GG coming to town. For a meaningless game. How sweet.

If you'd like the entire slate, here it is:

HALL OF FAME GAME - AUGUST 3
Indianapolis vs. Washington (NBC)

WEEK 1 - AUGUST 7 - 11
New Orleans at Arizona (ESPN, 8/7)
Cincinnati at Green Bay (ESPN, 8/11)
Atlanta at Jacksonville
Baltimore at New England
Buffalo at Washington
Dallas at San Diego
Denver at Houston
Indianapolis at Detroit
Kansas City at Chicago
NY Giants at Carolina
NY Jets at Cleveland
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh
St. Louis at Tennessee
San Francisco at Oakland
Seattle at Minnesota
Tampa Bay at Miami

WEEK 2 - AUGUST 14-18
Carolina at Philadelphia (FOX, 8/14)
Oakland at Tennessee (FOX, 8/16)
New England at Tampa Bay (NFLN, 8/17)
Cleveland at NY Giants (ESPN, 8/18)
Arizona at Kansas City
Chicago at Seattle
Dallas at Denver
Detroit at Cincinnati
Green Bay at San Francisco
Houston at New Orleans
Indianapolis at Atlanta
Miami at Jacksonville
Minnesota at Baltimore
Pittsburgh at Buffalo (Toronto)
San Diego at St. Louis
Washington at NY Jets

WEEK 3 - AUGUST 21-25
San Francisco at Chicago (FOX, 8/21)
Houston at Dallas (CBS, 8/22)
Pittsburgh at Minnesota (CBS, 8/23)
Buffalo at Indianapolis (NFLN, 8/24)
Seattle at San Diego (ESPN, 8/25)
Arizona at Oakland
Baltimore at St. Louis
Cleveland at Detroit
Green Bay at Denver
Jacksonville at Tampa Bay
Kansas City at Miami
New Orleans at Cincinnati
NY Giants at NY Jets
Philadelphia at New England
Tennessee at Atlanta
Washington at Carolina



WEEK 4 - AUGUST 28-AUGUST 29
Jacksonville at Washington (NBC, 8/28)
Atlanta at Baltimore
Carolina at Pittsburgh
Chicago at Cleveland
Cincinnati at Indianapolis
Denver at Arizona
Detroit at Buffalo
Miami at New Orleans
Minnesota at Dallas
New England at NY Giants
NY Jets at Philadelphia
Oakland at Seattle
St. Louis at Kansas City
San Diego at San Francisco
Tampa Bay at Houston
Tennessee at Green Bay

Looks like they have tried to schedule teams who were active in free agency - LOL.

something tells me that game against GG won't be meaningless...

not that I know anybody involved personally.

So Jason ... are you gonna write a book on the 2007 Skins. Was one of the most fascinating seasons ever. Lots of angles to choose from. And you were in the front row.

You'd think the fact that it's the final preseason game (a traditional snore unlike any other) would take a little steam out of the return of the third G....

Wow. Only four months until they tee it up. It seems like it's been forever since the last game.

Where's Baltimore??

beep beep

What's going on in my hometown?

"Police arrest man for siphoning 300 gallons of grease from Burger King"

So, what's going on in your hometown?

Posted by: zcezcest1 | April 3, 2008 02:15 PM

My neighbor developed a process (patent pending) to convert the cooking oil from fast food places like Burger King into bio-diesel. He has a contract with all the local fast food places to collect their waste cooking oil which he then converts and sells as biodiesel. If you buy it containers, there is no tax. If you fill up your diesel vehicle, you do pay tax. He sells all he can make, with regular diesel hovering around 4 dollars a gallon.

That used cooking oil is valuable stuff.

Or you can convert your diesel vehicle to burn vegetable oil:

http://www.greasecar.com/

Back to your regularly scheduled programming.

I keep forgetting to write this. Last year there were very few post-June 1 cap casualties. It seems like most of the roster cuts of veterans happened right after the draft. Maybe that's because of the ability of clubs to designate 2 cuts as post-June 1st types now. In any case, Vinny needs to be ready to sign vets right after the draft this year. Waiting until June 1st could leave a team out of luck.

just like playing madden... preseason is meant to cripple teams with injuries to key players.

