LANDOVER, Md. (AP) _ An 0-2 start does not guarantee a meaningless season in
the NFL. It usually is an indication of the direction a team is headed, though,
so Jay Gruden’s Washington Redskins and Jason Garrett’s Dallas Cowboys would
love to avoid another loss, especially against an NFC East rival.
Go back to 1990, and an average of one club per season made the playoffs
despite beginning with two losses.
Defensive lineman Ricky Jean Francois wants to avoid following a 22-point loss
in Week 1 for the Redskins with another defeat against rookie quarterback Dak
Prescott and the rest of the visiting Cowboys on Sunday.
“When Michael Johnson broke the world record in the 200 meters, he stumbled
out of the blocks _ and he still broke the world record. It’s not about how you
start; it’s about how you finish. This is not a sprint; this is a marathon,”
Jean Francois said. “We can’t let the first game seem like, `All right, we got
beat.’ … We don’t need to come out here acting like the season is over.”
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