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Week 3 – NY Giants at Washington

This week will be huge for Washington with the bye week up next. Tiki Barber ran wild on the Skins last year but Tiki is retired, finally. Safeties Landry and Sean Taylor will want to put big-time hits on TE Jeremy Shockey and WR Plaxico Burress. The Giants defense won’t be able to stop Portis and Betts and Cambell will have his best game of the first three.

Prediction – Washington 24 – Giants 17 (Record 2-1)

I think I'm going to stick with my original prediction for this game. The Giants are playing worse than I expected and the defense has been non-existent. But previous performances can be thrown out the window when it comes to rivalry games such as this.

Based on the first two games, the Skins should be able to put 30-plus points up at FedEx Field, but the Giants are going to bring everything they can to this game. The defense has been called out for the entire week and they are going to rally and play their best game of season to date. That shouldn't be hard after their first two performances.

The Skins will start out slowly and emphasize the running game hard in the first half. It won't be effective at first, but the point will be to open up the play-action passing game and wear down the defense for the second half.

The game will be close at the half, but the Skins will open it up in the third quarter with a bomb to Santana Moss and the defense will force a turnover in Giants' territory that will lead to a Portis touchdown run.

Portis and Betts will run hard in the fourth quarter and keep the Giants' offense off the field and stop all chance of a Eli Manning led comeback. The Giants will get a late touchdown, but it won't be enough.