Bills at Redskins game day: Washington wins, 3. Jump to: Live blog.  | Box score.  | Photo gallery.  | Inactives.  | Intro.  | Pregame reading.  | Weather | Around the NFLPostgame. From Liz Clarke’s early version of her game story: A new chant was born at a jubilant Fed.
Ex Field Sunday — one that sounded deceptively like “USA! USA! ” when brayed by 8. You Like That! You Like That! It was a tribute to quarterback Kirk Cousins, who threw for four touchdowns and ran for another in leading the Redskins to a 3. Buffalo Bills, taking another step toward the playoffs. With it, the Redskins strung together back- to- back victories for the first time this season, improved to 7- 7 (. Week 4) and, with the Giants’ 3.
Carolina, moved into first place in the NFC East — a scenario that seemed far- fetched for a team that had won just seven games in the past two years and started the 2. Coach Jay Gruden’s controversial decision to put his offense in the hands of his turnover- prone backup.
Philadelphia would stay on pace with the 7- 7 Redskins if they beat the 1. Arizona Cardinals Sunday night, but Washington currently holds the tiebreaker. In Sunday’s regular- season finale at Fed. Ex Field, even Cousins’s most passionate detractors could find little to quibble with. He completed 2. 2 of 2.
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De. Sean Jackson turned into an electrifying 7. Redskins scoring touchdowns on their first three drives. You Like That! ” was what Cousins shouted after the Redskins stormed back from a 2. Tampa Bay earlier in the season. On Sunday, it became the passionate anthem of a fan base that appears proud to finally call Cousins its own.
Also, there are these: в—ЏВ Cousins was serenaded with “You Like That” love at Fed. Ex Fieldв—ЏВ The best and worst from Sunday’s 3. Billsв—ЏВ Jay Gruden, postgame: вЂFirst- place teams have a responsibility’● Kirk Cousins, postgame: вЂThey just kept making me look good’Final: Washington wins, 3. We’ll be updating all night with reports from the game and a breakdown of playoff implications. The Giants and Panthers are tied at 3.
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I type this)Start of fourth quarter: It was an eventful third quarter, as the Bills put 1. Washington added a 7.
Kirk Cousins- to- De. Sean Jackson TD pass. Follow the finish on the live blog, as we’ll update this thread again after the game.
Halftime: Washington leads 2. Redskins. Kirk Cousins has rushed for a touchdown and thrown two to Jordan Reed, the defense has withstood two long Buffalo drives but still has zero points. Cousins is 1. 4- of- 1. Reed has six catches for 7. De. Sean Jackson has four for 7. Alfred Morris also has eight rushes for 6.
On the other side, Tyrod Taylor is both Buffalo’s leading rusher (7 for 5. Washington has the advantage in yards gained (2. Washington has the only turnover, the Jamison Crowder muffed punt that preceded the goal- line stand. Here are the rest of the halftime stats. Start of second quarter: Washington leads, 7- 0.
The Redskins’ first drive was a 1. The Bills then had the ball for 1. Buffalo settled for a 1.
Washington has the ball and is driving again. Kirk Cousins rushed for a touchdown early in the second quarter, and Jordan Reed caught another touchdown pass. It’s 2. 1- 0. Updates are on the live blog. Photo gallery: We’re underway: And Washington is on the board first, with a Kirk Cousins- to- Jordan Reed touchdown pass.
Catch our up- to- the- minute updates on the live blog. We’ll update this thread at the quarter breaks and at the end of the game; feel free to stay put and discuss the game as you watch, below in the comments. Inactives: Though he’d made strides in recovering from the torn shoulder muscle that sidelined him for last week’s game at Chicago, Washington Redskins running back Chris Thompson will be inactive for Sunday’s home finale against the Buffalo Bills. With Thompson inactive for a second consecutive week, that creates an opportunity for veteran third- down back Pierre Thomas to play an expanded role against the Bills. The Redskins signed Thomas earlier this month, concerned about Thompson’s availability down the stretch of the regular season, with their playoff hopes in the balance. The Redskins (6- 7) hold the tiebreak in a three- way tie with Philadelphia and the New York Giants atop the NFC East heading into Sunday’s slate of games. The Giants host the 1.
