The 2021 season didn’t quite turn out as planned for coach Ron Rivera and The Washington Football Team. The momentum from a 2020 NFC East title and playoff appearance fizzled quickly when veteran journeyman Ryan Fitzpatrick was injured early in the first game of the season, and things seemed to spiral downhill quickly.
There were some high and lows - just like there is every season, but as we’ve come accustomed to seeing with this football team, the lows, yet again, outweighed the highs.
Without any semblance of real quarterback play, and a defense who looked just as bad as the stagnant offense for the first half of the season, Washington quickly fell into a hole, and despite a mid-season, four-game winning streak, the deficiencies, injuries and COVID issues were just too much for this team to overcome.