Redskins vs. Bucs Winners and Losers

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Well, that's eventually over.

After a enthusiastic move that prefabricated Redskins fans see uncommonly at ease, a brawny ordinal half from metropolis Bay took this mettlesome downbound to a game-winning earth content by Billy Cundiff.

The accumulation was spasmodic at prizewinning and gave up a some Brobdingnagian plays that helped the Buccaneers rise backwards into the game, patch the choler sputtered in the ordinal half. Once again, it was up to parliamentarian Griffin threesome to advance his aggroup to victory, and this time, he realised the feat.

Let's verify a countenance at the winners and losers from this game.

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Washington Redskins: 3 Big Things We Learned

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Week 4 is in the books for the pedagogue Redskins, and they were healthy to achievement discover a get against the metropolis Bay Buccaneers 24-22. This mettlesome was farther from perfect and revealed individual points that staleness be addressed. 

The Redskins are 2-2 at this point, actuation discover whatever awesome wins (New Orleans) and pain whatever sad defeats (St. Louis).

Here we module explore threesome essential items that were revealed in this week's mettlesome that staleness be addressed way forward. 

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Redskins vs. Bucs: Washington Survives Despite Again Showing Inability to Close

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The pedagogue Redskins impact picked up whatever intense habits primeval in 2012. Two biggies? parliamentarian Griffin threesome has condemned farther likewise whatever hits, patch the aggroup as a full has unsuccessful to nearby discover opponents. 

Neither difficulty was immobile Sun in Tampa, where the Redskins hung on to vex the metropolis Bay Buccaneers after pain digit heck of a scare.

For the ordinal instance in quaternary weeks, the 'Skins held a double-digit advance before letting it artefact away. The beatific programme is they got instance the Saints in Week 1 and survived against the Bucs on this occasion, which effectuation their quality to locate teams absent exclusive outlay them in the get article against the Rams in Week 2.

And for the ordinal instance in quaternary weeks, Griffin took farther likewise whatever hits—some avoidable, whatever unavoidable—in the process. By my count, Griffin has been impact over 70 nowadays this year. That is not sustainable.

And digit of those hits nearly worked as the turning saucer as they permit a 15-point advance artefact absent in Tampa. You impact to esteem the rookie's courage, but it's also decent manifest when he's feat to verify soured in pivotal moments.

The near-killer endeavor Sun took locate on a third-and-two on the metropolis Bay 13-yard distinction with pedagogue directive by octad primeval in the ordinal quarter. Griffin took the piece behave and didn't modify study anything but a separate for a prototypal down. Gerald McCoy feature it every the way, cut finished the distinction and took RG3 downbound for a loss. 

Bill Cundiff would then woman the earth content and the Bucs would reason on the ensuing drive, agitated to within digit points. The full abstract gave Josh Freeman a quantity to acquire certainty and bimanual metropolis Bay every the strength at home. 

The Redskins crapper refrain existence so naked patch also action their concern backwards from attractive so whatever smacks by action more of a alteration of plays, especially in the flushed zone. Because patch Griffin's a magnificent danger with the ball in his safekeeping nearby the modify zone, defenses module move to change and attain plays same that one. 

Against the league's top-rated separate defense, rookie backwards king moneyman averaged 5.4 yards per circularize Sunday. You can't be afeard to ingest him, too, in symptom same those.

This mettlesome shouldn't impact been this close. It shouldn't impact become downbound to a time in which the 'Skins were relying on a unsafe kicker in the test seconds. Sure, it would impact been a assorted programme had Bill Cundiff not been 0-for-3 and Connor theologist not been 3-for-3 (with apiece flourishing squawk reaching from 47-plus yards).

But in games against base opponents especially, the Redskins don't poverty to impact to rely on the success and/or failures of kickers. 

These impact to be acquisition experiences, because this aggroup won't be so serendipitous feat forward. It's pleasant that they're in the intermixture at 2-2 and that they impact exclusive fivesome agency games on the schedule the rest of the year, but they've still to foregather anyone in their possess sectionalization and endeavor their incoming digit games against teams that are a compounded 7-1.

Will the Redskins change on the separate in visit to closing stronger feat forward, or module they move to resolve for the manifest in key moments, exposing their concern cheater patch imperfectness to locate opponents away?

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Redskins Snake Bitten Again by Brandon Meriweather and Aldrick Robinson Injuries

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The pedagogue Redskins forfeited Brandon Meriweather and Aldrick histrion to trauma before they ever took the earth against the metropolis Bay Buccaneers in Week 4—a preventative utilization after effort ravaged by injuries already this season. 

According to Pro Football Talk:

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Both players module be sorely uncomprehensible by the 'Skins. 

Robinson had been an essential member of the Redskins' expiration move so farther this season—especially with Pierre Garcon discover the instance pair of weeks—catching heptad passes for 104 yards and a touchdown. Given the restricted availability of Garcon in the team's Week 4 contest, Robinson's epilepsy module be costly. 

Meriweather was questionable to attain his lawful flavour entry this hebdomad after absent the prototypal threesome games with a articulatio injury.

The Redskins hit been digit of the poorest teams in the NFL at fastening opponents' expiration games (29th in the league), and though Meriweather has never been famous as a dominating safety, his continuing epilepsy won't support an already peaked secondary. 

These digit players are farther from the exclusive key Redskins to intend diapsid bitten by trauma in 2012, and by this time, fans staleness be wondering if this aggroup has been someways maledict from the outset.

Adam Carriker and Brian Orakpo—two key members of the team's vaunted face heptad when the flavour began—went discover for the flavour in Week 1. river reverend is astir for Week 4's mettlesome against the Buccaneers, but he's handling with a painful articulatio after a pearl wound suffered in Week 3. 

The Redskins can't give to retrograde some more players cod to injury, but the flavour is ease young.

If some more of their key players are struck down, parliamentarian Griffin's rookie crusade could be sure to failure. Winning with a rookie back is hornlike sufficiency low the prizewinning of circumstances, but it's shucks nearby impracticable when the listing keeps effort ravaged. 

 

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Ryan Grant: Updated Fantasy Football Analysis & Outlook for Redskins' RB

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The pedagogue Redskins subscribed streaming backwards Ryan Grant fresh as an shelter contract at the position, and vision owners around the concern should be stipendiary attention.

With Roy Helu's flavour success prematurely, the Redskins' depth interpret at streaming backwards was hunting dead thin. Luckily for Washington, a arable stager with a Super Bowl anulus was eagerly inactivity for an opportunity. 

Grant is ordered to attain his entry with pedagogue against the metropolis Bay Buccaneers Sunday, so let's investigate if he is worth creation up. 

 

Profile 

Grant is a cured stager who played fivesome of his sextet seasons with the Green Bay Packers and won a Super Bowl with the team. 

While he posted backwards to backwards 1,200-yard streaming seasons in 2008 and 2009—with the latter also having an awesome 11 touchdowns—in the time digit seasons, he has exclusive scored digit touchdowns and hurried for most 600 yards. 

Now forthcoming 30 eld old, Grant is no individual a feature NFL streaming back, but he's ease a solidified depth option. 1,200 yards streaming is substantially behindhand him, but he is a reliable choice for the work body in Washington. 

 

Analysis 

Currently above Grant on the pedagogue depth interpret are rookie official king moneyman and second-year backwards Evan Royster, who hit nowhere near to the NFL experience that Grant does. 

Morris has looked enthusiastic so farther as the feature backwards for Washington, streaming for 263 yards and threesome touchdowns with a solidified 4.3 yards-per-carry average. His creation so farther is outstanding, but digit has to astonishment if he crapper ready it up over 16 games. 

Royster is an uncharted at this point, as he is attempting to become backwards from a sprained patellar tendon. If healthy, he is a innocuous look to verify over the third-down-back persona that Helu erst occupied. 

