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RedskinsGameday By Jason Reid

1 REDSKINS (3-1) at EAGLES (2-2) 1 P.M. AT | TV: WTTG-5 | Radio: WWXT (92.7 FM), WWXX (94.3 FM), WGRQ (95.9 FM), WSMD (98.3 FM), WWEG (106.9 FM), WTEM (980 AM), WNAV (1430 AM); Spanish WXTR (730 AM) | Line: Eagles by 6 ⁄2

REDSKINS ROSTER FIRST DOWN SECOND DOWN THIRD DOWN FOURTH DOWN EAGLES ROSTER No. Player Pos. Ht. Wt. Ball Security Control the Clock More Moss Waiting on Westbrook No. Player Pos. Ht. Wt. 5 QB 6-3 201 Fourth-year QB has The Redskins, who have five WR Santana Moss, slowed because of The Redskins will catch a major break 2 PK 5-10 200 6 Shaun Suisham PK 6-0 197 played at the highest level of his and two numerous injuries the previous two if Eagles RB doesn’t 4 QB 6-3 218 11 WR 6-2 218 career in leading the Redskins (3-1) to recoveries, are tied for the NFL lead seasons, appears to be physically play. The former DeMatha star 5 Donovan McNabb QB 6-2 240 12 WR 6-4 219 a surprising start, including last with a plus-six turnover ratio. Being sound again. Moss, Campbell’s strained his right ankle in a Week 3 6 P 6-5 265 14 P 6-2 204 week’s victory over Dallas at sure-handed has enabled Washington favorite target, ranks second in the victory over Pittsburgh. The Eagles 10 DeSean Jackson WR 5-10 175 15 Todd Collins QB 6-4 225 Stadium. Campbell — who has no to control the clock to this point, league with 421 yards receiving and have a history of playing down injuries 14 A.J. Feeley QB 6-3 220 17 Jason Campbell QB 6-5 233 20 FS 6-0 210 turnovers — has made correct averaging nearly a five-minute is tied for third with 27 receptions. under Coach , and some 20 CB 5-9 190 21 Joselio Hanson CB 5-9 185 decisions and big advantage in time of And most important for league observers 22 Carlos Rogers CB 5-11 199 22 CB 5-10 185 24 Shawn Springs CB 6-0 204 plays. He’ll need to possession. In last the Redskins, Moss believe Westbrook’s 24 Sheldon Brown CB 5-10 200 26 RB 5-11 223 continue that trend week’s victory over again is a top deep ankle problem is more 25 RB 5-10 191 27 Fred Smoot CB 5-11 190 against one of the Dallas, Washington had threat, but he’ll be serious. Even if 26 CB 5-10 194 29 Leigh Torrence CB 6-0 179 most aggressive a nearly 17-minute facing one of the best Westbrook plays, he 27 Quintin Mikell S 5-10 206 30 LaRon Landry S 6-2 213 defenses in the league. edge. secondaries. could be limited. 28 RB 6-0 217 31 Rock Cartwright RB 5-8 218 29 FB 6-1 227 32 Justin Hamilton S 6-3 222 30 J.R. Reed S 5-11 202 37 S 6-1 209 36 Brian Westbrook RB 5-10 203 41 S 5-11 213 37 S 6-0 212 45 FB 6-3 245 39 S 5-11 206 46 Ladell Betts RB 5-11 225 46 LS 6-0 250 47 TE 6-3 249 50 Tank Daniels LB 6-3 248 48 S 6-1 216 51 Joe Mays LB 5-11 246 50 Khary Campbell LB 6-2 232 55 LB 6-4 255 51 Alfred Fincher LB 6-1 238 56 LB 6-1 230 52 Rocky McIntosh LB 6-2 232 57 LB 6-2 263 53 Marcus Washington LB 6-3 248 58 DE 6-3 270 54 H.B. Blades LB 5-10 250 59 OL 6-0 350 55 Jason Taylor DE 6-5 244 62 Max Jean-Gilles G 6-3 