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I don't think age really matters anymore for coaching. McVay took the Rams job in his mid-30's. Zac Taylor, Matt LaFluer, & Kyle Shanahan were all in their 30's when they were hired to their respective positions. I think you need someone younger to connect to the players, and who might have fresh new takes on how to succeed as a football team. As long as we aren't hiring anyone over 55 or 60, who is a rah-rah old school goober like Rivera, it's fine. All I ask is that the new coach knows what he's doing on offense, and that he will be open to suggestions from the scouting team and the analytics team.

Yes, the key is to have a young offensive coach to succeed in today's league. DeMeco Ryans is a very smart coach, who hired the right offensive coordinator to teach and mentor CJ Stroud. I think he's the exception to the rule as far as hiring coaches in today's league. You don't want to end up like the Bears, who completely whiffed on their HC hire when they nabbed Eberflus. That was a TERRIBLE HC hire for Justin Fields. I'm all in on trying to hire Ben Johnson or the Texans OC in the offseason. I don't want a defensive minded coach, to pair with a young QB (whether that's Howell or possibly a QB we draft like Maye or Daniels). We need to move into the current century to keep up with the other contending teams in the league.

I think he's earned the right to speak as freely as he does about the state of this organization. This is a tire-fire, dumpster juice of an organization, and it's gotta be tough for players like Allen & McLaurin to deal with on a daily basis. Both those guys came from winning college programs, so it's gotta be tough to deal with a toxic dump of an organization, from the previous ownership, to the front office and the below average coaching staffs they've had in their years here in DC. I have no problem with Allen or McLaurin expressing their frustrations with what's going on. I would worry about them if they didn't feel that frustration to be honest with you. I remember fans getting on Trent Williams' case when he expressed those same frustrations as his cancer diagnosis fiasco was unfolding. Because of arrogance and stupidity from ownership and the coaching staff, we ran off the best LT of a generation. We're still feeling the affects of this today. I'd hate to run off other talented players (the few that we have), because fans can't handle the truth. We owe it to Allen & McLaurin to treat them the best way that we can, after all they've suffered with dealing with this basura franchise in their careers.

Why would any Commanders fan go to a game at Fed-Ex Field when the team is out of the playoffs, and they’ve won only 1 home game all season? They’re lucky the stadium is even sold out as it is. Anyone going to the game today that’s not a Dolphins fan needs their head examined to be honest with you.

Unfortunately, fans have wised up to what this team truly is under Rivera (and the last remnants of the Snyder FO/regime), and have already moved their focus to the offseason. I think if most fans were honest with themselves, this was the most likely outcome for the season, even before training camp. I knew we were in for a rough season once we finished the offseason with virtually no major upgrades or signings besides EB or naming Sam Howell the starter. This season always had the feeling of things getting ugly, and it’s now been fully realized. There’s not much to say about this current team at the moment. Now that our playoff chances are zero, the only reason to watch this team is for the continued development Sam Howell. I don’t give a damn about the rest of the team or our chances to win meaningless games the rest of the season, but I am looking to see how Howell progresses from here on out, and if he looks like a franchise QB by the end of the season. That would be the only positive outcome to come out of this disaster of a season. I couldn’t care less about the defense, since we’re looking at a MAJOR retooling of the entire unit by next season. I don’t care about the game results anymore either. If we lose today 35-31, and Howell looks great, that’s almost as good as a win at this point in a non-competitive season. The best thing to happen to this team from now until January is to play close games and lose, while Sam Howell continues to improve his QB play.

That's because of the greatness of Allen, and that the Bills are MUCH more talented than this team is. McDermott, while nowhere near as bad as Staley, is not really doing the best job that he can to get Buffalo to breakthrough to get to SB's. He's a defensive coach at the end of the day. If you have a talented, Top 5 QB in Allen, you need to do find Allen the best OC that you can afford, so that he can excel to that next level. When they lost Daboll, Allen reverted back to his old habits at the beginning of his career as a turnover machine. He's playing a LOT more reckless the past two years, than he did the 3 years he was coached under Daboll. Since McDermott is a defensive minded HC, he's not going to be as adaprtive and quick to adjust Buffalo's offense like an offensive minded coach would be. If a Matt LaFleur or Sean McVay type coach were coaching Buffalo, Allen would be a lot better off.

Jokic is “boring” to the general public. He’s a superstar who’s foreign AND doesn’t really care about press or media presence. Not to slam him or his accomplishments, but the NBA Finals had the lowest ratings in about 20 years (almost as bad as when the Nets & Pistons were making NBA Finals appearances in the early 2000s). Jokic is great, but nobody really cares about the Nuggets on a National level. I would’ve gone with Kelce, Mahommes or Ohtani. They’ve been the biggest and most intriguing stories in sports for 2023 by far. I can see why they went with Coach Prime, he was looking like a force to be reckoned with in September. He had people who never watch college football tuning in to see Colorado games. Colorado is responsible for 2 of the 5 highest rated college football games this year. Sanders was a logical pick when you think about his impact and buzz earlier in the Fall.

