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For more great storytelling and in-depth analysis, subscribe to the magazineand get up to 94% off the cover price. Maybe not great, but certainly not something that gets a coach fired entering his fourth season. Shanahan and LaFleur needed multiple other stops before becoming head coaches, while McVay worked his way up in Washington before getting an opportunity elsewhere and would have had to take the job here from one of his mentors in 2017. While the Shanahans left, McVay actually remained on Washington's staff. 2013 Washington Redskins Coaching Staff Head Coach: Mike Shanahan Offensive Coordinator: Kyle Shanahan Defensive Coordinator: Jim Haslett Other Assistant Coaches: Larry Coyer (Scout) Chris Foerster (OL Coach) Matt LaFleur (QB Coach) Sean McVay (TE Coach) Raheem Morris (Secondary) Bob Slowik (LB Coach) Matt spent the last two seasons with Kyle and is well-versed in the system that we are trying to bring here to Washington, Mike Shanahan said after LaFleur was hired by Washington. Its almost like remembering a song for him, McDaniel says. Redskins legend and current team analyst Chris Cooley appears on the verge of joining Ron Rivera's first coaching staff with the Redskins. They can recite the quarterbacks who compiled their best seasons playing in some version of Shanahans timeless system. In the context of a disastrous 3-13 season in 2013 that got Mike Shanahan and most of his staff fired, it's pretty obvious why none of the three ended up as Washington's head coach. It wasn't Shanahan [in Washington].". DAL Dan Bailey 30-yard field goal, 10:40. As for Mike Shanahan, his legacy is complicated. Though if any of the three aforementioned coaches were still in town, perhaps we'd be watching the Football Team in the divisional round. So Kyle set out to make another alteration, stitching in a familiar concept: the zone read. In 2017, the 49ers and Rams hired Kyle Shanahan and McVay, respectively, as head coaches. The 2013 Redskins were notable for having one of the worst special teams units in league history, and this played a major role in several of their losses. The Redskins finished 28th in total defense and trotted out one of the worst special teams units in the league. Allegations that Morant brandished a gun at a 17-year-old during a pickup basketball game surfaced earlier in the week. Hed run 10 new variations out of the same bunch formation. According to Finlay, McVay has gone on the record to say he's a product of Gruden's coaching tree, not Shanahan's. After two stops on first and second down, Rodgers went back to the air on 3rd-and-9, and connected with James Jones, and Washington never saw the ball again. Early in the second, Detroit finished off a drive with Stafford finding tight end Joseph Fauria for a 5-yard score to give Detroit the 147 lead. Whether youre a lifelong resident of D.C. or you just moved here, weve got you covered. The 2-point attempt failed and the Falcons won 27-26. After teams exchanged punts in the first, Washington struck first when Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford was intercepted by Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall who returned the interception 9 yards for a 70 Washington lead. Perhaps a brain drain among the coaching staff is to blame. 2013 Washington Redskins (QB Coach) 2012 Washington Redskins (QB Coach) Categories . Shanahan tasked McVay with binding playbooks, making copies, scribbling out play sheets and organizing cutups of opposing defenses. It's not like they were awful? Griffin was benched for the rest of the season. at Sports Authority Field at Mile High, Denver, Colorado. Washington was able to sustain a running game in spite of an injury to star running back Alfred Morris, with typical third-down back Roy Helu, Jr. running into the end zone from 14 yards out to increase Washington's lead to 2414. This story appears in the Aug. 26Sept. How much are Football Coaches Really Worth? With the loss on a questionable call by the officials, the Redskins were officially eliminated from playoff contention. A few reporters said on Saturday that Rams head coach Sean McVay is expected to add Mike LaFleur to his coaching staff. In typical Skins fashion, they took Kirk Cousinsfavored by coaching staffthree rounds later, setting themselves up for a future QB controversy. Ron Rivera enters his 26th season coaching in the NFL and his third as Washingtons head coach in 2022 after being named the 30th head coach in franchise history on Jan. 1, 2020. Its a warm summer morning in Southern California, and dozens of top college quarterback prospects run through drills overseen by his adherents. Yet another reminder that somehow Washington went from this to naming Jay Gruden HC. Perry Fewell Coaching Rsum. All rights reserved. Do you have a blog? LaFleur and Kyle Shanahan were two of the 10 assistants dismissed by the Redskins when they fired Mike Shanahan after a 3-13 season in 2013. Once there, he found an environment unlike anything he ever could have expected, where ideas were not so much encouraged as expected, and to not evolve was tantamount to a fireable offense. Shanahan previously served as the Broncos head coach from 19952008, led the team to back-to-back Super Bowl titles in 1998 and 1999, and is the franchise's winningest head coach with a total of 146 games won. All Rights Reserved. Los Angeles Rams Head Coach Sean McVay Hot Seat Status: Job is Very Safe! Football Outsiders listed the 2013 Redskins as having the second-worst special teams unit they had ever tracked. Bieniemy enters his 25th NFL season and first with Washington after serving as the Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator the past five seasons. It finished 27th in points per game. I was legit concerned RG3 would run the NFC East for years. All three men were on staff with the then-Washington Redskins from 2010 to 2013 under Kyle's father, Mike Shanahan. Join our linker program. Shanahan would install plays that werent even in his playbook some weeks. Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. McVay is just one branch on a tree that took root not in Los Angeles, but in Ashburn, Va., for an organization that couldnt see the genius. The chatter the last week or so has been that Ron Rivera is the . Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post/Getty Images. If the coaches closed their eyes, they might be transported back to Redskins Park, to the fresh faces and The Fun Bunch, when they innovated because they were forced to, because they didnt know better. Father and son spent all four seasons together in Washington. Shanahan resigned from his position following the season, citing disagreement with Browns head coach Mike Pettine on how the offensive should be run. That pushed all of us in ways we hadnt been pushed before.. Shanahan served as Atlanta's offensive coordinator for two seasons, with quarterback Matt Ryan earning MVP honors in the second of those years. Here was a multi-billion dollar organization being run by a bunch of 25-year-olds.. He studied and borrowed from high school or college coaches, who tend to innovate more than their pro counterparts; he took some tenets from Bill Walsh and others from Mike Holmgren, George Seifert and Alex Gibbs, the long-time offensive line coach considered the leagues premier zone-blocking guru; and, when he became the head coach in Denver in 1995, he applied everything he learned from nine previous stops. 4 / 25. Explaining his philosophies, Shanahan starts with his influences. But that gave them perspectives football lifers lacked, the license to be creative. Jack Burns: Quarterbacks. Later in the quarter, Matt Flynn threw a pass that was intercepted by cornerback David Amerson and returned 45 yards for a score and the deficit was 1410. Morant made the situation worse for himself early, Jerry Jones has once again tipped his hand when it comes to pursuing one high-profile wide receiver. Jay Gruden, Head Coach. Mike Shanahan sits at the head of a banquet table. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. In a league where many franchises have been slow to innovate, and most coaches remain preoccupied with not getting fired, this group seems preternaturally inclined to take the opposite approachwhich might be why they have amassed so many pink slips through the years. Or write about sports? That allowed them to block safeties on run plays and gave opponents a different look on passing plays. Cleveland's offense struggled in 2014. 2 / 25. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. 3 / 25 Defensive coordinator Joe Barry. WAS Kai Forbath 33-yard field goal, 10:08. Perhaps this is more telling: He says he will not write a book about his career and his philosophies. Round to GB 10-6-0 (0.625%) Sean McVay Coaching Stats Record with the Los Angeles Rams: 43-21 (0.672%) Grading the Los Angeles Rams's Franchise 2013 B+ 7-9 2014 B- 6-10 2015 A- 7-9 2016 B- 4-12 2017 A+ 11-5 2018 A+ Record: 3-13-0, 4th in After the entire Redskins coaching staff was let go after the 2013 season . He comes to the Redskins from coaching running backs in college at North Carolina. He also wanted all his plays to look the same way at the start, whether it was an outside-zone run, a drop-back pass or a play-action bootleg. Kotwica. Jones added he has had some, You can unsubscribe anytime. Bill Callahan was tasked with shepherding the team the rest of the way; but there was no doubt, Snyder planned to bring in new leadership after the season. In 2017, when Shanahan moved on to San Francisco, LaFleur reunited with McVay and became the Rams offensive coordinator, his first time in that role in the NFL. Vick would find tight end Brent Celek for a 28-yard score, and Vick would, after another Redskins punt, run for a 3-yard score to go up 267 as the teams headed to the locker room. Matt Cavanaugh, Offensive Coordinator. While Gruden is a mediocre 35-44-1 with one playoff appearance over five seasons, he is 2-0 against former members of the 2013 Redskins coaching staff, with wins over the Rams and 49ers in 2017. Washington's much-maligned defense, however, could not hold it and Detroit retook the lead before halftime thanks to a David Akers 32-yard field goal, giving Detroit a 1714 edge and halfway to its first win ever in Washington. 4 / 23 . Washington got the ball to start the third, and on the third play from scrimmage, Griffin III threw an ill-advised pass to Santana Moss, and was intercepted again. Quarterback Robert Griffin III rushed back from a torn ACL sustained late in his rookie year in 2012 and was largely unproductive in his second NFL season. Within a month, the Redskins hired Gruden and LaFleur accepted a job as the quarterbacks coach at Notre Dame. The New York Giants and Detroit finished with a better conference record than St. Louis. DET David Akers 32-yard field goal, 0:49. Matt LaFleur, after spending last season as the offensive coordinator in Tennessee, is now the head coach in Green Bay. Coach Kyle Shanahan was preceded by Chip Kelly with the San Francisco . Needing an onside kick recovery to finish their comeback, it fell short as Jason Avant fell on the kick, and Philadelphia knelt down to seal their win. Washington's offense finally possessed the ball, but running back Alfred Morris fumbled, giving possession right back to Philadelphia. When youre getting fired but still in the league, you get jobs where you gotta figure out how to make s--- work, he says. He assumed the duo performed menial tasks like picking up players at the airport. 