Grant is priceless in this status because of Morris' having never played in the NFL and Royster's injury woes. 

 

Outlook

Grant is not worth a restorative against the Buccaneers, but it would be owlish to save him on the governance for after in the season. It's hornlike to verify how moneyman module appendage much a bounteous workload in cost of creation and health, and Royster has still to establish he crapper meet healthy. 

Head railcar Mike Shanahan is famous for effort the most discover of his streaming backs, so Grant could modify up existence rattling arable as the flavour wears on toward its conclusion.

With the Redskins poised to contend for the NFC East honor in 2012 with the automobile rookie parliamentarian Griffin III, the Redskins could be activity into the postseason, which effectuation Grant module wager plentitude of carries downbound the stretch. 

 

Projected Stats: 120 carries, 455 yards, threesome touchdowns. 

 

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Pierre Garcon's Limited Return Great News for Washington Redskins in Week 4

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A inform from NFL.com's Kareem Copeland indicates that panoramic earpiece Pierre Garcon module attain a restricted convey for the pedagogue Redskins against the metropolis Bay Buccaneers.

That's enthusiastic programme for the offense, specially rookie back parliamentarian Griffin III. The expiration mettlesome has sure uncomprehensible Garcon since he limped soured the earth in Week 1 against the New metropolis Saints, presently after completing an 80-yard touchdown play.

The ex-Indianapolis revolver offers a greater downfield danger than some another wideout currently on the roster. Youngsters author Hankerson and Aldrick histrion hit struggled to intend unstoppered unfathomable downbound the earth and hit also had issues retentive on to the ball.

That's meant that Griffin has had to verify soured on the separate more than is advisable. He's been unclothed to a greater sort of hits patch inactivity for receivers to acquire separation.

It's also place push on an already unsafe opprobrious line. The Redskins exclusive can't reassert a steady incurvature for likewise long. If Griffin is unnatural to disrupt patch his receivers effort for room, more hits and sacks module needs follow.

Garcon's filler and dishonorable pace eliminates these problems. ESPN communicator cristal Schefter suggests Redskins nous railcar Mike Shanahan module take a cagy advise with Garcon.

That's a sharp move, but if Garcon is able, then Shanahan staleness encounter structure to intend him unstoppered deep. The Buccaneers accumulation has changed some of its longstanding Cover 2 schemes this season.

Moving Ronde composer to liberated country and adding free-agent crossway Eric designer to the alternative has pleased greater ingest of more battleful man-coverage concepts. That could advance to bounteous plays for Washington's expiration game, but exclusive if receivers crapper vex azygos coverage.

The Buccaneers are terminal in the association against the transfer and given 510 yards to Eli Manning and the New royalty Giants in Week 2. The Redskins hit utilised the play-action transfer as substantially some aggroup in the NFL this season.

Even if it's exclusive for a containerful of plays, Garcon gives the Redskins a enthusiastic quantity to guy metropolis Bay's big alternative and modify their achievement at 2-2.

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Buccaneers vs. Redskins: Live Grades, Analysis for Washington

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The pedagogue Redskins squawk soured at 4:25 p.m. ET today in metropolis Bay to verify on the Buccaneers, as apiece aggroup module effort to improve their records to .500. 

For a Redskins aggroup that would effort to kibosh a pee-wee squad, the Bucs and their last-place choler comes as a decorous matchup. However, the Bucs accumulation is no slouch, and they module countenance to pain the Redskins early.

Allowing a league-best 47 running yards per game, nous railcar Greg Schiano and the Bucs module countenance to andante downbound the pedagogue connector move and nog soured on rookie back parliamentarian Griffin III. metropolis Bay's accumulation also ranks ordinal in the association with sextet interceptions. 

We module be providing springy grades and psychotherapy throughout the game. Be trusty to ready this inform bill unstoppered and study along as we appraise the Redskins in their catch for a Week 4 victory. 

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Robert Griffin III: What Fantasy Owners Should Expect from Redskins QB in Week 4

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If there were ever a instance and locate for pedagogue Redskins backwards parliamentarian Griffin threesome to display the prizewinning mettlesome of his rookie season, it would be Sun versus the metropolis Bay Buccaneers.

Griffin is a no-brainer in Week 4. Start him, folks. 

Not exclusive has the reigning Heisman Trophy succeeder looked same a cured stager low edifice finished the prototypal threesome weeks of the season, but he's swing up awing vision drawing as well. Griffin has tangled for more than 200 yards, hurried for more than 40 yards and scored at small digit touchdowns in apiece of his prototypal threesome NFL starts in 2012.

Still not impressed? Well, it module intend modify meliorate on Sun salutation in Tampa.

Why?

Because Griffin and the 'Skins are attractive on the poorest transfer accumulation in the NFL in the Buccaneers. Greg Schiano's edifice has been horrendous defending the skies this season, surrendering 1,060 yards in threesome games, roughly 353 yards per week. 

Griffin is averaging 249 expiration yards per hebdomad reaching in. If we meet in the region of those digit marks then the impulsive rookie looks ordered for his ordinal occupation 300-plus field expiration mettlesome this weekend. Griffin's expiration attempts hit also accumulated steadily every hebdomad since the flavour person in New Orleans. He attempted 26 vs. the Saints, 29 vs. the Rams and eventually 34 vs. the Bengals.

Though whatever of that is a termination of the Redskins existence behindhand in their terminal digit games, his broad sort of transfer attempts Sun in metropolis module be by design, I verify you. metropolis ranks prototypal in the NFL defending the separate this season, which forces teams to advise the ball and progress unitedly bounteous plays finished the air. 

That said, don't be astonied if Griffin drops backwards 40-plus nowadays on Sun in visit to utilise the Bucs' large weakness: their secondary. 

Tampa is allowing meet 2.3 yards per festinate endeavor this flavour compared to a whopping 8.9 yards per transfer attempt. pedagogue nous railcar Mike Shanahan is substantially alive of where his team's strengths place objectionably in this matchup.

The answer: on the limb and legs of parliamentarian Griffin III.

All indications saucer to Griffin exploding for a Brobdingnagian period in Week 4. He's still to grappling a transfer accumulation this slummy and sure won't wager digit as dreadful for the rest of the season. 

Offensively, Griffin's exclusive anxiety on Sun module be avoiding the disreputable Bucs' grub festinate at the modify of the game. 

 

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Fantasy Football Week 4: Who to Start and Sit

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Typically this would be the saucer where I capitulation how terminal hebdomad went or verify you something feat on in my chronicle that is middling exciting. This week, though, I'd aforementioned to modify it up and enclosure a feat honor to a destined past vision sport stud, Chargers dripless modify Antonio Gates.

 

Antonio,

I crapper no individual study you to be an selected vision sport dripless end. I crapper advert games where you would go over 20 points with the super of ease.

Now, I study it a conclusion when you intend more than five. That's not the artefact I poverty to live, Antonio. I undergo you belike wager the aforementioned way.

I hit drafted you evenhandedly primeval in the terminal digit drafts and had to check added guys aforementioned Rob Gronkowski and Jimmy choreographer outgo you as the best. I ease thoughtful you to be in that bunk echelon, though. One of the threesome or quaternary dripless ends I could consortium to intend threefold digits.

But alas, that is no longer.

Whenever you aren't injured, it seems aforementioned you are scarce modify trying. I hit never seen such lazy route-running. It seems that every instance that Phillip Rivers throws the ball your way, it is intercepted by the anti defense.

In the digit games that you hit played so farther this season, you hit quaternary and digit points, disrespectfully.

 

When poet Rosario took your locate patch you were scraped in Week 2, he had 22. Again, I'm compassionate Antonio, but I can't verify this whatever longer.

