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Facing a brutal upcoming schedule after a historic game-ending failure, the Junks debate whether Dan Quinn can actually survive the next month as head coach.
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00:00Does Commander's head coach Dan Quinn survive the next month?
00:03Washington faces 5-0 San Francisco on Monday Night Football,
00:09followed by a bye week.
00:10Then they host the Eagles and Rams.
00:12You can go vote at Junk's radio right now.
00:16All right, so I'm going to qualify this.
00:19I would vote yes, he survives the next month.
00:22My instinct is not that Josh Harris is going to fire him during the season.
00:27But I'm going to throw a qualifier.
00:30If they get bludgeoned, like absolutely embarrassed.
00:34If they get locks lead?
00:35On Monday Night Football, right?
00:38So they lose 54-3 or something like that.
00:41I mean, let's say they lose 38-13.
00:4638-5.
00:4738-13.
00:485's a weird score.
00:49Yeah, kind of.
00:50Now it's a bye week.
00:52You're 1-4-1.
00:55Yes.
00:55Then I could see it.
00:56I could see it.
00:57I could see that.
00:58And because at 1-4-1, you're three games under .500, with still 11 games to go, you can make
01:05an argument that you can get back into it.
01:06Because who did the Giants play this week?
01:09It's a tough argument.
01:10Who did the Giants play this week?
01:11I don't know.
01:12Giants could lose.
01:13But at 1-4-1, another loss in the NFC.
01:15I mean, you're drawing really thin to a playoff spot.
01:18Like, you're just flailing.
01:20This is the worst possible scenario for the Commanders.
01:23Giants play the Saints.
01:24Because you're on national TV.
01:26Yeah.
01:27And what do you think they're going to talk about for four hours?
01:29And then the two-hour pregame.
01:31Right.
01:32And then if they get smoked.
01:33It's going to be the main talking point.
01:36So, I think that he survives.
01:39But if they get blown out on national TV, as Valdez is pointing out, I could see Josh
01:44Harris just saying, you know what?
01:46We want to try and save the season.
01:48And we'll elevate whoever.
01:50Anthony Lynn, Ken Norton, whoever the heck they want to elevate.
01:53Derontae Jones, David Blau, whoever it is.
01:56They elevate somebody and he takes over.
01:58I think there's a better than 50% chance he doesn't survive the next three weeks.
02:04Because you could easily lose all three.
02:07All right.
02:07Very easily.
02:08In fact, I'm going to pick them to go one and two.
02:11And that's just a homer.
02:14And if you're one, six, and one, you probably have to go.
02:16But I think, yeah.
02:17They'll be one, six, and one.
02:19They'll have won three of their last 20 or 23.
02:24It's like the three and 14 in the last 17.
02:26So it'll be three and 17.
02:293, 13, and one, EB.
02:30Okay.
02:31Whatever.
02:313, 16, and whatever it is.
02:33And at that point, a firing is deserved.
02:35Yeah.
02:35Like, I don't know how you avoid it.
02:36Nobody's going to raise an eyebrow.
02:37I don't care what Josh Harris' reputation is.
02:40Like, he's some super fair guy.
02:42Well, BS.
02:43He's a billionaire that doesn't tolerate BS.
02:46Right, right, right.
02:47He will fire his ass.
02:49Probably.
02:50You're probably right.
02:51He doesn't have a history of doing that midseason.
02:53He's done it before.
02:54He's done it before.
02:55Yeah.
02:55But I could see that happening.
02:57I think they lose all three, certainly.
02:59Or maybe.
03:00Yeah, but maybe JP's right.
03:01Maybe if they lose 38 to 10.
03:03Or if they get humiliated.
03:04On Monday night.
03:05Sure.
03:05He says it's a bye week.
03:06If they get smashed by the Niners, he could definitely lose his job.
03:09Smashed by the Niners, and Jaden dislocates his elbow again.
03:13Or something crazy happens.
03:15I mean, now it's just absolute dude's day scenario.
03:17And that's not even DQ's fault, but it's under his watch.
03:20And they're like, you put my...
03:21Everybody's expecting something bad to happen next Monday.
03:25The bad thing I'm expecting is 38 to 10.
03:29Yeah.
03:29Like, you just can't stop the Niners.
03:31How are you going to stop George Kittle?
03:33Right.
03:33The Niners defense isn't great, right?
03:35I mean, it's not great, but...
03:36I mean, Jaden and the offense can put up some points against him.
03:38That's the thing.
03:39One of their best defensive players is going to be suspended because he head-butted the
03:42guy from Seattle on the sideline.
03:43Because he's stupid.
03:44But how are you going to stop Kittle?
03:46Because tight ends murder this team.
