From the weekly NFL Media Releases:
- Commentators: Dick Stockton, Troy Aikman, and Pam Oliver.
- Game Time: 4:15pm. Broadcast on Fox, pretty much everywhere except the Northern states (west of the Great Lakes), Arizona and near Oakland. Broadcast map here.
- Last Match-up: Oct 27, 2002- Shane Matthews passes for 210 yards and 2 TDs as the Skins beat the Colts 26-21. Yes, Shane Matthews beat Peyton Manning.
- Last Match-up in Indy: Dec 19, 1999 – Peyton Manning throws 2 TDs, including one to Edgerrin James as the Colts beat the Redskins 24-21.
- The Redskins have scored 21 or more points in all meetings against the Colts since 1981, averaging 31.3 points per game. They’ll need at least that much this time.
- The Redskins are 6-2 versus the Colts since 1981.
- Clinton Portis rushed for 88 yards and 2 TDs in his only match-up vs Indy.
- Homecomings: LB Marcus Washington played 4 seasons with the Colts and WR Antwaan Randle-El starred in college at Indiana University.
- Peyton Manning has won 9 of his last 10 games against the NFC, with 28 TDs and only 4 interceptions. Hold me please.
- RB Joseph Addai is the only rookie in the NFL with 200 yards rushing and 10 receptions.
- Marvin Harrison needs to 2 touchdowns to tie HOFer Lenny Moore for 9th most in NFL history (and most in Colts history).
- Reggie Wayne has a reception of 20-plus yards in four of his last five games. Wayne and Harrison have combined for 19 receptions on 3rd down.
- PR/WR Terrence Wilkins is 4th in the NFL averaging 12.6 yards per return.
Injury Reports: Normally I’d list it here, but it looks like the entire Colts roster is listed as questionable, so just click here.
One good consequence of the Peyton Manning media orgy is that I don’t have to leave home to watch the game today, even though we rarely get Skins games up here.
Let’s hope Saunders comes to his senses and runs Portis today, if that doesn’t happen my head might explode.
We love Joe Gibbs for what he did in the past, remember the old days and the old QBS and it was cut in stone that they played, that work back than, but it is now and if Joe would look around he would see that it is now and the young QBS are the top dogs, what would Joe record be now and in the past he had got a young number 1 QB, who knows how many wins he would have, joe doen’t know how to win with a super QB, because he has never had one, so Joe fine us a Manning. Tommy