Kyle served as offensive coordinator of the Redskins when Mike coached there from 2010 to 2013. . Redskins legend and current team analyst Chris Cooley appears on the verge of joining Ron Rivera's first coaching staff with the Redskins. Against the Seahawks in the wild-card round, they started a hobbled Griffin, who had injured his right knee four weeks earlier. Anthony Richardson is living up to the hype at the NFL Scouting Combine. Philadelphia would score again, with running back LeSean McCoy racing for a 34-yard score and a 337 Philadelphia lead. 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+ Jack Burns: Quarterbacks. Green Bay would score yet again, this time by Rodgers finding Jermichael Finley for a 3-yard score to make it 240. McVay stayed with Washington through 2016, and he was hired by the Rams before the 2017 season. Head Coach: Mike Shanahan Offensive Coordinator: Kyle Shanahan Defensive Coordinator: Jim Haslett . Green Bay set a franchise record, as Aaron Rodgers' 480 passing yards tied Matt Flynn for the most in a game, and James Starks' 100-yard rushing performance snapped a 44-game streak of games without a 100-yard rusher for Green Bay. Head Coach: Mike ShanahanOffensive Coordinator: Kyle ShanahanDefensive Coordinator: Jim HaslettOther Assistant Coaches: Larry Coyer (Scout) Chris Foerster (OL Coach) Matt LaFleur (QB Coach) Sean McVay (TE Coach) Raheem Morris (Secondary) Bob Slowik (LB Coach). Both teams failed to score again, and the teams went into the final quarter tied at 17. Offensive line coach Chris Foerster, who at 48 was one of the coaches on the staff with actual experience, remembers introducing himself to McVay and LaFleurtwo fuzzy-faced kidson his first day at Redskins Park. All rights reserved. Coming off their road loss to Green Bay, Washington returned home for a duel at FedExField with the Detroit Lions, matching up with them for the first time since 2010, but the first time in DC since 2007. Shanahan resigned from his position following the season, citing disagreement with Browns head coach Mike Pettine on how the offensive should be run. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. A graphic about the old Washington Redskins coaching staff is going viral this week ahead of the divisional round of the NFL playoffs. In the fourth quarter, he blew it out. Its a warm summer morning in Southern California, and dozens of top college quarterback prospects run through drills overseen by his adherents. LaFleur spent the past season as the offensive coordinator for head coach Mike Vrabel and the Titans, and had the opportunity to call plays for the first time. Griffin continued on, but left after two more ineffectual seasons with Gruden. 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. 1999 Saginaw Valley State; 2000 Saginaw Valley State; 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 finally got their offense moving, but their drive went for naught, as Kai Forbath, who missed only one field goal in all of 2012, missed. DET David Akers 28-yard field goal, 11:13. 2015 Washington Redskins (DB Coach) 9-7 Lost in NFC Wild Card to GB. Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. Shanahan tasked McVay with binding playbooks, making copies, scribbling out play sheets and organizing cutups of opposing defenses. The limitless deviations meant he could change the scheme each week, targeting his opponents weaknesses. Though if any of the three aforementioned coaches were still in town, perhaps we'd be watching the Football Team in the divisional round. The story tabbed his assistants, all the young coaches other than McVay, as sycophants, yes men, there to appease the Shanahans, having not earned their coaching stripes. It kind of just happened, he says. 6 / 25 . It finished 27th in points per game. And proceeded to get rid of all that coaching talent and hired Jay Gruden as the head coach. Early in the third, Washington was able to equalize with John Potter making his first career field goal from 43 yards out. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. 