Exit.

Continue without saving.

Reload season.

(i just got a losable type error page after hitting submit. I guess the blog gods didnt like my comment yesterday about loseable type.)

Stupid Loseable Type breaks again.

All the previous threads work - only the newest is broken.

The bad blog broke. Now the bad blog entry is gne and we move backwards in time.

Loseable Time Machine.

Everyone else just staring at the error code page?

Nope, I just thought it was fun watching you talk to yourself.

Loseable Type Blog Failures are "Vinny Vidi Revenge".

But now that I'm reading my own comment, and responding to it, I guess the joke's on me.

Hah, this blog...crazy I tell ya. Crazy...

Cheap software - there's nothing like it!

did the 3 of us get stuck in a dimensional vortex?

Nickname for Vinny that I always use in electronic mailings with my boys:

Cerradoh.

AMTTS,
good one.

Dorf, I think it's more of a loseable vortex. Either way, I'm just happy we haven't gone back to that weird time jumping land where posts would show up 3 hours in the future.

Cindy, someone should lose their job over this... and if its your fault, find and intern and make them the scapegoat. I'm willing to let you ruin someone's bright and promising career so that you can save some face.

or at least blame it on the thumb.

Can someone please let me know when we go backwards in threads?

Or is now loseablethreads?

177404

I'm so scared right now.

In case you like Prisco, here is his new column on OTs.

http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/story/10758110

broken?

Where'd the other entry go?

I'll have to re-type my line :

BONG!

test

F Loosable type?

Posted by: 4thFloor | April 3, 2008 03:23 PM

Sween - Just read the Mock Draft post. I usually skip Mock Drafts now-a-days because I can't afford to waste so much hot air....

Re: 5 Games PLayed in Preseason -

Have you noticed that our last 3 new Head coaches had 5 preseason games to play in their repective 1st year? Spurrier (Japan), Gibbs 2.1 (HOF Game with season ending Jansen injury), and now Zorn.

Coincidence? I think not. Thanks to Dan Snyder being a key member on the HOF commitee.....

Posted by: 4thFloor | April 3, 2008 03:28 PM

It would seem Vincenzo has family in the church.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/89446022@N00/2309071625/

So...The Monk? The Monsignor? Cardinal Vin?

Oh, that's a bad pun...

How about V-man as a nickname for Vinny? It would go nice with the coach: V-man congrats Z-man on an impressive opening win over the Giants!

Chris Henry has to clear waivers. What's the chances that Vinny pulls the trigger and picks up his contract? It'll be non-binding if he does.

http://www.wlwt.com/news/15778442/detail.html

Re: Claiming Henry off of waivers - NEVERMIND

By the time these 5 games are over, Jason Campbell will be a footnote in Redskins history.

We will all be wishing we traded him now, while he had a little value.

Where'd the other entry go?

I'll have to re-type my line :

BONG!

Posted by: bigmurf08 | April 3, 2008 03:25 PM

At least you remembered what you had posted!! LMAO!

4th, earlier today on Redskins Radio, they were discussing the fact that before the 2005 draft, Vinny was wary of Pacman because of his off-the-field issues while at WVU.

I would think that speaks to the fact that he's probably still wary of Pacman today (and the Skins likely won't make any move for him), and that there isn't much chance of the Skins picking up Chris Henry.

This just in...Is Favre coming back?
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/23940423/

Has anyone ever been given a nickname as a result of a contest? I think that nicknames arise in practice, not because some "media schlub" decrees them. "Well it's time for us to think up something to call Vinny."

Those of you who have nicknames, did you get it because someone said, "We need a nickname for Melvin?" or did it happen because you spilled chocolate pudding all over yourself and they called you Icky Sticky? If you look at the nicknames on the Wiki, most of them you can't find anyplace but the Wiki because they haven't stuck.

http://redskinsinsiders.wetpaint.com/page/Redskins%27+Blog+Nicknames

No one had a contest to make Jason Jasno. It just happened, out of the brain of Nate I think, and it stuck because it sounded right. And Cindy, too. We just gave her the nickname, Cindy, and everyone uses it because it sounds so much like her real name. Okay, maybe we need a contest for Cindy?

