2007 RetroSkins Highlights: Miami Dolphins vs Washington Redskins

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Published 2023-09-01
It's opening day week, so back we go to opening day from 2007! This would be final opening day for our beloved Coach Gibbs, who finished a surprisingly modest 8-8 in openers. Gibbs' teams were slow-starters weren't they? ...but often fast finishers, as would be the case in this fateful season.

The Dolphins were in town, and they brought the Florida sunshine with them, along with a familiar face at QB - our old friend Trent Green. Jason Campbell led the Redskins offense in circles for most of this one, along with many of our '00s favorites (Portis, Moss, Coooooley and, according to Dan Dierdorf "Rantionne Andel-El"... oh, Deirdoff).

This was a low scoring, defensively dominated affair that saw the Redskins D rebound from a miserable '06 showing as Washington gutted out a tough, entertaining victory in front of a jubilant FedEx Field crowd.

The surprisingly long-employed Dan Deirdoff on the call here with one of the Gumbels (I forget which one, does it matter?) for the start of Joe Gibbs' final NFL campaign.

This is where I usually encourage folks with old games to email me, but no one ever does so I'm gonna go drink now. Yeah.... you can feel bad about that.
All Comments (21)
  • @deezyvsthewrld
    This brought happy tears to my eyes I’m 32 I remember these days I went to the game after Sean Taylor passed away against the Bills. I miss the Redskins 🥲 #HTTR4L
  • @kj232009
    Wow that defense was loaded. Taylor, Landry, Fletcher, Smoot,
  • @gregharmon3797
    Portis and Betts ran with some power. Wow that was quite the crowd for that game, hopefully it will be that way again soon.
  • @HughGard-rc7cc
    Man..the logarithm knows I need this right now ! 2023 = 4 and 13...HTTR !
  • @marvinshenk
    The Gibbs 2 era teams were always entertaining to watch. Santana Moss, Antwan Randle El, Chris Cooley, Clinton Portis, Mike Sellers, and my all time favorite Sean Taylor.
  • @ryanb7013
    What a special season this was. Just like every playoff season we've had over the last 20 or so years, start the year off slow but ending the season hot to make the playoffs. Especially after Sean Taylor passing away way too soon we played for him.
  • @WeBuyFast
    Just listen to the crowd!! I miss those days!!
  • @FranchiseENT202
    11:01 This pass from Jason Campbell to Randel El was a thing of beauty. Could have been a better playfake from Campbell but all in all beautiful pass.
  • @DCtoAZ
    Need to bring back the “Hey You Suck” chants at Fed Ex
  • @Koolazzmike
    Jason Campbell wasn't that bad. Sure, he wasn't the solution, but I think he lost confidence over time as the O-line didn't protect him enough. He had a big arm, but a slow release.
  • @kingslim202
    Man I miss how our stadium used to be full of Redskins fans now you can barely find us in our own stadium.
  • @chillguydave925
    The 2007 lions game be great Especially the 2008 eagles fedex game
  • @redskinsman10
    Omg that was so close to a miracle hail mary at the end of the 4th. Holy shit