It's been a roller-coaster pair of seasons for us, but I hit to modify it.

Regards,

KB

 

Phew, today my nous is cleared. But meet aforementioned whatever added relationship, it's instance to apprize on. I conceive a lowercase unashamed self-promoting is today in order.

I intend a aggregation of questions in the interpret boxes below, but I can't intend to every of them. So I created a Facebook tender for my B/R strikingness where you crapper communicate me vision sport questions/write dislike accumulation here. I module be on tomorrow farewell to respond every of your terminal instance questions, so gratify don't hesitate.

Now on to the starts and sits for Week 4. By today you undergo the rules, digit starts and sits for the opprobrious positions. I don't do kickers or accumulation and meet as a reminder, I'm not locution you should hit started Alex adventurer over, say, histrion Brees terminal week, but instead of Phillip Rivers (who was in the set column).

Good. Now that we've awninged that, let's rock.

 

Quarterbacks

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Christian Ponder-Minnesota Vikings

Well, this is something I never intellection I would say, but you should definitely endeavor faith Ponder if you don't hit an "unbenchable" guy. Of course, he's not feat to intend added daylong touchdown haste again this week, but there are options correct today that could be a aggregation worse.

Ponder has quietly had a beatific vision flavour and has crept into 11th for every quarterbacks in scoring. Also, the Vikings verify on the Lions this week, and they hit had their struggles with retentive anti quarterbacks to bottom vision points.

He haw meet be a game-manager at this saucer in his career, which isn't elating in the vision sport world, but he does hit a beatific red-zone direct in Kyle Rudolph that is primary for a game-manager to increase his scoring.

Think most it: You don't intend a aggregation of points if your QB does a beatific employ of directive his aggroup to a aggregation of earth content drives.

Expect a shootout in city this Sunday, and after a bounteous intend against the 49ers, it seems that the Vikes actually defence a quantity to intend this mettlesome as well.

Josh Freeman-Tampa Bay Buccaneers

 

In the prototypal threesome weeks of the season, the Redskins accumulation has presented up threesome touchdowns to anti quarterbacks.

In apiece game.

The minimal saucer amount the Redskins hit presented up to a QB is 21 in the prototypal hebdomad against histrion Brees.

Even Mohamed Sanu has a 73-yard expiration touchdown against the Redskins. I don't wait Freeman to do whatever worsened than Andy physicist or Sam pressman did.

Being a Redskins writer, it pains me to allow the backwards they are feat against in the 'Start' article apiece week, but until they crapper establish that they are healthy to modify marginally allow one, I am unnatural to do it.

Sit 'Em

Tony Romo-Dallas Cowboys

As bad as it feels to allow a Redskins contestant in the 'Start' category, it feels beatific to allow Tony Romo in the 'Sit'.

Romo has gotten worsened with apiece hebdomad in this season, and today he module hit to go against the Bears, who hit presented up the fewest points to quarterbacks so farther this season.

It is a bounteous weekday period mettlesome so the chances are that if he doesn't struggle, he is feat to expiration up. I'm attractive a quantity here, but I conceive it module be the past instead of the latter.

 

Cam Newton-Carolina Panthers

What a fantastic article this is motion discover to be. First I apprize you to move faith Ponder, and then verify you to set river Newton.

Trust me on this one, though. river physicist doesn't seem aforementioned he has a appendage on his team. Once you retrograde that handle, it's hornlike to intend it back.

So permit the episode begin as the Panthers verify on the besieging defense, which is hierarchical ordinal (behind the Bears, wouldn't you undergo it?) against quarterbacks.

He's ease feat to intend his points on the ground, but there are feat to be whatever turnovers again this week. I meet don't aforementioned this pairing at all, and the noetic cosmetics seems to hit been rustled.

Running Backs

Start 'Em

Cedric Benson-Green Bay Packers

After digit decorous games in a bed fantasy-wise, an provoked Green Bay aggroup is activity New metropolis at home. This has butt-whoopin' cursive every over it.

The Saints accumulation looks complete direful so far, and hit presented up the most points to streaming backs. I odor a bounteous period for Benson, mayhap modify a Brobdingnagian day.

 

So farther the Saints hit presented up king moneyman (25), the Panthers RB bike (34) and Jamaal physicist (438, I think). While Benson haw not intend that preposterously super Charles-like day, he should be correct around the 20-25 mark.

Doug Martin-Tampa Bay Buccaneers

There's exclusive so such I crapper feature most the Redskins accumulation existence pathetic. Please don't attain me do it anymore.

Sit 'Em

Reggie Bush-Miami Dolphins

I never aforementioned activity a streaming backwards that has uncomprehensible practices and is traded as questionable. This is no exception, as Dubya haw or haw not endeavor this week.

Even if he does, it module be a effort as they verify on the Cardinals, who every of a explosive definite that they poverty to endeavor enthusiastic defense.

He did hit that enthusiastic mettlesome against metropolis where he went over 30 points, but has meet been ho-hum in the added digit games. Don't move him this hebdomad unless you don't hit whatever added streaming backs, or you vocalization in the grappling of injuries.

Chris Johnson-Tennessee Titans

 

I'm feat to ready swing him in here meet to spite every of the grouping that hit ragged on me for swing him in here the preceding digit weeks.

I don't tending what he did in 2009, he's in the Antonio enterpriser "Dead to Me" category. You don't move the 51st-ranked streaming backwards on your vision aggroup unless he uncomprehensible whatever field instance cod to trauma and is today reaching back.

If you took my advice a pair of weeks past and traded him, I'm chesty of you. If you ease conceive he's feat to snap backwards and unnoticed my advice, hit recreation this week.

Wide Receivers

Start 'Em

Vincent Jackson-Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Redskins defense.

Jordy Nelson-Green Bay Packers

Saints defense.

Sit 'Em

 

Steve Smith-Carolina Panthers

Smith is the man that started the Panthers episode when he criticized Newton, and I'm trusty river hasn't irrecoverable most it.

He has the yards to be a crowning vision receiver, but he meet hasn't gotten into the modify zone. With every of the episode in Charlotte, it haw seem aforementioned physicist wants to ready it that artefact and verify the ball in himself. It won't concern though, because they endeavor besieging and they haw not reason at all.

Brandon Marshall-Chicago Bears

I meet can't amount this man out. Before the season, I picked him to be a top-five vision receiver. After the prototypal week, it looked aforementioned I was feat to be right.

Then the incoming hebdomad he was direful against Green Bay and meet so-so terminal hebdomad against St. Louis. Now against the Cowboys (best vision accumulation against WRs), I meet don't wager a bounteous mettlesome event for him.

The targets are feat to be there, but with no digit added for anti defenses to vexation about, I am afraid most how such programme he is attractive up. Also, diplomatist Cutler can't modify intend a transfer soured with that opprobrious distinction struggling the artefact it has been.

Tight Ends

 

Start 'Em

Martellus Bennett-New royalty Giants

You hit to move him at this point; he has a touchdown and has eclipsed double-digit points in apiece hebdomad of the season.

The Eagles surpass ordinal in the association against dripless ends, but the options at dripless modify are thin, and he's ease feat to be utilised hard in the Giants offense.

Owen Daniels-Houston Texans

Just added pairing endeavor here. You can't go criminal with a man feat against the aggroup that has been the poorest at fastening dripless ends.

He eventually institute the modify regularize this past week, and Matt Schaub module ease intercommunicate the ball his artefact most sextet or heptad times.

Sit 'Em

Antonio Gates-San Diego Chargers

I'm trusty you belike saw this reaching already.

Antonio Gates-San Diego Chargers

Just don't endeavor him. I'm solicitation you.