Carolina Panthers, while the Eagles will host the 1. Arizona Cardinals on Sunday night. Also inactive for Sunday’s game against the 6- 7 Bills are tight end Je’Ron Hamm, a healthy scratch; safety Jeron Johnson; and guard Arie Kouandjio. Quarterback Robert Griffin III will close the 2.
Fed. Ex Field for the team. Inside linebacker Perry Riley Jr. Andre Roberts had been ruled out of the game previously with injuries. Liz Clarke. Intro: There are three weeks to go in the NFL regular season, and the Washington Redskins are in position to make every game count.
That alone could be construed as progress, but why settle? As one of three NFC East. В teams to start the day 6- 7 ahead of the 4- 1. Dallas Cowboys, between now and Jan. Jay Gruden and Kirk Cousins too.
While next Saturday’s clash with the Philadelphia Eagles is technically the most essential matchup, there’s a huge opportunity on Sunday: First, Washington intends to win back- to- back games for the first time this season. In their words, “We don’t have any margin for error. Second, with the New York Giants playing 1. Carolina and the Eagles facing the 1. Cardinals, facing the 6- 7 Bills offers a chance to sit alone in first place for six days. This is the best place to find what you need to follow Sunday’s game. The Insider’s running game thread is mainly for discussion, but will update leading up to and throughout the game, so refresh from time to time.
We’ll include.  everything you could possibly need to follow the game online, beginning with pregame reading, TV and radio information and other basics. Inactives post about 9.  p. m. kickoff. During the game, there are frequent updates on our live blog, and this thread updates infrequently. At game’s end, this thread will point toward the quick version of the game story and the D.
C. Sports Bog’s best and worst, and that’ll be it here — the postgame news conferences and traditional coverage continue in separate Insider posts. The basics: Buffalo Bills (6- 7) at Washington Redskins (6- 7)Kickoff:  1 p. ET at Fed. Ex.  Field. TV:  Ch. 9.  (CBS) Ch. Fox). Direc. TV Sunday Ticket Ch. Radio:  9. 80 AM; 9. FM. Sirius. XM: SIRI 1.
SXM and XM 2. 31, internet 8. Line: В Bills by 1, o/u 4.
Box score: After kickoff, updates every 6. Game preview: From Stats, Inc.; click here. Redskins roster. В | Depth chart. В | Injury report. Bills. В roster. В | Depth chart.
В | Injury report. NFL Week 1. 5 schedule & scores.
Pregame reading: Brewer: Left tackle Trent Williams is the face of what’s right with Redskins“When he speaks, you have to listen. He’s Trent Williams,” tight end Jordan Reed said. But it’s not just about him getting onto players so they’ll play better. Look at him. He works hard every day.
He’s dealing with some injuries and issues, but he doesn’t take days off. He’s always out there, leading us and keeping us encouraged.
And what he does on the field is unbelievable. He means a lot. ”De. Angelo Hall revitalized by the challenge of switching to safety. Hall says every cornerback’s dream is to have the freedom to roam the secondary without one restrictive assignment and instead just play off the quarterback, break on passes and pick them off. But during two weeks of practice on the scout team, he quickly realized playing safety consisted of much more. Steinberg: The Redskins have gone mad scientist on their roster.
It’s working. There’s former bottom- of- the- roster wide receiver Quinton Dunbar, whose gradual transition to cornerback became a mad dash during a wave of injuries. There’s lifelong cornerback De.
Angelo Hall, now a reliable safety. And there’s towering 6- foot- 6 tackle Tom Compton, who has repeatedly lined up at tight end as that position has been clear- cutted by yet more injuries. Five Bills- Redskins.  story lines, the.  key matchups.  and later on Sunday morning, game- day notes.
Here are all Insider posts, the latest injury updates, and all of them specific to Bills- Redskins. Over on our NFL Week 1.  a league- wide thread, which starts as a games to watch/injury update/fantasy and betting advice thread, and develops into a roundup of all of Sunday’s NFL action. More NFL: Redskins | Around the league.  | Bog on Redskins | Fantasy. Follow: @Mike. Jones.
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 before kickoff and runs through game’s end. This thread has been updated. It first posted at 6: 3.
Washington Redskins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Washington Redskins. Current season. Established 1. Play in Fed. Ex. Field. Landover, Maryland. Headquartered in Redskins Park.
Ashburn, Virginia. Training camp in. Richmond, Virginia. League/conference affiliations. Current uniform. Team colors. Burgundy, Gold, White[1][2] Fight song.
