In 2013, a Washington staff consisting of Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVay, Matt LaFleur, Mike McDaniel, Raheem Morris and Chris Foerster led its team to a 3–13 record. And, ultimately, the record did not impact these coaches’ escalator-like ascensions to the top of the league’s coaching hierarchy.
The rest of the football world treated its time in D.C. the way we might hope someone treated a college spring break in Cancun—wild and regrettable things were going to happen given the locale and lack of supervision, but the point is, they survived.
So why is it that we’re already trying to make Year 1 of the Eric Bieniemy regime in Washington an ultimate referendum on the chicken-or-the-egg question that has been hounding the offensive coordinator’s bid for a head coaching job over the past four years? That was the theme of this somewhat newsless week in football media, which often forces the fillers of airtime to reach into their bag of tricks to grab someone’s attention whilst sitting in an urgent care waiting room. (Where else would one watch Skip Bayless?)
