The NFC East has been the laughing stock of the NFL all season long. And the disrespect for the division continued Monday on ESPN’s “Get Up.”
“I don’t like seafood. I don’t like soup. I don’t like milk chocolate. I don’t like cooked vegetables. So I don’t want any of them,” former NFL quarterback Dan Orlovsky said. “And that’s what I feel like with the NFC East. I don’t want to pick any team. I don’t want to pick any of these teams because I have no idea who’s playing quarterback for who.”
Well, while Orlovsky’s point about the lack of firepower on offense in the division is a fair one, he is forgetting about the most dominant and legitimately great unit in the NFC East: The Washington Football Team’s defense.
“Everything that Dan mentioned just points to his bland taste in food,” former NFL corner Ryan Clark responded. “But very much like Dan’s bland taste in food, so is the NFC East. There is nothing there that is tasty. There is nothing there that’s spicy (except) that defensive line of the Washington Football Team.”
Coming off a dominating performance in a 23-15 win over the 49ers, Clark pointed out to Washington’s MVP: Chase Young.
“Chase Young is everything that we thought Jadeveon Clowney would be,” he said. “Chase Young is like Derrick Henry and the Predator went into a lab and they started working on both of them and that’s what came out of the lab.”
Clark compared Young scooping up the football on his 47-yard fumble return for a touchdown to a fumble recovery by Sean Taylor.
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“When the dude picked the ball up yesterday and started running with it,” Clark said of Young. “I remember Sean Taylor scooping a fumble against the Philadelphia Eagles for a touchdown, I remember how little the football looked in his hand. I remember how fast he ran down the sideline and he was in the all-white for the Washington Football Team, and it looked exactly like that.
“I got that feeling. I got that feeling that I was watching something that we hadn’t really seen. And it was amazing to see,” Clark said.
“The reason I like Washington in the division is because, if you line up the four teams, the best player in the division is Chase Young,” Mike Greenberg said.
“Absolutely, absolutely,” former NFL head coach Rex Ryan added. “The best unit on the field in that division is (Washington’s) defensive line and they are so impactful. And how they’re playing, they can get pressure on the quarterback just by rushing those four guys, they have depth, anytime you got a guy that’s probably a 10-sack a year guy, Ryan Kerrigan, as a backup you’re in pretty good shape.”
After leading the team to four-straight wins, the defense has Washington at 6-7 and in position to add some seasoning to the NFL playoffs for the first time since 2015.
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