The Washington Commanders’ playoff hopes just lately ended, and on Tuesday, the crew introduced they’d be parting methods with offensive coordinator Scott Turner.
Throughout an look earlier this week on Washington metro space radio station 106.7 The Fan, former Washington head coach Jay Gruden supplied his two cents.
He mentioned he thought it could be troublesome for the group to fill the coordinator emptiness after which proceeded to take a shot at his outdated boss, embattled crew proprietor Dan Snyder.
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Gruden famous that the commanders could need to go together with an in-house coach as a result of exterior candidates could not need the offensive coordinator job.
“It will likely be troublesome if they do not do it at house. I do not know who they’ve in the home who would take him. Could also be [quarterbacks coach Ken] Will Zampese take it, I do not know,” Gruden mentioned. “You are proper, it is laborious, particularly when you’re being advised what to do.”
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Gruden’s feedback gave the impression to be aimed squarely at Snyder, who has a status for meddling within the crew’s soccer operations.
Turner signed a three-year extension final offseason. He was with coach Ron Rivera for seven years, together with the final three with the Chiefs. However for the third yr in a row, the crew completed the season on the backside of lots of the NFL’s offensive classes.
Later, Gruden was requested if he would have an interest within the job and took one other swipe at Snyder.
“Oh yeah, I would love to coach once more. Who’s the proprietor?” Gruden requested.
Gruden was the pinnacle coach in Washington from 2014 to 2019. He beforehand talked about that he didn’t get pleasure from working for Snyder.
In November 2022, Snyder employed Financial institution of America Securities to contemplate the attainable sale of the franchise. Snyder and his household management all shares of the crew after the minority companions have been purchased out in March 2021.
A day after the crew introduced that a financial institution had been retained, Folks Journal reported that billionaires Jeff Bezos and Jay-Z could kind a partnership and are “trying to purchase the Washington Commanders.”
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Final February, the franchise unveiled its new identify, 18 months after retiring the earlier one as a result of mounting stress over the Redskins identify and emblem.