Seahawks vs Redskins In a Rookie Showdowns

Two rookie quarterbacks will closet the wild card showdown when the Washington Redskins host the Seattle Seahawks this Sunday at 4:30 PM ET at Fedex Field.
Russell Wilson will face Robert Griffin III in the second playoff game ever between rookie starting quarterbacks. “Did Peyton go to the playoffs his first year? No,” Seattle fullback Michael Robinson said. “OK. Then you know whom I think is better.”

“The one thing our coaches did was they didn’t baby me, they weren’t going to make it baby steps, they made me learn on the fly, they were really hard on me in OTAs and training camp and it’s paid off,” Griffin said.

Despite the similarities, there are some plenty of differences. “I think everybody’s got a little bit different scheme,” Shanahan said. “We do have a lot of similarities with the zone blocking scheme, and they’re running a bit of the zone read as well.”

The Redskins are 5-1 all-time in the wild-card playoffs, tied with the Baltimore Ravens for the best record in the opening round by teams with at least four appearances, but their last two playoffs games they were eliminated, curiously enough, by the Seahawks.

“This game being at 4:30 actually may help them a little bit,” Russell Wilson said. “It’s definitely tough when you have that 1 o’clock game. It feels like about 10 o’clock to you. You wake up three hours before the game, so it’s about 7 o’clock in your mind.”

The Seahawks are 3 point favorites in the lines despite being on the road.