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Redskins Reality Checks: Cancer, Haskins, and an afterthought on Sunday in Buffalo

By Tim Payne

LANDOVER, MD - DECEMBER 30: Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder before the game between the Washington Redskins and Philadelphia Eagles at FedExField on December 30, 2018 in Landover, Maryland. (Photo by Will Newton/Getty Images)
LANDOVER, MD - DECEMBER 30: Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder before the game between the Washington Redskins and Philadelphia Eagles at FedExField on December 30, 2018 in Landover, Maryland. (Photo by Will Newton/Getty Images) /
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PHILADELPHIA, PA – SEPTEMBER 21: Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder watches his team warm up before the start of their game against the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field on September 21, 2014 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)
PHILADELPHIA, PA – SEPTEMBER 21: Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder watches his team warm up before the start of their game against the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field on September 21, 2014 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images) /

The Reality Is, the Redskins find themselves in an unfamiliar circumstance for Week 9 of the NFL season….their upcoming game isn’t even in the top three stories this week in D.C. Sports.

With the Nationals winning the World Series, Trent Williams’ bombshell interview on Halloween, and Dwayne Haskins’ perpetually bizarre development arc, it’s almost an afterthought that the team is playing on Sunday in Buffalo.  A quick scroll through the various D.C. media outlets makes it clear that almost nobody in the DMV even really cares about the result of the game Sunday between the 6-2 Bills and the 1-7 Redskins.

There’s a World Series parade on Saturday. The Redskins are mysteriously silent, hiding behind an “independent review” in response to Trent Williams’ allegations, and Dwayne Haskins hasn’t impressed so far this season and wasn’t even named the starter until Friday afternoon, despite Case Keenum not taking any snaps with the first-team offense yet this week. Whether or not this team can put up a good fight in upstate New York on Sunday isn’t a pressing topic of discussion for even the most diehard Redskins fans.

Dysfunction has become normal within the Redskins organization, so much so that they don’t even seem to be bothered by it anymore. They are despised by former players, former executives, former coaches, national media members, player agents and now even their most successful and decorated current player.

But irrelevance is something they have yet to experience at the depths they are plumbing in recent weeks. With that in mind, this week’s Reality Checks are more about the state of the franchise, and less about Sunday’s game in Buffalo.

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