Some time not long after the Hail Mary landed in Noah Brown’s hands, after the grown men in the end zone stopped their leaping embrace, after Dan Quinn found the headset he ripped off the top of his forever-backward hat, we will pivot to the cold mechanics of the Washington Commanders’ season.
With the Commanders now owning sole possession of first place in the NFC East through eight weeks, owning a franchise quarterback, owning a Tony Stark–like origin story and all of the necessary component parts for a deep run into the winter months, we will start to wonder about the administrative abilities of Washington’s new front office to flip the switch far sooner than they—or anyone else—had expected.
