Eight head coaching vacancies and five GM openings, and out of all 13, the Patriots' GM job is the only one other than the Commanders' HC spot that is still open.
We didn't get BEN JOHNSON Alert, we're not getting Mike Macdonald or Bobby Slowik or Raheem Morris, and the Commanders went from belle of the ball to hoping for a rose in a hurry.
So, Commanders fans…do we have a right to be disappointed here, or do we need to trust the process?
"One narrative that I'm seeing that I don't really understand is there's a pushback from a lot of folks in the Commanders community against people that are disappointed," Grant said, "the idea being the perception of a couple of weeks ago that Adam Peters was your savior, and now he picked someone you don't like, and you think he's not right."
He hasn't picked anyone yet, even though now the hot rumor is Dan Quinn will be here sooner than later, but GP read a piece from Burgundy Blog explaining the idea…and even though he doesn't like Quinn as the hire if it happens, he more doesn't like the vitriol Peters is already getting.
"That narrative is out there, of like, how dare you guys question Adam Peters, who you just said you were excited to get here, as if you cannot be a critical thinker, like everything that they this is Rivera repeating itself," GP said. "You don't have to just say 'In Rivera We Trust' and sit back and kick your feet up. You're allowed to have an opinion on whether they do the right thing or not. We'll see if they're right or they're wrong, that's the beauty of this thing, but the notion that because people were excited by the Peters hire, they should just be cool with everything that the team does, is silly to me."
He feels the same way about ownership, in that he likes the Peters hire because he's great at picking players, but we have no idea how he is at picking coaches, so it's fair to question.
"Whatever that angle is, of like, 'I can't believe all the Commanders fans who have decided all of a sudden that they have questions' – yeah, man," Grant continued. "They're the last of eight teams that haven't hired a coach. People have some information that they liked Ben Johnson a lot and liked Mike Macdonald a lit, but they're not the coach. If they hire Dan Quinn, they'll at least get a guy that was linked to other jobs, but if they end up with Glenn or Weaver, they will be hiring someone that no other team was ever seriously considering hiring that we know of – that's out of the box, and that can lead to some questions."
"The Venn diagram usually lines up there – for whatever decision is made, it's good and new and you like it, before it turns bad," Danny said. "I like and don't like certain things. I thought they screwed up the Terry McLaurin situation and were at risk of having him walk away, but they were right, and I was wrong. When something good happens, you could say it's good; when something bad happens, you can say it's bad; and when something happens that looks like it's predictive of this turning worse, you can say so."
The difference in things, Danny says, is perspective, experience, and a track record.
"When they do something curious, when they sign a player that played in Carolina, you don't automatically just swallow what they hand you when they don't have a track record of success yet," Danny said. "When there's a track record of success here in this place, like when Bobby Beathard made a move, you go, there's a great chance that one works out. I don't get it yet, but maybe I will when we've got a bunch of pelts on the wall, a bunch of division titles, and they've been beating people up for multiple straight years of double-digit wins. You can say they clearly know better than I do so far, but what have they accomplished? What's anyone done here? It's okay to ask a question."
"They are hiring a head coach as an ownership group for the first time. Josh Harris has obviously done it in other sports, but those are very different cycles in different ways," Grant replied. "Now Peters, who I like and trust and think will do a good job, has never done this before. So to just blindly sit back and go, well, look, I mean, you know, I like them so Aaron Glenn was probably the right hire…be a critical thinker."
