{"id":691296,"date":"2026-01-20T14:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/691296\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:02:55","slug":"commanders-part-ways-with-oc-kliff-kingsbury-dc-joe-whitt-jr-after-disappointing-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/691296\/","title":{"rendered":"Commanders part ways with OC Kliff Kingsbury, DC Joe Whitt Jr. after disappointing 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commanders&#8217; run game was solid, even without a top-tier back, ranking eighth in rushing yards, but the passing game in Kingsbury&#8217;s scheme couldn&#8217;t get off the ground, finishing 24th in yards.<\/p>\n<p>With Kingsbury out, Dan Quinn&#8217;s choice of the next coordinator for Daniels will be pivotal and should be a sought-after position.<\/p>\n<p>On defense, Quinn <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/commanders-hc-dan-quinn-take-over-defensive-coordinator-role-joe-whitt-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">took over play-calling duties<\/a> from Whitt after 10 games, foreshadowing the DC&#8217;s dismissal. An old defense perked up slightly but still finished dead last in yards allowed and 27th in points given up.<\/p>\n<p>The question heading into the interview process is whether Quinn hires a defensive play-caller or retains that role himself while adding someone to help build a weekly plan.<\/p>\n<p>The wheels fell off in Washington in just about every conceivable way in 2025. They&#8217;ll add two new front tires to the operation in 2026 in hopes of speeding their way back to the postseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Commanders&#8217; run game was solid, even without a top-tier back, ranking eighth in rushing yards, but the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[1227,787,427,7,88,6,609,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-691296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-commanders","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-no-minute","15":"tag-washington","16":"tag-washington-commanders","17":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115927803706653354","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691296","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=691296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}