but that's part of the deal with cooley.likes to reach out to his fans and sometimes they like to reach back. >> on the field, chris' title is tight end. off of it, just one adjective won't do him justice. >> i'm not a sit around the house kind of guy. >> nearly 19,000 people follow him on twitter and he is also an artist about to put his works up for charity. >> i'm really nervous to put myself out there and have everyone critique it. >> it's cooley's blog that has given fans a direct link to the pro bowler. >> i think it's great for the fans to communicate on a more personal level and i think he is the first one to do that around here. >> a lot of people say, i'm sure you don't read this, but i see everything. >> he loves the interaction with his fans, even though it's not always positive. he just received a profanity laced tirade in week one and he felt the obligation to share it with his teammates, posting that e-mail in the locker room. >> it was really offensive to the point that it was very funny. so i put it up for t

cooley had seven catches for 68 yards and the touchdown. skins down only six after the extra point. andredskins fall 23-17 at the meadowlands. jason campbell, say what you well, 19 of 26, a touchdown, an int. 462 yards but most of them came on that one big run. so they go to the meadowlands, second straight year. they lose for the second straight year. jim zorn, what do you have? >> i can tell you that we have a very good football team. i'm very impressed with some of the things that happened on the field. i think our challenge was to become more disciplined on the field, and that's going to be our challenge from week 1 to week 2. >> time for our first break. but up next on geio sports extra, a little more of the bad and some ugly and not too much good for the redskins and a bad day in new jersey. we'll be right back. 

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the event means a lot to cooley coulee. his mother is now cancer free. >>> how is year credit score? thanks to the recession, chances are it took a hit, and obvious it's credit card balances that can do the most damage. there are a few steps, though, that you can take to maintain, even improve your credit score in these tough times. cnbc's carmen wong ulrich has more on today's insider report. >> reporter: even though ward of the c.a.r.d. act went into effect last month, more americans with even the best edit records are seeing their terms change and not for the better. i've even had an interest rate go from 7.99% for almost ten years up to 17.49%. moves like this may make you feel like not giving into new terms, but the sacrifice your credit score if you don't pay your balance or make payments on time. so what do we have to do? you can call your lender and try to get the rate lowered, but your chances of success are now small. if you have to carry a balance, try not to agree to settle year account at a lower rate in exchan

thank you, sue. >> good for chris cooley. >> isn't he wonderful? >> definitely. >>> the war on germs is on. one local company is promising to keep you from catching swine flu, mrsa and other nasty bugs.  there's nothing more important than our health. so when it comes to health reform, we need a solution that works for all of us. now the president and congress have a plan that combines the best ideas, from democrats and republicans, business owners and workers, doctors, nurses and patients. a plan that keeps bureaucrats out of your health care you choose your own doctor, make youown decisions, and you can't be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition. that's reform we can all feel good about. >>> some of the big stories we are following, u2 fans spilling into fed ex field for the big show. sky fox is over the stadium. the opening act an hour and a half away. commuters will be heading home and 80,000 fans will be making their way to fedex field. >>> investigators say a man murdered in his home they believe was targeted. his wife and four childr

so is gilbert arenas and chris cooley for the redskins. >> why don't you interview gee wiz? sit him down there. >> they get a little bit nervous. gee wiz is still worried about the last season. >> he should be. >> this is highly entertaining. thank you, thank you. >> what say the guy on your right there? >> the weird one. >> this is the washington castle. now i am going to do sports and wring ovechkin's neck when he makes it down here. going to "monday night football" last night. there were two incredible games that lived up to the billing. we started out west. oakland raiders, san diego chargers. jamarcus russell almost led them to victory. let's begin in oakland, california. these guys know how to show up. they are there to support their team. jamarcus russell trying to snap the raiders' six-game losing streak. raiders trailing the chargers. russell goes deep. 57 yards for the touchdown. but philip rivers of the chargers would drive the chargers 89 yards and little more than two minutes. the drive would be capped off by this five-year touchdown. chargers win 24-20. now we

