As Brandon Johnson hauled within the tip-drill Hail Mary cross from Russell Wilson, all of the District of Columbia and surrounding spaces let loose a number of expletives, I’m certain.
“The Commanders are actually going to Commie this up, aren’t they,” some under the influence of alcohol particular person in Adams Morgan mentioned. After a comeback that confirmed energy on each side of the ball with Sam Howell correctly operating the offense, Brian Robinson Jr. having a look like one of the crucial most-improved operating backs in soccer, a defensive entrance that may disrupt a well-oiled offensive line, and not one of the bone-headed errors that experience outlined Washington’s on-field NFL purgatory of this millennium, all of it just about went away as no Commanders’ defensive again controlled to knock the ball to the turf and finish the sport.
By hook or by crook, Washington didn’t additional screw up its season from there and received the sport. And the Commanders are 2-0 for the primary time since two names in the past, and extra in particular, 2011. That 12 months, Washington went to 3-1, had a Week 5 bye, then received two video games the remainder of the season to complete 5-11. Then they traded as much as the second one general select of the following 12 months’s draft and decided on Robert Griffin III.
Welcome to the Commanders, Drake Maye!
Kidding.
History (confidently) received’t repeat itself as Washington already has a North Carolina quarterback main it. The outlook for this season is higher than simplest 5 wins for the Commanders, even in the most efficient department in soccer.
The Commanders wanted a fourth-quarter comeback at house to defeat one of the crucial worst groups within the league by way of 4 in Week 1. And so they had been dismantled by way of the first-half Broncos. The second one-half Broncos are trash and Washington picked them aside. Now with the Expenses coming to the town in Week 3, do we in the end see the “actual” Washington? I’m no longer so certain. If the Commanders get blown out, everybody will say it’s extra of the similar crap within the country’s capital. If Washington wins, everybody will suppose it’s a fluke except it’s a radical demolishment. So the Commies actually don’t have anything to lose towards a staff considered one of the crucial favorites to achieve the Tremendous Bowl.
Smartly, except for for one recreation.
In spite of two wins, the outlook for the Commanders within the NFC East is 3rd, at absolute best, which is okay. Philadelphia is actually one in every of two groups just right sufficient to play within the Tremendous Bowl from the NFC this season, and Dallas’ protection is without doubt one of the absolute best within the league and would sign up for the 49ers and Eagles as conceivable Tremendous Bowl contenders if it didn’t have an enormous contemporary historical past of choking within the playoffs.
The Giants comeback win over Arizona doesn’t end up the rest about their skill, as taking on a recreation towards one of the crucial worst groups in soccer isn’t spectacular. Lots of the remainder of the NFC is unproven too. The Lions and whoever comes out of the NFC South can even make the playoffs, that means there’s various wiggle room for the Commanders to move 9-8, or most likely 10-7 and nonetheless make the postseason.
Will this Washington staff set the arena on hearth?
Nope, no longer even shut.
Is that this a Washington staff on the upward push?
Sure, which is a bracing-for-impact-style resolution.
There’s been various occasions the franchise has “grew to become a nook” simplest to have fallen again into purgatory, particularly with Griffin because the staff’s long run greater than a decade in the past. And with out Dan Snyder concerned within the group, perhaps this euphoria isn’t unwarranted.
And that’s the loopy section.
We’ve observed 8 quarters and two wins from the Commanders. We’re no longer just about working out what the staff is able to.