Perspective | Smart NFL owners should be lining up to hire Bill Belichick

Perspective | Smart NFL owners should be lining up to hire Bill Belichick

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save If somebody told you to trust your money to Bill Belichick to invest, would you? Now turn the question around. Why would you trust football decisions to a mall developer? It’s that time of year again, the NFL hiring cycle, when billionaire superegos confuse their…

Analysis | The NFL’s head coaching upheaval might not be over yet

Analysis | The NFL’s head coaching upheaval might not be over yet

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Are Nick Sirianni and Mike McCarthy coaching for their jobs in the first round of the NFL playoffs this weekend? Plenty of people around the league believe it’s possible. The two NFC East coaches, whose Eagles and Cowboys entered the season with sizable expectations, realize…

Six pressing questions heading into the NFL playoffs

Six pressing questions heading into the NFL playoffs

January 11, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EST (David D. Robbins Jr./The Washington Post/istock) Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Aaron Rodgers’s torn Achilles’ tendon and toxic mouth? Josh Dobbs’s turn from Passtronaut to afterthought? Bill Belichick’s fall in New England? That was all so regular season. As the playoffs begin, here…

A closer look at the Commanders’ ‘thorough but rapid’ hiring process

A closer look at the Commanders’ ‘thorough but rapid’ hiring process

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save A recurring theme in Josh Harris’s brief tenure as the Washington Commanders’ owner is the search for edges, little ways he can gain an advantage over opponents. “Certainly sports science and analytics, and coaching staff and front office and being attractive to players and location…

Perspective | Josh Harris will finally have to make his first tough call in Washington

Perspective | Josh Harris will finally have to make his first tough call in Washington

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save We’ll always remember these good times. They started the day when Josh Harris, his super friends and their $6.05 billion deal to purchase the Washington Commanders went official and it seemed as though a pall that had stretched from Landover to Ashburn and beyond had…

Perspective | How will we remember this Michigan football team? As champions.

Perspective | How will we remember this Michigan football team? As champions.

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save HOUSTON — The Michigan players took it all, including the seats. With the smell of cigar smoke wafting through the air, they toted folding chairs as they emerged from the locker room, eager to hop from one celebration to the next. They didn’t care whether…

Nick Saban through the years: A timeline of his greatest hits

Nick Saban through the years: A timeline of his greatest hits

The Browns went 20-28 over Saban’s first three seasons as defensive coordinator before finally breaking through in 1994, going 11-5 and allowing a league-low 12.8 points per game. Despite a friendship that has endured over the years, Saban has called his four years coaching under Belichick the “worst of my life” and chafed under Belichick’s…

Analysis | Hopes are high for the Cowboys. Can they avoid another playoff heartbreak?

Analysis | Hopes are high for the Cowboys. Can they avoid another playoff heartbreak?

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save This is who the Dallas Cowboys are. This is what they do. They tantalize. They raise hopes. They create belief. They foster expectations that, this time, things will be different — that, this time, they will break through and return the franchise to its “America’s…

Tracking the Commanders’ coach and lead executive searches

Tracking the Commanders’ coach and lead executive searches

Ben Johnson, Detroit Lions offensive coordinator: The 37-year-old helped revive the career of quarterback Jared Goff and turned the Lions’ offense into one of the more prolific in the NFL over the past two seasons. He takes an analytical approach and has 12 years of NFL coaching experience, including seven (2012 to 2018) with the…