For Redskins, every game, from here on out, is a must-lose situation

Code red.

We’ve reached uncharted waters. Each time the Washington Redskins hit rock bottom, they somehow find a way to dig a little bit deeper. The shovel is far from worn. The losses are piling up. The margins are getting bigger. If Washington is going to climb out from this abyssal chasm, they need to…

Keep losing.

It sounds drastic. It sounds dishonorable. But at this point, it’s the only way. From here on out, every game is a must-lose situation for the Washington Redskins.

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The Redskins reached a new low with Bruce Allen‘s press conference. In front of reporters who referenced a dying franchise, a habitual mediocrity, a toxic environment, and an eroding support base, Allen said that his team has the pieces to win. He said that the culture is “damn good”.

Allen stood at a press conference, after an 0-5 start to 2019, a seventh coach firing of the twenty-first century, and a 42-75 accumulated record as president, and he had the audacity to defend what wasn’t working.

Allen walked away from that podium, from media members who stared in an awestruck silence, and behind the scenes, reporters mocked him, and lambasted him. Respected league figures spoke of a perpetual pitfall in the nation’s capital, and some of the most prestigious anchors in America chose Allen’s ignorance as their headlining subject.

Everyone heard. Everyone saw. Everyone except Snyder and Allen.

Allen and Snyder have constructed an opaque bubble for themselves; a veil of dishonesty and delusion. And the only thing that can break that veil, is a degree of failure so massive that they won’t be able to lie to themselves any longer.

How do you humble the most perhaps the most prideful, tone-deaf front office in all of organized sports? Mediocrity isn’t bad enough. They will selectively perceive what they value in their self-evaluation, and block out everything else. We saw it in January. The Redskins lost seven of their last eight games in 2018, went 7-9, and Bruce Allen took that as to mean, “we’re close”.

As long as Allen stays, and as long as Snyder doesn’t have an overwhelming reason to blow everything up, things will stay the same. It needs to get bad enough for Snyder to reach that breaking point. Any win along the way gives Snyder and Allen an opportunity to convince themselves that their way can work.

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Losing every game, of course, is not realistic. They will win along the way. At some point, in short-term pockets of time, the pieces that are in D.C. will win out. But it will be but a small modulation on a steady trend downward that started at the turn of the century. Snyder and Allen are two pieces that won’t fit together, in any puzzle. And as long as they have a sliver of hope, they won’t draw back their veil.

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