Seahawks Redskins Rookie Showdown

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by REDSKINS4ever

The Redskins are 5-3 at Fed Ex Field this year. The Seahawks are 3-5 on the road this year. How is Seattle 2 1/2 point favorites to win this game? The Redskins should be favorite at home. The Redskins defensively have done excellent against the run and average against the pass.

I expect Coach Haz to dial up those exotic blitzes on Russell Wilson.

Offensively, the Redskins 5th ranked offense will be interesting to watching against the Seahawks 4th ranked defense. Both Alfred Morris and RG3 running the football may help set up the play action pass.

I am completely fine being the underdog. I think this game will be up to the defense to win or lose. I expect the Seahawks D will stack the LOS and control our run game. The WRs need to be on point for this game and bring their A-game.

[VegasSkinsFan]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

Oddsmakers think Seattle is a little better than we are. The two option read QB's that they have faced they have totally shut it down. RG3 isn't 100%. Plus they probably have a better defense than we do and are around the same on offense. Those are probably the reasons they're slightly favored.

The oddsmakers also has us as a 6 win team this year.

[RobH4413]

Originally Posted by Lotus

I re-watched the Panthers game to remind myself of what life was like before The Streak. Some observations:

1) Our schemes on both offense and defense now are much more creative
2) Our receivers are dropping the ball much less
3) Believe it or not, Tyler Polumbus is playing better. Although he still gets run over, the frequency is less
4) We haven't blown as many coverages and so are not giving up 80 yard plays
5) We have significantly cleaned up our act in terms of penalties

This is key. Our receivers are making plays. Straight ballin at times if you ask me. Ike Hilliard has done a great job with this corps throughout the turnaround. The routes are run with confidence- and to tell you the truth- I actually attribute that to RG3 scrambling a bit less.

I'm basing this off intuition and intuition alone- but I'd like to look at the amount of time RG3 has the ball vs. earlier in the year. I feel like the timing of the offense is more in step, and that helps the receivers run efficient routes.

That's also why these Seattle corners scare me. They're big and scary. They will bump some of our smaller receivers and knock them off their routes. We will really need them to step up and get physical. They will need to maintain their routes and not let them get in their heads. - and use our skill- SPEED- to beat them.

[SkinzWin]

Originally Posted by RobH4413

This is key. Our receivers are making plays. Straight ballin at times if you ask me. Ike Hilliard has done a great job with this corps throughout the turnaround. The routes are run with confidence- and to tell you the truth- I actually attribute that to RG3 scrambling a bit less.

I'm basing this off intuition and intuition alone- but I'd like to look at the amount of time RG3 has the ball vs. earlier in the year. I feel like the timing of the offense is more in step, and that helps the receivers run efficient routes.

That's also why these Seattle corners scare me. They're big and scary. They will bump some of our smaller receivers and knock them off their routes. We will really need them to step up and get physical. They will need to maintain their routes and not let them get in their heads. - and use our skill- SPEED- to beat them.

They have two good corners. We have more receivers that have been playing at a high level. Garcon, Moss, Hankerson, Morgan, Robinson. Paulson has really stepped up and improved his receiving skills since Fred Davis went out. If they do shut down our run game and two two corners, I think we can work 3 and 4 wide receiver sets and find holes in their zone coverage (I am assuming they will still play a zone).

I think that's why Detroit who was only a 4 win team beat Seattle. They are obviously a passing team and although Calvin Johnson was taken away, the rest of the receivers stepped up and had big days. RGIII has shown he can make all the throws so I think this is something we can cope with, should they be successful at slowing our run game (which I think is unlikely) and taking Garcon and our #2 out with Browner and Sherman.

[SkinzWin]

Originally Posted by skinsfaninok

Good work

Thanks. Benefits of being a teacher and having two weeks off. Time is running out though..... UGH

[skinsfaninok]

Originally Posted by SkinzWin

Thanks. Benefits of being a teacher and having two weeks off. Time is running out though..... UGH

Lol yeah my wife is a teacher same for her.

[Larry Michael is Satan]

Any Richard Crawford fans out there? I think he's got really good coverage skills from what i've seen. Gave up a TD and a 2 last week, but was right there on both, just great throws. Also had a pick. He was a 7th rounder, looks like a keeper to me.

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

They do on Monday. Then as $ comes in the line will move around. The line opened at Washington -1, which is still saying they think Seattle is better. The money so far is on Seattle which is why it's moved 4 points.

No. On Monday they set the line where they think they will receive even action. Part of their evaluations may include team analysis but mostly it is based on superficial stuff that they know most bettors will use in their analysis plus spread history. So the line starts where they think the bettors will run action...or who bettors think is the better team. Not who they think is actually better.

[CrustyRedskin]

Originally Posted by skinsfaninok

Lol yeah my wife is a teacher same for her.

And this has been the best holiday break iv had in 12 years !! Thanksgiving and Christmas! ! HTTR!!!! WOOHOO

[skinsfanthru&thru]

Anyone else catch the breakdown on Sportscenter talking about the Seahawks corners being the 24th ranked secondary against playaction passing? Since that's the entire foundation of our offense, I like the odds of some big passing plays like we say vs Dallas on Thanksgiving. On defense I'm not scared of their wide recievers, but I also felt that way before Amendola made our secondary look like HS players a couple months ago so hopefully over confidence is not something we see the team expirience. Containing the Beast and Wilson in the pocket are the two keys on defense as is continuing to force turnovers to give our offense the short field.

[DynamiteRave]

Wouldn't it be crazy if we won? Man. I'd lose my shit. I'm not as nervous for this game as the Dallas game but whew. I can't wait til Sunday.

[Gtothearry]

I definitely think we can pull this game out. I'd even go so far 2 say if we get past this game I see no reason we don't get to the NFCC game.

The way Dallas ran against us makes me nervous for what Skittles could do to us. Wilsons accuracy could be tough as well. We've been bailed out by some bad qb's not hitting their target this year.

Just as many ? marks from our side for them as well though.

I hope Griffins play this week resembles the first few weeks. Anyways lets get a win! HTTR

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by skinsfanthru&thru

Anyone else catch the breakdown on Sportscenter talking about the Seahawks corners being the 24th ranked secondary against playaction passing? Since that's the entire foundation of our offense, I like the odds of some big passing plays like we say vs Dallas on Thanksgiving. On defense I'm not scared of their wide recievers, but I also felt that way before Amendola made our secondary look like HS players a couple months ago so hopefully over confidence is not something we see the team expirience. Containing the Beast and Wilson in the pocket are the two keys on defense as is continuing to force turnovers to give our offense the short field.

Our defense has been playing dramatically better than it was when we made Amendola look like a star.

[REDSKINS4ever]

Originally Posted by Larry Michael is Satan

Any Richard Crawford fans out there? I think he's got really good coverage skills from what i've seen. Gave up a TD and a 2 last week, but was right there on both, just great throws. Also had a pick. He was a 7th rounder, looks like a keeper to me.

Crawford is just a rookie. He missed a lot of games this season because he was so low on the depth chart. I like the fact that he is returning punts. I wish he were returning kickoffs too. As far as his coverage skills, he'll improve as his career goes on. As a 7th rounder, he's showing that he is valuable.

[BaltimoreSkins]

Originally Posted by Lotus

Our defense has been playing dramatically better than it was when we made Amendola look like a star.

We lost two of our front seven in the game. Any time you have back-ups it takes awhile to make adjustments. Haslett making quality game plans is one reason the D has improved but the continuity of the players every week is also significant. They know each others instincts and can make game time adjustments a lot more efficiently than earlier in the season.