Another off day in Ashburn, though Clinton Portis and Jim Zorn will both do their weekly radio appearances, so we’ll get updates from those guys late in the day.

The Redskins are now 7-4. If the playoffs started today (don’t panic, they won’t), that would be good enough for the six seed, which is the final playoff spot. Breathing down their neck in the division is Dallas.

Now, it’s almost a foregone conclusion at this point that the Giants (10-1) will take the division, even if the Redskins beat them Sunday (1 p.m., FedEx Field, FOX TV). But the Redskins could use a victory here to give themselves a margin for error down the stretch. If they lose to the Giants, that puts a lot of pressure on the next week’s game against the Ravens. Not a bad thing, but upsetting the Giants would go a long way towards locking up a playoff spot before the last week of the season, something this team wouldn’t mind familiarizing itself with.