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Shattered: Redskins fan confidence has been destroyed by 0-3 start

Redskins fans entered 2019 on a low note, after the team collapsed from Weeks 10 to 17, when they won only a single game and fell from first place to third place in the NFC East, but a measure of confidence was restored following a mostly positive free agency period and a draft that was widely praised by NFL commenters.

The confidence, like the plan of a Mike Tyson opponent, didn’t survive for long.

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Three successive losses, each at least as ugly as the one that preceded it, have left the fan based befuddled, enraged and frustrated, with many of them lashing out on radio talk shows, internet blogs and across cold mugs of beer in many a bar.