I just think that TE is not just simply a plug in and play type deal with this team. It's a blinking red light issue as far as I'm concerned, right after our OL situation. We HAVE to upgrade our TE room, and if it takes drafting a TE on Day 1 of the draft, then that's what we need to do. We can't go another season with subpar TE play, especially with a young, emerging QB that has the tools of becoming our franchise QB going forward. We cannot settle for another year of Logan Thomas and Cole Turner. We're putting Howell at a disadvantage, with a subpar TE room.

Sorry, but I strongly disagree with this. TE is a vital need that we need to address through either the draft or FA. If we had a good/great TE, that would open up so many things for our passing game. The lack of TE quality on this team is derailing what we could be offensively (aside from OL, which we all know is a disaster zone as well). If we were to get a great TE prospect like Brock Bowers, he would be an outstanding playmaker for our offense. He would open up the passing game, and he is an excellent blocker. We need to get a TE in this upcoming draft. I would even suggest picking TE in Round 1 or 2, because I feel it's that important. I don't want to have to go into another season with a below average TE group. Logan Thomas and Cole Turner can kick rocks after this season.

Lucky for us, the team doesn't have to try to tank, they just actually suck. They can try as hard as they want to to win, but they still really suck. I'm comforted by the fact that they won't be able to backdoor into any frustrating, meaningless victories with their schedule coming up. They can (and probably will) lose out, while giving their "best effort" (LOL).

No to McDermott. The Bills SB window has closed, and Josh Allen is just entering his prime. They wasted their window to get to and win a SB, and now McDermott is the odd man out in Buffalo. Buffalo needs an offensive minded coach to get the best out of Allen, because clearly McDermott is not the right coach for him to take that next leap. When you have a franchise QB like Allen or Herbert, you need an offensive minded coach to mold that QB, and get the best out of your offense. Look at what Herbert's going through in LA. Staley is ruining Herbert's chances to compete just exactly like McDermott is in Buffalo with Herbert. McDermott is nowhere near as bad as Staley, but he's not an offensive guy, and Allen needs the right offensive minded coach. They actually had that person in Brian DaBoll. Look at how Allen's regressed since DaBoll left. If we're sticking with Howell, we need to get the best offensive minded coach that money can buy. It will do wonders for him and our offense. No more defensive minded coaches or retreads. There's proof of this too. Look at Jordan Love for example. Just a couple of weeks ago, people were wondering whether or not Love would be a bust in GB, but now he's starting to figure things out, and has cut down his turnovers dramatically, and he's looking comfortable in the pocket. The reason for that is his coach Matt LaFleur. He's a great young offensive minded coach, and he's figured out a game plan to get the best out of Jordan Love, to the point where he looks like a legit starting QB. On the other hand, Kenny Pickett has regressed severely, and he's looking lost and overwhelmed in Pittsburgh. He's getting worse each week, and that's because they have a defensive minded coach, who doesn't manage the offensive side of the ball well. They just fired their disaster of an OC in Matt Canada. I bet you that Pickett will continue to struggle, until they get the right offensive coordinator/coach to improve him.

That's not fair to Saleh though. If Aaron Rodgers doesn't get hurt the first series on offense of the season for the Jets, I firmly believe that they'd be at least a wild card team if Aaron plays at the level that he did last year. If he was playing at an MVP level like 2-3 years ago, the Jets would be the best team in the AFC with that defense. It wasn't Saleh's call to draft Zach Wilson (That's their idiotic GM's fault), and the team was unbelievably unlucky that Rodgers got hurt so early on. Wilson is the worst QB in the league. The only other QB that might be in that stratosphere is Mac Jones. Wilson is barely backup level at best. I bet he's out of the league after his contract runs out, or he's cut by the Jets. He's that horrific. If the Jets fire Saleh after this season, then Woody Johnson is a bigger moron than I even thought. The last thing wrong with that team is the HC. I do think they'll fire Hackett, or at least convince Rodgers that they have to move in a different direction at OC.

