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The 2020 NFL Draft was the 85th annual meeting of the National Football League. The Washington Redskins ended up making eight selections over the weekend, including the second overall pick. With that pick, they chose defensive end Chase Young out of Ohio State University.
The draft was originally scheduled to be held in Paradise, Nevada, but was instead held via videoconferencing due to the Covid pandemic.
Here are the 2020 NFL Draft Selections for the Washington Redskins:
THN will be live blogging here for the first round. We’ll track the picks and the trades so you know what the Redskins options are when they pick, whether they stay at #15, move up, or trade back
ABC, ESPN, NFL Network and ESPN Deportes
Thursday, April 25: 8:00 p.m. EDT
Did we win? When our last edition was published, the Redskins boasted a 2 game lead on the rest of the division, and a QB who, while not able to throw the long ball, was an efficient game manager, able to take what the defense gave and put a check in the win column. That seems like a year ago now, and while the Skins are not mathematically eliminated, they certainly seem to be circling the drain. To tell the truth, the editors here at TLP debated whether to even publish this edition. But here we are, bringing you, our faithful readers, a story from The Florida Times-Union:
I’m not going to blow smoke up anyone’s ass for cheap clicks here, it’s been damn hard to write about the Washington Redskins this season or at least to write anything positive about the Washington Redskins. Everything about being a fan of this team sucks monumental ass.
The owner is a self-absorbed douchebag who has no intention of learning from two decades of mistakes and would certainly never do the fanbase the favor of selling the franchise.
He employs the least qualified general manager in the league in Bruce Allen, who gets credit for managing the salary cap better than Vinny Cerrato. If the best we can do as fans is applaud something better than Vinny Cerrato we deserve to suffer. And suffer we have done and continue to do at the behest of the most inept organization in all of sports.
This club can’t get anything right even by accident. A blind squirrel may find an occasional acorn but a blind, deaf, dumb, and willfully ignorant squirrel finds either a subsistence diet or a starvation diet and Redskins fans are finding both every year.
With the victory over the Bucs, the Skins took a two game lead over the rest of the division, despite devastating injuries along the offensive line. Although they gave up ample yardage, the defense stiffened in the red zone, and took the ball away four times. Surely, this was a game this Tampa Bay team should have won. Let’s find out from The Tampa Bay Times what happened:
Wow, this season is becoming fun, albeit a lot of work for the editors of TLP. Back to back divisional wins have been rare in recent history, and sacking Sheli Manning 7 times in a great defensive effort, seemingly even rarer. How great was it to see the sad sack QB pouting hit after hit?
Along with the stellar defensive play, the resurgence of Adrian Peterson made this the editors favorite game of the season. To celebrate, we bring our loyal readers a trifecta of NY newspaper articles. The first comes from the pages of The New York Daily News:
The sweetest job the editors of TLP have is to publish issues from the scumbag town of Dallas. It makes us downright giddy. You can’t fool us, that caravan of folks coming up from South America is marching to Arlington to see their favorite team. Before the game ended with a resounding DOINK, the Redskins were thoroughly outplaying the Cowchips, though it wasn’t reflected on the scoreboard. But how did justice prevail?
Let’s find out from The Dallas Morning News.
How did it get to be Thursday so fast? The editors apologize for the lateness of this edition, our typesetter called in sick the first part of the week. Anyhoo, let’s get right to the fun.
Today’s edition features two articles from the Charlotte Observer:
What’s this? An edition of TLP after week one? For the first time in Jay Gruden’s coaching career, the Redskins won their opener, so necessity dictates we check in with newspapers local to the Phoenix area to find out just what happened. From the pages of The Arizona Republic we get this offering: