Washington Commanders head coach Dan Quinn is one win away from the Super Bowl, but last time he got there, it did not go so well. In his first season with Washington, Quinn, along with rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels,
Totally legal in 1998! 30 yards of penalties in 2025,” Ed McCaffrey tweeted about his iconic block in Super Bowl XXXII.
Dan Quinn is on the verge of returning to the Super Bowl with the Washington Commanders eight years since his first trip with the Atlanta Falcons when they infamously blew a 28-3 lead and lost to New England.
Super Bowl 59 will take place Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. It's the fourth year the big game will be played on the second Sunday in February, a result of the regular-season schedule expansion in 2021.
Yet, that was not Washington's first Super Bowl victory. In 1983, the team pulled off a shocking upset as Gibbs and quarterback Joe Theismann defeated Don Shula and the Miami Dolphins 27-17. Down 17-10 at halftime, Washington held Miami to 176 total yards and zero second-half points.
The margin between reaching the Super Bowl and not reaching the Super Bowl can be razor thin. On the NFC side of the postseason bracket, seven different teams have reached the big game in the last 10 years.
Back in 2016, a season that resulted in a Super Bowl LI appearance by the franchise, Atlanta Falcons’ second-year defensive end Vic Beasley led the NFL with 15.5 sacks. It’s worth noting that ...
Three former Seattle Seahawks players and coaches currently on the Washington Commanders lost in the NFC Championship on Sunday.
Washington Commanders head coach Dan Quinn enters the 2024 NFC Championship Game with experience from 2016 to help him. That postseason, the former Atlanta Falcons HC was at the helm of the NFL‘s worst Super Bowl meltdown against Tom Brady and the New England Patriots.
Jayden Daniels ran out of time to rally for one more can-you-believe-it comeback. The rookie quarterback who led the Washington Commanders to six consecutive victories entering the NFC championship game had won the first five on the final play of scrimmage.