Washington Redskins vs. Philadelphia Eagles
These two teams always seem to play good games regardless of records. The Redskins and a very banged up team right now but they have proved the last two weeks to be a very dangerous opponent so the Eagles better not overlook them. The Redskins will likely try to run a pretty balanced offense this week. Rock Cartwright will be the main man in the running game for the Redskins and he is a good player despite opening the season #3 on the depth chart. Jason Campbell will likely be under a heavy rush from the Eagles who already have 30 sacks this season so the passing game will likely be kept short. That means that the Redskins WRs and TEs are going to have to be willing to go over the middle and it will be interesting to see if they have the stones to do so as it’s a pretty soft bunch.
Head Coach Andy Reid of the Eagles is so set in his ways that the Eagles will likely continue to throw the ball a lot this week despite the fact that the Redskins are only allowing 161.6 yards passing per game this year. The thing that will help Donovan McNabb the most this week as he has deep weapons in Desean Jackson and Jeremy Maclin and short guys in TE Brent Celek and RB Lesean McCoy in the passing game. That will make it hard for the Redskins to key on anyone in the passing game. The Redskins are allowing 128.4 yards rushing per game (4.4 ypc) so Lesean McCoy could have a big game if the Eagles give him the ball enough.
PREDICTION: EAGLES 20, REDSKINS 14