2011 Washington Redskins (O-Cord) 5-11. He hired Matt LaFleur away from Kyle Shanahan and the Falcons, and together they designed their own version of the offense. 3 / 23 . Once considered the likely next head coach for Washington, the younger Shanahan instead took the offensive coordinator job with the Cleveland Browns. Philadelphia's offense gained 331 yards of total offense in the first half alone. In the fourth, Oakland's offense continued to sputter, even fumbling for a second time at midfield. They had never, prior to this day, lost to Detroit in Washington or Landover. Just a bunch of overambitious, average athletes, McDaniel says. 4 / 25 Special teams coordinator Ben Kotwica. Mike McDaniel grew up in Greeley, Colo., obsessing, like most kids in the Centennial State, over the Broncos. After losing three previous Super Bowls, Elway accepted the run-heavy approach even as NFL offenses were throwing more, and running back Terrell Davis, a sixth-round pick, secured his bust in Canton during that dominant stretch. It was the most humbling four years of my life.. Is Coach Rick Stockstill on the Hot Seat? Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, Fits for Giants, Raiders, Bears and Broncos Jobs, Jimmy G May Be the Best QB Available This Offseason, Ranking the NFLs Eight Head Coaching Vacancies. The teams were not able to do much else, and the halves concluded with this score at 1410. McVay brought LaFleur to Los Angeles as the Rams offensive coordinator in 2017. Ron Rivera's Washington staff, which includes 11 members who worked for him in Carolina, will bring new schemes on both sides of the ball. The Redskins mixed outside zone runs with a heavy emphasis on zone reads and far more play-action than normal, putting their quarterback away from center but not deep in the shotgunthe Pistol formation. The Redskins were outscored 31-0 in the 4th quarter. Six years ago, little was expected out of the men now filling the private back room of this upscale steakhouse in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Their four-year tenure at Redskins Park was defined by clashes with a meddling owner, issues with salary-cap management and little success. There are now 3 head coaches, not including Mike Shanahan, that played a role in my development. Griffin clashed with the coaching staff, which led to larger issues between the staff and prominent people in the organization, including owner Dan Snyder. LaFleur, 39, was hired as the Redskins quarterbacks coach in 2010 after Mike Shanahan replaced Jim Zorn as head coach. Yes, from 2010-2013, Kyle Shanahan (49ers), Sean McVay (Rams) and Matt LaFleur (Packers) all worked on Mike Shanahans staff in Washington. The Redskins had future NFL head coaches Kyle Shanahan (offensive coordinator), Sean McVay (tight ends) and Matt LaFleur (quarterbacks) on their staff in 2013, just a season before hiring Jay Gruden. Several former Washington Football Team assistant coaches have landed as head coaches with other NFL teams in recent years and most have found success. The end of the 2013 season featured explosive media leaks late in the season that detailed the inner tension and turmoil. They knew that. However, Washington lost to Detroit at home for the first time since 1935, when they were still the Boston Redskins. NFL analyst Warren Sharp tweeted a photo Wednesday highlighting three members of the 2013 Washington staff. Cant wait to see LaFleur out there 2x next year!, LaFleurs promotion to head coach reminds me how lucky I was to work with Coach Shanahans staff when I first entered the NFL. Email us [email protected]. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? The first quarter ended without any further scoring, and Philadelphia led 127. Matt LaFleur becomes the third disciple of Mike Shanahan's 2013 Redskins staff to land his first head coaching job after leaving. This is a subreddit for the NFL community. 2015 Washington Redskins (DB Coach) 9-7 Lost in NFC Wild Card to GB. This was Washington's third consecutive win against an AFC opponent. Early in his tenure, he heard a someone yelling through the wall next door as he scribbled on a whiteboard. McVay left the Redskins for L.A. in 17, becoming the youngest head coach in NFL history. Jim Zorn, Head Coach Originally selected by the Redskins as the offensive coordinator, Daniel Snyder decided that Zorn was best as the head . They must've been a juggernaut team then checks notes oh, It could be worse you could be a browns fan. Washington will also host Shanahans 49ers. All the jokes this past spring about anyone in McVays orbit landing a head coaching interview missed the point. src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=674090812743125&ev=PageView&noscript=1"/>. Oakland then followed with a punt, too. WAS Leonard Hankerson 24-yard pass from Robert Griffin III (Kai Forbath kick), 1:20. Shanahan said that he decided to bench Griffin because he did not want him to be hurt again in a lost season.