W've had HORRIBLE leadership, which lead to extremely poor choices whenever we had a Top 10 pick. Now that the leadership has/or will change for the better, I have absolutely NO problems wishing for losses. What kind of good is it to win meaningless games, and screw up our chances at legitimate blue chip talent? That's how you end up with the Jonathan Allen's, Terry McLaurin's and the Darron Payne's of the world, good players, but not game breaking elite players like Myles Garrett, Aaron Donald, Justin Jefferson, JaMarr Chase. We're in the perpetual state of picking just outside of the Top 10, or far enough away from the Top 5 for the past decade (Save for 2020), to have it impact the amount of elite players we have. We don't have a single All-Pro talent on this team. We have a couple of guys that might make a Pro-Bowl as an alternate, but we don't have any game-changing, elite playmakers that can single-handedly win you games. That's why we've been mediocre under Rivera (and before that with Gruden). Don't get me wrong, coaching makes a GIGANTIC difference, but our best players are just "very good", not great or elite. That's what we need to fix going forward. We need to get ourselves in the best position to acquire and attain elite playmakers.

Sorry, but HELL NO to this. We have a pretty decent chance to right a gigantic wrong from back in 2020, the last time we picked in the Top 5 of the draft, and get a premier blue chip prospect, who has the ceiling of being an elite player. Winning some BS, meaningless games at the end of the year does us absolutely no good, and hurts our chances at getting a premier OL player, or a stud WR/TE if that is what the new regime chooses. We’re not making the playoffs, even is we win out, so why take ourselves out of a prime talent acquisition standing? It makes no sense, and it actually hurts the new incoming regime. I don’t give a damn about anyone on this team, save for Allen, Payne, Curl, McLaurin, Dotson, Robinson and Howell. The only thing I care about between now and the end of the season is Howell’s development. This season changed to evaluation mode the moment we lost to the Giants at home last week. This season is over from a competitive standpoint.

Nantz & Ron are CBS’s #1 team. Because we’re such as loser franchise, we don’t get the top crews very often. In fact, I think Nantz & Romo haven’t called a Washington game in at least 5 years. We haven’t gotten the Top FOX crew all season either. We don’t have any Sunday Night Football appearances or Monday Night Football appearances this year either. With games like the one we had earlier, it’s easy to see why this team is consistently buried in the 1PM window with F or G level announcing teams, and no primetime games.

I predicted this to a tee in the prediction thread, where I said that the team would keep it close with the Cowboys, and then the damn would break in the 2nd half, and we lose 48-14. I was so close to the original score, DAMN!! I hope I’m right about my other prediction, that Ron Rivera and JDR have coached their last game here in DC. Come on Josh, make me 2-2!!!

This exactly. The Bears won’t just have the #1 pick in the draft (from the Panthers), they almost definitely will have a Top 5 pick as well. They very well could draft Caleb, and then Marvin Harrison Jr. with their next pick at 3, 4 or 5 in the 1st Round. Could you imagine having the chance to draft the best QB prospect since Trevor Lawrence/Andrew Luck AND drafting the best WR prospect since Justin Jefferson/JaMarr Chase? That would be mighty intriguing to any potential coaching prospects. The Bears will also have almost $70 Million in cap space next season, so that’s another layer to add to the attractiveness of the Bears job.

Sorry, but this isn’t correct AT ALL. Herbert is MOST DEFINITELY a Top 5 QB in the league. He can make any throw, and his accuracy is insane. People look at box scores and don’t see the whole picture. Take last week for example, Chargers WR’s had 4 drops in their loss to the Packers (3 of them inside the opponent’s 10 Yard line), but people look at the box score, and see that Herbert was 21/36 for 260 Yds and 2TD’s and think that he got outperformed by Jordan Love, who was 27/40 for 322 Yards passing and 2TD’s. It’s laughable that fans call Herbert overrated, or think that he’s overhyped, when the truth is that he does everything possible to get his team in a position to win every week, despite the fact that he has a terrible defense, and a HC that just might be as clueless and arrogant as Ron Rivera in Brandon Staley. The Chargers have a LOT of talent, and a Top 5 QB. They most certainly are a premier destination for any top coach this offseason. Washington is not as talented as the Chargers, AND you have to build a completely new OL & defense secondary, along with constructing a new scouting department and front office. We’re probably the 2nd or 3rd most popular destination after LA.

This. If the Chargers job becomes available, it instantly becomes a top destination for any hot coaching prospect. Herbert in my opinion is a Top 5 QB, who could be even better, with the right offensive minded HC. The Chargers overall have a VERY talented team, especially on the defensive end. The Chargers are 100% going to hire a hot OC to become their new coach. Its almost a lock, after the unspeakably awful job Staley has done as Chargers HC (being a former DC). If I’m a coach trying to pick where I land, LA is #1 by a long shot. I think Ben Johnson will end up there. We don’t have a shot at him in my opinion, because I think that the talent on our team is NOT up to par with the Chargers, and we’re going to start completely over in our front office and scouting departments. We’re more of a long term fix, as opposed to a quick fix like the Chargers are. I do believe that we might be able to hire someone like Bobby Slowik from the Texans, or the Seattle OC. That wouldn’t be bad at all.

