The Washington Commanders have hired Head Coach Dan Quinn, Offensive Coordinator Kliff Kingsbury, and Defensive Coordinator Joe Whitt Jr. Quinn is the first hire of new General Manager Adam Peters' Washington career.
Quinn in turn picked Kingsbury based on the difficulty teams have defending his Air Raid bred offense. Joe Whitt Jr. gets a promotion to DC from his slot as "defensive pass game coordinator" for the Dallas Cowboys.
Whitt and Kingsbury get put on the Head Coach Watch list and rise and fall as Quinn and the Commanders rise and fall.
Initially, it seems the new Coaches don't like overthinking. In the old days, you simplified to increase speed. Nothing jetlags the brain quite so much as stopping and thinking. Stopping is not good. Thinking is slower than stopping. That goes back to Vince Lombardi.
It appears Quinn and Whitt Jr. will play more man coverage in D.C. than did Ron Rivera. Some may joke that is not a change from Rivera's zone defense. People were badly beaten for Touchdowns fantasizing they were playing man instead of zone.
The critique of Kingsbury coming out of Arizona is his inability to decode the decoding defenses perform upon his offenses. There is a slide the second part of the season. That is partially R&D related. The Commanders R&D supposedly has been upgraded. Maybe Kingsbury can get ChatGpt to script the first twenty plays when midseason arrives.
The good things you hear about Kingsbury are his acumen teaching young QBs, his work ethic, and, importantly for us old Riggo fans, he runs the football.
It appears Kingsbury will get his latest project underway soon as the Commanders have the Number Two Pick in the NFL Draft. This draft features three QBs projected to be Top 5: Caleb Williams, Drake Maye, and Jayden Daniels.
I expect Daniels or Williams to be named the starter out of the gate in Washington while Maye may have to contend with Sam Howell for QB1.
The question is, is this staff the one to turn things around?
We'll find out as Adam Peters ventures into free agency waters and crafts his first draft board for the Washington Commanders.
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