{"id":690707,"date":"2026-01-20T08:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T08:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/690707\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T08:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T08:05:16","slug":"fans-others-react-to-commanders-latest-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/690707\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans, others react to Commanders’ latest promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Commanders<\/a> made a bold move on Monday, promoting assistant offensive line coach Darnell Stapleton<\/a> to offensive line coach. This comes less than two weeks after head coach Dan Quinn promoted assistant quarterbacks coach David Blough<\/a> to offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n

Why is this a bold move? Blough had only two years of coaching experience when he was promoted. While many around the NFL, including everyone in Washington’s building, believe the former NFL quarterback is a future coaching star, the 30-year-old had led only a position group for a couple of weeks late in the 2025 season, after Tavita Pritchard left to become Stanford’s head coach.<\/p>\n

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Many believed that after firing offensive line coach Bobby Johnson and parting ways with offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury, the Commanders<\/a> would look to bring in an experienced voice for Blough. Last week, Blough also hired former college teammate Danny Etling<\/a> as the assistant quarterbacks coach, after hiring D.J. Williams<\/a> to be the new quarterbacks coach.<\/p>\n

Washington reportedly likes Stapleton’s ability to develop players, and he received internal praise for first-round pick Josh Conerly’s growth as a rookie in 2025. Stapleton and Blough worked together as assistant position coaches and are said to have a strong rapport.<\/p>\n

Will this work for Washington? Only time will tell. Quinn is betting his future on it.<\/p>\n

How did everyone receive the news that the Commanders promoted another young assistant coach? We surveyed some of the top reactions via X.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Commanders Wire: Washington Commanders: Fans, others react to Darnell Stapleton move<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Commanders made a bold move on Monday, promoting assistant offensive line coach Darnell Stapleton to offensive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2069],"tags":[27991,427,7291,22630,100780,22531,7,10308,6,12611,2976,61666,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-690707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-bobby-johnson","9":"tag-commanders","10":"tag-dan-quinn","11":"tag-danny-etling","12":"tag-darnell-stapleton","13":"tag-david-blough","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-kliff-kingsbury","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-offensive-coordinator","18":"tag-offensive-line-coach","19":"tag-tavita-pritchard","20":"tag-washington","21":"tag-washington-commanders","22":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115926396232881173","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}