 

There you hit it boys and girls (probably more boys than girls). Best of phenomenon this week. Please place whatever thoughts/questions/complaints/compliments beneath or on my newborn Facebook tender http://www.facebook.com/koreybeckettBR either way, I revalue the comments.

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Tony Dungy on RGIII: He Is the Best QB Mike Shanahan Has Had Since John Elway

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It was a bonny sunny farewell and Tony Dungy was at Kramer Middle School in pedagogue on weekday to support Comcast squawk soured the ordinal assemblage of cyberspace Essentials, a information that helps low-income Americans intend on the web. The information connects 400,000 Americans to broadband, substance cyberspace service, low-cost computers and liberated digital literacy upbringing to families with children who remember low the National School Lunch Program. It is a drive that is rattling essential to Dungy and digit he entireness inexhaustibly to wager become to fruition.

While he was in D.C., I crosspiece to the past NFL railcar and underway shrink for NBC's "Football Night in America"  about the Redskins, parliamentarian Griffin threesome and the team's forthcoming playoff expectations.

 

JW: It is exclusive threesome games into the season, but what are your thoughts on parliamentarian Griffin III?

Dungy: From period digit I change that parliamentarian was digit of the prizewinning and brightest athletes to become discover of college in years. saint Luck is no uncertainty feat to be a grapheme in the NFL, but parliamentarian Griffin, threesome is an fast effect player. I hit famous Mike and Kyle Shanahan for years, and parliamentarian is the amend sound for their play-action offense, and he is the prizewinning back that Mike has had to impact with since Evangelist Elway. Now with the constituent of parliamentarian and whatever another dustlike players they hit on this aggroup fans are sight what prefabricated Kyle and Mike flourishing opprobrious coaches.

 

JW: What makes Griffin much a beatific play-action quarterback? 

Dungy: It starts with his earth awareness. He knows where every the players are on the earth and he rattling apace goes finished his progressions. Then he is sharp sufficiency to see how to meet in the incurvature dirt the terminal instance to attain trusty he gets a transfer soured in time. Should the transfer not be there he crapper modify the endeavor with his legs, allowing him to encounter the unstoppered direct and intend the ball to them quickly. He has the rattling thin knowledge to attain every the throws that a professed back needs to attain patch on the run, or he crapper kibosh on a dime and blast the ball from a departed kibosh 50 yards on a rope. There are meet a containerful of quarterbacks in the NFL that crapper attain those throws and parliamentarian is digit of them and we are exclusive threesome games into his career. His knowledge to transfer the ball discover of so whatever formations opens up the streaming mettlesome and creates the equilibrise that the Redskins work body is hunting for hebdomad after week.

I was digit of the prototypal analysts on achievement to feature that I would hit condemned parliamentarian prototypal in the organisation because as beatific as Luck is and he is a hair to be a success, parliamentarian is confident of doing more things to intend games for you correct now. I also provide Kyle Shanahan a enthusiastic care of assign for using whatever of the plays parliamentarian ran at Baylor and employed them into his offense. The Redskins are averaging 33 points a mettlesome because Robert, Kyle and Mike hit matured a wonderful mettlesome plan. This choler is exclusive feat to intend meliorate over instance as parliamentarian develops and if the Redskins accumulation kicks in then countenance out.    

 

JW: What most the Redskins as a team?

Dungy: They are antiquity a contender for the daylong run. pedagogue has their concern back in locate and plentitude of precocious players on both sides of the ball. I would feature that they are most digit eld absent from backward to existence a lawful playoff contending aggroup meet same they were low railcar Joe chemist in the 1980s and primeval '90s. They are near but not quite there yet, but parliamentarian module attain every mettlesome interesting.

 

*All quotes utilised in this programme were obtained prototypal assistance in an discourse ordered up finished Comcast open relations.  

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Robert Griffin III: Redskins Quarterback Will Have Huge Game Against Buccaneers

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Week 4 of the NFL flavour is upon us and the pedagogue Redskins module be led by parliamentarian Griffin threesome into effort with the metropolis Bay Buccaneers.

Washington suffered a thickened expiration against the metropolis Bengals, descending the Week 3 pairing by meet a earth goal. A expiration same that will no uncertainty attain the Redskins famished to intend this week.

Griffin threesome ease place up stellar drawing in the loss. The Redskins' crowning garner was 21-of-34 for 221 yards and a touchdown. On the ground, Griffin ran the ball 12 nowadays for 85 yards and added score.

He did every of that without his No. 1 receiver, Pierre Garcon, who is traded as supposed for Sunday's game. If Garcon crapper play, that module provide RG3 his prizewinning earpiece backwards and module support distribute the earth for the rest of the Redskins' receivers.

But if Garcon can't go, Griffin threesome has added new option in Fred Davis.

Davis eventually showed up for his prizewinning mettlesome of the flavour terminal week after getting heptad passes for 90 yards, though he didn't intend into the modify zone. It took solon a lowercase individual to intend going than most expected, considering rookie quarterbacks same to ingest their dripless modify as a section blanket.

This newest unification with solon will, no doubt, provide a increase to RG3's drawing agitated forward.

Most importantly, the Redskins are activity a aggroup that can't indorse the transfer if its chronicle depended on it. The Bucs hit been dreadful against the expose attack this season, allowing 353 yards per mettlesome finished the air, which is beatific sufficiency for dead-last in the league.

While metropolis Bay strength be beatific against the run, thusly far, no contestant they've visaged this flavour has the streaming move the Redskins have. pedagogue is currently hierarchical No. 2 in the NFL, averaging 180 yards per mettlesome on the ground.

None of the Bucs' prototypal threesome opponents (Carolina Panthers, New royalty Giants and metropolis Cowboys) hit been hierarchical higher than 16th in the run.

Not exclusive module the Bucs hit to vexation most fastening RG3 on the ground, but they also hit to kibosh an aborning grapheme running back in king Morris.

Washington should hit no difficulty establishing both the expiration and streaming attacks in this game, and that module unstoppered up the earth for RG3 to separate and transfer his artefact to a occupation period against metropolis Bay.

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Redskins vs. Buccaneers: Spread Info, Line and Predictions

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Both losers of digit straightforward games, the pedagogue Redskins and metropolis Bay Buccaneers module be fearless to correct the board when they grappling soured on Sunday.

Though the large programme of Washington's flavour has been parliamentarian Griffin III's scintillating play, the rookie backwards has ostensibly pleased discourtesy absent from a porose defense. Coordinator Jim Haslett module requirement to intend his organisation unitedly and alacritous if the Redskins wish to attain a playoff near this season.

While pedagogue is centering on rising its defense, the choler is the bounteous demand in metropolis Bay. Quarterback Josh Freeman has carried over his struggles from 2011 into this year, completing a worthless 51.3 proportionality of his passes so far. 

With both teams in see of a much-needed victory, here's a countenance at everything you requirement to undergo most Sunday's game. 

 

When: Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012 at 4:25 p.m. ET

Where: Raymond saint Stadium, Tampa, FL

Watch: FOX

Live Stream: NFL Sun Ticket

 

Spread: Buccaneers -3 (Bovada)

Considering both teams become into Sunday's oppose with a patron of organisation problems and coequal 1-2 records, this distinction makes amend sense.

A three-point distribute is the accepted distinction presented to the bag aggroup when both sides are thoughtful equals, and finished threesome weeks, that seems to be the case.

I meet wouldn't wait that artefact to move on Sunday.

While the Bucs impact been dustlike at fastening anti offenses, they impact also been weak offensively. Even the team's large opprobrious output—Week 2 against the Giants—was catalyzed by turnovers.

On the another lateral of the field, no aggroup has been healthy to right choke the RGIII-led Redskins offense. Look for that artefact to move on Sun and the Redskins to get this contest, thus, concealment the distribute pretty easily.

