Redskins / Falcons Prediction Thread; A Show of Hands

[gortiz]

not sure why you guys are thinking the skins are gonna score more than 20?? ... this is the most complete team we have faced. They are going to go up quick and big and that is going to spell doom for our O which has been use to playing with a lead and/or a close score. The Falcons are are going to render the O one dimensional and that equals blow out.

This thing will be in the 30's to teens and the skins will probably lose.



of course ... a little bit of me died as I wrote this.

[Rypien1191]

I have a strangely confident feeling about this one. We haven't put together a complete game yet, we've had some unfortunate breaks with calls/injuries etc... Falcons coming off a big home win where frankly they got a bit lucky.... their D is suspect and Cam and the zone read torched them. We're due for a home win and they're due for a loss. I think we are going to try to pound the ball against their 29th ranked run D and control the clock/TOP. If we can hold them to 24-27 points, i think we win.

Skins 33-24.

[gortiz]

The skins have to go all out ... by that I mean, onsides kick after a score, another double pass, wildcat with Brandon, stop and goes, corner blitzes, running draws on 3rd and long.

On November 24, 1991, the Cowboys traveled to Washington to face the 11-0 Redskins, who had been steamrolling opponents by an average score of 33-13. Dallas, meanwhile was on the third leg of a three-game roadtrip, and had lost the first two contests, 26-23 to the Oilers and 22-9 to the Giants to fall to 6-5. No pressure: on the road, against an undefeated team, with the season in the balance.

Before the game, Jimmy Johnson told his team that they were going to go after the Redskins with everything in their arsenal. "When you go up against a big gorilla," he said, "you don't hit him lightly. You hit him with everything you got!" Indeed, Johnson delivered on his promise: he called a draw play on third and long (resulting in an Emmitt Smith touchdown); he went for it on multiple fourth downs (Dallas converted three of four fourth downs); he tried an onside kick early in the second quarter; and he called a Hail Mary pass on the last play of the first half. His aggressive approach sent Washington reeling, and the ‘Skins looked off-balance all afternoon.

[Forehead]

Because of our #1 rated rushing attack and their poor rushing defense, I believe the Skins will win......the time of posession battle. But that's about it. I expect the Falcons will have one, possibly two, long TD passes, and we won't be able to slow them down. I'll say Falcons 31, Skins 23.

[BeefJerky]

Gonna be a very tough game. Skins must keep the ground game going, and pressure Ryan for us to have a chance. Skins win on a late interception 35-30. Hail.

[GaryGreenMonk]

Atlanta is giving up 150+ yards a game on the ground. We just put 150 on the #1 run D in the league.

Skins have 250+ rushing yards... 4 rushing TD's. Double time of possession.

but the game still ends up being close because of Atlanta's fast strike backs with big plays.

Skins 38
Falcons 34

[Timmy Smith]

If a few things break our way, we can win. We have to keep Atlanta's offense off the field - that means running the ball, going for it on 4th and short, and letting that play clock tick down to :01 on every offensive snap.

Redskins 38
Falcons 35

[Teller]

I'm going to hedge here, sorry. If we keep the Falcons UNDER 30, we win. If not, they do.

[JaM1337]

Anyone remember the Patriots game last year? Yea I think its gonna be roughly similar to that. A good showing by the offense and the Defense once again shows *some improvement* and while I think Ryan has his "Come back to earth" game in some ways with a couple picks...in the end the Falcons Receivers are just too much for us to handle right. Hate to beat a Dead Horse but the Falcons have probably the best Kicker in the league right now as well .

Falcons: 30
Redskins: 21

[konga2145]

Most of you have Sins losing in double digits, makes me wonder why intelligent bookmakers only faver the Falcons by 3

[Skinz4Life12]

Most of you have Sins losing in double digits, makes me wonder why intelligent bookmakers only faver the Falcons by 3

Actually I see the majority of people picking the skins to win

[BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93]

ehh...

Falcons 42

Skins 35

[Riggo-toni]

Falcons 45
Skins 20

[GaryGreenMonk]

I think a lot of you are overating the Falcons here.

They only average 20 more yards a game passing than we do.

In total yards per game.. the Skins are actually averaging 60 yards a game more than the falcons.

[nuposse87]

Well...If Cam can put up 28 at ATL on them, I think it isn't too much to expect RG III can match that. Take into account there is a chance for sloppy weather leading to more of a ground game, we better our chances to win, but that is still hypothetical. Ball control will be key, the longer we keep em off the field the better. ATL does disguise a lot of their defensive schemes well, they are 8th in passing defense so we might see multiple INTs this week from RG III if he isn't careful. I also worry about the fact that he "due for a bad game." Establish the run, and play action pass, our best shot. In the end I still think we lose though. I don't think our safeties will do their jobs against their receivers.

31-35 Falcons.