The Commanders fielded a team full of backups, third stringers and rookies Sunday night against a heavily favored Dallas team, looking to clinch the number one seed in the NFC playoffs and a first round bye. Nobody gave Washington much of a chance. My season projection model, which has been hitting 70+ percent correct, predicted a Cowboys blowout. Even some of the more consistently optimistic writers for this site (names withheld to protect the innocent) were predicting an ugly loss.
Well, dear readers, funny things happen when teams with nothing to lose play teams that everyone expects to win.