358 59 LB 5-10 245 63 Bryan Smith DE 6-2 245 60 T 6-5 317 67 C-G 6-4 330 61 Casey Rabach OL 6-4 296 68 Dan Klecko DT 5-11 275 64 DT 6-4 320 69 Jon Runyan T 6-7 330 66 Pete Kendall OL 6-5 292 72 T 6-7 335 67 Ethan Albright LS 6-5 257 73 G-T 6-4 335 68 Justin Geisinger G 6-2 315 74 T 6-6 320 69 Jason Fabini OL 6-7 309 75 DE 6-2 250 74 Stephon Heyer OL 6-6 325 77 Mike McGlynn G 6-4 311 75 OL 6-5 311 79 G-T 6-6 321 76 T 6-6 297 80 Kevin Curtis WR 6-0 186 77 Randy Thomas G 6-5 317 81 WR 6-0 212 78 DE 6-4 266 82 L.J. Smith TE 6-3 258 79 DT 6-1 300 83 Greg Lewis WR 6-0 180 82 WR 5-10 190 84 Hank Baskett WR 6-4 220 83 WR 6-0 204 86 Reggie Brown WR 6-1 197 86 TE 6-4 247 87 TE 6-4 255 87 Todd Yoder TE 6-4 253 89 Matt Schobel TE 6-5 247 89 Santana Moss WR 5-10 200 90 DE 6-3 260 92 Demetric Evans DL 6-4 275 91 Chris Clemons DE 6-2 240 94 Anthony Montgomery DT 6-6 315 93 DT 6-1 304 95 Chris Wilson DE 6-4 246 95 DE 6-4 267 96 Cornelius Griffin DT 6-3 311 96 LB 6-2 245 98 Rob Jackson DE 6-4 259 97 DT 6-2 306 99 Andre Carter DE 6-4 252 98 Mike Patterson DT 6-0 292

BY TIM SHAFFER — REUTERS PROJECTED STARTERS Trent Cole, left, and the Eagles harassed Steelers in Week 3, sacking him nine times in a 15-6 victory. PROJECTED STARTERS OFFENSE OFFENSE WR 89 Santana Moss WR 10 DeSean Jackson LT 60 Chris Samuels LT 72 Tra Thomas LG 66 Pete Kendall LG 79 Todd Herremans C 61 Casey Rabach Line Prepares to Feel a Rush C 67 Jamaal Jackson RG 77 Randy Thomas RG 73 Shawn Andrews RT 76 Jon Jansen In addition to their effective blitz packages, Swooping In that that can rush the passer. It’s not just the of- RT 69 Jon Runyan TE 47 Chris Cooley the Eagles also have outstanding fensive line, but it’s the quarterback, too.” TE 82 L.J. Smith WR 82 Antwaan Randle El edge rushers in defensive ends Trent Cole, Ju- The Eagles lead the league in sacks Jansen, demoted to the second team before WR 86 Reggie Brown QB 17 Jason Campbell qua Parker and Darren Howard. The produc- with 17 through four games. the season opener against the New York Gi- QB 5 Donovan McNabb RB 26 Clinton Portis tive trio has eight sacks combined, and Eagles Their top sack producers: ants, started against Dallas and performed RB 36 Brian Westbrook FB 45 Mike Sellers Jim Johnson uses a rota- well, Redskins coaches said. Concerned about FB 29 Tony Hunt tion to help Cole, Parker and Howard remain Juqua Parker 3.5 Dan Klecko 2 Jansen’s pass protection, Coach ele- in top form. Darren Howard 2.5 Omar Gaither 1.5 vated Stephon Heyer (likely out with a shoul- DEFENSE LE 92 Demetric Evans Redskins tackles Chris Samuels and Jon Jan- der injury), but another strong performance LE 75 Juqua Parker LT 96 Cornelius Griffin sen will receive help from running backs and Trent Cole 2 Five tied with 1 could help Jansen reclaim the spot he held his LT 98 Mike Patterson RT 64 Kedric Golston tight ends in pass protection, but “foremost it first nine seasons with the team. RT 97 Brodrick Bunkley RE 99 Andre Carter comes down to winning your individual bat- season