Five positives and negatives for Washington Football Team vs. Lions
The Washington Football Team continued their losing ways on Sunday against the Lions and the season is beginning to slip away.
Washington didn’t play well in the first half of Sunday’s game, but they made an incredible comeback in the second half. Unfortunately, the efforts came up short once again.
You’ve seen this plot before. It appears on your super nice, incredibly large smart TV each week. It’s the same script over and over again. If anything has been consistent about the WFT in 2020, it is how this story unfolds in each game.
It would be infinitely easy to focus on all of the negatives for this game, and there are plenty, but one positive does stand out the most. We’ll highlight it first overall today and show you why the future is very bright with this coaching staff and front office.
The negatives are numerous, but they are not as troublesome as one may think. Anything negative for Washington is a distraction and it limits what this team can do, but this roster is full of younger players who are eager to learn and improve.
Washington has lost seven of their last eight games and the season is far from over, but any talk of the playoffs should cease. A 2-7 team is not a playoff team and there is no shame in admitting that this team is truly in a rebuild mode. There is no one-year turnaround and planning for the future doesn’t take ill-advised shortcuts or sign pricey veterans that don’t fit the culture.
We all need to realize that the WFT is in evaluation mode at this time and that actually bodes well for the future.
Like last week, the “Five and Five” will have a taste of the future. Losses will mount and victories will be rare in 2020. This is not to say that a rebuild is painless or fun, but these are the right steps toward success.
Our positives today will not be overly optimistic and the negatives will not be a harbinger of complete gloom and doom. It will simply be an honest look at the game and the future. Let’s jump right in.