A cancer diagnosis brought this one, and now Rivera has a way to connect with players he has coached for only a couple of weeks. It’s an old cliche, muttered at one time or another by any man who has ever coached a professional football team. On Thursday evening, they all became one on the turf of the team’s practice bubble. On Thursday, a challenge came via the words no coach ever wants to say to his team. “I have some tough news …”Where they go after those words will say so much about how fast Rivera can remake Washington’s football team.

Source: Washington Post August 22, 2020 20:58 UTC