The Washington Football Team has finally rebuilt itself

 The Washington Football Team is doing it the right way with Josh Harris as the owner. He has hit every check point along the way without skipping a beat. The hard part, mostly, is over.

Drafting Jayden Daniels helps a lot, but usually new owners tear down the existing structure of the organization and put in their own version immediately. Harris didn’t do this. He and his ownership group waited for the first year to complete and got to work at the start of the second year. Washington went out and got the right General Manager and Head Coach for this version of the organization. They got the right veteran players to instill a new culture in a place that was in desperate need of it. Yes, drafting Jayden Daniels helps expedite the entire process given his talent and his ability to be a leader as a rookie. However, that’s only the first part of completely reworking an organization.

The next step is the success part. Getting the right people in place and setting them up for success is the part that most teams cannot get right, see the New York Jets or New York Giants. Succeeding on the field is where the dream most often doesn’t become a reality. Thanks to Daniels, new Head Coach Dan Quinn, and veteran leaders like Terry McLaurlin, Zach Ertz, Austin Ekeler, and Bobby Wagner the Washington Football Team (I’m not calling them their old name nor their new name) has won their first playoff game since 2005. Along with the exercising demons, this group in the Nations’ Capital has now placed themselves in an interesting group. They are now in the group that Detroit and Houston are in, Cincinnati of a few years, and the Baltimore Ravens and Buffalo Bills before that. A team with an extremely young quarterback that has proven to be a winner.

Washington now must do the final part of a rebuild. Sustain the success of the turnaround. Going to Detroit next Saturday will be a tough test for this group. They will be underdogs again. They will be cast aside again. If they win the game, the juice that will be pumped into the bandwagon in Washington will be equivalent to rocket fuel. But let’s not get too ahead of ourselves. They have won one playoff game. Washington hasn’t won the Super Bowl. Let’s not get confused that is still the goal. But they’ve climbed the mountain to a point where they can see the summit. Staying in this spot will be tough, extremely tough, but at least they are where they are, and in doing so they are now one of the models in getting out of the sewer that is rebuilding in sports.

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