Smoot Lays The Smack Down-Redskins vs. Ravens (Preseason Special)

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Yeah, I have concerns about how age might affect McNabb's superior physical tools (such as an underthrown gimme deep ball), but (speaking as someone who has yet to see Saturday's preseason game) I don't see any reason to go into freak out mode on McNabb because he completed 40% vs. the Ravens. He struggled with them last time too -- and certainly, he didn't have any meaningful long term effects from a bad game.

From reading the game write-ups, it sounds like the defense was solid, but got tricked on a fake punt and got a critical turnover taken away from them. Other than that, we had a game where neither offense (Ravens or Redskins) performed very well.

No team has ever been able to run on the Ravens D, so our rushing performance in the first half cannot be surprising.