03:47No, they won't.
03:48Kittle will probably have 10 catches.
03:50But I think Jaden will keep him in the game.
03:52You might be right.
03:53You might be right.
03:53Purdy with time and Mike Evans are going to carve him up.
03:56Yeah.
03:56But it's just hard because you're traveling all the way out there.
04:00And it's a Monday night game.
04:01Debo revenge game.
04:02I think Jaden will keep him in it.
04:03Didn't Debo hurt his hamstring really bad?
04:06Oh, he's out.
04:06Oh, he's out?
04:07Oh, yeah.
04:07Debo might be out for the year.
04:09Yeah, it looked like he went down and it almost looked like he was paralyzed for a while.
04:13He went down so hard, he dropped the ball.
04:15Yeah, he fumbled without being touched.
04:17Yeah.
04:18Because his hamstring popped.
04:19But to JP's point, if they get Loxley'd, I could see him being gone.
04:25Although Loxley survived.
04:26Yeah, but that's just a $9 million payout thing.
04:28He's going to make it to the end.
04:29From a broke school.
04:30Josh Harris is not broke.
04:32Hey, they could beat Rutgers this weekend.
04:34Bounce back.
04:35Here's another factor, though.
04:36So, if you do look at the NFC East, Saints are at the Giants, Panthers at Eagles, Cowboys at Packers.
04:43That all happens before Washington steps on the field.
04:46So, see where the division is.
04:48I think it could play into it.
04:50It's when, not if.
04:52I mean, you're actually making it sound like they have aspirations to win the division at this point.
04:57Well, of course you're a competitor.
04:59I mean, that's what the coaches probably feel.
05:00Yeah, the coaches, the players, they're competing.
05:03They're looking at...
05:03I mean, they're not like us.
05:04I feel like that's kind of laughable, but okay, I can understand behind those walls.
05:07No, but if you were the coach, you wouldn't say, well, let's just try to get three.
05:10Right.
05:11You'd say we're out of it now.
05:13You'd say we're only two back in the division.
05:15I'm going to go back to my office, and I'm going to close the door, and I'm going to get
05:19my beer out of my fridge,
05:20and I'm going to start drinking it, and I'm going to think, we're done for.
05:23Well, I know the season is...
05:24He thinks that when he goes home.
05:25The season is...
05:25But you can't think that when he goes home.
05:27Yeah, but they're actually probably thinking of it this way.
05:29They're probably thinking, we played the Eagles, lost by two, kind of botched that at the end.
05:35Nobody loved that play call on the two-point conversion.
05:38Cowboys game, they're about to tie it at the half, and then Jayden gets hurt.
05:42You're making a bunch of excuses.
05:44I know.
05:44I understand.
05:44But that's how they're thinking.
05:45But that's how they're thinking.
05:46We beat the Seahawks.
05:47That's the Super Bowl champion.
05:49Dude, he said yesterday...
05:50Coles game was a dud.
05:51When he said yesterday in his press conference that I just can't wait to get back out there on Monday
05:58night.
05:58I vomited in my throat.
06:00Because I thought...
06:01We played the Niners, stupid.
06:03You can't wait to get back out there?
06:05The Niners are due for a dud.
06:07Okay.
06:08Oh, you keep thinking that.
06:09Well, they're going to have...
06:10They're not going undefeated.
06:12I'm not saying they're going undefeated, but I'm going to pick the Niners.
06:15And I'm going to pick the Niners, too.
06:17I'm sure we probably all are.
06:18But we all did the same thing against Seattle.
06:21They're going to have two miracles in one season.
06:23They're going to have just a dud all of a sudden.
06:24You're probably right.
06:25Against a vulnerable defense.
06:26If they've got Jaden in the game, they don't have Mario.
06:28I'm going to have to put in a hundred bucks in my account.
06:30To answer the question, you can vote at Junks Radio.
06:32Does Dan Quinn survive the next month?
06:34I'll say yes.
06:36I did have the qualifier, but I'll say yes.
06:38He survives.
06:38I'm going to say...
06:39The next month, I'm going to say no.
06:40I'm going to say for the sake of argument, no.
06:42He survives.
06:43So he does.
06:43Let's go behind the glass.
06:45He barely hangs on, but he survives.
06:46Does Dan Quinn survive the next month?
06:48Yes.
06:50Drabby?
06:52What do you think they're going to do in the next three?
06:54Uh, no.
06:56No.
06:56So he's done.
06:57I think it's...
06:58If they lose the next three...
06:58There's too much...
06:59The momentum's too bad.
07:00I'm kind of with JP, though.
07:01I do...
07:02Don't think it's as daunting as everyone else thinks of the San Francisco game.
