Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NFL. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Commanders fans and fans across the country.
With the season at about the halfway point, we’re continuing to ask the standard confidence question each week; that is, “Are you confident the Commanders are headed in the right direction?”
We’ve been asking that question weekly from September to December for many years.
With the Commanders fresh off of a narrow loss to the Rams “superteam”,
and with the overall record standing a 2-5-1 after 8 games, there a sense of gloom has settled in on the Commanders fan base, and even Dan Quinn seemed especially subdued in this week’s Monday press conference.
Any hope that Washington has for reaching the playoffs this season rest in a come-from-behind division championship, which remains a possibility in a struggling NFC East. However, with the loss to the Rams coming on the same weekend when the Cowboys beat a tanking Colts team and the Giants beat a comically-failing Eagles squad, the hill just got a little steeper. So steep, in fact, that the Commanders face their first true “must win” game of the season on Thursday night when they travel to New York to take on the division-leading Giants.
Get a win in that prime time game, and Washington will hold the tie-breaker against the G-men, with real opportunities to match their win total by the end of Week 18. Lose, and Washington would fall 4 games behind in the win column — but FIVE games behind in the race for the division crown — with just 8 games left in the season. In other words, a loss ends all hope for a happy ending to the Commanders story in 2026.
So, in today’s second question, we ask you to predict which team will win the game on Thursday.
Comments & Results
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