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the guy that was excited was chris cooley. >> i was honored to be up for that or be nominated for that award. i feel humble that people thought of me when they thought of that. i'm excited. it's a cool event. i'm excited to be here. we had a blast getting ready for it. >> show me the sneakers. >> i have these cool black ones. i went with the tongue out. >> tongue out. he was up for character award and he won, which was very cool. he was dressed to the nines as they all were. you said you have that shirt. >> he said he went to get some of his duds, then they drove back. it was a cool event. >> you were great. >> oh, you're so sweet. >> of course. >> way to go, thank you. >>> up next, the supreme court could decide the >>> experts answered questions about hlth care reform at a town hall meeting in the district tonight. >> there's much to be learned about this bill. you think you know it all, somebody else says something and you wonder if it's right. >> she invited people to ask questions. district residents were asked to talk about their problem with the current health care plan. >>> red

cooley is seven catches for 87 yards on the day. second quarter, skins' offense looking for the end zone. campbell to make and he never drops the passes pl sellers could barely talk he was so bummed out after that one. another field goal would end up. 6-0, skins, handoff to steven jackson and this guy knows how to muscle through it. he knows how to run it down the field. pushed out of bound and finally by number 22, carlos rogers. a 62--yard gain. that play on the heels of steven jackson sets up this. the rams on third and goal from the 2 yard line and mark bolger throws a fade to la rant robinson. under two minutes to go in the half. skins trying to get something going. campbell hits a wide opened santanna moss and then moss fumbles to the ground. look. moss' knee not down on the play when he looses the ball. and former howard player, ronald bartell. now in the third quarter. 7-6, rams. redskins trying to find the end zone. jason campbell hooked unwith antwaan randle el. the skins inside the 10 yard line but they settled for a fiel

chris cooley has played tight send since 2004 his wife was a cheerleader. his wife cheers them on every sunday. they are a family that believes they can face any opponent and now they have. >>> it was just the week before chris' wedding i was driving to the school and i got a call from my doctor on the way to school at 8:00 in the morning on may 16th said you have breast cancer. the thing is i had had a check up not that long ago before i found the lump. so there is just -- its, you know, kind of scary because i had all that done and then three months later i have this huge lump. >> i think any time you hear news that anyone has cancer it's devastating because you just don't know what's going to happen. it's a very unexpected disease. so it was tough to find out that my mom had cancer and she was extremely upset she didn't know, you know, what was going to happen. she didn't know what to do. >> she has been so tough through everything. and so we were kind of laughing, our team doctor came up to me and said well i see why you're never her and you never compl

something chris cooley accident too happy about. >> i guess you could say there is a benefit in facing a team you know well. but on the other hand we are going to new york to play an outstanding football team. so i think there's a lot of orweek one games we would have rather had. >> reporter: the nationals and phillies opened a three-game set last night at nationals park. the nats on the board early. guzman singles in the first and harris comes in to score. dc up 1-0 and then the phillies went on a home run binge. they hit five solo shots including back to back homers. nats lose 5-3. >>> our time is 6:24. >>> ahead the increased security today on amtrak. it is astir that is new this morning. >>> in ten minutes the new list of office doing and continues. new etiquette when it comes to food, e-mail and more. here's angie. >>> live from norbeck lanes are open but losing one lane on the other side. an update coming up. >>> an umbrella is optional. light sprinkles but rain on e doppler 9000. recast e fostcacoming up. fab@fa >>> quiet a scene on route 3 in bow by, maryland. you sea the video

cooley penned the e-mail up on the bulletin board to get player reaction. he proceeded to write the g back, too. >> i wonder what he said? >> we don't need that, believe me. >> it's something he doesn't want to repeat on the air. >> sad news. naac president myles brand died today after a nine-month battle with pant crattcreatic cancer. he was 61 years old. they want to know how they will honor nolan carroll. the best way, win. something the terps did not do last year against middle tennessee state. terps taking on ncsu again this weekend. this time it's at home. st year down in tennessee, scott's 63-yard touchdown run probably the only real highlight of the game for maryland. the underdog blue radarers shocked the terps, beating them 24-14. maryland has yet to play a complete game this year, getting blasted by cal and jmu in overtime. barely beating jmu in overtime, rather. they remember that loss from last year. >> i think our kids want to win this game for last year. if they don't, i don't know what's going through their veins, you know. we've got to have

