Washington Football Team President Jason Wright Has a Passion for Soccer
Jason Wright loves football. American football, obviously. But he loves the game much of the rest of the world calls football, as well. His 7-year-old son plays soccer, his 10-year-old daughter is a Manchester United supporter (“She likes Paul Pogba,” Wright explains), and he had D.C. United season tickets prior to the pandemic. He’s also […]
At Least the Washington Football Team Won’t Be Boring With Ryan Fitzpatrick
There’s a complaint I find myself raising about all the D.C.-area sports teams: They are boring. I have a tendency to level this complaint whether it is accurate—hello, Maryland men’s basketball—or not—hi there, Bradley Beal and Russell Westbrook scoring a billion points while leading the Wizards to another mediocre season! The Washington Football Team is coming […]
Playoff Loss Reveals What the Washington Football Team Needs in Its Next Quarterback
When Taylor Heinicke joined the New England Patriots’ practice squad for part of the 2017 season, he wanted to make a strong impression on his first day. The quarterback pulled up to the team’s facility before 5:30 a.m., vowing to be the first one at work. He wasn’t. Heinicke soon realized he’d been beaten there […]
The Washington Football Team Is Improving. Dan Snyder Still Needs to Go.
It’s time to focus on firings. First, Philadelphia Eagles coach Doug Pederson ought to be ashamed of himself. He embarrassed his franchise by tanking Sunday night’s loss to the Washington Football Team in a highly significant game, and deserves to be fired by his team owner or at least substantially fined by the NFL commissioner […]
The Washington Football Team’s Wild and Unpredictable Journey to the Playoffs
Summarizing the Washington Football Team’s year, one packed with countless headlines and drama, is nearly impossible. But let’s try, anyway. Washington retired its controversial and racist nickname and adopted a temporary moniker for the season and potentially beyond. It hired a promising coach in Ron Rivera, but he was dealt his own surprise in the […]
The Year 2020 in Sports
On March 8, the University of Maryland men’s basketball team beat Michigan, 87-70, in front of a capacity crowd at Xfinity Center to win a share of the Big Ten regular season title. Afterward, hundreds of fans packed the court, standing shoulder to shoulder, to celebrate with coach Mark Turgeon and his players. Turgeon was […]
Give Ron Rivera All the Awards
I got a head start on my eulogy for the Washington Football Team this year, using a Nov. 1 column to write off Ron Rivera’s team and turning my attention to all the other options for fun and entertainment in this blessed year of 2020. But something totally unexpected happened on the way to the […]
In Logan Thomas, the Washington Football Team Has Found Its No. 1 Tight End
Ask Washington Football Team coach Ron Rivera which player’s growth has impressed him in 2020, and it’s a good bet he’ll say tight end Logan Thomas. Actually, you don’t even need to ask. Rivera has a penchant for talking Thomas up with little prompting. On Oct. 25, Thomas caught four passes for 60 yards and […]
It’s Hard to Get Excited About This Year’s Washington Football Team
It would be factually correct to say that I came into this Washington Football Team season with high hopes, although you have to take the team’s miserable recent history into account to understand this very specific value of “high.” Did I expect them to be Super Bowl contenders? I did not. Did I think they […]
Alex Smith Makes an Improbable Return to the Washington Football Team
Sunday afternoon didn’t quite match up with what Alex Smith envisioned in those moments he allowed himself to believe that he’d be back at FedExField, playing in an actual NFL game. He didn’t think he’d be coming off the bench in his first game as the backup quarterback nearly two years after his horrific leg […]
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