All the Seahawks Analysis You Can Handle

As always when leading up to a big playoff game, the local papers are filled with human interest fluff. At the Times, exclusively fluff. Like "Veterans get Hawks in playoff mindset" and "Seahawks battling history as well as Washington." At the P-I, and on some internet sites, a few pieces of actual game analysis managed to sneak past the editors.

--Right tackle Sean Locklear has a sore hip, but linebacker D.D. Lewis seems better, according to this injury report.

--Scroll past the note about which Seahawks are growing beards for an update on the health of DBs Trufant and Dyson. They'll be critical to shutting down 1400-yard-gaining WR Santana Moss, one of Redskins' two major offensive threats along with RB Clinton Portis.

--The Hawks 20-17 regular season loss to Washington, revisited in the P-I.

--KJR's David Locke with a statistics-laden piece arguing that the Redskins are a tough matchup for the Hawks.

--Clare Farnsworth on the Redskins' deceptive defensive tactics.

--ESPN's Len Pasquarelli on what makes the Redskins defense so good.

--SI's Dr. Z forecasts the Hawks/Skins game.

--A statistical matchup of the two teams on NFL.com.

--At CBS Sportsline, they predict the Seahawks gameplan and the Redskins gameplan.