Jim Turner
Turnersportsdesk.com
August 4, 2010
The whispers coming out of Redskin Park are more about the lack of wide receivers than the patchwork and very thin offensive line these days. Devin Thomas appears to be coming on but Malcolm Kelly can’t get healthy enough to get on the field and provide Coach Shanahan a reason to keep him. These used to be whispers but now it has turned to ma...
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Jim Turner
Turnersportsdesk.com
July 29, 2010
Expect Competition– Mike Shanahanis a pure competitor and a riverboat gambler so you can expect training camp to be all about gettingback to extremely physical, no-nonsense Redskin football. One of the first things Mike Shanahan will doaway with is this front runner mentality that has permeated this football team.He will make it know...
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 Jim Turner
Turnersportsdesk.com
July 7, 2010
World News:
World Cup run ends for USA– The United States playedtheir guts out even with some bad calls but in the end Ghana proved too much. My personalobservation was that Ghanahad their best athletes who grew up playing/loving soccer and it showed. Ibelieve the US will farebetter in the World Cup when the US cares enough abou...
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 Jim Turner
Turnersportsdesk.com
April 17, 2010
As I watched a video clip of the Donovan McNabb photoshoot on Redskins.com sportinghis number five I could not help but remember another number five that inherited the hopes ofRedskin Nation 16 years ago. In 1994 Heath Shuler was going tobe the second coming of Joe Theismann minus the cocky attitude. Shuler was anultra nice kid, mobile, h...
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 Jim Turner
Turnersportsdesk.com
April 10, 2010
There are several factors that go into picking a partner totrade down with in the NFL draft.
Need – The teams willing to trade-up obviouslyneeds something they could not get via free agency and likely won’t fall tothem at draft day.
Circumstance – The Trade of picks/players has tobenefit both teams immediately or in the long ter...
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