Redskins 2008 Schedule Has Been Announced

Penciling in a few dates

Updates from the 2008 season, we banded the season and then tracked the results:

• Schedule bands
• Band one review: games 1-5
• Band two review: games 6-9
• Band three review: games 10-12
  

The NFL has just announced its 2008 schedule, your Redskins highlights:

As we knew previously, the Redskins will play the defending Super Bowl Giants in the Thursday season opener in week one on 4 September. Jim Zorn's first game as a head coach will be a national game against the Super Bowl champs. Got to hope for the *real* Eli Manning (lol). This is the game that was moved up an hour so as to accommodate the Republican National Convention. The league knows its masters.

Week two is the home opener against the Saints and new backup Mark Brunell on 14 September. Our first chance as a home crowd to embrace what will likely be a winless new head coach.

Week three the Redskins stay at home against the Cardinals on 21 September. Never can tell with the Cards, will they already be flaming out, or flaming out HUGE?

The Redskins travel to Dallas for week four on 28 September, I had to go back and check on this, the Cowboys new stadium, the venue that will make Redskins Stadium the second largest NFL stadium, does not open until 2009 so the Redskins have this one more chance to send the Cowboys out on a sour note. By this time we should have a solid idea of who this 2008 Redskins team is and whether they can win.

Week five is 5 October, the Redskins travel to Philadelphia, lifetime Eagles fan, season ticket holder and Curly R reader/lurker Wilbert Montgomery and I will be in attendance, this will be our tenth straight season of seeing Redskins Eagles games together, this game will be our 18th of the past 19 regardless of venue, and my 16th in a row.

The Redskins host the Rams in week 6 on 12 October, that would be the Rams and offensive coordinator Al Saunders. Reche Caldwell saw something Dan Snyder did not, Reche chose to sign with St. Louis over Washington.

The second half of this two game homestand is week seven against the Browns on 19 October. Cleveland came damn close to making the playoffs, signed Romeo Crennel to an extension and gave Derek Anderson starting money, barring injury Brady Quinn will be on the bench which is exactly where Redskins fans do not want him.

Week eight is a road game against the Detroit Lions on 26 October, this will be halfway through the schedule and by now the team will be set and we will just be looking for signs the system is taking hold and that the team is capable of improvement.

Monday Night Football comes to Redskins Stadium in week nine on 3 November when Washington hosts Pittsburgh. Washington is already lousy with Steelers fans, that's going to be a raucous game.

The Redskins are off work week ten, then seven straight weeks of football.

Coming back from the bye in week eleven, the Redskins host their second consecutive national game on 16 November, Sunday night against the Cowboys. Let's hope the team is not a quivering mass of organic jelly and is actually playing some football.

It's the regular playoff rematch rematch in week twelve as the Redskins travel to Seattle for a game on 23 November, where they lost close playoff games in 2005 and 2007. Redskins head coach Jim Zorn was the Seahawks first quarterback before becoming Seattle's quarterbacks coach for eight seasons starting in 2000 but bailed on Mike Holmgren's Retirement Tour 2008, let's hope the Redskins kick the tar out of...ah who cares, it's Seattle, I'm not motivated by the fake rivalry.

The Redskins host the Giants in week thirteen, the day before Halloween on 30 October. Maybe Tom Coughlin will finally take off that mask to reveal...AGGGHHH IT'S GUNTHER CUNNINGHAM!!!!

The next Sunday, week fourteen is Pearl Harbor Day, 7 December, the Redskins travel up the road a piece to play the Ravens, another team with a new head coach, worse personnel problems and an economically depressed and bitter fan base clinging to guns and religion.

For week fifteen the Redskins keep the show on the road against the Cincinnati Bengals on 14 December. Taking a cue from the Bush administration's Cuba policy, if Chad Johnson can get onto the Redskins' bus undetected, he will be given football asylum and permitted to suit up for Washington the final two games.

The Eagles travel to Washington in week sixteen on 21 December for the final regular season home game of 2008 and Wilbert Montgomery and I will be traveling to Redskins Stadium for our 19th of the past 20 Redskins Eagles games and my 17th in a row.

The Redskins close out the 2008 regular season in San Francisco in week seventeen on 28 December. Hopefully there will only be one laughingstock in this game.


Thoughts?



Schedule book from here.