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. How much are Football Coaches Really Worth? It would have been nearly impossible to predict that just six years later in 2019, he would be hired by the Packers. That has left WFT open to some not-so-gentle mocking as three coaches on its 2013 staff alone -- Kyle Shanahan with the San Francisco 49ers, Sean McVay with the Los Angeles Rams and Matt LaFleur with the Green Bay Packers -- will coach their teams in the NFC divisional round this weekend. The reality is that McVay, like many other successful assistants, had an opportunity to advance his career by becoming the head coach elsewhere. The New York Giants defeated Detroit head-to-head (. Earnest Byner: Running Backs. McDaniel joined him at Redskins Park in 2011. He changed receiver splitsthe distance the wideouts lined up from the tackles or tight endsbringing them in tighter. Record: 3-13-0, 4th in [1] Contents 1 Offseason 1.1 Signings 1.2 Re-signings 1.3 Departures 2 2013 draft class 3 Staff 4 Final roster 5 Schedule 5.1 Preseason 5.2 Regular season 5.3 Game summaries 6 Standings 6.1 Division 6.2 Conference 7 Honors 8 References He could study another coachs play sheet for 20 minutes and recite more than 100 plays. Here is a profile of the 2009 Washington Redskins staff. The Eagles got the ball back, and moved into scoring range, but could not punch it in and settled for an Alex Henery 48-yard field goal to cut the Redskins' lead to 73. McVay was a key member of a strong offensive staff assembled by then-Redskins head coach Mike Shanahan. The franchise returned to the playoffs in 2012 behind a brilliant season from Robert Griffin III, in which then-offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan engineered one of football's most inventive schemes. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Mike McDaniel grew up in Greeley, Colo., obsessing, like most kids in the Centennial State, over the Broncos. Football Outsiders listed the 2013 Redskins as having the second-worst special teams unit they had ever tracked. Among the offensive coaches, only McVay stayed in Washington to work under Jay Gruden, the coach hired as Shanahan's replacement. Now its a movement. 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. Maybe its time to move on. Matt LaFleur becomes the third disciple of Mike Shanahan's 2013 Redskins staff to land his first head coaching job after leaving. For a group that went 24-40 and made one playoff appearance over four seasons, Mike Shanahans Redskins staff from 2010 to 2013 sure had an abundance of head coaching talent. He was 30 when his father hired him as the Redskins offensive coordinator. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. By sending most plays wide of the tackles, he sought to effectively cut the field in halfhe could attack five to seven players more easily than all 11. Oakland then followed with a punt, too. Following the 2016 season, McVay started to get some looks as a head coach. LaFleur, meanwhile, left Washington with the Shanahans following the 2013 season. GB Jordy Nelson 15-yard pass from Aaron Rodgers (Mason Crosby kick), 8:20. NFC East Division Click here for more. Both LaFleur and Kyle Shanahan left after Mikes tenure as Washingtons coach ended, but McVay stayed on as Jay Grudens offensive coordinator the next three seasons. Obviously there are emotional swings with sports and so the mathematical ratings do not always line up with the emotional expectations from a team. Once considered the likely next head coach for Washington, the younger Shanahan instead took the offensive coordinator job with the Cleveland Browns. You think theyre telling people what theyre doing? The QB Collective has a competitive advantage it wants to keep. According to Finlay, McVay has gone on the record to say he's a product of Gruden's coaching tree, not Shanahan's. It stalled when it reached the red zone, however, and Washington placekicker John Potter hit a 25-yard chip shot to cut the deficit to 143. The Redskins were outscored 31-0 in the 4th quarter. Shanahan served as Atlanta's offensive coordinator for two seasons, with quarterback Matt Ryan earning MVP honors in the second of those years. Find out more. Thats pretty impressive and quite the group of talented offensive minds. January 8, 2020 12:50 pm ET. The Redskins finished 28th in total defense and trotted out one of the worst special teams units in the league. NFL analyst Warren Sharp tweeted a photo Wednesday highlighting three members of the 2013 Washington staff. Zachary Neel. We present them here for purely educational purposes. That made us a thousand times better., From Cleveland the crew moved on to Atlanta, where they inherited an established quarterback in Matt Ryan and tasked him with throwing on the move, re-inventing once again. They stayed pretty mediocre otherwise. Seifert blanched, at least until he saw linebackers trying to shadow the greatest receiver of all time. They didn't give up on him. All McVay has done in two years