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Redskins' Schedule Has a New Look
Jason Campbell, Coach Jim Zorn and the Redskins face their third NFC East road game Sunday in Philadelphia. Later, their three division rivals come to FedEx Field.
(By Preston Keres -- The Washington Post)
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The Redskins will face the Rams in the first game for new coach Jim Haslett, the defensive coordinator who yesterday replaced the fired Scott Linehan. The Lions are going through upheaval in the front office, from which president Matt Millen was fired last week. The Browns have one win, over winless Cincinnati on Sunday.
The Redskins have eight games remaining against non-division opponents. Their combined record, prior to last night's game between Pittsburgh and Baltimore, was 8-19. One of those games is against 0-4 Cincinnati.
Washington's most immediate concern is the game at Philadelphia, where the Redskins have won twice in the last three years. Zorn likes to think of the season in four four-week chunks. The Eagles are the first opponent in the season's second chapter.
"Each game is progressively getting bigger," Zorn said. "Even after we play Philly, . . . I don't even know who we're playing next. But that following game, it'll build. It'll continue to build.
"What I want to do with our team is make sure we sort of start at square one again. We've got that first four in, and we're 3-1. Very fortunate to be 3-1. Happy about it. But now we have to start again with game one, in my mind, and really be solid. Solid preparation. Guys paying attention. It's a division opponent again."
The last time the Redskins faced the Giants, Cowboys and Eagles within their first five games was 1993. But even then, two of the games were at home. No other NFL team will finish this weekend with all its division road games completed.
The Cowboys don't have a road game against an NFC East opponent until Week 9, when they play at the Giants. Zorn, in the glare of his first win that grabbed national attention, claimed the schedule "can't matter."
And while players, in general, agreed -- "You can't change it, so you can't complain about it," Kendall said -- it does, with a win at Dallas now in hand, offer intriguing possibilities.
"It does seem odd to me that we would not only have that many division games so early, but to be on the road for all of them," Kendall said. "We were able to get one [Sunday]. If we could find a way to win a game this week, then something that might have been looked at as a disadvantage might actually be an opportunity come later in the year."
