Here’s a sentence you’ve probably never heard before: Washington Redskins Pro-Bowl punter Tress Way quarterbacked a championship-winning team on Saturday night.
Let’s break that down and make sense of it. ESPN aired the 2020 Madden Bowl on Sunday, which was won by Raidel “Joke” Britol, who used a run-only offense to win the championship. Way, who was the quarterback of this run-only offense, went the entire tournament without throwing a single pass.
The 26-year-old from West New York, New Jersey, was able to use his run-only offense and particularly stingy defense en route to a 17-0 shutout of Daniel “Dcroft” Mycroft of Mukilteo, Washington, to win on Madden’s biggest stage.
Raidel "Joke" Britol won the 2020 Madden Bowl – the Super Bowl of professional Madden tournaments – without throwing a single pass the entire tournament. Redskins punter Tress Way served as the quarterback of his run-only offense. https://t.co/BUJ1i4SQdq
— Field Yates (@FieldYates) May 17, 2020
Joke did not throw a single pass in the entire tournament, taking advantage of the run-focused meta of the game and his skill to create a championship-winning formula. In the tournament, players crafted their rosters in a salary-cap system, with current and former NFL players available. Joke used this to his advantage, opting not to field a true quarterback in his lineup; Washington Redskins punter Tress Way was under center.
This freed up funds for Joke to go after strong offensive and defensive players with special abilities, such as Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Frank Clark, a power specialist, and former NFL safety Taylor Mays, a secure tackler. Joke chose the run-dominant Raiders offensive playbook and the widely popular Miami Dolphins defensive playbook to put it all together.
Quite a year it’s been for Way — he was named to his first-ever Pro Bowl after the 2019 season, and now he can add this to his resume as well.
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