NFL Week 6 Redskins vs. Dolphins: Sunday's loser looking at winless season?

Of course, just two teams in NFL history have finished a season at 0-16: the 2008 Detroit Lions and 2017 Cleveland Browns. There's a lot of the 2019 regular season left, but it's fair to wonder whether the loser of Sunday's game between 0-5 Washington and 0-4 Miami will join that infamous group. Kickoff from Hard Rock Stadium in Miami is 1 p.m. ET and the Redskins are 3.5-point favorites on the NFL odds. Both teams are on seven-game losing streaks.
DraftKings sportsbook has an NFL futures prop up asking which team will earn the No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 draft – and, potentially, the chance to select Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, although the Redskins just took Dwayne Haskins in the first round of the 2019 draft. Miami is the -150 favorite and the Dolphins have been atrocious, outscored by 137 points. In fact, the Dolphins haven't scored a second-half point yet. They are the first team to go scoreless in the second half through four games since the 1977 Green Bay Packers, who finished 4-10.
Miami is the -150 favorite on the NFL futures odds to land the 2020 first overall pick. The Dolphins absolutely will be sizable road underdogs in all their games but might have realistic chances to win at home in Week 9 vs. the Jets and Week 16 vs. the Bengals. At FanDuel, Miami is +380 to go 0-16 and -550 to win at least one game.
It's the first game for Washington since the team fired Jay Gruden on Monday, with former Raiders and Nebraska head coach Bill Callahan taking over the rest of the season. He says he plans to run the ball more than Gruden did. However, the Redskins are not ready to start Haskins yet so it will be either Colt McCoy or Case Keenum under center Sunday. Washington is +500 to pick No. 1 overall next year, with Cincinnati (+400) joining the Dolphins with shorter NFL odds.
The Dolphins are on a seven-game losing streak overall by an average margin of more than 28 points on NFL picks and the Redskins also are on a seven-game skid by an average margin of nearly 16.

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