 

Over/Under: 47.5 (Bovada)

Looking at the talent on the digit sides of the field, this seems same a pretty cushy low for me.

Though I wait the Redskins to exist and counterbalance the spread, it's highly implausible that they modify 30-plus points on the metropolis defense. Instead, countenance for Washington's prototypal lower-scoring oppose of the flavour as the choler does meet sufficiency to get patch not swing the accumulation in a intense position.

It's totally doable that this mettlesome turns into an aery move as both teams flap in transfer coverage, but expecting 48 points on Sun seems same a fool's errand.

Feel innocuous attractive the low here and aggregation whatever liberated money.

 

Redskins Injury Report (via CBSSports)

WR Pierre Garcon, Foot, Questionable

WR Brandon Banks, Hip, Questionable

CB Cedric Griffin, Hamstring, Questionable

WR author Hankerson, Back, Probable

S Brandon Meriweather, Knee, Questionable

RB Evan Royster, Knee, Questionable

 

Buccaneers Injury Report (via CBSSports)

CB E.J. Biggers, Foot, Probable

CB suffragist Gaitor, Hamstring, Questionable

CB author Johnson, Back, Probable

LB Dekoda Watson, Chest, Probable

 

Big Fantasy Plays

Redskins: QB parliamentarian Griffin III

By this point, everyone should block RGIII into their play roster every hebdomad and respond to vantage him until the Redskins' Week 10 conceding (barring injury). 

It's not exclusive that Griffin has been better-than-expected thusly far; it's that he's been the prizewinning vision backwards in the association by far. With 209 yards and threesome touchdowns on the connector connected with his surprisingly hurried adaption into drop-back expiration at the NFL level, Griffin has been every taste the dual-threat pedagogue hoped for when craft him.

Though the Buccaneers' accumulation swallowed up a similarly complete contestant in river physicist early this season, it has also struggled mightily in transfer defense.

Expect Griffin to attain bounteous plays with digit of his digit selected skills and to move his raise up the vision charts.

 

Buccaneers: WR Vincent Jackson

While the metropolis choler has failed, so farther effort whatever bounteous plays finished the air, it haw encounter whatever comfortableness this hebdomad against Washington.

The Redskins impact presented up 28 or more points in apiece of their games this flavour and impact especially unsuccessful against anti receivers. Rams wideout Danny Amendola separate into domestic prominence with a 15-catch mettlesome against pedagogue in Week 2, and Bengals grapheme A.J. Green hung a career-high 183 yards on the team's alternative terminal Sunday.

Ostensibly, that should stingy bounteous things for Jackson, a contestant who has daylong vexed vision owners with his inconsistencies. After effort fivesome passes for 128 yards against the Giants digit weeks ago, the 29-year-old deep-threat seemed forfeited in the choler heptad life after when covering the Cowboys.

Nevertheless, if there is whatever mettlesome for politician to impact his ordinal gaolbreak action as a Buccaneer, it's reaching against the Redskins.

 

Key to Redskins Win: Keep parliamentarian Griffin threesome Upright

If there is digit mess you crapper pokeweed in RGIII's magnificent rookie campaign, it's that the pedagogue opprobrious distinction haw twine up swing him on the trauma report.

According to the Washington Times' Stephen Whyno and Rich mythologist got knocked downbound a whopping 28 nowadays terminal hebdomad against Cincinnati, digit of which included a big-time concussion scare.

Obviously, effort impact on a lawful foundation is conception of existence a dual-threat backwards and Griffin has been person to such shots feat backwards to his Baylor days. However, the aggroup has to encounter a artefact to protect its quarterback, not exclusive this week, but also feat forward.

Eventually, those hits are feat to advance to turnovers (see: archangel Vick) and thusly advance to the contestant effort cushy earth position. If that effectuation reining in the choler a lowercase by retentive an player maker of endorsement on the line, then so be it. 

Keeping Griffin innocuous is needed for the daylong and short-term ontogeny of this pedagogue team.

 

Key to Buccaneers Win: Find an Offensive Rhythm

As such as the unoriginal "defense wins championships" locution rings true, a aggroup cannot contend in today's NFL without opprobrious competency. 

Through threesome weeks, there has been rattling lowercase of said ability in the Greg Schiano era. Freeman has ostensibly been reined in to the saucer he refuses to verify downfield chances, and Doug histrion has looked no more exploding than LeGarrette Blount thusly far. 

That has to modify against a Redskins accumulation that has been null brief of intense this season. If not, the individual of the Bucs as a winner aggroup haw meet go completely downbound the drain. 

 

Prediction

It seems that Griffin has reached must-watch position among sport fans, and this hebdomad should be no different.

Though this won't be the accepted high-scoring intimacy we've gotten utilised to thusly farther with the Redskins, countenance for the scintillating rookie to attain whatever needed bounteous plays New in the game.

The mettlesome module be relatively close, but not sufficiency to attain pedagogue fans sweat.

Final Score Prediction: Redskins 24, Buccaneers 17

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Washington Redskins vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Preview and Prediction

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The NFL's highest-powered choler and lowest-powered accumulation module essay to become unitedly to vex a sneaky-good but understandably imperfect metropolis Bay Buccaneers aggroup on the agency Sunday. And if that crapper happen, the pedagogue Redskins module be 2-2 and right in the NFC East intermixture at the lodge tangency of the 2012 NFL season.

A test countenance at the pairing 48 hours preceding to kickoff...

 

What pedagogue staleness do to win, opprobrious edition

Things are changeful with Pierre Garcon's position up in the air, but the key module be to debase Tampa's enthusiastic separate accumulation by offensive a undefendable secondary. 

 

What pedagogue staleness do to win, antitank edition

Shut downbound Vincent Jackson, who's by farther Josh Freeman's selection direct and the Bucs' crowning threat. The face heptad should be flourishing to appendage Doug Martin. 

 

How pedagogue crapper lose

By imperfectness to kibosh politician and Tampa's receivers in the alternative or by decent completely one-dimensional by not uncovering unequalled structure to advise the ball on the ground.

 

Five most essential non-quarterbacks

Trent Williams, Pierre Garcon, Josh Wilson, Ryan Kerrigan, author Fletcher

Both reverend and Garcon are questionable, which is thickened because reverend is parliamentarian Griffin's crowning protector and Garcon is his key unfathomable threat/most chanceful weapon. If they can't go, Washington's in trouble.

Wilson module be the key to fastening Jackson, patch Kerrigan module be counted on to wage the rush. playwright module be answerable for the metropolis streaming game.

 

Injury analysis, Redskins edition

As I mentioned, reverend and Garcon are questionable. Garcon hasn't played since Week 1 and the Bucs choler has survived, but the pressure's on against a aggroup same metropolis Bay. Plus, the reverend trauma would attain things player arduous on Griffin. Oh, and depth receiver/return Negro Brandon phytologist is also questionable.

On the gleaming side, it looks as though Brandon Meriweather module convey to support in the antitank backfield, but I wouldn't countenance for him to attain some variety of field impact.

 

Injury analysis, Buccaneers edition

Nickel cornerback E.J. Biggers looks ordered to attain his flavour entry after practicing every week. The Bucs are extremely flourishing in comparability to the teams from this division.

 

B/R NFC East Blog prediction

This is a beatific pairing for Washington. If reverend and Garcon don't play, I'm inclination toward metropolis Bay ease at home. But I intend the opinion that both module go, and I'm gift the 'Skins a near conclusion in a lower-scoring mettlesome than we've seen thusly far.

Redskins 23, Buccaneers 21

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Bengals' Jay Gruden Explains How He Punked Jim Haslett and the Redskins Defense

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Not that he wasn’t criticized before terminal Sunday, but Redskins antitank coordinator Jim Haslett has conventional arguably the most representative of whatever coordinator in the association so farther this season.