I won't watch the game since I'm going to be attending a Thanksgiving dinner with family who could care less about football, but even if I did have the opportunity to watch, I wouldn't. This is going to be a massacre of epic proportions. Dallas is going to beat us like we stole something. I see no scenario where we keep it within 2TD's. I just hope it doesn't end up being a score similar to 2 years ago in Dallas where Allen & Payne fought on national television on Sunday Night Football when the eventual score ended up being 56-14. Howell gets sacked at least 6 times, and Dak throws for at least 400 Yards and 4-5TD's. CeeDee Lamb will have over 200 yards receiving, and Brandin Cooks will have over 100 Yards receiving. We will score a couple of times in the 4th Quarter, when the Dallas backups are in the game to avoid going scoreless. Dallas will do what it does best the last few years, beat up on a terrible team at home. This team right now is the very definition of a terrible team: Commanders 14 Cowboys 48 Footnote, we will officially be on Ron watch after this game. I expect to hear an announcement of Ron & JDR's firing either on Thursday night or Friday morning. Ron & JDR will finally show how incompetent and clueless they are to a national audience who hasn't seen us play until this Thursday. It will hammer home the fact that Ron & clueless Jack are amateurs who don't deserve to coach pee-wee football, much less an NFL team to the 40+ million people tuning in to watch this trainwreck of a team. I'm ecstatic about Ron finally getting what's coming to him after Thursday. The sun will shine a bit brighter on Friday morning once he is finally fired. To hell with Ron Rivera and Jack Del Rio.

Pickett is abysmal. My brother is a Steelers fan, so I've watched my fair share of Steelers games this year, and he absolutely blows. His last game he went 15/28 for 108 yards. He only has 2TD passes since October 1st. That is putrid. I am surprised by how ineffective Harris is as a runner. I thought that he would tear the league up like Gibbs is currently doing for Detroit. It's been a struggle for Harris, and now their backup running back Warren is looking better than Harris so far this year.

Howell has definitely earned the right to start next year, and he should be given every opportunity to by the new coaching staff. Unless we somehow end up at #1 or #2 in the draft, I don't see us getting a QB in the 1st round. If we play our cards right, we could have a Top 5 pick for the 2024 draft. If that's the case, this opens up a whole new set of possibilities to either acquire a legit blue chip prospect, or trade down and acquire significant draft capital. I've been thinking of our needs, and if we have # 4 or # 5, we should explore the possibility of drafting a legit WR or a TE in Marvin Harrison Jr, or Brock Bowers. I haven't been that enthralled with our WR group this year, and I feel like we need an absolute #1 WR like MHJR to shoot our offense into the stratosphere. I love TMac, but I think it's about time we start thinking of getting him a legit big WR that can compliment him. I like Dotson too, but I just think we need another big time WR to stretch our passing game. Same with Brock Bowers. I think having a bonified stud at WR or TE will go a long way towards Howell's progression into a Top 10 QB moving forward. I know that we have to draft OL (probably a couple of OL), but we can also take advantage of our $90 million in cap space and sign top tier OL too. This could be a draft that shakes out in our favor, once we get a quality GM and FO.

Yes, the Steelers record probably has something to do with why they made the incredibly rare move to fire a coach in season, but I still think that a team like the Steelers making this move should be eye opening to everyone league wide. Since it’s such a rare occurrence, I can’t buy into the “keep Ron and the coaching staff until the end of the season” thought process. This abomination can’t continue to happen. We need to set the standard to the players and the staff that this kind of football is unacceptable. There ought to be consequences for this disastrous season.

LOL, right?? The freaking STEELERS, who never fire coaches in our lifetimes just did the impossible. What’s our friggin excuse?? Harris HAS to can somebody (hopefully everybody not named EB) on Friday morning. We can’t continue to have Paddleboat Ron & Clueless Hack employed by this team after our extermination at the hands of Dallas on Thanksgiving.

Steelers just fired Matt Canada. He’s been one of the most scrutinized coaches in the league, for how terrible the Steeler’s O has performed. If the Steelers who NEVER fire coaches in season in their history do it, there’s no reason why we can’t either. This might be the first time since the 1960’s that the Steelers have fired a coach in season. That’s incredible when you think about it. NO REASON whatsoever to not can Del Rio and/or Rivera after Friday, especially when we’re looking at a beat down of epic proportions on Thanksgiving @Dallas. I just checked, and it says that the last time a Steelers coach (head coach or assistant) was fired in season was 1968. 55 years since it happened. That’s absolutely incredible.