We seem to be stuck in the movie Groundhog Day. That is the one where every day has the same ending when the main character falls asleep and wakes up to the same spot until he finally changes his fate with his love interest in the movie. The Washington Football Team has to find a direction and fall in love with winning. The last three losses were by 3 points or less and just seven points in total. Basically the difference of a missed Dustin Hopkins field goal or one fewer turnover seemed to be the difference. Maybe it was just one big play. One player needing to step up in one big point. This team is loaded with first round picks. Where are the playmakers?
After Kyle Allen suffered an ankle injury two weeks ago, head coach Ron Rivera is sticking with Alex Smith as his starting quarterback again this week. He could have gone back to Dwayne Haskins as his starter, but chose not to after Smith’s big week last week in the loss to the Detroit Lions. Well, the Lions are not a good team or a good defense, so are we getting a false positive where the stats aren’t worth much — especially in a game that finished in another loss.
In a strange twist of fate that intertwines Chase Young of Washington who was the № 2 pick overall in the 2020 draft while the starting quarterback for the Bengals today, Joe Burrow, was the № 1, we learned on Friday that Washington would have picked Burrow if Cincinnati did not. Also in the intertwined parts at play here, Burrow transferred from Ohio State to LSU because Haskins was going to be Urban Meyer’s starter at Ohio State for the 2018 season.
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