Burgundy and Gold Obsession

Week 6 is in the books and after a 31-13 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, it is more of the same for the Washington Football Team. More disappointment, more frustration, and seemingly more evidence suggesting that there really is no end in sight for the regression we are seeing in 2021. Problems that we have talked about since Week 1 are persisting for the most part and that sound you hear off in the distance is the 2021 season slowly but surely swirling the drain. Let's take a look at this week's Studs, Duds, and Hat Tips: Studs: Unfortunately, for the second week in a row, the studs list will be featuring players who didn't play a snap for the Burgundy and Gold on Sunday. 1. Sean Taylor - there is only one stud from this past Sunday, #21. No matter what our thoughts were on the way the man's number retirement was handled, there is no doubting that Sean Taylor was one of the greatest players to wear our colours in recent memory. He played the game the way it was meant to...

Although obviously a nice gesture, the cynic in me can’t help but view this as an effort to change the fan and media conversation to anything other than the current email scandal. This could have been done at any time. Choosing to do it now not only gives the appearance that it’s more about distraction than it is about Sean Taylor, it’s just the latest in a series of tone-deaf decisions that call into question whether anything has really changed in Ashburn. Sorry for that negative take - but that’s why you don’t pick a moment like the current one to do this.

The guys discuss the 'latest' WFT email controversy and it's impact on our fandom, review the loss to the Saints, and preview our upcoming must-win against the equally desperate Kansas City Chiefs...

Week 5 is in the books and after a 33-22 defeat at the hands of the New Orleans Saints, the WFT currently sits with a disappointing 2-3 mark on the season. Sunday was particularly frustrating as this appeared to be a game that the Burgundy and Gold could have seized control of early on. Instead, missed opportunities, as well as some costly mistakes and breakdowns once again hurt this football team. Consistent progress unfortunately does not seem to be a thing that this team can establish right now. It gets no easier from this point forward and unless the WFT has some sort of miraculous turnaround, we could be potentially staring at another top 10 pick in the upcoming NFL draft. It is sad when the draft even enters your mind five weeks into the year, but this is the reality we are currently watching unfold on Sundays. Let's take a look at our Week 5 Studs, Duds, and Hat Tips. Studs: 1. Blake Gillikin - We are going to do things a bit differently this week as a result of not...

I loved them, before I even knew what they were. Horror movies. From the first time my father, a fellow night owl, whispered in my ear like a secret conspirator, I was hooked. 'I think there' s a great scary movie on tonight....' There was something excruciatingly exciting and irresistibly foreboding about the proposition . Monsters, bloodsuckers, aliens, the dead returned...in a world with four TV channels, a great scary movie was about as dangerous and cutting edge as it got. TV then was safe, sanitized, a sweetly-packaged and steady stream of pure vanilla. To get an education, you really needed a 'great scary movie'. Only there could you learn life's real secrets, that sometimes the good guy didn't win, bad things happen even to good people, and that there was more to the world than brightly-lit daylight was willing to reveal. Violence, sex, betrayal, murder, sin, cruelty, death, those just weren't topics for the dinner table in polite congenial suburbia, but if you stayed...

Epic nail-biter games are fun. When you win. The gang reviews the Falcons classic and gets into what it will take for the 2021 Team to make it two in a row come Sunday vs the Saints. And because as in most things, more is better than just some ...

After four weeks of the NFL season, the Burgundy and Gold finds themselves at 2-2 following a heart-racing and exciting comeback win in Atlanta yesterday. While things have definitely not been easy or always pretty thus far this year, as WFT fans, we should be content with where we are right now in the standings. That 2-2 record is truly reflective of a team still in the early phases in their growth process, and we should accept that. It is a long season and you take wins in whatever manner you can get them. The fact remains that with a really daunting schedule ahead, we are going to have to try and keep our heads above water heading into the run of division games in December. That will give us a chance, and the victory in Atlanta was a step towards achieving that. It's a game of inches and the reality is, we could easily be 0-4 minus a bounce here or there going our way. With Canadian Thanksgiving just a week away, I am very thankful for that! Let's take a look at this...