With no-fans-in-the-stands Washington’s football team got a season opening win – at home – defeating their division rival, the Philadelphia Eagles, 27-17.
After throwing two touchdowns in the first half, it looked like the Eagles would dominate the entire game and defeat the Washington Football Team.
Washington Football celebrate win over Eagles. Photo credit: WFT photos
It would be just the opposite.
Washington’s football team has been going through a
tumultuous offseason. The team was forced to change
its name from the Washington Redskins; several executives (and its owner)
allegedly, have been called out for sexual
misconduct; and before the start of the season it was reported that head
coach Ron Rivera
has cancer. Rivera had to get an IV from during half-time, “just to be
safe”.
AROUND THE LEAGUE:
Ravens
defeat Browns 36-8.
Coaches and team captains usually give half-time speeches to
rally their team before the start of the second half. Washington quarterback
Dwayne Haskins led the charge Sunday. In his speech,
Haskins reminded his team that the Eagles are in ‘our house.’
“They're
the visitors”, Haskins said. “There's no reason why we should be feeling like
the little bro in a sense.”
Washington
let the Eagles know that Washington, indeed, is not the little bro.
By the end of the second half, Wentz threw an interception
that Washington’s Fabian Monroe capitalized on in a major way, putting
Washington on the Eagles’ 45 yard line. Two plays later Haskins would find
Logan Thomas (TE) in the end zone for a touchdown, his first to start the 2020
season.
After the disappointing loss in the wake of the absence of
key Eagles’ players along with their QB getting sacked a career-high eight
times by Washington’s defense in Sunday’s game, Wentz, in apologetic-like
fashion said, I’ve
got to get better. It starts with me.”
& ANOTHER ONE:
Kerrigan
surpasses sack king, Dexter Manley.
Eagles’ center, Jason Kelce, credited Washington and agreed his
team has to “be better.”
"I
felt like we were never really able to establish the run game very well,"
Kelce said. "That's a combination of guys not executing. Credit to
Washington [for] throwing some well-timed blitzes, but we got to be better. We
got to be better up front. No excuses."
Washington hadn’t defeated the Eagles since 2016.
Coach Rivera credited the team for continuing to fight
during Sunday’s game.
"They
were down, 17-0, and they responded and they just kept fighting and stuck to it",
Rivera said. "And it just shows what these guys are capable of."
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