The long and winding road that leads to your … well not your door, but to the end of a regular season. It began 16 weeks ago, with apprehension on my part that the league could actually thread the needle of playing a full regular season in the midst of a national pandemic at its height.
I’m glad they made it, and I’m glad we made it too.
On opening day, it looked mighty bleak for our opening day pick of the Redskins (I know, an indescribable name for that team now exists) against the Philadelphia Eagles. We had the Redskins plus the 5½ points, and braced ourselves as Philadelphia cruised to a 17-0 lead. Then, as we had hoped, the underdog Redskins made a valiant comeback and eventually won the game straight-up, 27-17.
That result marked the beginning of a horrible Philadelphia season in which they were the only NFC East team entering play today without a chance of advancing to the postseason. The Redskins, conversely, have their fate in their own hands … beat Washington for a second time this season and they win the NFC East and advance to the postseason as a fourth seed … a home game for compiling a 7-9 regular season record.
Either the Dallas Cowboys or New York Giants had a chance to squeeze Washington out of the playoffs at the start of play today, the Giants are still alive after their win over the Cowboys.
All the Redskins have to do to advance is beat the Eagles?