The Washington Redskins will encounter a strange stretch of games during the upcoming 2019-20 regular season. Between September 30th and December 14th, the Redskins won’t play a single team from the NFC East – which is obviously pretty hard to believe considering six of a team’s 16 regular season games come within the division.

More specifically, the Redskins will take on the rival New York Giants in East Rutherford on September 29th while the team’s next NFC East opponent will not appear on the schedule until Washington’s December 15th home matchup against the Philadelphia Eagles. Overall, the Redskins will play games against NFC East opponents in three of the first four weeks of the season with the latter three matchups of this kind coming in the final three weeks of the 2019-20 regular season.

This could obviously become both a blessing and a curse for Washington, though the Redskins are not expected to do much damage as a result of the upcoming campaign. With both the aforementioned Eagles and Dallas Cowboys both slated to find themselves atop the divisional standings, the Redskins and Giants have seemingly already been counted out in terms of the eventual NFC East race.

The Redskins have failed to make a major splash thus far into the 2019 offseason with Washington most notably acquiring former Denver Broncos quarterback Case Keenum via trade from the AFC West franchise. However, Keenum will likely become nothing more than a placeholder in the end as Washington could either select a quarterback in the 2019 NFL Draft or welcome back injured signal caller Alex Smith at some point down the road.