It was intended that changing the name to Washington Commanders would mark a new beginning and, ideally, contribute to the start of a winning era.

The Washington Football Team and two more losing seasons preceded Commanders, making it five straight seasons since the team had experienced a season above.500.

Washington has stacked on two more seasons without finishing above the tier since embracing its present moniker.500 and some people’s memories of fantastic football in the country’s capital are starting to dwindle.

However, managing partner Josh Harris has brought on head coach Dan Quinn and general manager Adam Peters to make those improvements far more substantial than a name change could.

Additionally, he has embarked with his new team to find the winning mentality that the eighth-best head coach in NFL history, Jim Kelly, held from 1981 to 1992.

“Joe Gibbs’s impact as Washington’s coach cannot be overstated, even though he has one fewer career win than John Harbaugh over the same amount of seasons.

Dan Pizzuta of 33rd Team ranks the top 10 NFL head coaches of all time. “During his first 12-year run with Washington, his teams finished with fewer than eight wins fewer than once, a 7-9 season in 1988, and that includes an 8-1 record in the strike-shortened 1982 season,” Pizzuta writes. “With four Super Bowl appearances and three victories, Gibbs guided teams to the postseason nine times.

Gibbs’s Washington teams were built around the offensive line and dominant ground game, even though he was a Don Coryell disciple and developed an explosive passing game when serving as offensive coordinator for San Diego. Only he has led a team to a Super Bowl victory while using three different quarterbacks.”

Under Gibbs, not every season was a masterpiece. In his debut season as head coach, the squad finished 8–8.

Washington won the first of three Super Bowls and had as many victories in just nine games the following year, which was cut short by a strike. Joe Theismann was the quarterback for that one.

The following was coached by Doug Williams during the 1987 NFL season, and Gibbs eventually won one more with quarterback Mark Rypien. become the only coach in history to win three Super Bowls with different quarterbacks.

During quarterback Matt Ryan’s tenure with the Atlanta Falcons, Quinn attended one. Thus, he will be working with a different quarterback if he finds another.

Though it’s not exactly the same accomplishment, he could have a chance to rank as the Commanders franchise’s second-greatest head coach ever if he can pull it off.