After a multi-week hiatus, DCist Predicts has returned; only to make the bold call that the Redskins will lose to Baltimore on Sunday night and find themselves sitting at 7-6, fading behind the pack of playoff hopefuls.

Jim Zorn’s crew travels up I-95 — or perhaps the scenic B-W Parkway — to Charm City to take on the surging Ravens in a marquee matchup with local pride at stake. In the past two weeks, the Ravens have played like circling vultures, hovering to feast on the remains of dying football teams, winning six of their last seven. But under rookie coach John Harbaugh, the club has struggled against the league’s elite, getting thrashed on the road against the Giants and Colts and dropping decisions to Pittsburgh and Tennessee. That would seem to bode well for Washington, who bring a battered star running back and a creaking offensive line to battle against the notoriously furious onslaught of the Ray Lewis-led Ravens defense.

I don’t think anyone likes the Redskins in this game, for two reasons. For one, we’ve really played awful in night games this season, most notably the fat eggs laid against Dallas and Pittsburgh. Of more importance, the thought of monsters like Lewis, Terrell Suggs, and Bart Scott matching up against an ailing Clinton Portis and an O-line that, of late, has protected Jason Campbell about as well as a blanket fort you built as a kid, only without the nightmare-proofing.