
The Washington Commanders are a bad team. That’s more or less what NFL fans expected in the run-up to the 2022 season.
What head coach Ron Rivera didn’t expect, through five weeks, was to be at least three games behind the rest of the NFC East after a 1-4 start. The Commanders are deep in their division’s basement and have just a six percent chance to make it to the postseason, per FiveThirtyEight’s predictive analysis.