They didn’t make it easy, and it certainly wasn’t nice, but with a 20-14 win over the Philadelphia Eagles, The Washington Football Teams are the 2020 NFC East champions. Washington will advance to the playoffs for the first time since 2015, and the franchise’s third division title since 2012 is undoubtedly as unlikely as it is sometimes unthinkable. Washington ends the season with a 7-9 record and will face Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers next Sunday in the first round of the playoffs.
The WFT started the hot competition, going 10-0 in the first quarter courtesy of a Terry McLaurin five-yard TD reception by Alex Smith followed by a 42-yard Dustin Hopkins field goal. The Eagles showed no problem, although rising 14-10 before Logan Thomas may have made the rude play of the game, climbing the ladder into the back corner of the end zone with twenty seconds left in the half to make it 17-14 in the half.
The points were hard to get in the second half, especially after Eagles coach Doug Peterson picked off injured starting quarterback Jalen in favor of former Washington-draft pick Nate Sudfeld. A 42-yard try by Dustin Hopkins in the fourth quarter with 7: 48 remaining in the competition was the only Score that could be talked about, sealing the victory for Washington.
Will Washington be the first NFL team since 2015 to reach the playoffs with a lost record, the last team to claim that honor? Ron Riveras 7-8-1 Carolina Panthers.
During a long and difficult season where, in addition to challenges on and off the field, there was not much adversity, Washington resisted reasonable opportunities and predictions and played just well enough to be called division champs.
