Football Outsiders: Redskins D is No. 1

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Originally Posted by skinsnut

I disagree with your assessment that we have played against great rushing teams.
Most of the teams we've had success with were pass first offenses.

Miami is certainly a rushing team, we barely won that.
The Giants can run....we lost that.
Philly is not a running team but Westbrook can kill you....we almost lost that.
Most of the other teams are pass teams...we play well against them.

Bottom line is I dont think we would do as well if teams ran on us more.
I think Andre Carter can easily be exposed in the running game. He plays on the defensive right or the offensive left side.

If they are not attacking the left side as you say in the running game it may be poor gameplanning.
Yes, Carter has more name recognition that phillip daniels, but daniels is way better against the run....Carter can be exposed. Also, it really depends on which is the strong side...if the offensive strong side is also to the left, the WLB is Rocky....and that means serious speed and good tackling....I would avoid running to Rocky's side.

We didn't "ALMOST" lose that game. We won by 8 points. We were never in trouble of losing that game. Also you say we barely won the Miami game. Gtripp's point was that we have shut down the run on everybody we have played. Because we "almost lost" or "barely won" does not mean they ran all over us.

And lets not forget Arizona. They are a solid rushing team. They tried their asses off the whole game to run on us and it just didn't work.