is lead Los Angeles, which hosts the Cowboys in a divisional round game on Saturday, to 24 regular season wins and a pair of division titles. With the loss, Washington fell to 02 for the first time since 2006, and remained in the NFC East Cellar. It was Steve Jobsthat aesthetic, McDaniel says. Needing a spark, Washington switched to a hurry-up offense for their next drive, and sustained one for the first time on the day. He would also change personnel within those formations. The Dallas Cowboys owner admitted Friday that his interest in signing Odell Beckham Jr. has not waned. All Rights Reserved. There are now 3 head coaches, not including Mike Shanahan, that played a role in my development. The Packers have talent and a future Hall-of-Famer at quarterback in Aaron Rodgers, but Green Bay had missed the playoffs two straight seasons before LaFleur arrived. Whos that? he wondered. MIN Adrian Peterson 1-yard run (Blair Walsh kick), 1:12. Early in the fourth, Detroit took the lead again, this time by way of Akers hitting a 28-yard field goal, giving Detroit a 2017 lead. They were youthful enough to be fueled by ambition, close enough to boost each other, smart enough to apply what they were taught and competitive enough to turn everythingmemorizing the most plays, sleeping the most nights under their desksinto a winnable game. Joe Bugel: Assistant Head Coach-Offense. Vote 9 Related Topics Sean McVay, who succeeded Kyle as the Redskins offensive coordinator after serving as Washingtons tight ends coach for the previous three years, became the youngest head coach in NFL history when the Rams hired him as a 30-year-old in January 2017. The Redskins define mediocrity because their QBs have been the definition of mediocre. Last edited on 18 December 2022, at 05:30, Mall of America Field at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, "Final 2013 DVOA Ratings | Football Outsiders", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2013_Washington_Redskins_season&oldid=1128065907, Vice president of football administration , Offensive quality control Richmond Flowers III, Assistant defensive backs/special teams assistant , Director of player performance Malcolm Blacken, Head strength and conditioning Ray Wright, Assistant strength and conditioning Chad Englehart. Its almost like remembering a song for him, McDaniel says. In the five years since that staff was dismissed, McVay, 32, coordinated a top-10 offense and has won two division titles as a head coach. Washington will also host Shanahans 49ers. Shanahan's rise in the coaching ranks began again at his next stop with the Atlanta Falcons. 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. Maybe not great, but certainly not something that gets a coach fired entering his fourth season. Finding a quarterback remained an issue. 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. Do you have a sports website? . This meeting marked the 30th anniversary of their meeting on October 17, 1983, in which Green Bay beat Washington 4847 in the highest-scoring Monday Night Football game in history (although October 17 fell on a Thursday in 2013, the NFL ultimately did not schedule the teams to meet that night). Filling out the offensive staff are Pete Hoener (tight ends), Jim Hostler (wide receivers), John Matsko (offensive line), Drew Terrell (assistant wide receivers) and Travelle Wharton (assistant. NFL analyst Warren Sharp tweeted a photo Wednesday highlighting three members of the 2013 Washington staff. Matt LaFleur becomes the third disciple of . There are plenty of legitimate reasons to point to for Washington's struggles over the past decade and beyond. Washington Commanders Coaches Seasons: 91 (1932 to 2022) Record (W-L-T): 625-630-29 Playoff Record: 23-20 Super Bowls Won: 3 (5 Appearances) Championships Won*: 5 All-time Passing Leader: Joe Theismann 2,044/3,602, 25,206 yds, 160 TD All-time Rushing Leader: John Riggins 1,988 att, 7,472 yds, 79 TD With the Packers set to hire Matt LaFleur to replace Mike McCarthy as the next Aaron Rodgers whisperer in Green Bay, three Shanahan disciples from his disastrous stint in Washington have NFL head coaching gigs. msn back to msn . But I dont believe that [stretch] defined his legacy. The current Washington Redskins coaching staff has 24 coaches listed beginning with Head Coach Jay Gruden. Washington got a reprieve, however, when Randall Cobb, extending for the pylon to try to make it 310 right before halftime, lost control of the ball, fumbled at the pylon, awarding the ball to Washington by way of a touchback, finishing the first half scoring at 240 Green Bay. All three are still coaching in the playoffs pic.twitter.com/tb21gefx7P. His brother, Jon Gruden, hired McVay on staff with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2008 when he was just 22. << 2013 Cleveland Browns 2015 Cleveland Browns >> 2014 Cleveland Browns Coaching Staff Head Coach: Mike Pettine Offensive Coordinator: Kyle Shanahan Defensive Coordinator: Jim O'Neil Other Assistant Coaches: Ken Flajole (ILB Coach) Dowell Loggains (QB Coach) Jeff Hafley (Secondary Coach) Who were the Best Players on the 2014 Cleveland Browns Team? Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. He ran several plays out the same formations, especially the three-man bunch (three receivers aligned close to each other) and the two-man stack (one receiver lined up directly behind another). He knew the applicants grandfather, John McVay, a former Niners GM who with Walsh had constructed one of the NFLs great dynasties. At the time, LaFleur was 34 and had never even been a coordinator. All three are now head coaches of teams still active in the NFC playoffs, with Shanahan leading the 49ers, LaFleur with the Packers, and McVay with the Rams. . Detroit finished with a better conference record than St. Louis. Shanahan and LaFleur's teams meet at 8:15 p.m. on Saturday in Green Bay and McVay's Rams play at defending Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay on Sunday at 3 p.m. on NBC. All the jokes this past spring about anyone in McVays orbit landing a head coaching interview missed the point. 4 / 23 . Redskins Head Coach Ron Rivera Wants to Build A 'Player-Centered Culture' With A 'Coach-Centered Approach' Rivera was clear in his introductory press conference that the way to create a winning culture is by supporting the players with the voice from the head coach. In four seasons under Shanahan, from 2010 to 13, Washington lost 41 games, secured just one playoff berth and saw the rise and fall of a promising young quarterback. Gruden never really had a qb. They traded three first-round picks and a second rounder to move up and take Robert Griffin IIIthe preferred choice of owner Dan Snydersecond overall. "Sean McVay actively tells people he's part of the Gruden coaching tree," Finlay said. WAS Roy Helu 3-yard run (Kai Forbath kick), 0:49. The next day, Mike Shanahan leans back on a metal bench at Westlake High School. He was out of the league for a year before the Redskins tabbed him to replace embattled coach Jim Zorn, who had been unable to develop Jason Campbell into a franchise QB. That his system worked. With the loss, the Redskins finished in last place in NFC. While Jay Gruden led the organization as head coach, a trio of current NFC playoff. With the loss. It won the NFC East at 9-7 in 2015 and missed the playoffs by a half game (thanks to a tie) after an 8-7-1 season in 2016. I think Jay was a fine coach. But with Kyle in Cleveland, LaFleur struck out on his own. Matt LaFleur wheels around on a scooter, a cast on his right leg after he tore his Achilles playing basketball last spring. Just a bunch of overambitious, average athletes, McDaniel says. A few reporters said on Saturday that Rams head coach Sean McVay is expected to add Mike LaFleur to his coaching staff. Griffin was benched for the rest of the season. One potential culprit for the continued slump? 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 last time Green Bay had a 100-yard rusher was in Week 5 of the 2010 season, also against Washington, when Brandon Jackson racked up over 100 yards on the Redskins, although Washington won that game. In fact, it was far from a guarantee that LaFleur would ever become a head coach in the NFL. During his time with the Redskins, LaFleur worked with quarterbacks Donovan McNabb, Rex Grossman, John Beck, Robert Griffin III and Kirk Cousins. In reality, their ideasmany honed with salt and pepper shakers during happy hour at watering holes like the Ashburn Pubwere making their way into the playbook. Matt Ryan, if he never met us, might [still] be a Hall of Famer, McDaniel says. Early in his tenure, he heard a someone yelling through the wall next door as he scribbled on a whiteboard. For more great storytelling and in-depth analysis, subscribe to the magazineand get up to 94% off the cover price. They tried out John Beck, a 2007 second-round pick of the Dolphins they publicly touted. From those sessions came a simplified scheme designed to capitalize on Griffins strengths. As the 2012 draft approached, the