07:06I think San Francisco has holes.
07:08Sure, they have holes, but you know who has bigger holes?
07:10The commanders.
07:11Buy a lot.
07:12The commanders will be underdogs in all three of those games.
07:14Yes.
07:14Yes, they will.
07:15Of course.
07:15They can win them.
07:16Yeah.
07:16They can easily win them.
07:17The schedule's basically playing on how I thought.
07:19A dick catastrophe.
07:20Just think of how different this discussion would be if they had just kicked that field goal,
07:23they win it.
07:24They're two and three.
07:26Yeah.
07:27Oh, yeah.
07:27They're two and three.
07:28Yeah.
07:29We're semi-optimistic.
07:31The division is within reach.
07:33Yeah.
07:34Now it's doom and gloom.
07:35Now it's when is DQ getting fired?
07:37Right.
07:37That one minute changed maybe the trajectory of his.
07:41I will say, Dan Quinn's kind of a dope on the field in terms of game management.
07:48It doesn't seem like he's really done anything with the defense.
07:51But his main skill is the brotherhood bit.
07:54It's bringing everybody together.
07:56This is testing it, though.
07:58After a catastrophe like this, even though what we see on the outside, whatever he's
08:02doing in the building, it works.
08:05Well, he better tap into that this week.
08:07Because Kime was insinuating that the looks from the guys on Sunday was different.
08:12Yeah.
08:13So let's see.
08:13That's right.
08:14Yeah.
08:14But I think he does whip them back in shape afterwards.
08:17Whenever he's got a forlorn face about what happened, I do think he's a great motivator.
08:23I do agree with you.
08:24That's been his calling card.
08:25But do you think it'll continue after that botch?
08:27Don't you think he loses a little credibility with the boys?
08:30I mean, it's putting his motivation skills to the test.
08:33He loses a lot of credibility.
08:34Not a little.
08:35He loses a lot.
08:35I mean, those guys got to be staring at him going, how dumb are you?
08:38I thought that he would never.
08:40Or they're staring at Jaden.
08:42I understand it's on a bigger stage.
08:44I never thought he would have anything that would follow him and haunt him like 28-3 in
08:49the Super Bowl.
08:50This is pretty close.
08:52Now, it's on a lesser stage.
08:53Super Bowl's bigger.
08:53Yeah, obviously.
08:54Super Bowl's bigger stage.
08:55But he's going to be remembered for this, too.
08:57Yeah.
08:57It's going to be 28-3 up here.
08:59And then a little bit down, it's going to be the disaster.
09:02The 19th thing, they'll talk about the Seahawks defense.
09:05Which he was the coordinator.
09:06Nobody's going to bring up the Legion.
09:08But they also are going to remember Jaden for doing this.
09:11Yeah.
09:11True.
09:12The thing that I think Jaden has going for him is he's so far-talent.
09:15Like, Dan Quinn so far has distinguished himself as an average-at-best NFL coach.
09:20Jaden has distinguished himself, when healthy, as, I think, an elite quarterback.
09:24Okay?
09:25Or at least top, top tier.
09:26Okay?
09:27I think right now he's seventh in QBR.
09:28In some statistics, if you compare him to the other quarterbacks right now, he's playing
09:33as one of the better quarterbacks in the league.
09:35And I think he is, without question.
09:37In limited work.
09:38When he's healthy.
09:39Without question.
09:40And by the way, it's his first real blunder.
09:43Like, he's thrown interceptions and made mistakes.
09:46Mental blunder, yeah.
09:46It's his first real calamity.
09:49DQ's kind of had calamities.
09:51Yeah.
09:52He's seen rough times.
09:54Yeah.
09:55Jaden kind of gets a pass.
09:57It's his first one.
09:58Yeah.
09:58You know.
09:59So, is it four to two out of the six of us?
10:02Believe he doesn't last the month?
10:04I think he makes it.
10:05No, no.
10:06It's three.
10:07It's three-three.
10:07Okay, three-three.
10:08Three-three.
10:08All right.
10:08Let's go, phones.
10:10Typical.
10:11Let's go to Gary in Upper Marlboro.
10:14Gary, what's up?
10:16Hey, Gary.
10:16Good morning, junks.
10:18Hey, I think Dan Quinn survives.
10:20And if he doesn't survive, Adam Peters knows it needs to go along with him.
10:24Okay?
10:24I think that, Dan Quinn, you erased 2025.
10:30Okay?
10:30There's no coach when you have an elite quarterback like that that wouldn't have struggled last year.
10:36Okay?
10:37So, now what we're doing is we're comparing 2024 to the first five games of 2026.
10:43Okay?
