Kevin Sheehan asks, what is more likely for Commanders: 5 wins or 10?

Kevin Sheehan has a question now that the full 18-week, 17-game schedule for the Washington Commanders' 2024 NFL season is out: What is more likely in Dan Quinn's and Jayden Daniels' first year: The Commanders finish the year 5-12 or 10-7?

"10 [wins] is my answer," Sheehan said. "I think 10 is more likely than five. Am I drinking the Kool-Aid on Daniels way too much? But let me explain why. Last year was one of the worst seasons in the history of the franchise. It wasn't just the four wins, it was that they got absolutely annihilated so many times last year and I still looked at that roster and was like is that really a four-win roster? I know some of you believe it is, that's fine. I think last year was basically over before it started.

"You had a lame-duck coach, who hired an offensive coordinator that nobody wanted to hire. You had early in camp, you had him essentially saying players are coming to him to talk about Eric Bieniemy. So you had all of these issues offensively. Then defensively, you hired Brent Vieselmeyer to replace a guy who was legitimately a defensive backs coach in Chris Harris – and this was a guy who was coaching high school more recently – I have been told, by the way, let me just mention because I have ripped that [Vieselmeyer situation] a couple of times, I've been told by people in the organization that actually he was in [at] high school and he has coached a lot of different places and he was the least of the issues, but whatever. The defense was being coached by a group that knew they were lame ducks.

"The offense had no chance from the beginning when they hired Eric Bieniemy and so, it was just a season sunk before it started. I still think that Daron Payne and Jon Allen and Terry McLaurin and Jahan Dotson and Sam Cosmi and, maybe, Benjamin St-Juste, I still think maybe there were players on that team that will know get coached up much better."

Sheehan is confident in the Daniels - Kliff Kingsbury duo, but less so from the jump as that may take time to gel, but he is more confident in the Washington defense taking "a big step from where it was last year."

"I think defensively, they're gonna be better," he said. "It would be hard for them to be worse."

For Sheehan, in a normal season with a normal coaching situation, the Commanders roster was closer to a six win team. So with the changes made under Adam Peters' first offseason as GM, they should be closer to a 10-win outfit than five-win outfit.

For producer Denton Day, he is going the other way. Hear his reason why on the audio player above!