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With Jonathan Allen and Daron Payne anchoring the defensive line Youth Tavon Austin Jersey , and Adrian Peterson hardly looking like a 33-year-old, the Washington Redskins have established what sort of team they are. It's quite a drastic shift from who they've been under coach Jay Gruden until now.Their defense stops the run 鈥?gasp! 鈥?and their offense 鈥?get this! 鈥?moves the ball on the ground."It starts up front, in the trenches," Gruden said Monday. "Those big guys are doing a great job."He was talking about Washington's defensive front, but he also might as well have been referring to the offensive line, which is led by left tackle Trent Williams and right guard Brandon Scherff and has been leading the way for Peterson.So bad against the run for so long, the defense is suddenly stout as can be. It limited the NFL's No. 2 rusher, Ezekiel Elliott Tavon Austin Jersey Stitched , to 34 yards 鈥?his second-lowest output in the league 鈥?in the Redskins' 20-17 victory over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday. Elliott's longest gain was 6 yards.That came a week after the Redskins limited Christian McCaffrey to 20 yards rushing and the entire Carolina team to 81 during a 23-17 win against the Panthers."We're making teams earn every blade of grass they get," Gruden said.Now comes another test for Washington, which leads the NFC East: rookie sensation Saquon Barkley and the last-place New York Giants next Sunday.The Redskins are giving up only 87.3 yards on the ground each game, third in the NFL. One key: Washington is one of two clubs to not have allowed a 20-yard run this season. Minnesota is the other."It's as much of a mindset as anything," linebacker Ryan Kerrigan said about stopping Elliott and the Cowboys, who had won four games in a row against the Redskins. "We definitely have taken it personally that they've had so much success running the ball against us the past couple of years."Truly, everyone has.Last season, Washington owned the worst run defense in the NFL Youth Rod Smith Jersey , with opponents rushing for 134.1 yards per game. In 2016, it was 24th of 32 clubs at 119.8 per game allowed. And in 2015, 26th at 122.6 per game allowed.So this season has seen what Gruden called "a major improvement," one he attributed in part to the pair of first-round draft picks out of Alabama, Allen (who missed 11 games as a rookie in 2017 because of an injury) and rookie Payne.Safety D.J. Swearinger nicknamed that duo the Alabama Wall.On the other side of the ball, Gruden has embraced the running game much more than in his previous four seasons as a head coach in Washington.After Peterson's 99 yards on 24 carries against the Cowboys 鈥?the fourth time in six games this season he's topped 95 鈥?the Redskins are third in the league at 29.5 runs per game and 14th at 119 yards per game.Those numbers are way up from the full 2017 season, when the team ended up ranked 24th with 25.1 runs per game and 28th with 90.5 yards per game.Under Gruden, the Redskins have never finished a season averaging more than 26.8 carries or 106 yards per game.They've also never had Peterson Rod Smith Jerseys Stitched , who was available to any team when the Redskins signed him in the preseason."Adrian has been a big lift for us, without a doubt. We are 4-2, and he is big a part of it," Gruden said. "So we just have to keep feeding him."Notes: Gruden said that CB Fabian Moreau sprained his ankle and RT Morgan Moses injured his elbow against Dallas. CB Quinton Dunbar, who missed Sunday's game with what the team said was a bruised shin, was going to get checked out to see whether he had a nerve problem. Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott already has some degree of familiarity with new offensive coordinator Kellen Moore.After all, Moore was on the roster with him for two years, from when Prescott took over the second spot as a rookie and then the starting job when Tony Romo was injured.But his backup will now be calling his plays Youth Damien Wilson Jersey , and Prescott is excited about having Moore in that job after Scott Linehan was fired.鈥淔rom the time he was a player to the time now, the things he sits over there watching plays and he will draw a play up, saying this is a complement off of that,鈥?Prescott said, via Clarence Hill of the . 鈥淭hat was the main reason I pushed for him to be the quarterbacks coach in the first place cause I knew the intelligence he had in the game, how smart he is, how creative he can be. He is a phenom when it comes to the game. He is one of these young phenoms in seeing the game, knowing where the game was and where it鈥檚 taking this transition into this new style of play. He sees it and gets it.鈥滿oore was Prescott’s quarterbacks coach last year Damien Wilson Jersey Stitched , when he set a career high in passing yards and led the Cowboys to a division title.He’ll also have another former quarterback to work with this season, as Jon Kitna has been added as the new quarterbacks coach upon Moore’s promotion.鈥淚鈥檓 excited for what I can learn, what he can teach me, knowing how serious he takes footwork and the things he prides his coaching and his game on,鈥?Prescott said of Kitna. 鈥淜nowing those are going to be a lot of things that will help me become the player I want to be.鈥漈he Cowboys have a lot riding on this project working, as head coach Jason Garrett is entering a lame duck season, which could lead to bigger structural changes if things don’t work quickly.