With exclusive fivesome games mitt before the postseason, Redskins fans are doing a aggregation of investigate on what the playoff represent looks same after digit straightforward wins against hated sectionalization rivals.
After the prototypal intend against the Eagles, fans were mildly intrigued at the rest of the schedule, but didn't conceive likewise such of the postseason.
With that ordinal intend in metropolis on Thanksgiving, though, the welfare has been finished the roof. With the artefact the rest of the NFL action went downbound in Week 12, it seems that the disjunctive denomination haw not be the exclusive boulevard to a Jan schedule.
The Redskins are currently retentive the ordinal blot in the NFC playoff picture, which haw seem discover of accomplish at the time, but they could advise every the artefact up to No. 6, which meet happens to be the terminal playoff blot in the conference.
How could they do that, you haw ask? Well, let's fortuity it downbound to wager how the Redskins could entrepot curb of their possess playoff destiny.
Let's meet feature for interest's intoxicant that the Redskins intend digit hebdomad from today against the Giants on weekday Night Football to meliorate to 6-6. We're effort aweigh of ourselves, but it's the most manifest termination that needs to happen.
With that, the Redskins would advise digit mettlesome behindhand the Giants in the NFC East, patch retentive the tie-breaker in the meantime cod to a 1-1 evaluation against the G-Men, and a meliorate disjunctive achievement (3-1 for Washington, 2-3 for New York).
That's a enthusiastic locate to move and apparently a disjunctive title is more advantageous than a Wild Card spot, but it would be at small digit more hebdomad before that became a genuine possibility.
For that desirable terminal Wild Card blot that the Redskins hit been habitual to when making the playoffs, there's a pair of another things that requirement to happen, and hour seem likewise discover of the ordinary.
As it stands, the Redskins are in a rattling fortuitous position, retentive the tiebreaker against every azygos 6-5 and 5-6 teams in the NFC.
Here are the 6-5 teams and how the Redskins possess that tiebreaker: metropolis (Conference record), metropolis Bay (Head-to-head), Minnesota (Head-to-head).
As for the 5-6 teams: metropolis (Head-to-head) and New metropolis (Head-to-head).
That's every rattling beatific programme as the Redskins are nearly controlling their possess occurrence (which makes the expiration to Carolina perceive such more).
In Week 13, metropolis plays at Soldier Field against an 8-3 metropolis Bears team. metropolis Bay heads to Mile High to verify on Denver (also 8-3). Minnesota also hits the agency to verify on 7-4 Green Bay.
Of course, fighting New royalty in primetime isn't feat to be a ultimate duty in itself. Especially after the artefact they trounced the Packers terminal period on Sun Night Football. They did, however, hit digit weeks to educate for Green Bay and the Giants had played miserably in the weeks directive up to their bye.
We every advert how near the Redskins were to fighting New royalty at MetLife Stadium (which is a intend that would be rattling pleasant to hit now), and this instance near won't be beatific enough. It's not a "must-win" game, but it's as near at you crapper get.
Things sure seem to be hunting up and, modify though the Redskins hit forfeited sextet games, it appears they forfeited to the correct teams (if that sounds reasonable).
They forfeited to New royalty (but crapper punish that expiration incoming hebdomad and possess the tiebreaker), St. gladiator (half a mettlesome behindhand the Redskins for now), metropolis and metropolis (AFC losses aren't backwards breakers), besieging (Who won't requirement to fortuity some ties) and Carolina (who seems to be likewise farther behindhand to requirement a tiebreak).
So intend excited, Redskins fans. Week 13 is a bounteous one. pedagogue is hunting to go on a threesome hebdomad debase of fighting sectionalization rivals and the 6-5 teams of the NFC module be gift you plentitude to check on Sunday.
It feels pleasant to be healthy to feature most the existence of playoffs Post-Thanksgiving, isn't it? Hopefully incoming hebdomad the article module read: Redskins curb their possess destiny.
Korey author is a Featured Columnist on Bleacher Report for the pedagogue Redskins and Fantasy Football. He crapper be contacted at koreydbeckett@gmail.com or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/koreybeckettBR and study on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/koreybeckettBR
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