Is Hope Building For The Washington Football Team?

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🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In an NFL season full of unlikely things, the Washington Football Team notched a real head-scratching outcome when they handed the Pittsburgh Steelers their first loss of the season, 23-17. The victory came as a surprise, since Washington’s record is just 5-7. But it seems that hope is starting to brew for Washington fans, and even the NFC East as a whole. ESPN’s John Keim has covered the NFL in Washington since the 1990s. He breaks down how far the team might go, the amazing return of QB Alex Smith after a near-fatal injury, and how head coach Ron Rivera has run the team while battling cancer. Then, author Tim Wigmore of “The Best: How Elite Athletes Are Made” talks about younger siblings’ athletic advantage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Rophelesberger going for Ebron makes the catch and he's inbound that's going to run this game out
0:07.0	the Washington football team with the upset in Pittsburgh handing the Steelers their first loss of the season coming back from 14 nothing down what a win for Washington
0:20.0	this week the Washington football team might as well Key nothing down. What a win for Washington.
0:22.0	This week, the Washington football team might as well go by a different acronym.
0:27.6	WTF.
0:30.4	No one of sound mind expected this franchise to ruin Pittsburgh's perfect season.
0:36.1	But that's far from the only comeback story that defines the WFT,
0:41.0	including one that just might include the playoffs.
0:46.0	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Thursday, December 10th.
0:50.0	This is ESPN.
0:57.5	So, John, the word delight is not the word I expected to be using around the Washington
1:03.6	football team at all this year, to be frank with you.
1:06.4	But I feel like delight might actually be understating the feelings around this team right now.
1:12.3	So what words come to mind for you about how fans of this team are feeling?
1:18.4	You know, I almost hesitate to use the word you fork because the bottom line is there a five and seven team?
1:25.7	John Kime hosts the John Kime Report podcast
1:28.1	and has covered this team for three very long decades.
1:33.1	The feeling, it feels like they're ready to start embracing this team again.
1:38.5	Like they've moved past a certain point.
1:41.0	Now, we all know there's still some issues that have been that were lingering and there
1:45.4	are you know a lot of fans still have a problem with the owner but it does feel like they want to
1:50.5	embrace this team again and I've seen that over the last couple weeks like they feel like they
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