Last 5 offseasons. Is favre gonna retire? Now its is Favre gonna come back?

Media has way too much time on its hands and just likes to fabricate things or make a big deal about nothing. Leinart had a party at his house. Who the hell cares? thats what 24 year olds do.

So with so many people saying the skins should trade down who are potential trade partners. Teams trying to get ahead of the Cowboys for a RB? If their rumored interest in Felix Jones is true. Maybe Shanahan has gone long enough without a stud RB - he has to be feeling some heat to turn that team around faster. What other potential sliders are there that would generate enough interest for another team to move up? Jonathon Stewart? Brian Brohm, Philip Merling (might rather the skins took him)?

Here we go again...

Ok, I'm bored at work so I'll bite Sports_Guru. Why will we regret it? Which team in the NFl will actually give us something of value for Campbell at this point?

I think it's crazy that after playing about 16 games total, people are ready to give up on this kid, who has shown some great stuff during that time too. Do I think he's Peyton or Brady, hell no, but no one else in the NFL is either. QBs like them come every 10 years, if that. Fact is, I like the fact that Zorn is a former QB and QB coach who helped Hasselback tremendously. If Campbell can take his game to that level, I'd be more than happy, especially with a solid running game. Seriously Guru, who do you see us picking up in either FA or the draft this year that could be considered an improvement? And I'm sorry, but I'm not buying the Todd Collins argument when he's played a total of like 10 games in his 10+ year career. And the vast majority in one system, no less.

By the time these 5 games are over, Jason Campbell will be a footnote in Redskins history.

We will all be wishing we traded him now, while he had a little value.

Posted by: Sports_Guru | April 3, 2008 03:50 PM

Obviously the Skins FO does not know that JC is a bad QB and you can tell that he is. So, if you know he is and other FO are not as bad as the Skins FO, then they also know that JC is NOT a good QB, so why would they give us something of value for him????????

Either go away or try posting something more positive on the Skins!

Sween - Just read the Mock Draft post. I usually skip Mock Drafts now-a-days because I can't afford to waste so much hot air....

Posted by: 4thFloor | April 3, 2008 03:28 PM

I had credited you with jumping on the Albert bandwagon (with me) early.

Those of you who have nicknames, did you get it because someone said, "We need a nickname for Melvin?" or did it happen because you spilled chocolate pudding all over yourself and they called you Icky Sticky?

Posted by: talent_evaluator | April 3, 2008 03:56 PM

So Melvin, how old were you when they stopped calling you Icky Sticky?

OWNED

By the time these 5 games are over, Jason Campbell will be a footnote in Redskins history.

We will all be wishing we traded him now, while he had a little value.

Posted by: Sports_Guru | April 3, 2008 03:50 PM

guru,
How will 5 meaningless games, that both teams are merely trying to survive without injury, become so momentous?

So with so many people saying the skins should trade down who are potential trade partners.

Posted by: mtnskinsfan | April 3, 2008 04:18 PM

We won't know who the trade partners are until after the 20th pick. It depends entirely on who's on the board when it's the 'Skins turn.

In college, we tried to give a nickname to this guy named Lloyd ... but his name was Lloyd, so nothing stuck ... other than Lloyd.

beepity beep beep beep

The way to figure out who might trade down with us would be to figure out who picks after us (Dallas, Pittsburgh, Tennessee, Seattle, Jacksonville, San Diego, Dallas, San Fran, Green Bay, and New York G) and figure out their "needs" ... then you could figure out who might trade up when someone falls.

In other words, its impossible to figure out who might trade down with the Skins.

Also, according to all the mock drafts and publicly available scouting information, there's this QB out of Notre Dame who should go in the top five ... I think we should trade up to get there ... wait, it was Brady Quinn ... and he was still available after the 21st pick. But Mel Coiffure did have him right near the top of his "Big Board".

with regular diesel hovering around 4 dollars a gallon.

That used cooking oil is valuable stuff.

Posted by: Markin21132 | April 3, 2008 02:33 PM

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4 dollars a gallon for diesel???????? You lucky sods!!!! Over here in the UK, a gallon of diesel costs around the equivalent of 11 dollars!!!