by Sharon Ellman - AP Hunter Smith and Shaun Suisham react to a missed field goal on the field in Dallas. Unpictured: me, throwing a beer can at my TV. View full size photo » As this season wears on, it becomes harder to tell if I am seeing bright spots on this team or if I am just seeing stars from getting punched in the face by the weekly results. Against the Cowgirls on Sunday, our defense...
ARLINGTON, Texas | When he saw another running back and right guard go down to injury, Jim Zorn felt it. When normally reliable kicker Shaun Suisham missed two field goals, the pain was retriggered inside Zorn's gut. And the emotions certainly swirled when the Dallas Cowboys' offense awoke from their game-long slumber to drive down the field in the final six minutes. "You're getting stabbed every...
COWBOYS ...7 REDSKINS ...6 Tony Romo led only a single scoring drive, hitting Patrick Crayton for a 10-yard touchdown pass with 2:41 left. But it was enough to give Dallas a victory over Washington to preserve first place in the NFC East. The Cowboys avoided getting shut out the previous week by scoring with 38 seconds left at Green Bay, then almost saw it happen again at home. This would've been especially...
Washington K Shaun Suisham finished with six points in the Week 11 loss at Dallas. Suisham connected on field goals of 45 and 31 yards but also missed twice in the game. He finished 2 of 4 in the game on field goals and was 0 for 0 on PATs.
I'm already hearing from people who want to pin the whole loss on Shaun Suisham , which is a pretty solid capsule for the life of an NFL kicker. Suisham came into the game a perfect 12-12 on the season, and continued his hot streak in the second quarter from 45 yards out. Then he missed from 39 after the end-of-the-half debacle, hit from 31 in the third, and -- the big one, to a lot of people -- missed...
We'll get to the part where kicker Shaun Suisham WAS happy in a bit, but this story starts elsewhere: Suisham had read on some obscure blog somewhere that Hunter Smith had no intention of throwing him the ball on the touchdown play that ultimately went to Mike Sellers , and he was not pleased. "I talked to Hunter about that, because I wasn't happy," Suisham told me today, trying very hard...
More photos » by Nick Wass - AP Hunter Smith and Shaun Suisham have been two of the brightest spots on this team this season. They led the way again against the Broncos. Browse more photos » Listen...at 3-6, I am not digging around for the keys to the bandwagon. In fact, as much as I want to talk about our strong finishes down the stretch in recent years, the sting of last season's 2-6...
When you're 2-6 and you're losing to a team with one of the NFL's best records in front of a surly home crowd and you've become the butt of so many jokes, well, it might be time to try something different. So the Washington Redskins resorted to some trickery against the Denver Broncos on Sunday at FedEx Field - and it worked. Trailing 14-7 in the second quarter, the Redskins ran a play that began with...
Washington K Shaun Suisham finished the Week 10 win over Denver with nine points in the game. Suisham connected on two 4th-quarter field goals from 30 and 35 yards out and finished 3 of 3 on PATs.
Via Fanhouse , the Redskins' second-quarter, fourth-and-20 Hunter Smith touchdown pass, because it is awesome. Unfortunately, nothing quite so awesome happened in the third quarter. In fact, there was only one play that I thought was worth of particular note, and it wasn't a positive one. With 4:37 left in the third quarter and the Redskins facing fourth-and-a-VERY-short-1 on Denver's 28 yard line,...
Hunter Smith will have his injury re-evaluated later this week, but for the moment, Sam Paulescu is still the Redskins punter. His locker is next to Smith's, which is next to Shaun Suisham 's ... which means that Paulescu is in what Fred Smoot once dubbed the "European corner" of the locker room. So it's fortunate that: 1) Paulescu is of Romanian descent, and 2) Smoot was willing to suspend...
Every so often as this depressing season has rolled along, someone in the building will say something like, "It can't get much worse than" whatever the most recent debacle is. And yet somehow it always does. The first half of this game featured the Redskins offensive line giving up a Falcons record for sacks in a half (five), injuries to Clinton Portis and Jason Campbell , and a shoving...
When I wrote about new Redskins punter Sam Paulescu yesterday, I mentioned just how lively the position has been over the last two years, but I don't think I gave the basic numbers: Paulescu, assuming he punts the ball on Sunday, will be the fourth guy to that for the Redskins this season, and the sixth in the last two. I also recapped much of the bloggable zaniness of the last five guys who punted...
Since I started working here, it feels like there's been more player movement at punter than at any other position. And somehow it always brings the wackiness. From the early days of "Durant Brooks is a weapon" last season through Ryan Plackemeier -- dubbed "Muffintop" by the Mr. I gang -- to Hunter " Greatest Holder and Shoe Model and William the Bruce Impersonator and Christian...
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