giants took away everything except chris cooley and antoine randle el. those two combined for 14 out of jason campbell's 19 completions. nothing wrong with them, but to open things up, jim zorn knows they need to get the ball to santana moss. moss had two catches for a scant six yards. he was a nonfactor against the giants. generally, when moss gets rolling, so does the offense. you can say he's like the redskins' cold medicine. >> sure i would like to have the ball earlier, once or twice here and there. that builds your morale and were confidence. you can go out and be a complete player. what i do most of the time when i'm not getting the ball is find something to do. make sure i'm doing my job, get in the right area make sure i'm the key guy when it comes to somebody else getting open. >> part of getting all these guys open is to get them in better positions and then try to compete for that single coverage. sometimes we get it and sometimes we don't. >> that was jim zorn. coming up saturday night at 7:00, right here on nbc 4, week two of redskins showt

. >> reporter: there were other redskins including chris cooley who spoke out saying booing is not goingo motivate the team to play any better. fan whose feel they have the right to boo say they are frustrated after going ten seasons without a division title and 18 seasons without a super bowl title. >> it gets emotional out there. >> thanks, keith. >>> coming up, a new push for >>> credit scores are taking a big hit in this poor economy. liz crenshaw is here to report on steps you can take to protect your score. >> and the pumpkin predictions. scarce in some spots, available in others. who knew? you have news from the pumpkin patch. >> reporter: let's start with these credit scores. the banks may be crying about customer delinquencies, but the bottom line appears to be credit-worthy consumers are struggling to find loans they can get. the "usa today" reports consumer delinquencies reached almost 1.75%, the highest level in at least 35 years. combine that with a bankruptcy filing increase of 22%, and you've get the recipe for a banking industry reluctant to make loans to consumers with e

jason campbell found cooley seven times yesterday.s one good for 15-yards and led to a field goal. the skins couldent find the end zone. sellers dropped a would be touchdown. the rams would make them pay. mark to robinson 7-6 st. louis. the skins add one more field goal for the ugly 9-7 win. >> it is my responsibility. i can do whatever, i can wave all kinds of magic wands but i have to come up with the right play and put our guys in the right position. >> we are happy to bin but sucks to go out there like that in -- if we were in here happy and cheering you would be like those guys don't have a clue. >> it is a w and hard to get a win in the league so be happy when you get there. >> this is the easy part of the skins schedule. next week they travel to detroit. the lions have lost 19 in a row. then they host tampa bay. on the road, each team is 0-2. >>> last week's opponent was this dallas last night to help the cowboys open their new stadium. a record 105,000 fans were on hand for the debut. in the fourth, manning finds steve smith f

portis pass to cooley. it didn't work. take another look here. sonny wanted to know why zorn would make that decision. why don't you let jason campbell, the quarterback, throw the ball? >> third down. i'm the quarterback or you are the quarterback and you call halfback throwing the ball for me. i'm calling time-out or calling an audible. i'm not letting a halfback throw it. that's what you pay me for. >> that's what i would have to take you out of the game. i would say at's wrong with my play? >> it didn't work. >> no, but i called it to work. all right, we called it to work. it didn't work. there were a lot of plays that didn't work. i would take you out of the game, sorry, sonny. >> a valid question a lot of people wanted to ow. zorn was frank and i thought it was a good response. >> zorn was sticking to his guns. he said he didn't regret the decision because he did think it would work. redskins on the field tomorrow. they will continue working with players to see who is going to fill in the starting role for right guard randy thomas who is out

