Dan Quinn Blamed for Commanders' Historic Clock Blunder

Dan Quinn, in hindsight, this was as big of a coaching disaster and as big of a football blunder as you could possibly have. The fact that the Commanders had the football with 50 seconds left, like when you go through the timeline, it's on the screen, okay? The timeline, the game is tied. Washington is at the 24-yard line for the New York Giants. There are 50 seconds left with no timeouts. the clock gets spotted the sorry the ball gets spotted and the clock runs the next time that Jayden Daniels snapped the football after the ball got spotted with 50 seconds left was with 12 seconds on the clock like there were a multitude of opportunities to stop the clock spike the ball throw the ball out of bounds you could you had no timeouts and everyone was lollygagging around When they snap the ball with 12 seconds, if they had run a quick out pattern, if they had thrown the ball away, if they had done something, the clock would have stopped. The thing they could not do was run the football and then not get back on the ball extremely quickly because Jayden Daniels snaps the ball. He runs around and he realizes, wait, I don't know what to do here. And then he goes down like it's in college or something. He gets a first down and the clock's going to stop. He goes down. The clock keeps running. The Giants run off the field. And after the game, Dan Quinn is blaming himself, saying that's all on me. All that comes through me. How did they not kick the game winning field goal? It is one of the most egregious coaching mistakes. It's one of the most insane endings in the history of the NFL. When you really go back and watch that and you piece it together and you go play by play and step-by-step as to how the Commanders got into that position and how they were unable to do something very, very basic. Stop the clock. There were like 15 different things they could have done to stop the clock. They chose the one that would have run the clock out and the quarterback and coach did not realize what was happening with 50 seconds left. That is an unreal amount of just being disconnected from reality when you really go back and watch that and you really go through all of it it is one of and i'm 49 years old i can't remember an end of game situation be that poorly run by an NFL franchise if we were watching a high school football playoff game and that happened that'd be one of those things that would be on SportsCenter and we'd watching it going like damn high school kids man didn't realize the clock was running oh my gosh that's how the game ends oh that's awful this is the NFL these coaches are paid millions and millions of dollars to know what they're doing head coaches and quarterbacks are extremely well compensated because they're supposed to be smarter football wise than anybody else and you're supposed to prepare your players Dan Quinn has his job today i can't believe Dan Quinn has his job today they're one three and one and after that i don't know how in the world you walk into that locker room and feel like our head coach is on the ball like our guy our head coach understands what's happening all the coaches are on the chopping block in my mind everyone you're like wait it's not just Dan Quinn although Dan Quinn is taking the bullet for everybody it's the entire coaching staff.