Hail to the Redskins. Personnel. Owner(s)Daniel Snyder[a]President. Bruce Allen. General manager.
Scot Mc. Cloughan. Head coach. Jay Gruden. Team history. Boston Braves (1. Boston Redskins (1. Washington Redskins (1. Team nicknames. The Skins. The Burgundy and Gold.
Championships. League championships (5)Conference championships (5)Division championships (1. NFL East: 1. 93. 6, 1.
NFC East: 1. 97. 2, 1. Playoff appearances (2. NFL: 1. 93. 6, 1. Home fields. In Boston, Massachusetts. In Washington, D.
C. Former name(s): D. C. Stadium (1. 96. In Landover, Maryland. Former name(s): Jack Kent Cooke Stadium (1. The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team located in the Washington, D. C. metropolitan area. The Redskins compete in the National Football League (NFL), as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) East division.
The team plays its home games at Fed. Ex. Field in Landover, Maryland; Its headquarters and training facility are at Redskins Park in Ashburn, Virginia, and the Redskins Complex in Richmond, Virginia, respectively.
The Redskins have played more than 1,0. The Redskins have won five NFL Championships (two pre- merger, and three Super Bowls). The franchise has captured 1. NFL divisional titles and six NFL conference championships.[4] The Redskins were the first team in the NFL with an official marching band, and also the first team to have a fight song, "Hail to the Redskins".[5]The Redskins won the 1.
Championship games, as well as Super Bowls XVII, XXII, and XXVI. They also played in, and lost, the 1. Championship games, as well as Super Bowls VII and XVIII. They have made 2. The Redskins' three Super Bowl wins are tied with the Oakland Raiders for fourth place all- time, behind the Pittsburgh Steelers (six), San Francisco 4. Dallas Cowboys (five each), and the Green Bay Packers, New York Giants, and New England Patriots (four each).[6]All of the Redskins' league titles were attained during two 1.
From 1. 93. 6 to 1. Redskins went to the NFL Championship six times, winning two of them.[7] The second period lasted between 1.
Redskins appeared in the postseason seven times, captured four Conference titles, and won three Super Bowls out of four appearances.[7] The Redskins have also experienced failure in their history. The most notable period of failure was from 1. Redskins did not have a single postseason appearance.[4] During this period, the Redskins went without a single winning season between 1. In 1. 96. 1, the franchise posted their worst regular season record with a 1–1. Since 1. 99. 2, the Redskins have only won the NFC East three times, made five postseason appearances, and had six seasons with a winning record.
According to Forbes, the Redskins are the third most valuable franchise in the NFL, behind the Cowboys and Patriots, and were valued at approximately $2. They have also broken the NFL's mark for single- season attendance for over ten years in a row.[9]The team name and logo have been the subject of controversy, with lawsuits being filed by Native American groups who consider the team name and logo offensive. Recent polls have shown a lack of major support among fans for a name change.[1. Franchise history[edit]Origins and early years (1.
The team originated as the Boston Braves, based in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1. George Preston Marshall. At the time the team played in Braves Field, home of the Boston Braves baseball team. The following year the club moved to Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, whereupon owners changed the team's name to the Boston Redskins. To round out the change, Marshall hired William "Lone Star" Dietz, who was part Sioux, as the team's head coach.[1. However, Boston wasn't much of a football town at the time and the team had difficulty drawing fans. The Redskins relocated to Washington, D.
C. in 1. 93. 7. In their early years in Washington, the Redskins shared Griffith Stadium with the Washington Senators baseball team.[1. The Redskins played and won their first game in Washington D. C. on September 1.
Giants, 1. 3–3.[1. On December 5, 1. Washington against the Giants, 4. Eastern Championship.[1. The team then proceeded to win their first league championship, the 1. NFL Championship Game, on December 1. Chicago Bears, their first year in D.
C.[1. 4] The Redskins then met the Bears again in the 1. NFL Championship Game on December 8, 1. The result, 7. 3–0 in favor of the Bears, is still the worst one- sided loss in NFL history.[1. The other big loss for the Redskins that season occurred during a coin- tossing ceremony prior to a game against the Giants. After calling the coin toss and shaking hands with the opposing team captain, Turk Edwards attempted to pivot around to head back to his sideline. However, his cleats caught in the grass and his knee gave way, injuring him and bringing his season and career to an unusual end.[1.
