. >> announcer: it's time for 9 sports with brett haber, the best sports in town! >>> good morning, everybody. you know, for all of the praise and support the redskins got for beating the giants and the cardinals starting 2-0, watch how quickly the bandwagon clears out if they post back- to-back losses against the cowboys and rams. the 0-3 rams. the ones who have been allowing 426 yards and 32 points per game this year. both dead last in the nfc. they do have a talented quarterback that, guy, sam bradford. on the whole, the rams have been a mess this year. a team the redskins must beat if they want to be taken seriously. >>> you don't want to fight someone who has nothing to lose. they're going to come out swinging but the great thing about that is so are we. >> they're a good team. they're an nfl team. they're off to a little bit of a slow start but if we don't show up and play, they'll definitely beat us. >> high honors for 'skins linebacker ryan kerrigan. 13 tackles, two sacks, a force fumble and a pick six all in the first three games. d.c. united up in philly,

brett haber has the details in your morning sports. >> good morning, everybody.or all of the praise and support the redskins got for beating the giants and then the cardinals and starting 2-0, watch how quickly the bandwagon clears out if they post back-to- back losses against the cowboys and the rams. those would be the 0-3 rams, the ones allowing 426 yards and 32 points per game this year. both dead last in the nfc. they do have a talented quarterback, sam bradford but on the whole, the rams have been a mess. a team the redskins must beat if they want to be taken seriously. >> we don't want to fight someone who has nothing to lose. they'll come out swinging. great thing is so are we. >> they're a good team. they're an nfl team. they're off to a little bit of a slow start. if we don't show up and play, they'll beat us. >> high honors for 'skins linebacker kerrigan named the rookie of the month. 13 tackles, a force fumble and a pick six all in the first three games. >> d.c. united up in philly. six games left needing to make a run to reach the playoffs. this is m

. ♪ >>> it's time for 9 sports with brett haber, the best sports in town. >> be right back.sburg didn't say that when he left to have his surgery, but he might as well have. it's been 12 months since he mounted a mound and except for the zipper of a scar, it doesn't seem like much has changed. huge ovation for strasburg. first batter in more than a year was the dodgers d gordon and d doubled. and you could hear the crowd murmuring wondering if he still had the good stuff. oh, yes, he still had the good stuff. in the second whips the first and second batters. strasburg scoreless through two. he couldn't throw much during spring training but he did do his drills. laid that down perfectly. horrible throws. strasburg gets to second. he would later score. but this is what fans came to see. two batters later we're scoreless through four. so davey says let's let him pitch into the 5th. no problem. five shutout innings, two hits, four ks, no walks. steven strasburg is back. dave owens is live at nationals park tonight. dave, we wondered what kind of command steve would have. how abo

sports director brett haber is here to tell us why. >> lesli, the redskins appeared to have the mostant young safety tandem in the league two years ago. laron landry on one side, sean taylor on the other. sadly that tandem only got to play together for three months as landry was drafted and taylor was tragically killed just three months later. in the four seasons since then the redskins have been searching for safeties to fill that void, searching with only limited success, but as kristin reports tonight, that search may now be over. >> reporter: redskins safeties seem to be settling in just fine. as this one gets ready to face his former team in st. louis, he knows there's more work to be done. >> i feel like i'm getting comfortable in the system, comfortable with the players around me. as we continue to grow as a defense, i know my play will excel. >> reporter: he and the defense got a big boost monday night with the return of laron landry. >> we don't have any other players like him on our team. he's our most dynamic football player. >> reporter: the two safeties formed a tight bo