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In the midst of a feverish haze on Monday night, I repeatedly heard the words “Michael Vick” and “touchdown,” as if I was imagining a world where large men lay down on defense and run up the middle down by 28. Those words kept repeating and repeating, with adjectives like “embarrassing,” “humiliating” and “putrid” mixed in. I figured it was the drugs, but was sorely disappointed when I found out it was Larry, Sonny and Sam running out of ways to describe what they were seeing on the field. (Sam, as he always does, did manage to call every Redskins touchdown a turning point.) The Redskins were getting destroyed by the Eagles, and no one was stepping in to do anything about it. Teams have off-nights, but those usually don’t come after not having played a game in two weeks and announcing a long-term contract extension for your quarterback. Now that the hysterics are out of the way, it’s time to turn to Sunday’s game against Tennessee with the comfort of knowing that things couldn’t possibly get any worse.

Right?

Neither team looks particularly strong going into this weekend. Tennessee just lost a game to Miami in which their defense knocked both the starting and backup quarterbacks (Chads Pennington and Henne, respectively) out of the game. Their offense is riddled with injuries at key positions, with quarterback Vince Young bothered by a bad ankle, backup quarterback Kerry Collins nursing a bad calf, and wideout Kenny Britt sporting a bad hamstring. The passing game doesn’t tend to figure prominently in a typical Titan offensive gameplan, given their over-reliance on Chris Johnson in the running game. As Johnson goes, so go the Titans — they’re 5-1 when he runs for more than 100 yards and 1-3 when he doesn’t. (Word out of Redskins Park is that Jim Haslett has been running tackle-by-dreadlock drills in order to make sure Johnson is held in check.) With so much of the focus on Johnson, look for Nate Washington and some guy named Randy Moss to exploit ten-yard separations early and often.