In what became an early rivalry in the NFL, the Redskins and Bears met two more times in the NFL Championship. The third time was during the 1. NFL Championship Game on December 1.
Redskins won their second championship, 1. The final time the two met was the 1. NFL Championship Game on December 2. Bears won, 4. 1–2.
The most notable accomplishment achieved during the Redskins' 1. Sammy Baugh leading the NFL in passing, punting, and interceptions.[1. The Redskins played in the NFL Championship one more time before a quarter- century drought that did not end until the 1. With former Olympic gold medalist. Dudley De. Groot as their new head coach, the Redskins went 8–2 during the 1. One of the most impressive performances came from Sammy Baugh, who had a completion percentage of . They ended the season by losing to the Cleveland Rams in the 1.
NFL Championship Game on December 1. The one- point margin of victory came under scrutiny because of a safety that occurred early in the game. In the first quarter, the Redskins had the ball at their own 5- yard line.
Dropping back into the end zone, quarterback Sammy Baugh threw to an open receiver, but the ball hit the goal post (which at the time was on the goal line instead of at the back of the end zone) and bounced back to the ground in the end zone. Under the rules at the time, this was ruled as a safety and thus gave the Rams a 2–0 lead. It was that safety that proved to be the margin of victory. Owner Marshall was so mad at the outcome that he became a major force in passing the following major rule change after the season: A forward pass that strikes the goal posts is automatically ruled incomplete. This later became known as the "Baugh/Marshall Rule".[1.
Front- office disarray and integration (1. The team's early success endeared it to the fans of Washington, D.
C. However, after 1. Redskins began a slow decline that they did not end until a playoff appearance in the 1. The Redskins had four different head coaches from 1. Turk Edwards and Dick Todd as well as John Whelchel and Herman Ball, and none were successful. But this did not stop George Preston Marshall from trying to make the Redskins the most successful franchise in the league. His first major alteration happened on June 1.
American Oil Company planned to televise all Redskins games, making Washington the first NFL team to have an entire season of televised games.[7][2. His next major change came in February 1. Green Bay Packers coach Earl "Curly" Lambeau.[2. But, after two seasons, Marshall fired Lambeau following the Redskins loss in their exhibition opener to the Los Angeles Rams and hired Joe Kuharich.[2. In 1. 95. 5, Kuharich led the Redskins to their first winning season in ten years and was named both Sporting News Coach of the Year and UPI NFL Coach of the Year.[2. In 1. 96. 1, the Redskins moved into their new stadium called D. C. Stadium (changed to Robert F.
Kennedy Memorial Stadium in 1. The first game in new D. C. Stadium occurred on October 1, 1. However, the Redskins failed to hold a 2. New York Giants 2. That same year, Bill Mc.
Peak became the head coach and had a record of 2. During his tenure, he helped draft future stars: wide receiver Charley Taylor, tight end Jerry Smith, safety Paul Krause, center Len Hauss, and linebacker Chris Hanburger.[2.
He also helped pull off two important trades, gaining quarterback Sonny Jurgensen from the Philadelphia Eagles and linebacker Sam Huff from the New York Giants.[2. One reason for the team's struggles was disarray in the front office. Marshall began a mental decline in 1. Marshall died on August 9, 1. Edward Bennett Williams, a minority stockholder who was a Washington resident and one of America's most esteemed attorneys, was chosen to run the franchise while the majority stockholder, Jack Kent Cooke, lived in Los Angeles and ran his basketball team, the Los Angeles Lakers.[2. In 1. 96. 6 Otto Graham was hired as the new head coach.
Graham coached the Redskins between 1. NFL player disappeared on the sidelines as the team recorded a mark of 1. After resigning the Redskins' post in favor of Vince Lombardi, Graham returned as athletic director of the Coast Guard Academy before retiring at the end of 1. In 1. 96. 9, the Redskins hired Vince Lombardi — who gained fame coaching with the Green Bay Packers — to be their new head coach.[2. Lombardi led the team to a 7–5–2 record,[2. Assistant coach Bill Austin was chosen to replace Lombardi during 1.
Integration controversy[edit]During most of this unsuccessful period, Marshall continually refused to integrate the team, despite pressure from The Washington Post and the federal government.[2. On March 2. 4, 1.
Secretary of the Interior. Stewart Udall warned Marshall to hire black players or face federal retribution.