Adam Archuleta and Sean Taylor are great football players, but it’s a bad sign when your safeties are making so many tackles.  Archuleta is second on the team with 22 tackles and Sean Taylor is tied for 4th with 17.  LB Lemar Marshall is leading the team with 24 tackles and has played well.  Warrick Holdman has 18 tackles and Marcus Washington has 17 tackles.  These five guys are the key to the Redskin defense, but they need more help from the other six guys.

This is actually a good problem to have.  Clinton Portis is the unquestioned #1 running back on the team, but he’s been a little banged up this season.  Still, when Portis does play, he’s been electric.  Portis is averaging 4.8 yards per carry and 22.3 yards per catch.  In Portis’ early absence, Ledell Betts has really stepped up big time!  Betts has 186 yards rushing and is averaging 5.3 yards per carry, he also has caught 13 passes for 115 yards.  Hopefully, Gibbs can find a way to let Betts get some carries when Portis is 100%.  TJ Duckett is the forgotten man of the backfield.  Duckett only has 5 carries for 24 yards this season.  Duckett is a rugged, short-yardage back.  The problem for him is that the other 2 backs are playing so well that Coach Gibbs leaves them in on short-yardage plays.  Duckett has been working with the special teams to try to get himself some playing time.

This should be a slobber knocker!  Both of these teams prefer to run the football and have hard hitting defenses.

Look for the Jaguars to try to run the ball against the Redskins.  Look for Fred Taylor to pound the ball (240 yards) for awhile and then Maurice Drew changing up with his speed (115 yards).  If the Jags establish the run, then Leftwich will come after the Redskins secondary with his young WRs.  Reggie Williams (150 yards), Matt Jones (144 yards) and Ernest Wilford (117 yards) have done well so far this season.

The Redskins also would like to run the football with Ledell Betts (186 yards) and Clinton Portis (125 yards).  This is a battle of strengths as the Skins average 143.3 yards per game rushing and the Jags only allow 59.0 yards rushing per game.  Look for Brunell to throw alot of short passes, but he better be careful because opposing QB’s only have a 54.5 QB rating against the Jaguars.

This should be a great football game that could go either way.

Now that’s more like it.  The Redskins totally dominated the hapless Texans on Sunday.  Mark Brunell set a new NFL record b completing 23 straight passes in this football game.  For the game, Brunell completed 24 of 27 passes for 261 yards and a TD.  Ledell Betts had a fantastic game, as he carried the ball 16 times for 124 yards (7.8 ypc) and a TD.  Betts also caught 3 passes for 27 yards.  Clinton Portis also had a huge game carrying the ball 16 times for 86 yards with 2 TDs.  Portis also caught 2 passes for 78 yards.  Santana Moss chipped in 6 catches for 50 yards.  Antwaan Randle El finally showed up catching 3 passes for 34 yards and a TD.

Warrick Holdman and Carlos Rogers led the charge on defense with 8 tackles apiece.  The Redskins held the Texans to 61 yards rushing on 18 carries (3.4 ypc).  The Texans completed 19 of 29 passes for 200 net yards passing.

The Redskins did what you’re supposed to do on Sunday when playing a terrible team…..they kicked their butt!

Both of these teams are 0-2 and have played rough schedules so far.

The Redskins would love to run Clinton Portis at the Texans’ defense as long as he can handle it with his bad shoulder.  If he can’t, Mark Brunell should be able to pick the Texans defense apart.  WRs Randle El and Brandon Lloyd need to start earning their money for the Redskins and this looks like where they can start doing that.  Santana Moss should be able to get deep on the Texans without much resistance.  Also, look for Brunell to get TE Chris Cooley more involved in the offense as he only has three catches for 20 yards this season.

The Texans are in deep trouble along their offensive line.  LT Charles Spencer is out for the season and starting C Mike Flanagan may be unavailable due to a foot injury.  David Carr could literally be running for his life as he has already been sacked 9 times this season.  If the Texans could somehow get their running game going they could slow the pass rush and give Carr a chance to get the ball to his talented receiving corps.  WRs Andre Johnson and Eric Moulds could have success against the Redskins corners.

I think the Redskins will wake up and win this game, but it will be close.