the way they’re shaking their behinds and going on, breaking it down,” said Al Edwards, a 26-year veteran of the Texas House.

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Cris Carter thinks the Redskins have been one free agency’s biggest losers so far this offseason *(I agree)*.

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