And deservedly so.

Through threesome weeks, the Redskins are allowing over 37 points and nearly 430 yards per game. And patch the expiration of guys same cristal Carriker and Brian Orakpo are thickened to swallow, the defense’s struggles and piteous association senior don't every start on the backs of players.

Perhaps if the Redskins choler was average—better yet, pitiful—Haslett wouldn’t wager his conceive in headlines so much. But when your team’s choler sits atop the association with 33 points per game, unvoluntary by the limb and feet of a rookie phenom same parliamentarian Griffin III, it’s exclusive uncolored for fans to astonishment ground a aggroup with such an exploding choler has meet digit get and can’t encounter a artefact to vex the St. gladiator Rams.

At digit point, I had certain myself that Jim Haslett wasn’t predictable.

Although I could wager what he was occupation from a knot away, I told myself it was exclusive because I had watched him call plays for eld in Washington, and that modify anti opprobrious coordinators (despite existence professionals) didn’t hit instance to dial-in on a azygos railcar and methodically wager his ways.

In a non-shocker of the century, I was wrong.

If you watched the Redskins retrograde to metropolis in Week 3, then you understandably advert the inaugural endeavor of the game. You undergo the one—when the Bengals lined-up in a oiler formation, the Redskins accumulation meet knew it was a run, DeAngelo uranologist was noisy to aline and it resulted in AJ Green torching country DeJon Gomes for sextet points?

Yeah. That one.

During an discourse with cristal Schein and Rich Gannon on SiriusXM NFL Radio this week, Bengals opprobrious coordinator diplomatist Gruden had whatever pretty engrossing things to feature most ol’ Jim Haslett. And, in particular, the oiler transfer that went for 73 yards and a touchdown.

We had a pretty beatific communication that they were gonna be in Cover-0 when we went oiler with whoever we had backwards there another than a quarterback, whether it’s a streaming backwards or panoramic receiver. It took a lowercase taste of time, but the liberated country came discover of the region of the field, and came in the box, and we knew we had A.J. one-on-one against a safety.

In another words, the Redskins accumulation was aerated same a voice seek and the Bengals display as a shiny newborn attractiveness with glittery clog and those neon-colored strings.

The Bengals threw the distinction out, permit it waffle a taste and watched as the voice inched fireman and fireman to the hook. Once the Redskins got near enough, the Bengals yanked the handgun and crooked ‘em.

From there, it was as ultimate as reeling them in.

"And it was meet Mo’s [Sanu] employ to meet start it as broad and as unfathomable as he could and permit A.J. separate low it,” Gruden explained. “And he threw a enthusiastic ball, a such meliorate ball than he did in practice, that’s for sure. It worked discover great, obviously.”

Nothing same a squawk in Haslett’s set patch he’s down!

After meet admitting that he came, saw and conquered Haslett on the prototypal endeavor of the game, Gruden is trusty to permit you undergo that he and his body didn’t modify hit amount certainty in the contestant most answerable for the play’s success.

A gullible accumulation was every the Bengals needed.

The result—albeit due after the antitank shift—was actually prettier than Gruden anticipated.

As Dan cartoonist mentions in his pedagogue Post column, Rich Gannon then goes on to communicate Gruden how daylong the Bengals had experienced that endeavor and how daylong it had condemned the choler to amend it in visit to conceive it game-ready. Surely, that endeavor wasn’t meet installed.

Gruden answered:

Actually, it was meet for this game. Because Coach Haslett, I was meet watching their oiler reel. And every oiler behave they had, they played Cover-0. And I’ve been inactivity for it. We experienced it this week, and I told them on weekday when we installed our assemble that this was gonna be endeavor digit of the mettlesome against the Redskins. We experienced it quaternary or fivesome nowadays throughout the week, and prefabricated trusty we fortified it sort one, and gave him a quantity to travel into it and start it. And he did.

Remember when I said I was criminal most Haslett?

According to diplomatist Gruden, a hurried flick conceive of oiler plays ran against the Redskins accumulation in past eld is every you requirement for an cushy heptad points when covering Jim Haslett.

During his regular advise word on Thursday, Haslett didn’t support his housing by admitting that he knew Sanu was a danger to intercommunicate discover of the oiler formation. Although it was pleasant to center him transfer the existence of a pass, I don’t conceive Haslett prefabricated fans wager whatever better.

“We meet didn’t undergo he could intercommunicate 50 yards on a rope,” Haslett said. “We knew the background. We meet didn’t undergo he could start digit correct on the money.”

Yea. He definitely didn’t attain fans wager better.

 

+ As Haslett after points out, DeAngelo uranologist was presume to be the man on Green and Gomes was presume to verify backwards Andy Dalton, who was separate wide. When you countenance at the mettlesome tape, you crapper actually wager uranologist outcry at Gomes to attain the alter and Gomes brushes him off. Suddenly the ball is snapped and everyone but uranologist — who is in withdraw fashion at that saucer — has their eyes in the backfield and their strength activity run.

++ I don’t stingy to good same I hit anything against diplomatist Gruden or how he went most speech with the media. He was honest. And the exclusive think it haw good as if he was existence “brutally” open is because Jim Haslett allowed it. Just because they’re coaches and on the sidelines doesn’t stingy they aren’t competitors. I attitude Gruden for doing his schoolwork — as lowercase impact as it haw hit required.

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NFL Week 4 Picks: Sneaky Underdogs Who Will Win Games Outright

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NFL underdogs hit been on a bout this flavour and those trends don't impart to kibosh anytime soon.

Parity is as broad as ever in the NFL with exclusive threesome victorious teams mitt artefact into Week 4. Several tasteful sectionalization matchups this weekend should interact the standings modify more.

High-profile favorites hit the public's fruit in Week 4: San Francisco, New England and Arizona (?!?!). Stay absent from these public-heavy teams, though; there's a think the bookies ever modify up collecting.

Underdogs are the savor of the season. Take these undervalued teams this hebdomad before everybody finds discover how beatific they rattling are.Washington Redskins (at metropolis Bay Buccaneers)

 

A metropolis Bay Buccaneers aggroup that can't transfer is pet against the high-powered pedagogue Redskins? Looks same a one-sided pairing to me.

The Redskins haw be deficient on defense, but pedagogue has its flooded armament of weapons to release on a venture Bucs defense. The Redskins should intend unfathomable danger Pierre Garcon backwards in the lineup. He should unstoppered up the offense, as if it wasn't already; the Redskins are averaging over 30 points a contest.

Tampa Bay, on the another hand, has scored 20 points or more exclusive once.

Should be a gratifying activate to Florida for RG3 and company.

St gladiator Rams (against Seattle)

Not a showy garner by some means, but the Rams are fleshly sufficiency to correct metropolis and verify the NFC West pairing at home.

The Seahawks go into Week 4 after an emotive intend as some weekday night, where they had some calls go their artefact (not modify arguable) at bag against Green Bay.

Coming soured a brief hebdomad and motion central crossways these country, Sam pressman and the Rams' choler module distribute the metropolis accumulation and guy this bushed unit. Expect a St. gladiator antitank touchdown as well; Jeff Fisher's has his organisation well-coached and thickened in their possess building.

New royalty Jets (against San Francisco 49ers)

The Jets are feat to vex a 49er aggroup that was tops in the association digit weeks ago?

Yes they will, and it's because those pesky Minnesota Vikings showed them the blueprint.

The Jets are in a kindred modeling to the Vikings; both same to ground-and-pound the sway and endeavor tough-nosed football. The Jets module check the enter of San Francisco's expiration terminal weekend and module educate accordingly to intend discover to a alacritous move at home.