coaches scoured the QB class. Bieniemy enters his 25th NFL season and first with Washington after serving as the Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator the past five seasons. The rest of the staff spread out, with branches of the tree sprouting in Cleveland, Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Green Bay, Cincinnati and Denver. Front office and ownership certainly deserved blame, too. 2013 Washington Redskins Roster & Players Previous Season Next Season Record: 3-13-0, 4th in NFC East Division ( Schedule and Results ) Coach: Mike Shanahan (3-13-0) Points For: 334 (20.9/g) 23rd of 32 Points Against: 478 (29.9/g) 30th of 32 Expected W-L: 4.8-11.2 SRS: -9.28 (31st of 32), SOS: -0.28 Offensive Coordinator: Kyle Shanahan The browser you are using is no longer supported on this site. As a supplement, Raheem Morris, who was the secondary coach for the 2012 and 2013 Redskins, is now the Rams' defensive coordinator. Shanahan is 66. McVay left the Redskins for L.A. in 17, becoming the youngest head coach in NFL history. True Hiring Score (THS) 90 /100. You could sense the brainpower in that room, Ryan says. These men, once (derisively) labeled The Fun Bunch, either worked for Mike Shanahan in Redskins Park or apprenticed under someone who did. Now the head coaches of the Packers, 49ers and Rams Matt LaFleur, Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay lead their teams in the divisional round of the NFL Playoffs this weekend.Back in 2013, here they are as the QB coach, offensive coordinator and TE coach for #WashingtonFootball pic.twitter.com/3n7nSG30P3. The True Hiring Score or THS is compiled by a complex formula bringing together many different factors. Although Shanahan has had plenty of success with the 49ers, it took stops at those two other places following his dismissal from Washington before he became a head coach. He graduated from mindless tasks like helping repair the scout team jerseys to working for Kyle Shanahan as an offensive assistant in Houston for three seasons (2006-08). 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. DAL Dan Bailey 30-yard field goal, 10:40. 5 / 25 Offensive Coordinator Sean McVay. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. 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. Copyright 2023 Washington Commanders. In typical Skins fashion, they took Kirk Cousinsfavored by coaching staffthree rounds later, setting themselves up for a future QB controversy. All Rights Reserved. The chatter the last week or so has been that Ron Rivera is the . SF Anquan Boldin 6-yard pass from Colin Kaepernick (Phil Dawson kick), 9:33. With the loss, Washington began the season 01 for the first time since 2009, lost their home opener for a second consecutive year, lost to Philadelphia for the first time since 2011, fell to 01 in the NFC East, and lost a regular season game for the first time since Week 9 of last season against Carolina. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. 2 / 23 . WAS Kai Forbath 32-yard field goal, 0:01. Chris Russell Jan 13, 2020 3:06 PM EST Chris. As for Mike Shanahan, his legacy is complicated. This is worlds most incredible and depressing collection of Redskins QB jerseys. 2023 ABG-SI LLC. Privately, they knew better. Shanahan would install plays that werent even in his playbook some weeks. Theyre turning a social event into a coaching clinicsame as alwaysand its getting a little . The 2013 Washington Redskins finished the season 3-13, | Kyle Shanahans Record with San Francisco 49ers, Grading the San Francisco 49ers Franchise, | Sean McVays Record with Los Angeles Rams, | Matt LaFleurs Record with Green Bay Packers, | Raheem Morriss Record with Atlanta Falcons. Although many of the coaches have been at Redskins Park for most of the last month, Gibbs preferred to announce the entire coaching staff all at once. LaFleur was Washington's QB coach and McVay, at age 28, was the club's tight ends coach. Youll love it, Ryan told him. Washington got the ball to start the game, and punted. When McVay was hired by the Rams, Washington was not considering making a head coaching change. The team finished last in the NFC East with that 3-13 record, tied for the team's worst winning percentage in any season since 1961. As offensive coordinator in San Francisco, he once suggested to his head coach, Seifert, that the 49ers line Jerry Rice up in the backfield. In his spare time, McVay drew Xs and Os on the white boards in the meeting roomsobsessed with writing each letter with impeccable penmanship.