started. Campbell was sacked twice in Facing Philadelphia’s ends could prove to be RE 58 Trent Cole SLB 53 Marcus Washington tle,” center Casey Rabach said. “There are al- the first quarter of last week’s 26-24 win over an even bigger challenge than what the Red- SLB 57 Chris Gocong MLB 59 London Fletcher ways ways we can help, but those guys are the , but not again for the re- skins encountered last week against standout MLB 55 Stewart Bradley WLB 52 Rocky McIntosh tough. That’s why [tackles] make the big mainder of the game. Cowboys end DeMarcus Ware. “There’s a lot WLB 96 Omar Gaither LCB 27 Fred Smoot bucks.” Through Washington’s first four games, of teams in the NFL that have great rotations LCB 22 Asante Samuel RCB 22 Carlos Rogers Fullback Mike Sellers figures to be involved Campbell has been sacked seven times. The like the Eagles,” Rabach said. “It seems like RCB 24 Sheldon Brown SS 48 Chris Horton in helping against the Eagles’ talented edge Eagles lead the NFL with 17 sacks, and Parker each and every week, our tackles are put up SS 27 Quintin Mikell 1 FS 30 LaRon Landry rushers. “They’re not extremely big, but tops the team with 3 ⁄2. against some of the premier pass rushers in FS 20 Brian Dawkins they’re sound in what they do and they’re real “Anytime you’ve got a pass rush like that, this league.” SPECIAL TEAMS shifty,” Sellers said. “I’m pretty sure that our tackles make sure they do an outstanding The Eagles’ trio definitely is among the SPECIAL TEAMS PK 6 Shaun Suisham there’ll be some help somewhere with them, job of picking up those guys and learning their league’s best at putting pressure on quarter- PK 2 David Akers P 14 Durant Brooks depending on how much trouble is being different techniques,” Campbell said. “As a backs, Redskins players said. P 6 Sav Rocca caused on the edges, but we’re pretty confident quarterback, you’ve got to understand where “They give you a lot of that change-of- in how we feel about our protections.” that main rush comes from before you set up in direction, which is a little bit harder to con- STATISTICS After struggling to protect quarterback Ja- the pocket and deliver the ball. trol,” Sellers said. “But we’ve got some great STATISTICS son Campbell in the preseason, Washington’s “There’s a lot of aspects that go into it when guys on our line that can handle that. We’ll be Passing Cmp Att Yds TD Int Rtg offensive line has fared much better since the you’re studying film of good defensive ends like fine.” Passing Cmp Att Yds TD Int Rtg Campbell 81 124 878 6 0 102.2 McNabb 95 146 1100 6 2 95.7 Team 82 125 889 6 0 102.4 Team 102 155 1171 6 3 93.2 Opp. 86 146 942 6 5 77.5 Opp. 70 122 860 6 4 82.0 Rushing Att Yds Avg Lg TD Rushing Att Yds Avg Lg TD Portis 86 369 4.3 31 3 Westbrook 42 161 3.8 18 3 Betts 22 80 3.6 14 0 Buckhalter 28 114 4.1 25 1 Team 123 530 4.3 31 3 Team 101 354 3.5 25 5 Opp. 85 369 4.3 24 2 Opp. 84 215 2.6 19 1 Receiving No. Yds Avg Lg TD THE ZORN ZONE | FIRST-YEAR COACH JIM ZORN’S TAKE ON THE EAGLES INJURY REPORT Receiving