Storyline: The Washington Redskins are hot, on a four-game winning streak, winning five out of the last six games. Can they handle perennial power Green Bay? We’ll find out Sunday. Written by Joshua Landis, Washington, DC. Follow Joshua on Twitter @RedskinsWriter
The Redskins have a lot to be happy about. They’ve clinched the NFC East, they’re heading to the post season for the first time since 2012, and they’ve finally found a quarterback in Kirk Cousins. Everything is coming together for a franchise that has seen dysfunction and mediocrity for most of the 2000s.
After starting the season 2-4, the Redskins finished the second half of the year strong, going 7-3, and winning four consecutive games. Washington is now faced with what most pundits and commentators never saw coming–the NFL Playoffs.
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“We’ve been doubted every since I’ve been here,” Trent Williams said. “Since I put this helmet on, people have always found a way to doubt us. That doesn’t matter. It’s going to come with the territory. All that matters is us and how we play in the playoffs.”
The Redskins will face the Green Bay Packers Sunday. Green Bay has struggled in recent weeks and hasn’t looked like the dominant NFC team that we’re used to seeing with Aaron Rogers running the show. Ironically, the Redskins–typically down and/or out–are on the opposite end of the spectrum–hot. They’ll enter Sunday’s showdown with five wins in their last six games. And Kirk Cousins is playing as well as any quarterback in the league.
“We’re not just gonna be happy to be hear,” Will Compton said. “We have a lot of good leadership in this locker room. We want to get what we think we’re worth and that’s a championship.”
The Redskins and Packers have met 34 times. The two teams last met in the playoffs in 1972 when Washington prevailed, 16-3. The Packers lead the all time series 19-14-1.
But stats go only so far. The Redskins are coming into the playoffs with a chip on their shoulder. “Everyone counted us out at the beginning of the season, even now,” Alfred Morris said. “It doesn’t matter. We know what we’re capable of doing and we have a lot of weapons and we have the ability of doing something special this postseason.”
Washington has something to prove.