jason campbell once again solid and for a second straight game, chris cooley was his leading receiver. cooley had seven catches for 73 yards, including this one that set up a first quarter field goal up. up 9-7 now, late in the fourth quarter, the redskins going for it on fourth and one on the 2. but they don't make it. so the rams get the ball back with just under 2:00 to go. this is when the redskins' defense stepped up. pressuring marc bulger and forcing four straight incomplete four passes. the redskins 9-7 winners. it was ugly but they will take it. >> it's hard to win in the nfl. any time you get a win, you take it for what it's worth and you move on and get ready for next week. we lost tohem 17-15. you would wrath beer the opposite end of im, trying to improve your season or rather be on the winning side of it and say, let's go? let's get better and win. >> i have to look at this thing really hard because it's my responsibility. i can do whatever -- i can wave all kinds of magic wands but i have to come up with the right play and put our guys in the exact -- in the right positi

campbell finds chris cooley. the skins get no closer. the redskins drop the opener 23- 17 to the new york giants. >> i can tell you that we have a very good football team. i'm very impressed with some of the things that happen on the field. i think our challenge was to become more disciplined on the field, and that's going to be our challenge from week 1 to week 2. >> not discouraged at all. there was one game we lost the game but at the end of the day we know we're a better team than actually what we showed today. we've just got to bounce back this week. play even harder, play a little bit better. >> next week the redskins will play their home opener on sunday when the st. louis rams come to town. the rams lost to seattle today 28-0 but keep in mind the rams beat the skins last year 19-7. >>> there's always one guy, right? fans here at cleveland park bar and grill in northwest were ready for the first game of the regular season. as you can hear, a little disappointed the team didn't get a win. still a skins game as you know always a goo

so i think cooley a big part of the game plan this week. >> they can't squeak ov the rams. they can't win 0-17. >> it has to be a convincing win. they have to beat them 27-10 for the fans to be happy and make jason campbell feel better. >> that is my question because do you try to load up on these guys and do what you can to run that score up or do you just play to win the game because you know if you lose you are in a world of hurt. >> you got to run the score up. you need to build confidence. here is something that is not being discussed. it would be nice if malcolm kelly had more than one catch. it would be nce in devon thomas had one catch. it would be nice if fred davis contributed. they spent three second round draft picks on these guys last year and they did nothing last year and in week one, they did nothing. >> i know i'm he asking for a whole lot here but how about this from jim zorn. 0 points is all we're ask. >> and don't give up 2. we'll see you again in the next hour. hears your line-up for sunday. 11:30, redskins -- the geico redskin pregame and the game at 1

clintin portis on the half back pass fails to connect with chris cooley.the redskins settle on a field goal. fourth quarter fourth and one on the two. pummeled for a two-yard loss. the goal line seemed to have an ante redskins' force field but jim zorn is a believer. he was not second-guessing his goal line call. >> if i could see every play that was going to fail before it failed, i'm with you. i wouldn't call it but i felt very confident and because we work on it, you know, we execute. we have to execute it. and i use that word sometimes, but we work on it. and it's not a grab bag situation. >> i think that we have to execute as a player better. you can talk about the play-calling but every play is designed to score. tweak here but as players we have to get it done. >> it's one of those things we've got to capitalize on it. we're all professionals. we've all been in this situation before and you know it's a matter of just digging yourself out of it. i mean we're going to wk on it. >> that's redskins' fullback mike sellers who actually dropped a short pas

would be up to the d.a., steve cooley's office to determine when and if they find these guys and we'rehed dent we will that they can determine whether or not it's a murder or whether it was a certain negligent homicide, manslaughter, voluntary, involuntary it all depends but typically these guys are sickos that sort of revel in the work that they do and often leave clues and often like to brag what they do, my experience in the number of fires i've seen and these arsonists. the great part we have a $150,000 reward right now. that should jar some people's memories, got a little bit of information we hope they'll step forward and talk to homicide detectives. >> what do you need from the public here? >> well, you know, it's just like any other case where you might have seen a car driving past. you might have noticed or witnessed someone speaking about one thing, right, tony, one could be the key. >> that's exactly right. >> before i let you go, how are the spirits of firefighters? i mean, battling this brutal fire, lost two brethren -- >> right. >> i know they'll be honored saturday at do