The Washington Wrap

Fresh off the holiday weekend, it's time to get back to football with your hosts Chad Ryan and Mark Phillips

The reason we're recording this week's Redskins Capital Connection podcast on Monday is because the Redskins find themselves in the middle of a strange schedule at the moment - after beating the New York Giants on Thanksgiving last Thursday in a 20-10 victory, they play a second consecutive Thursday game this week against the Dallas Cowboys down in Texas. It's kind of a crappy situation, as we'll get into a bit later with this week's guest; JP Finlay from NBC Sports Washington and fellow Redskins podcast extraordinaire!

We also get an update on who will start at Safety opposite DJ Sweainger, what the plan is for Running Back Byron Marshall, and we comment on the speculation surrounding Kirk Cousins' future as it stands this week. 

All that and so much more on another episode of the RCC podcast!

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The Redskins found a new way to break our hearts this week... or maybe it was just an old way refreshed.

But either way the loss against the New Orleans Saints hurt in more ways than one, and not least of which because it added yet more names to the Injured Reserve list.

Your hosts Chad Ryan and Mark Phillips are here to make sure you're well and truly up to date on all things Washington Redskins football. We'll talk about who is done for the year and who the Redskins will be looking to step up as replacements, as well as casting our eyes forward to this week's NFC East division match up against the New York Giants.

And as a bonus treat, we'll also be answering some of your questions sent through to us on pretty short notice for a bit of an RCC Q&A!

Happy Thanksgiving!

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This week's episode of On the Warpath has come out a little later than we would have liked, but unfortunately life with a newborn baby works to it's own schedule!

But that hasn't stopped hosts Robbie Duncan and Rob Henson from getting into this week's big issues surrounding the Washington Redskins. 

How can the Redskins defense play so well one week but totally collapse against the Vikings? And the inconsistencies continue at the Quarterback position, too. 

If Washington are going to take care of business vs New Orleans this week, things will need to tighten up, and fast

 

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To borrow a quote from today's guest on the Redskins Capital Connection podcast - "Nothing ever changes with the Redskins". 

On today's show your hosts Chad Ryan and Mark Phillips are going to be doing their part to make sure you're well informed and nicely up to date on everything that's happening around the team this week. 

As the Redskins come off a 38-30 loss to the Vikings, they don't have time to sit around and lick their wounds because they head straight into another tough NFC match up against the New Orleans Saints on Sunday.

Today's guest is our pal Michael Phillips, Sports Editor of the Richmond Times Dispatch, and together we talk about why Josh Doctson and the rest of the receivers can't be expected to be wide open all the time, how Josh Norman will respond to a down-game, what happens at the Running Back and Inside Linebacker positions now that injuries have taken a toll there, and of course, we talk about Kirk Cousins

 

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We're back!

That's right, the Rob's are reunited as their technical difficulties are resolved and families have grown, as Robbie Duncan is once again joined by Rob Henson to bring you On the Warpath

This week's episode is focused on how the Redskins victory against Seattle can be a blueprint for how this team can win even when players struggle, before the conversation moves on to Josh Doctson and just how incredible he can be (and don't worry, there's surely no bias at play from TCU alumni Henson on the matter), before finally wrapping it all up with a preview of the Vikings game this week.

It's good to be back debating the big topics around the Washington Redskins. 

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The Redskins marched out of the 'Clink' in Seattle victorious in an unlikely 17-14 win. So how did they do it?

Well, a huge part of that was the astounding level of play of the Washington defense. But don't take our word for it...

Joining hosts Chad Ryan and Mark Phillips on today's episode is Redskins Linebacker Mason Foster (@Mason_Foster), who continues his adjustment from suiting up in the burgundy and gold on Sundays to becoming a live game analyst on social media now that he's on the Injured Reserve list. 

How much does the defensive game plan need to adjust when key players are out injured? How much does the defensive playbook open or shut when facing a mobile Quarterback like Russell Wilson, compared to a guy coming up on the schedule this week in Case Keenum? And what was it like playing Middle Linebacker behind Jonathan Allen and Matt Ioannidis? All those questions and more were discussed as Mason Foster took us behind the curtains and gave us a great look into what it takes to play defense at the highest level. 

Plus Chad goes into detail about his post-game comments regarding Kirk Cousins that attracted so much attention on Twitter, and as always, the game MVP 3-2-1 votes are allocated.

All that and more on another huge episode of Redskins Capital Connection.

 

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With regular host Rob Henson celebrating the birth of his newborn son Maverick Henson this week, the On the Warpath boys needed to bring in a ringer who could keep the game-plan running smoothly. 

After hearing his Redskins Capital Connection podcast debut last week, host Robbie Duncan decided to put the call out, and is joined this week by 106.7 The Fan's Redskins Beat Reporter Craig Hoffman as the guest co-host! 

Robbie & Craig discuss what the heck is with all these injuries the Redskins are having to deal with, Jay Gruden vs Kirk Cousins in terms of the difference between the gameplan and the execution, and preview the upcoming Seahawks game.

Don't miss this episode!

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Even though things aren't all sunshine and rainbows in Redskins nation right now, there's still plenty to talk about this week as we recap the 33-19 loss to the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, preview this week's west-coast trip to Seattle, and also take a bit of a look at what's happening around the team at the moment.

To help hosts Chad Ryan and Mark Phillips do all that, this week we were going to bring in Redskins Capital Connection's own Robbie Duncan, who you can normally hear on our sister podcast On the Warpath, but Robbie and his co-host (former Redskins linebacker) Rob Henson have been having absolutely horrendous luck with technical difficulties the past few weeks. And that continued this morning when Robbie Duncan's laptop stopped charging.

So whenever we need a guest at the last minute, without fail our Queen-loving Commonwealth counter-part from the sunny countryside of the United Kingdom is always willing and able to be our pinch hitting professional... it is the tanned skinned, deep voiced football film afficianado himself, Mark Bullock

 

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