Washington Redskins vs Detroit Lions Pregame Thread

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Originally Posted by donofriose

Did anyone notice Clay Matthews on Sunday?

I didn't because Trent Williams took him out of the game. He is one of the best left tackles in the NFL.

And your boy Joe Staley allowed more pressures and a sack against Clay. That ends that debate Trent Williams >Staley.


Anyway as far as this Lions game:

How do you stop Calvin Johnson? No I'm serious how do you stop Calvin Johnson because I don't have any clue with our secondary. Maybe we could do the old gunner formation on him throughout the game, but I doubt it works, he would just run a slant into the middle of the field and still catch the ball, break tackles and outrun us.

Lets say for some reason CJ doesn't get the ball or we defend him ok enough. Theres still Burlison who will give Josh Wilson and DHall problems.

Say you somehow stop Calvin and Burlison. Who stops Pettigrew? London can't cover a TE for his life. Celek and Finley had huge games against us, why shouldn't Pettigrew?

Then lets say for some reason, we are able to stop those 3. Who the hell stops Reggie Bush? London, again, can't run with/to/from/near a RB either. He is a similar version to LeSean McCoy.

The only way we beat Detroit's Offense:

- press them
- Double team Calvin all the time
- have our DL collapse the center forcing Bush to run outside
- hope bush's knee hurts him again forcing him to leave the game
- hope Calvin gets injured enough to miss this game
- put a SS on Pettigrew
- get pressure from all over on stafford causing him to force or over throw passes.

But now the only other problem is Detroits Defense is pretty good. Stephen Tullouch can play. Fairley and Suh are two great DTs. The safeties are upgrades over last year. Where are our weaknesses? OL is definitely one of them. I would also keep an eye on Suh, before, after and during the whistle. He is the kind of guy that would go low on a QB coming off knee surgery.

If I were the Shanahan's, I'm calling a lot of power runs off tackle, and a lot of bootlegs.

Garcon should have a big day; ditto for Jordan Reed.

Redskins 27
Lions 45