No. Yds Avg Lg TD Moss 27 421 15.6 67t 3 D. Jackson 22 327 14.9 60 1 Randle El 18 185 10.3 26 1 REDSKINS Baskett 13 207 15.9 90t 1 Cooley 17 179 10.5 27 0 Eagles defensive coordinator Clinton Portis Although they are coming off a Out: DE Jason Taylor (calf) Avant 11 126 11.5 31 0 Portis 6 36 6.0 10 0 Jim Johnson usually prefers to had his first 100-yard game of big road victory over Dallas and Lewis 10 149 14.9 52 0 Team 82 889 10.8 67t 6 Doubtful: T Stephon Heyer (shoulder) Buckhalter 10 83 8.3 20t 1 Opp. 86 942 11.0 62t 6 blitz a lot, so the Redskins must the season in the victory over the have played well, the Redskins Questionable: CB Shawn Springs (calf), Team 102 1171 11.5 90t 6 INTs No. Yds TD Sacks No. execute well in pass protection Cowboys, but the Eagles give up have a long way to go before Opp. 70 860 12.3 72t 6 Horton 3 13 0 Carter 1.0 LB Marcus Washington (hamstring) and be sharp in their line 2.6 yards per rush — fewest in being pleased with their season, INTs No. Yds TD Sacks No. Rogers 1 42 0 Golston 1.0 Probable: DE Andre Carter (not Samuel 2 14 0 Parker 3.5 Smoot 1 0 0 Griffin 1.0 adjustments, Zorn said. the NFL. Zorn said. Howard 1 8 0 Howard 2.5 Taylor 1.0 injury-related), G Randy Thomas (toe) “This will be one of the first “This defense has only allowed “We haven’t accomplished any Mikell 1 0 0 T. Cole 2.0 Wilson 1.0 Klecko 2.0 Team 5 55 0 Team 6.0 teams we’ve faced that will 53 yards average per team that of our goals yet. All of our goals EAGLES Team 4 22 0 Team 17.0 Opp. 0 0 0 Opp. 7.0 heavily blitz their secondary,” he they’ve played,” Zorn said. are ahead of us,” he said. “The Doubtful: DE Victor Abiamiri (wrist), G Opp. 3 49 0 Opp. 10.0 Punting No. Avg. Net In20 Punting No. Avg. Net In20 Brooks 17 40.4 34.9 6 said. “They’ll bring their safeties, “They’re very stingy about only goal we’ve attained is that Shawn Andrews (back), WR Kevin Curtis Rocca 18 46.1 44.1 7 Team 17 40.4 34.9 6 they’ve brought a corner blitz allowing a running back to run, we’ve actually won more games (hernia) Team 18 46.1 44.1 7 Opp. 19 43.7 36.9 7 before, so they don’t mind getting so we’ve got to pick our times. than we’ve lost. We just won our Questionable: TE L.J. Smith (back), RB Opp. 26 45.6 39.6 11 Scoring TD XP-Att FG-Att S Pts Scoring TD XP-Att FG-Att S Pts Suisham 0 8-8 8-11 0 32 in the mix with their safeties. We have to be right on target last game. A lot of other teams Brian Westbrook (ankle) Akers 0 12-12 8-10 0 36 Moss 3 0-0 0-0 0 18 And then their are with who we’re blocking, how have done the same thing. We Probable: S Quintin Demps (knee), DE Westbrook 5 0-0 0-0 0 30 Portis 3 0-0 0-0 0 18 Buckhalter 2 0-0 0-0 0 12 Team 9 8-9 8-11 0 86 some of the best blitzing we’re blocking ’em.” shouldn’t feel like, ‘Gosh, we’re Darren Howard (abdomen), DT Dan Klecko Team 12 12-12 8-10 1 110 Opp. 9 9-9 6-6 0 81 linebackers that we’ve seen.” the crowning glory.’ ” (hand), QB Donovan McNabb (chest) Opp. 8 8-8 6-6 0 74

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