If anyone wants to know why the Washington Commanders haven’t won anything since the BlackBerry was popular, they need look no further than the front row of a Tuesday press conference.
The Commanders organization decided to pivot into the world of performative social theater when they left three chairs empty to honor … wait for it … theWashington Post'sdecaying sports section.
Three perfectly good seats, wasted and vacant in the front row, served as a brooding symbol to the WaPo reporters who were recently pink-slipped after the paper finally nuked its sports department.
Commanders coach Dan Quinn, sounding like a guy at a candlelight vigil rather than a head coach vying for wins next season, told the remaining media members he was "bummed" by the news, as seen in a video shared byJP Finlay.
"Their presence is missed," Quinn said with a straight face, acting like the paper had just lost Woodward and Bernstein… not a sports desk that’s been hollowed since Mark Brunell was under center.
And these folks wouldn't dare say "Redskins" in a sentence. That's how brave they were.
Head coach Dan Quinn of the Washington Commanders. (Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images)
Still, since when did NFL coaches start caring for corporate media? Sure, they share WASHINGTON in the name, but did the American public really lose much?
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While Quinn is busy being "bummed" about the lack of Ivy League grads in the front row, fans are surely wondering why he isn't busy figuring out how to stop offenses on third-downs.Look at us being noble… how about you start winning?
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