How the Washington Football Team can win the NFC East in 2020
2. Learn how to win within the division again.
Back in 2015 and under head coach Jay Gruden, Washington managed a late surge, finished 9-7 and won the NFC East. The team managed to win four of its six games within the division, including a sweep of Philadelphia.
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But how things have changed since then in more ways than one. The club is a combined 6-18 vs. their three divisional rivals the past four seasons and were an abysmal 0-6 vs. the Eagles, Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants in ’19.
Washington has dropped six straight to the Birds and dropped three in a row and seven of their last eight to the rival Cowboys. Half of the club’s six divisional wins the past four years have come against Big Blue. In six setbacks to their NFC East brethren in 2019, the team allowed a whopping 212 points, an astounding 35.3 points per game.
In all but one of those setbacks, Washington allowed a minimum of 31 points. Compare that to their other 10 contests this past season when the team surrendered 22.3 points per outing.
Washington not only enters the upcoming season with four straight losses, but the club has dropped 10 consecutive games to their NFC East rivals. Rivera’s team hosts the Eagles in Week 1.