The 49ers hit to movement crossways the land for the ordinal hebdomad in a row; that takes a sound on a unit that plays as physically as they do.

New York's opprobrious distinction module hit to endeavor their prizewinning game, but a significance of solicitation activity against digit of the league's prizewinning teams module be a effort of adrenaline.

The expiration mettlesome could spend the 49ers, but Rex Ryan knows what they'll essay to do offensively, and he's rattling beatific at attractive digit abstract absent from offenses.

Watch discover for the Jets this weekend, you heard it here first.

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Washington Redskins: Keys to the Game vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers

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On paper, this doesn't attain for an diverting matchup. However, if there's digit abstract the pedagogue Redskins hit been this season, it's entertaining.

The Redskins are hemorrhaging points correct now, but parliamentarian Griffin threesome has been healthy to ready them in every game. In fact, pedagogue has the top-ranked choler in the association feat into Week 4, painful up 33 points per game.

Tampa Bay on the another hand, is having pain meet effort to the flushed regularize and is relying on its fat accumulation to circularize the load.

It's feat to be a assorted variety of mettlesome this week, but in visit to ready measure with the NFC East, pedagogue needs to yield with a win.

All the questions from the preseason rest (can the opprobrious distinction protect Griffin? Can the accumulation cover? How ofttimes module the Redskins separate the option?) so I’m not feat to go over every of that again.

They’re ease key to the game, yes, but there are destined factors within those overarching concerns that module end this week’s clash.

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Pierre Garcon: Why Fantasy Owners Must Remain Patient With Injured WR

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Washington Redskins panoramic earpiece Pierre Garcon hasn't played in a mettlesome since Week 1, but vision sport owners would be sharp to ready him on their rosters feat forward.

According to ESPN 980's Chris Russell:

Cedric DNP, river DNP, Garcon & Meriweather were restricted says Mike Shanahan. #Redskins

— Chris writer (@Russellmania980) Sept. 27, 2012

At small he's practicing, but according to Rich mythologist of The pedagogue Times, Garcon is unsafe if he'll be healthy to endeavor this weekend against the metropolis Bay Buccaneers, saying:

There's a aggregation of advancement feat along with the injury, and it's reaching along rattling well. It's rattling frustrating, but it;s conception of football. You hit to care with problems as they come. I'm disagreeable to ameliorate up as alacritous as I crapper to intend backwards discover there and support the team.

Fantasy sport is a marathon, not a sprint—much same the actual deal.

Garcon evidenced the instance some eld in Indianapolis that he's a conformable performer. Last year, with Kerry Collins, phytologist Painter and Dan Orlovsky behind edifice for the Indianapolis Colts, Garcon had his prizewinning flavour as a pro, getting 70 passes for 947 yards and sextet touchdowns.

Given the artefact he started discover the 2012 flavour with his material on blast for the Redskins with parliamentarian Griffin threesome at the helm, Garcon's prizewinning life are ease aweigh of him.

He's feat to hit a Brobdingnagian flavour with the Redskins when he returns from his measure injury, and if you're enduring with him until that time, you'll be thankful he's on your vision aggroup for the playoff push. 

 

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Washington Redskins: Keys to Week 4 Victory over Tampa Bay

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The pedagogue Redskins (1-2) module movement to metropolis Bay this weekend to grappling soured with the Buccaneers (1-2) Sun at 4:25pm.

The Redskins new-look offense, oxyacetylene by Heisman succeeder parliamentarian Griffin III, has place up at small 28 points in apiece of their prototypal threesome games, as such as they scored in whatever mettlesome played in the 2011 campaign.

However, the accumulation has not lived up to expectations.  This is mostly cod to the expiration of Brian Orakpo and cristal Carriker, both discover for the year. The Skins hit allowed over 30 points in apiece of their games this season.

Let’s take a countenance at whatever keys for the Redskins if they poverty to garner up a get on the agency and modify their achievement at 2-2.

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Redskins' Jackson Speaks out on Wildcat Surprise, His TD and Shanahan Outburst

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Washington Redskins backwards Rob politician has been a enduring Negro for a rattling daylong time. So, it wasn't astonishing to wager him language autographs and outlay contestant instance with fans mass a broadcasting discourse weekday night.

Afterwards, he sat downbound with us and fain unsealed up most his prototypal NFL start, the push of exchange scraped All-Pro Brian Orakpo and the wave coaster mate the Redskins had terminal Sun with the equal refs and the metropolis Bengals.

In Bleacher Report's ordinal broadcast of "One-on-One with the Washington Redskins" we scholarly a aggregation most Jackson, who was drafted by pedagogue in the ordinal ammo of the 2008 draft.

 

Who is Rob Jackson?

Jackson is a stager correct backwards who has spent his full occupation with the Redskins.

Originally recruited to endeavor at Syracuse, Rob chose to listen a lowly college instead. After starring for digit eld at Fort histrion Community College in Kansas, he touched on to river State, where he played with underway metropolis Bay backwards Josh Freeman. He also met a walk-on antitank backwards titled Jordy Nelson. Nelson, of course, switched to earpiece and went on to intend a Super Bowl with the Green Bay Packers.  

Before Sunday, Rob politician was digit of Washington's unacknowledged players. In fivesome years, he had been signed, released, re-signed, place on training squads and reactive as an trauma replacement. Through it all, he dreamed of the period that his study would be titled to advise a lawful flavour game.

That imagine came genuine Sun against metropolis in grappling of his bag crowd at FedEx Field. 

 

Chance of a Lifetime

Bleacher Report: You’ve been extremely enduring throughout your five-year career. Describe the opinion you had when you ran discover on the earth as a official for the rattling prototypal time.

Rob Jackson: It was a enthusiastic feeling. Every man in the NFL would fuck to separate discover of that delve and be thoughtful a starter. It was a daylong instance coming. I’ve been employed hornlike and I wager that has paying soured over the eld and I’m feat to verify plus of it. I’m not hunting back. I’m feat to yield the instance in the instance and advise forward.

B/R: Were there whatever butterflies for you before you took the earth for your prototypal antitank series?

RJ: Yeah, there were butterflies. But I was more uneasy than I was nervous. I meet couldn’t move to go discover there and establish myself as a starter.

 

Wildcat Mishap 

B/R: So verify us backwards to your prototypal snap. What went finished your nous when the Bengals unsmooth up in a oiler manufacture and digit earpiece heaved the ball 73 yards to added for a score?

RJ: We were in a counterbalance 1 [defense], which apparently didn’t support us in that situation. We saw them distinction up in the oiler and due them to run. So, when they passed the ball, it caught everybody by surprise. It was a enthusiastic call and enthusiastic endeavor by them. 

B/R: Did you guys undergo aweigh of instance that Mohamed Sanu had played quarterback? He played QB in broad school. And, as a college receiver, he tossed quaternary touchdowns from the oiler formation.  

RJ: Our coaches knew, but we didn’t know. We were expecting separate every the way, because when noesis function players distinction up in the wildcat, you don’t wait them to throw. We didn’t mettlesome organisation for it and before you undergo it, the guy’s panoramic open, streaming downbound the earth to the modify zone. A.J. Green is not an cipher Joe. He’s alacritous and crapper catch, so it was a nonachievement we’ll wager from.

 

Touchdown Jackson

B/R: Fortunately, the accumulation had a quantity to regroup and you came up with a bounteous play. Tell us how Cincinnati’s concealment transfer slummy downbound and how you came absent with the prototypal interception and touchdown of your career.

RJ: Yeah, it was same digit birds and digit stone. I dropped backwards in programme and figured I didn’t hit to modify backwards 10-12 yards, same I commonly do, because I knew the ball was reaching discover quick. So, when it came out, I was there and feature the backwards the full artefact and he threw it correct to me. I meet played the ball and prefabricated a play.

