Random Commanders Thoughts

[skinsinparadise]

 

[skinsinparadise]

 

[skinsinparadise]

owners

 

[HTTR]

These grades are spectacular and Josh Harris and the owners deserve a lot a credit. Hopefully the available free agents are taking note!

 

[DWinzit]

They need to make sure all of the free agents and their agents so all of those grades!!!

 

[KDawg]

How does one grade the offensive and defensive coordinator before they have coordinated? Or is this for Kliff and Whitt? If so…lol

A+ for Quinn and a B+ for home field? Cmon.

The rest I can see. We have improved. But this seems a bit too much.

 

[Conn]

How does one grade the offensive and defensive coordinator before they have coordinated? Or is this for Kliff and Whitt? If so…lol

A+ for Quinn and a B+ for home field? Cmon.

The rest I can see. We have improved. But this seems a bit too much.

It’s done very early in the season or at the end of the previous season, if I remember correctly. So it won’t take into account much of 2025, just the changes that had occurred during and immediately after the 2024 season.

And the coach grades from players are based on professionalism, treatment of players, and leadership. Not football coaching quality, really.

 

[KDawg]

It’s done very early in the season or at the end of the previous season, if I remember correctly. So it won’t take into account much of 2025, just the changes that had occurred during and immediately after the 2024 season.

And the coach grades from players are based on professionalism, treatment of players, and leadership. Not football coaching quality, really.

So these grades are coming off of our 2024 season? Ya. No kidding they’re this good. Excellent year.

Home field as a B+ is still LOL

 

[Conn]

So these grades are coming off of our 2024 season? Ya. No kidding they’re this good. Excellent year.

Home field as a B+ is still LOL

During the 2024 run we had a huge fan presence at home compared to recent decades, so I’m not surprised the players came off that season feeling supported at home. It crumpled again quickly this season, of course

 

[KDawg]

During the 2024 run we had a huge fan presence at home compared to recent decades, so I’m not surprised the players came off that season feeling supported at home. It crumpled again quickly this season, of course

The field itself is among the worst in the League. As is the stadium.

 

[Conn]

The field itself is among the worst in the League. As is the stadium.

For sure. For some reason I took it as “home field advantage”, which we briefly had in 2024. Otherwise it feels like it would be “Stadium”, but I guess not. Your read is probably correct which makes the grade confusing

(Although the field itself is much better these days, was fully replaced a couple years ago and no longer hosts concerts right before games to destroy it. I think they’ve been re-sodding it twice per season since Harris bought the team. The stadium is the league’s worst, however)

 

[hail2skins]

One of my fellow club level denizens from many moons ago randomly sent me a seating chart with the 2026 season prices. There were literally over 20 different subcategories of pricing for the lower level alone.

 

[Boone]

The DMV is such a 'transitory' area. Of all the NFL cities, I think you could argue there are fewer fans who live in proximity to the team and stay there for the long haul. Part of what drives that is the number of people working for the federal government and military folks where those occupations are by definition fluid and often involve relocating. I think it will always be harder for Washington to have a core, consistent, fanatical local fanbase that produces home fan dominated sellouts every week. The Gibbs years were outliers because it is a rare thing for any NFL franchise to have an era where the Super Bowl is a distinct possibility every year. In the DMV, of course there are die-hard fans and plenty of season ticket holders. But there are probably a far higher % of people who attend games purely as a social event, or as casual sports fans, and of course when you are losing as often as you win, fans of other teams (who do have a larger core group of fans who try and attend every game).

Maybe having a smaller brand new stadium will change this dynamic. It can't hurt. But I still think building a home crowd sellout every game type environment will always be harder in Washington than nearly anywhere else.

 

[burgold]

I'm a little surprised they were that nice to Whitt.

 

[skinsmarydu]

Maybe having a smaller brand new stadium will change this dynamic. It can't hurt. But I still think building a home crowd sellout every game type environment will always be harder in Washington than nearly anywhere else

I hear this.

I've been to every game played by my team here since 2012, (saw a few pre-season games before, but that was my first "season") except for one that I was just coming out of the hospital and couldn't move. We're easily 50/50 here, our fans sing "HTTR" leaving the stadium either way. I always get happy, seeing all of our fans here, just ask Goskins10 .

 

[Boone]

My wife found a library book at a yard sale. Kind of cool.

 

[ArtMonkWasMyHero]

The DMV is such a 'transitory' area. Of all the NFL cities, I think you could argue there are fewer fans who live in proximity to the team and stay there for the long haul. Part of what drives that is the number of people working for the federal government and military folks where those occupations are by definition fluid and often involve relocating. I think it will always be harder for Washington to have a core, consistent, fanatical local fanbase that produces home fan dominated sellouts every week. The Gibbs years were outliers because it is a rare thing for any NFL franchise to have an era where the Super Bowl is a distinct possibility every year. In the DMV, of course there are die-hard fans and plenty of season ticket holders. But there are probably a far higher % of people who attend games purely as a social event, or as casual sports fans, and of course when you are losing as often as you win, fans of other teams (who do have a larger core group of fans who try and attend every game).

Maybe having a smaller brand new stadium will change this dynamic. It can't hurt. But I still think building a home crowd sellout every game type environment will always be harder in Washington than nearly anywhere else.

I think you are correct, but in the pre-FedEx/Northeast stadium era, we had home crowd sellouts every game. I saw a good many games at RFK in the 70s and 80s and barely recall anyone rooting for the other team.

I think if the team had moved from RFK to a stadium slightly larger, we would not be seeing as much of this. We increased supply at the moment quality declined. Of course, there were other factors.

 

[SkinsFTW]

I think you are correct, but in the pre-FedEx/Northeast stadium era, we had home crowd sellouts every game. I saw a good many games at RFK in the 70s and 80s and barely recall anyone rooting for the other team.

I think if the team had moved from RFK to a stadium slightly larger, we would not be seeing as much of this. We increased supply at the moment quality declined. Of course, there were other factors.

If they had been better than average and winning, at least some of the time, the list that was in the hundreds of thousands would have never depleted.

 

[ArtMonkWasMyHero]

If they had been better than average and winning, at least some of the time, the list that was in the hundreds of thousands would have never depleted.

Well ... as I said, there were other factors- that being one of them. But I did not want to ramble on too long.

In sum, it was the perfect storm: Gibbs leaving, Cooke passing away, bigger stadium, computer ticket sales, and most of all .... the Danny.

 

[Bulldog]

Well to quote Bruce Allen 'we are winning the game OFF the field, now the challenge is to win the game ON the field'

Going from 4-13 to 12-5 to 5-12 is simply amazing. Has something like this been done before?