The Redskins Head Coach job is the best opening available

We are the 2nd or 3rd best jobs in the league. The Lions have a culture problem. A head coach can fix that and I believe they have pending cap issues.

Great thread. Houston is probably as desirable as DC, but not by much. That team has less talent on offense IMO, but more on defense.

The Lions are the most talented team looking for a new HC but have a really lousy cap situation and play in a damn tough division with the Packers and a Bears team that probably gets better next year.

IMO, the only job I have ranked below the Skins is Cleveland. Houston and Detroit have a lot of talent on both sides of the ball and aren't too far away from running deep into the playoffs. Minny and Tampa run next talent wise, and do not have the circus atmosphere that Washington has. Plus they both have their first round picks in the coming draft.

This Skins team has to undergo a lot of turnover in order to compete and ship their #2 pick to St. Louis. Granted there are some key pieces, but the turmoil of the last several weeks plus Snyder's track record really hurts anyone willing to come here.

And I only have Cleveland below the Skins because of the way they handled this year. Gave a raw guy a chance, took away his running game to build for the future, had to go through a carousel of QBs and then dump him when he goes 4-12.

Don't get me wrong, I am hopeful that the situation will work out, but if I'm a coach looking for a job, I'm not jumping on the phone to my agent to tell him to get me an interview for Ringling Brothers.

Don't get me wrong, I am hopeful that the situation will work out, but if I'm a coach looking for a job, I'm not jumping on the phone to my agent to tell him to get me an interview for Ringling Brothers.

IMO, the circus just left town.

IMO, the circus just left town.
That is my hope, but there is one remaining link to the past 14 years, and he's still here. As long as Snyder is the Skins owner, there are going to be outsiders that look at this team as a circus, and that accounts into what candidates think.

Yeah, it's really close IMO between us and Tampa.. No 1st round pick was the difference to bump us down one for me.

+1! Maybe down one more notch just because of the rabid media and crazy fan base! Oh, that's right, we are the fan base!

That is my hope, but there is one remaining link to the past 14 years, and he's still here. As long as Snyder is the Skins owner, there are going to be outsiders that look at this team as a circus, and that accounts into what candidates think.

I agree with this post. I have had my share of hate on Snyder, as many of us have. I still believe that he gives his input who on who he thinks should play, and i believe that if the coaches disagree, he forces his will a little bit, which is his right i guess as owner. I think back to when Portis and other guys only had jobs because Dan said they did. Portis was at the point where he really shouldn't be a starter anymore, and they kept him in the lineup. But that's water under the bridge....

My thoughts are this: In 14 years, is it realistic to say that EVERY single coach was the wrong one for the job, or we just picked the wrong players, or the wrong coordinators, etc?? I just think it's hard to believe that every coach comes here and for the most part fails miserably because they are the wrong guy...i just think the problems start at the top and work their way down. It affects everyone and everything.

A new head coach = probably having a losing year next year (maybe not, we have an easy schedule supposedly), hoping for improvement by the 2nd year. Does Snyder fire again if this new coach (whoever he is) turns out 2 bad years in a row??? Questions that i think are worth asking...

Washington is the best franchise of all the vacancies, franchise QB, good nucleus of young talent (could be next year's KC), 5 SB appearances (even if it was long ago) best fan base, cap space, hungry owner.

2. Detroit-Again, playmakers on both sides of the ball, strong GM, strong OL & DL, young QB who has been successful.



Detroit is about to hit a salary cap brick wall within the next two years. Stafford, Johnson, and Suh's contracts have crippled them and their idiot GM played "kick the can" with their contracts like Vinny did. Even in cutting one or two, that cap will be hamstrung by dead cap money.

5 Teams Facing Dire Salary Cap Situations in 2014 | Bleacher Report (http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1642954-5-teams-facing-dire-salary-cap-situations-in-2014/page/4)


Three players alone are going to account for 53.5 million of their salary cap and they are looking at 15 over the cap. Keep in mind, they've already restructured Staffords and Johnson's contracts.

Granted, if the object is to get there win within these next two years and jet, I'd say this is the best coaching spot available outside of the Texans.

We can all agree that Snyder been a meddling owner, but most respectable source say he has been very hands off over the last few years. These reports of Snyder interfering with RG3 and the RG3 character assignation were leaked by “The Shanny”. For whatever reason, he wanted out of town last year. I believe he knew it wasn’t working between him and Baby Shanny. Instead of firing his son and admitting he made the mistake, he tried to get fired and take the heat from “lil Shanny”