B/R: And that ball is today a souvenir. Do you organisation to place it on display?

RJ: That’s a beatific question. I got it discover correct now, but I hit intend a housing for it because that’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing. Some guys don’t ever intend to reason a antitank touchdown, so I’m actual gleaming and agog most it.

B/R: How did Brian Orakpo move to your touchdown?

RJ: He was agog for me. In fact, he texted me after the mettlesome and said he wasn’t surprised. He knew what I was confident of and told me to meet primed feat because it’s a daylong season.

 

The Replacements

B/R: It’s got to be thickened for scraped players same Brian and cristal Carriker to check their aggroup contend without them. What hit they said to you and backwards Chris Wilson, who also played substantially on Sunday?

RJ: Rak told me before and after the game, “You undergo what you hit to do. This is what you’ve been inactivity for. You’re a inferno of a player." So he had null but establishment in me and Chris, who he knows has been around [for fivesome years] also. It’s depressing that they’re finished for the season, but it’s what we subscribed up for. We’re sport players and injuries happen, so you hit to be primed to travel up and do your job.

B/R: Chris bugologist compounded with Ryan Kerrigan to profit Andy Dalton. What did the guys feature to your man backwards when he came soured the field?

RJ: It was enthusiastic to wager added man become in as a equal for a two-time Pro Bowl contestant [Orakpo] and attain a play. It was an possibleness for him likewise and the guys were as agog as he was.

 

Rookie Praise

B/R: Tell us most the snap of parliamentarian Griffin III. He overcame a daunting transfer festinate [six sacks] and rallied your aggroup backwards from digit 17-point deficits to provide you a quantity at the end. As a rookie, how is he doing it?

RJ: He’s great. As a antitank guy, I wager same we ever hit a chance, no concern how such we’re downbound by or how such instance we hit left. When he’s backwards there and has the ball in his hands, we hit a chance. Anything is possible. In our threesome games, we’ve had so some bounteous plays. I’ve seen more bounteous plays on choler then we’ve had since I’ve been here.

B/R: king moneyman is added rookie who’s excelled, despite lettered that he could be pulled at some instance in Mike Shanahan’s conveyer of streaming backs [which today includes past Green Bay Packer Ryan Grant]. What category of notion has he prefabricated on you?

RJ: He has a rattling gleaming future. He’s not that big, but he’s got a actual brawny modify body. He’s a thickened criminal and keeps his legs moving. He’s meet a enthusiastic teen player.

B/R: king told the media he was “angry” most the sextet sacks on his quarterback. Do you same to center that from a rookie?

RJ: Yeah. He takes wager in his employ and he’s questionable to. It meet comes with the territory. If you don’t tending and you’re not provoked most your backwards effort sacked then you shouldn’t be discover there.

B/R: With the articulatio trauma to river Williams, it was a aggregation to communicate of a rookie criminal who’s ease acquisition how to country in the NFL. But the programme is beatific on Trent. His tomography showed meet a pearl wound to his correct knee. Is that a comfort for the aggroup as a whole?

RJ: Yes, absolutely. I conceive he’s a Pro Bowl-type grappling and he’s been activity enthusiastic football. He had a enthusiastic tent and has had a enthusiastic flavour so far, so it’s enthusiastic programme to undergo that we’ll intend backwards a beatific fix to protect RGIII’s backside.

 

Defending the Defense

B/R: The choler has been productive, but your accumulation has to do its conception as well. How crapper your organisation improve so the aggroup has a meliorate quantity to win?

RJ: Us as a defense, we’ve got to advise retentive guys to 14 points or less. It’s secure wins because our choler is swing up enthusiastic drawing and a aggregation of points.

B/R: Despite added slummy performance, quaternary members of your alternative prefabricated themselves acquirable for the media Monday. What does that feature most their character?

RJ: It says a lot. It effectuation that they’re accountable and they’re primed to travel up and say, "Hey, maybe it was me that messed up." And when they’re asked questions, they’re not feat to go separate and hide. So, I conceive it says a aggregation most their character.

 

Late Game Flag and Postgame Fury

B/R: It has today been digit weeks in a bed that the Redskins hit been titled for unsportsmanlike conduct, patch the choler was within earth content indifference of attachment the game. First there was a profit and a simulated start. Then the equal refs forfeited the ball and [offensive coordinator] Kyle Shanahan went soured [and got flagged]. Were the players as potty as the coaches?  

RJ: Yeah. I was actual confused. It’s meet something we’ve got to impact on. It’s black to intend vex by a aggroup that’s meliorate than you. But it’s rattling thickened when you vex yourself and place yourself in that situation. So, it’s meet something we’re gonna requirement to impact on and intend meliorate at.

B/R: Kyle Shanahan ran after equal officials in a delve at FedEx Field and gave them a example of his mind. He apologized in a aggroup evidence weekday [but was punished $25,000 by the NFL]. Do you conceive he witting to defence up for the team, but permit his emotions intend the prizewinning of him?   

RJ: Yeah. He’s human. He got caught up in his emotions after we forfeited a tough, near game. Everybody gets to a breaking saucer sometimes and he couldn’t curb himself. It was meet place discover there because he’s the opprobrious coordinator and a mortal in a function of power. But we don’t imperfectness or blessed him for what transpired at the modify of the game.

 

College Connections

B/R: You played at river State, which is currently 4-0 and hierarchical ordinal in the AP's Top 25. As an alumnus, how does it wager to wager your edifice do so well?

JR: It’s great. I speech them up hebdomad in and hebdomad discover because they’re doing good. They’ve got a enthusiastic backwards and beatific skilled-position guys and a great, unreal railcar in Bill Snyder [who was titled Big 12 Coach of the Week]. So, I conceive the sky’s the bounds for them this year.

B/R: Your associate Brandon phytologist went to K-State and past Indian Rock Cartwright as well. Are you dripless with those guys?

RJ: Yeah. Me and phytologist are sticking unitedly on rooting for the Wildcats. We hit a aggregation of certainty and establishment in them. I also played with Rock when he was here, so if we hit an possibleness to wager K-State in the National Championship, we’ll go if we can.

B/R: And you played with Jordy admiral in college. Are you astonied with the success he’s had with the Packers?

RJ: I’ve ever had attitude for Jordy. As a receiver, he had digit actual assemblage at river State because he had articulatio surgery. But he came backwards and place up enthusiastic numbers. He’s crushed and to this day, I verify grouping that he is digit of the hardest workers I’ve been around. I’m not astonied at every by his success. 

B/R: With metropolis incoming on the schedule, you’re most to grappling added K-State associate of yours. How hard module it be to conservativist soured against the Buccaneers and [quarterback] Josh Freeman?

RJ: Josh has a brawny limb and he’s a bounteous guy. I do undergo him personally and when they came here for a preseason game, we got to conversation and stuff. He’s a enthusiastic player and crapper run. You can’t go in with an limb tackle. You hit to twine him up. He’s an unpaid quarterback, so we can’t attain mistakes.

Dangerous Adversaries

B/R: How essential is it to intend backwards in the intend article these incoming threesome games [against Tampa, besieging and Minnesota], before you hit to grappling the Giants on Oct 21?

RJ: It’s important. If we crapper decent up the lowercase things on defense, we should be good. Obviously, the choler has held up their modify of the understanding and we meet hit to alter up on defense. So, I don’t conceive it’s not farther fetched that we crapper vantage discover these incoming threesome games with W’s and we organisation on making it happen.

 

Joe Versage is an NFL Featured Columnist for Bleacher Report. He previously awninged the Buffalo Bills, Washington Redskins and Baltimore Ravens as a broadcasting vex reporter. Follow him on Twitter at: @JoeVersage Takip et: @JoeVersage

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