Anathema
Crotchety Olde Man
Hello folks. I promised 1srelluc back in August that I wouldn’t rant and rave about the Commanders 2025-26 season any more on the board until AFTER the Super Bowl; and I have honored that promise plus an extra month.
Here are my thoughts on the 25-26 season: I’m very glad I didn’t waste my time on that team. They were unworthy of wearing the burgundy and gold uniforms.
Now as the “Legal Tampering Period” begins in another hour and Free Agency on Wednesday afternoon let’s move on to my first thoughts on the 2025-26 Washington Commanders…
This team has dug itself hole I’m not sure they can climb out of even before the NFL year has begun. They’re 21-30 (.412) over the last three seasons. They drastically over-performed in 2024 and obscenely underperformed in 2025. There is no reasonable measure by which one can suggest they will return to being a winning team in 2026.
Head Coach Dan Quinn returns for his third (and likely last) season with two brand new, first time, unproven coordinators… David Blough on Offense and Davonte Jones on Defense.
The team is amongst the wealthiest, in terms of available Salaty Cap space at a little over $83 million on a $323 million salary cap. Unfortunately I’ve seen them listed as having as few as 27-28 contracts in place on a 53 man roster and the practice squad.
That's a lot of players they need to acquire. Especially when you realize they only have six picks in next month’s entry draft and four of those picks are in the fifth round or later. When you figure in rumors that more than a handful of veteran players don’t even want to listen to offers to play in Washington, and I think it’s fair to say this roster isn’t going to look like the 1991 team.
What are the team’s needs…. Everything. There isn’t a position on the roster that doesn’t need some level of reinforcement or more likely starting level talent infusion… including the Quarterback.
So let’s see what happens from here on out.,I’ll definitely be ranting and raving about it right here..
Here are my thoughts on the 25-26 season: I’m very glad I didn’t waste my time on that team. They were unworthy of wearing the burgundy and gold uniforms.
Now as the “Legal Tampering Period” begins in another hour and Free Agency on Wednesday afternoon let’s move on to my first thoughts on the 2025-26 Washington Commanders…
This team has dug itself hole I’m not sure they can climb out of even before the NFL year has begun. They’re 21-30 (.412) over the last three seasons. They drastically over-performed in 2024 and obscenely underperformed in 2025. There is no reasonable measure by which one can suggest they will return to being a winning team in 2026.
Head Coach Dan Quinn returns for his third (and likely last) season with two brand new, first time, unproven coordinators… David Blough on Offense and Davonte Jones on Defense.
The team is amongst the wealthiest, in terms of available Salaty Cap space at a little over $83 million on a $323 million salary cap. Unfortunately I’ve seen them listed as having as few as 27-28 contracts in place on a 53 man roster and the practice squad.
That's a lot of players they need to acquire. Especially when you realize they only have six picks in next month’s entry draft and four of those picks are in the fifth round or later. When you figure in rumors that more than a handful of veteran players don’t even want to listen to offers to play in Washington, and I think it’s fair to say this roster isn’t going to look like the 1991 team.
What are the team’s needs…. Everything. There isn’t a position on the roster that doesn’t need some level of reinforcement or more likely starting level talent infusion… including the Quarterback.
So let’s see what happens from here on out.,I’ll definitely be ranting and raving about it right here..
