Welcome back to another episode of the Redskins Capital Connection podcast - your home for the best in-depth and independent coverage of the Washington Redskins!

Big show today as we recap the 5-2 Redskins as we stream past the half-way point of the 2018 season, and of course we also dive head-first in to the big trade deadline day news that the Redskins made an aggressive move and brought in Ha'sean Treshon Clinton-Dix, who of course goes by the best moniker in the NFL - Ha Ha.

Joining hosts Chad Ryan and Mark Phillips in this endeavor is Kareem Copeland (The Washington Post) making his RCC debut!

We start with how and why this trade came to be, what it means for the Redskins moving forward, and the front office machinations that were required to pull it off. 

Then we look at what Clinton-Dix brings to the Redskins on the field, when we can anticipate he'll start, and what his overall fit with this defense may be. 

Finally, as we're dropping this podcast on the Wednesday morning between Week's 8 and 9 of the NFL season, we're officially at the halfway point of the 2018 season, so we have a quick chat about what the run home holds. 

Your Washington Redskins are 1st place in the NFC East with a 1.5 game lead over the Philadelphia Eagles.

When you couple that with the fact that the Redskins are 4-1 in the NFC, it means that no matter what happens across the league this weekend, the Redskins will finish this week still in 1st place of the division!

It also means that this week's game against the 1-6 Giants offers yet another great opportunity for our team to consolidate their division lead and control their own destiny.

To talk about that today, hosts Chad Ryan and Mark Phillips welcome back their good mate Craig Hoffman (106.7 The Fan).

Together they discuss who is injured and unavailable against the Giants, the dominance of this Defensive Line, the emergence of Jonathan Allen as a leader, and with Tuesday's trade deadline looming, do we anticipate movement from Jay Gruden?

All that and more on another episode of RCC - your home for the best independent coverage of the Washington Redskins!

Right off the bat today we wanted to take a moment to acknowledge the passing of a good friend of ours and a stalwart of the Washington Redskins beat, Rich Tandler, who sadly passed away on Tuesday night at the age of 63.

Hosts Chad Ryan and Mark Phillips share their tributes to a great reporter and an even better person, and remark on how he's been a huge part in both of their respective journeys when it comes to covering the Redskins. For Chad, Rich was the first reporter he ever met. Mark and Rich, however, go back a long time, and they started their radio show together back in 1999 in Richmond VA, both of them brand new to the industry.

We then pivot back to football and preview Dallas Cowboys week with friend of the show Lake Lewis, who goes so far as to say that this week's game may be one of the top two most important of Jay Gruden's entire Redskins tenure. Tune in to the podcast to hear why! 

Thanks for listening Redskins fans. Hug your loved ones and be good to each other. Celebrate wildly when the Redskins beat Dallas this week. 

Welcome to the grumpy early morning-after edition of the Redskins Capital Connection.

First up a warning; usually we keep it rated PG here but today there's probably going to be some cursing, so consider yourselves forewarned. If you're listening with young children or those with delicate sensibilities, prepare accordingly.

That said, anyone with delicate sensibilities will be no more offended by this podcast than they would have been by the putrid display the Redskins served up on Monday night football against the New Orleans Saints.

No sugar-coating it here; hosts Chad Ryan and Mark Phillips are grumpy and tired of watching the Redskins get their asses wooped in Prime Time games. 

This isn't the regular RCC episode; this is a venting session. 

For those who have been long-time listeners of the Redskins Capital Connection podcast, you'll know that in years past we use the bye week as an opportunity to take a step back and try and get a 'big picture' look at how the Redskins season is tracking by talking to a national NFL reporter as opposed to one of the players or local beat writers. 

A week four bye makes that a little trickier though. 

Given the small sample size, however, we're fortunate that there's a friend of the show who seemed perfect for this challenge today, so hosts Chad Ryan and Mark Phillips dialed up Mike Jones (USA Today, formerly Washington Post). 

Together they talk about what we've seen from the 2-1 Redskins thus far, what the coming weeks will reveal about this team, and what the biggest factors contributing to their ability to make the playoffs in 2018 will be. 

All of that, plus a quick recap of the Packers win, a preview of the Saints game, and Chad starting the show tripping over basic words. 

Enjoy the show!