10:43I don't think that you fire a guy midseason unless you think you have someone within your organization that's going
10:51to elevate the team.
10:52The only time I think you do that is when you lose your locker room.
10:55And just as one of you said—
10:57I think it could be on the brink of it.
10:59This could have been so bad, it could be on the brink of it.
11:03But I think that those players know.
11:05Those players know.
11:07We can debate it all we want.
11:08Those players know Jaden screwed up.
11:11Yep.
11:11Those players know internally that Jaden screwed up.
11:14I don't think they're looking at Dan Quinn.
11:15Okay.
11:16That's possible.
11:17Maybe.
11:17You might be right.
11:18Maybe it's fair.
11:19It's possible.
11:20Possible.
11:20Let's go to Tim and Chantilly.
11:23Tim, what's up?
11:25Hey, thanks for taking my call.
11:27I think he survives.
11:28And for a lot of the reasons the last caller said, I think it's on Daniels.
11:33I've coached high school football and good or bad quarterbacks.
11:38You're under a minute.
11:39You got no timeouts.
11:40I don't know how many times you have to tell him, we don't have timeouts.
11:44You need to take care of the ball.
11:46He doesn't need to be told right before that play.
11:48He should know.
11:48So, I think, who else would they go with if they get rid of Quinn?
11:52I think it's Lynn or Ken Norton.
11:54One of those guys.
11:55Yeah, a couple of veteran guys on the staff.
11:57That's what I would say.
11:58Yeah, but I don't think that changes where they're going.
12:02I mean, if they're going down and the players start to quit after the next three games, then, yeah, he's
12:09gone.
12:09But if they keep fighting and going, I don't see the reason why they make a change.
12:12He might have a chance.
12:13He might have a chance.
12:14Yeah.
12:15All right.
12:16Thank you, Tim.
12:16Nobody believes Anthony Lynn would come in here and all of a sudden the team would rip off eight straight
12:21wins.
12:22No, no, no.
12:22But if you believe that coaching is a big factor in games, we just went through three games, which were
12:32close.
12:33Eagles game comes down to a decision, you know, maybe.
12:37But you're delegating to the offense coordinator.
12:39He calls the play.
12:40Maybe a coach comes in and said, no, no, we're not running shovel play.
12:43We're going to Terry McLaurin, you know, or we're putting the ball in Jayden's hands and he's going to give
12:50us a chance to win.
12:51You know, maybe there's a maybe the end of game situation here.
12:55They're like, we're just kicking a field goal.
12:56We're not getting greedy for the extra yards, whatever.
12:58So if you have that thought that a coach could make a difference, maybe Anthony Lynn would be different.
13:04By the way, his overall record is very Ron Rivera.
13:07Very Dan Quinn-ish.
13:10He was coach of the Chargers for four seasons.
13:13His record 33-31.
13:14He would just be a placeholder.
13:15No, he'd just be a different guy.
13:16Yeah, yeah, yeah.
13:17I'm just letting you know.
13:18And somebody, the guys respected a locker room.
13:20Yeah.
13:21You're just penalizing the guy that has made bad decisions.
13:26Yeah.
13:26I know if you're saying Anthony, we need a different look.
13:28We need a different look.
13:29This is over.
13:30If you go from Quinn to Lynn, it doesn't matter.
13:32Anthony Lynn was ridiculed for end-of-game decisions his entire tenure for the Chargers.
13:37He's terrible at it.
13:38So now you're replacing one with someone who could be even worse?
13:41Nobody's saying he's a stud.
13:42Hey, even their names sound alike.
13:43No, no.
13:44No one's saying that he's great.
13:45But if he's respected in the locker room, maybe it gets you going.
13:49All right, Valdez, do you have the audio where DQ was asked about keeping the locker room together?
13:56Last thing, do you worry?
13:57You guys, everybody talked about keeping the locker room together last year.
14:00Do you worry that a situation like that, a play like that, can erode some of the confidence,
14:05whether in you or the coaching staff, among the players?
14:08I don't.
14:09I don't.
14:09And the team meeting today, those are the examples that I know.
14:14And I know how tough our team is, John.
14:17And so I got that across.
14:19The resilience, the toughness, they're able to handle adversity.
14:22We've got to get our execution nailed down.
14:24We have to be the team that we can be and we're capable of being.
14:28And that was the message that was loud and clear today.
14:32That has to be a number one top of the pile.
14:38Got to hold them together.
14:39Got to hold the squad together.
14:42You know, it's worth it because you got a chance to maybe win a Super Bowl.
14:46You make a boatload of money.
14:48But, man, you are hired to be fired.
14:49And it's only a matter of time before you go through this situation.
14:53You wait.