Ravens V Redskins - Beltway Brawl or Maryland Massacre?

[rbanerjee23]

As bad as the redskins pass defense is, the run defense is really good (4th in the league I believe). The defense has to bottle up Ray Rice and force him into one of those 20-25 carries, 65-75 yard days which would be really damn good. Key to the game: Turnovers, the Ravens have turned the ball over 2+ times only 4 time this season. 3 of them were their only losses and the only win was 9-6 against KC.

[psycoskin]

I here you dude, Rice isn't the only one now. Pierce looked good last week against Steelers. Pierce got some good run time. Ravens will start looking for home field advantage and this win is important for that reason. They seemed to save Rice some last week. Probably looking to save him some for post season. More got put on Pitta and the other dude #12 (punt return man). Ravens pass attack and get out ahead with points will be first against us. They know our offense scores now. If they accomplish this it'll be hard to recover against there pass defense for sure. Key will be to shake Flacco...Thats what the Steelers manage to do.

We keep saying our offense makes up for our defense, but a win this time will require a stout pass and run defense. Flacco's been honing his craft and Hall is on crutches I heard....not good. We don't have that "next man up"

[sdskinsfan2001]

Here is what I would tell the Skins defense before the game:

"They bleed just like we do, and sweat just like we do. They went through two-a-days. We went through two-a-days in 110 degree heat. I want you to hit everything that moves! If the ref gets in your way, you hit him too!"

(Friday Night Lights Movie).

[Chief X_Phackter]

While I appreciate the big Monday Night win, and I won't downplay the fact that the Skins have swept the last three games against the NFC East, two of those games on a National stage, one on the road....I still am suspect about this defense...and it does get worse with the loss of C Griff. Perhaps Haslett is creative enough to mask yet another key loss with his "scheming"...but I am of the opinion, the loss of CG will be noticeable.

To me, the offense must play lights out, and we will need some help from special teams in order to pull this game out, and down the stretch.

This is the playoffs. Our playoffs started three weeks ago...

7-0 lets go!