The NFC East is a joke this season, and the Redskins are only partially to blame

The NFC East as a whole has experienced nothing but frustration all year, and it currently stands as the worst division in the NFL.

Of all the years that the Washington Redskins could have had one of the worst showings in recent memory, they sure chose the right one. So far in the 2019 season, the Redskins have:

  • Stubbornly avoided trading away a star player while he openly refused to play for the team.
  • Fired their head coach just a few weeks into the season.
  • Went 16-consecutive quarters without scoring a touchdown.
  • Had a rookie QB miss the last play of the game because he was taking selfies with a fan.

There’s obviously much more, but those are pretty much the leaders in the clubhouse for most embarrassing moments that point towards a broken franchise. Luckily for the Redskins, though, their disastrous season has been overshadowed by some familiar teams; the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles. If you are feeling generous, you can even throw the New York Giants into the mix, and as a whole, the NFC East lumps together as one big screw-up of a division this season.

The Cowboys are the fresh topic on everyone’s mind after whatever you want to call that Thanksgiving debacle we just saw on Thursday night. Dak Prescott and the Cowboys lost to the Buffalo Bills, 26-15, in a game in which  Buffalo dominated the game, and team owner Jerry Jones left his owner’s box in a huff before all was said and done.

The Cowboys are now 6-6, which is somehow still currently good enough for a lead in the division. At number two in the standings are the Eagles, who have been just as much of a disappointment as the Cowboys. They are now 5-6 overall, and they’ve lost two straight games and were held to 10 points or fewer in both contests. The receiving core is depleted, the secondary is abysmal, and QB Carson Wentz looks nothing like the MVP level player we saw just two years ago when they won the Super Bowl.

So it’s not just the Redskins who are having a season from hell. The entire NFC East is struggling, and they’re led by a team that is currently .500. When people look to the division to point and laugh, some of the scrutiny will be aimed at Washington and all of the missteps that have been taken over the years, but not all of the shade can be thrown on them. The NFC East is a sorry excuse for a division right now, and Washington is only partly to blame.

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