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Listening to Keim, he also said don't expect any announcement on Wednesday. More likely to hear something official by Thursday or even Friday.

Let's go hire our new Head Coach ladies and gentlemen!!!!

Quinn is coming to DC Monday night and mist be interviewing first thing Tuesday morning. Then can then fly out to Detroit Tuesday early afternoon.

As someone posted recently in here quoting Scott McCloughan. " It used to be 80 percent of evaluating came from tape and 20 percent from interviews but it's now 80 percent interviews and 20 percent film"

I've heard multiple times from Jim Nagy interviews about how the back end of the draft is equal to UDFA level from past years. Not that they couldn't find a diamond in the rough. Was wondering what people think about them packaging their 5th, 6th and 7th round pick to obtain an extra 3rd rounder (or 4th if necessary)?

From what I have heard from local media, yes, Ben Johnson is the number one target. I also believe Ben Johnson wants to be here as well. However, if he doesn't have an impressive interview and another candidate blows them out of the water, then they will go with plan B.

Speculation or what he's heard?

Two things: 1. The Ben Johnson hype campaign reminds me of the campaign surrounding Jay Gruden when he was the OC with the Bengals and was coaching in the 2013/14 playoffs before being hired here. 2. I've seen a few mentions of how Morris turned a top ranked defense in 2022 to 20th ranked this season. The amount of rookies he was forced to start on defense because of the team's cap hell was atrocious. He salvaged what he could.

Raheem Morris is really growing on me. I currently rank as my second choice behind Johnson. Positives: 1. Spent 5 seasons on the offensive side of the ball so he has real understanding of both sides. 2. Seen as a fiery, super positive leader. 3. Has numerous connections all over the league. He should have no trouble putting together a staff. 4. Personally recommend by Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay as their top pick for a head coach opening.

The bit that I took away from this was that before hiring Shanahan, they had fired three coaches in three years. Harbaugh, Tomsula and Kelly. It was only throwing money at Shanahan and promising him any power he wanted, was York able to get him. Sounds a bit like the Panthers and Johnson potentially.

The Commanders’ process moved fast. And, really, the wheels started turning a little over three weeks ago—when former Golden State Warriors GM Bob Myers, who’d gone to work for Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, reached out to former Minnesota Vikings GM Rick Spielman, and asked whether he’d come to Miami to meet with new Commanders owner Josh Harris. Spielman’s been living on Florida’s Gulf Coast and is in Fort Lauderdale every weekend for his work at CBS. That made things easy on everyone. Spielman got there over the weekend of Week 16, and Harris told him that while no decision had been made on coach Ron Rivera or his front office, he wanted to be ready to roll if the Commanders did move on. He invited Spielman to join Myers on his search committee and, as soon as Spielman accepted, asked the old GM to start doing background work to find a head of football operations and head coach. Two weeks later, the original list of 15 that Spielman worked off was whittled to five. Three days after that, 49ers assistant GM Adam Peters was aboard as new head of football ops. The Commanders still have a ton of work to do, of course. That includes hiring a head coach. It also includes filling out both that coach’s staff, and Peters’s staff, making decisions on incumbents such as Martin Mayhew, and starting to build a reimagined football operation as Peters and his counterpart see fit. But a big domino has fallen. Here’s how that part of this came together in D.C. … • Spielman’s work through the final two weeks of the season was done quietly. He made calls but didn’t tell folks who he was working for, gathering information discreetly. Then, the Monday after Week 18, once Harris let Rivera go, Spielman drove to Miami and got to work talking with folks such as former Arizona Cardinals GM and Fritz Pollard Alliance exec Rod Graves, former New York Giants GM Jerry Reese, former Jacksonville Jaguars exec Michael Huyghue and former Pittsburgh Steelers GM Kevin Colbert, all whom worked in the league for decades, and attended last month’s accelerator program. He was on the phone from 7:30 a.m. to about 11 p.m., checking every box on the five guys he’d identified, all of whom carried assistant GM titles: Peters, as well as Kansas City’s Mike Borgonzi, Cleveland’s Glenn Cook, Chicago’s Ian Cunningham, Philadelphia’s Alec Halaby. • The first round of interviews happened at Harris’s offices in Miami. Each candidate spent two and a half hours with Spielman, then another two and a half hours with Harris and Myers. Borgonzi, Cook and Peters went Tuesday, in that order, then Cook and Halaby went Wednesday. morning. • After that, the larger group met one last time to pick Peters. It was close between the final two, with Peters’s seven years of experience as a No. 2, and the success his 49ers have had serving as a tiebreaker. (Cunningham is in his second year as a top lieutenant, and while the Bears seem headed in the right direction, they’re not there yet.) And, again, there’s still plenty to figure out. But the framework now is in place. The club is set up like Harris’s other pro teams, the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers and NHL’s New Jersey Devils, with a head of business (president Jason Wright) and head of football (Peters) reporting directly to the owner. The plan is for the coach to report to Peters, and finding that coach is obviously the next big priority (they’ve already interviewed Baltimore Ravens coaches Mike Macdonald and Anthony Weaver), with elements such as analytics and sports science left to be built out. For now, it’s fair to say landing Peters is a big win. He’s been picky on taking interviews the past couple of years, and it so happened that just as he fit Washington (with Harris looking for an expert in personnel, and a guy who had knowledge in other areas, and was humble enough to know what he didn’t know and find experts in those areas to help him), Washington presented Peters with what he was looking for. So six months in as an owner, Harris has made his biggest hire. And now, together, they’ll get to the hard part.