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,
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.
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.
Eight years later, Quinn is back on the cusp of a Super Bowl berth, this time as the first-year head coach of the Commanders. With a new head coach in Quinn and a rookie quarterback in Jayden Daniels, Washington has reached the NFC championship game for the first time since 1992.
Could not challenging a call come back to haunt Dan Quinn and the Commanders against the Eagles in the NFC Championship game?
After a disappointing end to a dream season, Washington coach Dan Quinn shared his hopes for the future with FOX Sports' Tom Rinaldi.
Quinn's second shot at being an NFL head coach is going incredibly well so far, and it's partly because of lessons from his previous stops.
Quinn ignored 20-plus years of organizational dysfunction to lead Washington to the NFC title game in his first season as coach.
One Cowboys defender is watching Dan Quinn change the culture for the Commanders, much to his immediate surprise.
Daniels wanted to see the defeat through, even if that only meant handing off the ball on the final meaningless drive. Coach Dan Quinn had seen enough and gave Daniels a breather. His bid to become the first rookie QB to reach a Super Bowl was officially over.
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.
The NFC championship game Sunday between the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Commanders is the third matchup of the season between the division rivals.