Fanspeak: Washington Commanders

With the Bengals and Packers losses on Sunday in the Wild Card Round, their assistants are now free to both interview and be hired by perspective teams. Other coaches from teams moving on can interview in their home city at the playoff team’s convenience, but any follow up interview and hiring can’t take place until … More »

Watching the playoffs last night reaffirmed one major thing from the Mike Shanahan era: he is a bigger liar than Keyser Soze. Shanahan’s whole “5 year” plan is completely bogus and every year the playoffs proves that to be the case. Pretty much each and every one of these teams in the post season has … More »

Why the Redskins want him: Greg Roman has 15 years of NFL experience going back to when he broke into the league as defensive and offensive quality control assistant for the Carolina Panthers in their inaugural year, 1995. Roman has spent all but the first two years on the offensive side of the ball. First … More »

The Redskins are in the midst of a head coaching search that in many ways will set the tone of this franchise for the next 5-10 years. While any coaching change can bring change and have a lasting impact, the Redskins are at a precipice here. They are coming off their worst season since the … More »

With Bill O’Brien taking the Texans job and Lovie Smith set to take the Buccaneers job, two of the most talked about candidates are off the board for the Washington Redskins. If you add in the fact that it appears likely that Bill Cowher is staying in the booth and David Shaw is staying at … More »

1. Don’t give a coach complete control over the team: -Bruce Allen has the title of G.M. and executive president, but it is well known that Mike Shanahan rules with an iron fist. He’s in complete control of draft and personnel decisions as well as other things such as moving training camp, what type of … More »

Forbath came on last season and had a great run for the Redskins making his first 17 field goals of the season. His clutch kicking helped them win their first division title since 1999, as they went on a 7 game run to close out the season. While it was exciting to have a quality … More »

The Redskins have a massive free agency class this year and will be bringing in a new staff which typically means a house cleaning is on the horizon. How many current Redskins (either on the active roster or reserve lists) do you think will be back next year? The number could be surprising. Here are … More »

Why the Redskins want him? Now most people aren’t going to get too excited for a Special Teams Coordinator becoming the next Redskins head coach, but Dave Toub is no ordinary special teams coach. Toub has been considered one of the top Special Teams Coordinators in the league for some time now, and has a … More »

1. Hire a new personnel guy: -Now this typically is your G.M., but Bruce Allen currently has that title but doesn’t make the personnel decisions for this team. That role has gone to Mike Shanahan and it’s blown up in the Redskins face.  The Redskins need to get a new guy in there (who is … More »