Redskins vs. Packers predictions

Quick Take: Redskins (3-1) at Packers (4-1)

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Last meeting
The Packers beat the Redskins, 28-14, on Oct. 31, 2004. Green Bay, led by Ahman Green's two rusing touchdowns, scored on its first three possessions, driving 69, 75 and 76 yards en route to a 17-0 lead.

Streaks
The Packers have won the last three games and lead the overall series 16-12-1.

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Based on his 23-for-29, 248 yard passing performance, Redskins QB Jason Campbell is a Week 5 FedEx Air & Ground Players of the Week Award nominee.

Last week
Coming off a bye week, the Redskins and their defense made a statement, holding a prolific Lions offense to just 144 total yards in a 34-3 win. Washington also dominated the time of possession, and QB Jason Campbell targeted eight different receivers in completing 23-of-29 passes for 248 yards and two touchdowns. ... The Packers let a 10-point halftime lead slip away in a 27-20 loss to Chicago. Green Bay committed five turnovers, including two interceptions by Brett Favre and a pair of fumbles by rookie WR James Jones.

At stake
The Redskins hope to hold on to the momentum from last week and keep up with the unbeaten Cowboys in the NFC East. The Packers would like to put their second-half debacle in the rear-view mirror and show that their performance Sunday night was an aberration -- and their first four and a half quarters were not.

Key matchup
Redskins secondary vs. Favre. The Redskins' third-ranked defense has allowed a league-low four touchdowns this season, evenly split on the ground and through the air. This week they'll try to stop the Packers' top-ranked pass attack. Led by defensive end Andre Carter (safety, two sacks), the Redskins brought down John Kitna five times last week and intercepted him twice, while holding him to a season-low 104 passing yards. Favre has carried his team this season, but he will eventually need help from his running game, although that task might be tougher this week with center Scott Wells out with a broken eye socket.

Did you know?
This game features two starting quarterbacks from Mississippi. Washington's Jason Campbell hails from Taylorsville and Favre is from Kiln. ... WR Donald Driver has a reception in 85 consecutive games, the second-longest streak in team history (behind Sterling Sharpe's 103).

Broken eye socket! OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

I'm pumped already. Let's just make this the predicition thread shall we?

I see this game going in similar way to the Lions game. The Pack rely heavily on the passing game and while their ground game isn't quite as pathetic as the Lions they'll at least try to establish a ground game.

Favre is no Kitna, but Favre can be forced into making some bad decisions and his mobility isn't quite what it once was. Defensively the Skins should just take last week's gameplan and transfer most of it over to this week. Contain the Packers through the air and force them to run.

Offensively Campbell is the key again this week I believe. His accuracy was outstanding last week and he needs to keep that going. As usual our running game is another big key, the Packers D is arguably the best D we've faced so far.

My prediction is

Skins 20
Pack 10

I just don't see the Packers being able to solve our D.

I think our offense continues to roll and improve with each coming week. I think Favre will get his TDs, but we will score far more:

Skins 27, Packers 17.

They'll keep it close until the middle of the third quarter where our running game wears down their defense.

We get revenge for losing the last time...wasn't that the phantom call on Portis in motion that reversed a would be touchdown? i remember being at the game- and something like that went down...

Skins win 24-13

I'm pretty sure, we'll go with a pretty similiar game plan from last week.

I do think, however, we'll see more of Mr. Portis this week. Look for CP to get somewhere around 110-120 yds. If CP breaks the century mark, the guys come back to Ashburn 4-1.

Also, from what I've been hearing from Cheeseheads, they struggle with TE. Look for Cooley and JC to get their groove back.

Skins - 30
Packers - 15

I see it coming down like this.................

Clinton Portis is due for a break-out game and I think this is the game where he gets it. I see us controling the ball for over 33 minutes while punching in 4 Tds and a Fg and opn defense I see us sacking Favre 4 times and picking him off 3 times (1 Taylor, 1 Smoot, 1 Rogers) And the Redskins win this to improve to 4-1 by a score of 31-16

I think we will be in their backfield all day...they have very little in the way of a running game, so we can let our backers lend support to our front bruisers

I don't know how much to lend to stats this early in the year, but they are what they are. Detroit and Green Bay are very similar in their rushing and passing rankings.

Rushing - both right around 25 attempts for around 100 YPG
DET-30
GB-31

Passing - both right around 40 attempts for around 270-300 YPG
DET-5
GB-1

While a similar gameplan "should" work, I think that the fact that GB has had a week to study what we did to Detroit, we will have to tweak the defensive gameplan a little. Maybe bring a few more blitzes, or disguise coverages to keep Favre guessing. Hopefully that works, and our offense is able to get it going again.

Unfortunately, I think home field advantage will play a big part in this game and be the difference.

Packers 24
Redskins 20

We get revenge for losing the last time...wasn't that the phantom call on Portis in motion that reversed a would be touchdown? i remember being at the game- and something like that went down...

Skins win 24-13

I was at that game...that call sucked!!! Completely changed the outcome of that game.

I see us running the ball really well in this one, with CP breaking a long one for about 50+, some methodical passing, and the stellar D shows up again!

Redskins 20
Packers 10