The Washington Commanders are in the NFC championship game after going 12-5 in the regular season and winning two playoff games. It’s the furthest the team has advanced in more than three decades, and it comes after going 4-13 in 2023.
Washington coach Dan Quinn has the Commanders on the verge of returning to the Super Bowl for the first time since the 1991 season. The Commanders, fresh off taking down No. 1 seed Detroit, are set to face the Eagles in the NFC Championship game at 3 p.
Even from the top of section 412 – the standing room area that’s about as far as one can get from the battle taking place between the Washington Commanders and the Atlanta Falcons – Northwest Stadium is a cauldron of noise.
Commanders head coach Dan Quinn issues a perfect message to his team, as they dance their way to the NFC Championship.
To that point, the Commanders went from the worst turnover margin in the league in 2023 (-14) to 15th (+1) in 2024. Similarly, the Houston Texans, who have now made the playoffs two years in a row after finishing 3-13-1 in 2022, jumped from 19th in turnover margin (-1) to eighth in 2023 and 2024 (+10, +9).
One Cowboys defender is watching Dan Quinn change the culture for the Commanders, much to his immediate surprise.
Quinn was Ryan's Falcons head coach from 2015-2020, including in 2016 when Ryan won MVP, and the Falcons won the NFC
Tom Brady made a savage reference to the 3-28 comeback against the Falcons during Detroit's loss to Washington on Saturday.
(AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File) Atlanta Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins (18) warms up before an NFL football game against the Washington Commanders, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, in Landover. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough) Atlanta Falcons quarterback Kirk ...
The top-seeded Lions (15-2) also hope home field gives them another advantage against the sixth-seeded Washington Commanders (13-5 ... facing him at their previous stops. Quinn led the Atlanta Falcons from 2015 through the early part of the 2020 season ...
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