The Washington Commanders want to eliminate some mistakes, but don’t overlook the importance of winning a close game against the New Orleans Saints.
ASHBURN, Va. — A win is a win, and the Washington Commanders got a valuable one this weekend by beating the New Orleans Saints by a final score of 20-19.
That’s the good news. But the bad news for the Commanders was the second half which almost fell apart after being outscored 19-6 after going into the half with a 14-point lead over the home side Saints.
However, Washington head coach Dan Quinn says there’s an upside to playing — and winning — a game like that.
“If you want to break it down, the first half is definitely what you want. But the second half is what you need,” Coach Quinn told WUSA9’s Chick Hernandez during their weekly meeting following the team’s ninth win of the season. “Going through the ups and downs, the good games, the bad games, going to battle… that’s where most of the growth will happen.” »
Quinn pointed out that even with the Commanders’ success this season after being projected by many to win fewer than seven games throughout the year, this is still a team that develops and grows through each experience .
“To have those tough matches and get the win, you learn along the way,” Quinn also said.
Learning to win without playing your best game isn’t the only lesson here. This is certainly no way for Quinn or anyone else to escape the fact that several errors on the field led to a much closer result than it probably should have been at the time. New Orleans.
But every NFL team must overcome adversity to ultimately win the Lombardi Trophy, which is what this Washington team wants to do, preferably in the near future.
When that day comes, any player who lived through the near-disastrous disappointment of this weekend will look back on experiences like that Week 15 victory and know that the lows that accompanied the highs helped them reach even greater heights than Before.
And that’s quite a positive for a team to pick up its ninth win of the season, moving ever closer to the Commanders’ first playoff berth since 2020 and already securing the franchise’s first nine-win season since 2015.
