It’s time for the Washington Football Team owners, executives and coaches to panic. The Week 6 debacle that took place on and off the field has broken the fragile trust that had begun to re-form between the stewards of the organization and the team’s fans, and the level of tone-deafness to what is going on is astonishing.
Last year-this year
Let’s focus first on what’s been happening on the field and with the coaches. The Washington football team played inspiring football in 2020 behind a coach battling cancer, a mid-season comeback by Alex Smith from what should have been a career-ending leg injury in 2018, and a Cinderella-story replacement quarterback named Taylor Heinicke from Old Dominion University who started the wildcard playoff game against the eventual world champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers and gave the champs the toughest game they would get in the playoffs.