Commanders fans have had ENOUGH...

The Washington Commanders get the ball on their own nine-yard line with 52 seconds left down by seven. Jaden Daniels hits Stephon Diggs for 42 yards. A spike. A 12-yard throw to Bradley. Another spike. Then a 20-yard completion to Okonkwo. All the way to the Rams' 11-yard line with three seconds left. And the ball comes out. Twice. The Rams fall on it at their own 20 and And the game is over. 20-13 Rams win. The Commanders are 2-5-1 after this loss. And fans are livid. And they're not pointing their fingers at Jaden Daniels. They're pointing this straight at the sideline to David Blau and Dan Quinn. Because this is the third time in four games that this fell back on the lack of coaching within this group. Let's go into exactly what happened in this game, because the numbers are a lot uglier than the score. Let's start with how close this was, because neither team led more than 7 points during the entire game. Washington went up 10-3 on a 7-yard touchdown from Daniels to Van Jefferson. It was a 10-6 score at halftime. The Rams went ahead on the 1-yard line. Blake Horman run. Then Drew Stevens kicked a 41-yard field goal with 3:24 left in the third quarter to tie it 13-13. And that was it. The Commanders scored zero points in the entire fourth quarter. The Rams' only points of the fourth came on a 7-yard Matthew Stafford touchdown to Puka with 12:51 left. Puka finished with 14 catches for 150 yards. Stafford was 26-43 for 219 yards. Five a throw with one interception, and 150 of those 219 went to Puka. The whole Rams passing game was one man. The Rams ran it for 29 times for 124 yards, 4.3 a carry, and held the ball for 31:52 compared to Washington's 28 minutes and 8 seconds. And that's the part that does not make sense. Washington actually averaged more per play. 5.4 yards a snap, against 4.7 for the Rams. They lost anyways, because the Rams ran 73 plays and Washington ran 58. That's 15 extra snaps for the other team. So how did the team with better yards per play run 15 fewer plays? Stats, turnovers, and punts, and one of those is a decision. Here's the numbers that fans are throwing around this game. The Rams went for a fourth down three times during the game. Guess how many times they converted on it? A total of 3 for 3. 4th and 1, 4th and 2, 4th and 3. Puka picked up two of them for 12 yards and 15 yards. Earlier on, Washington had a 4th and 4 at the Rams' 19-yard line. They kicked a 37-yard field goal. That's a fair call. It's also the kind of call that adds up. Washington went for it on a 4th down once. 4th and 17 from midfield, with two minutes left, incomplete. Every other time, they punted. Five punts in all. Two of them came at their own 47 and their own 48. On 4th and 3 and 4th and 5. This isn't a roster problem. A punt at midfield on 4th and 3 is a decision. Washington punted five times and went for it once. And think about the 4th and 17. How did the offense get there, you might ask? It started the Rams' 43-yard line with 3:23 left. First down, incomplete. Second down, sacked for no gain. Third down, sacked for a loss of 12. He started that series at LA's 43, ended up seven yards farther back. That was one of four sacks on Daniels, and that second quarter one might have been the worst of all. On first and 20, Daniels was sacked and fumbled. The Rams took over at Washington's 46 and kicked a 20-yard field goal on the very last play of the half. Then there's the run game, which is where fans really lose it. 19 carries for 60 yards. That's 3.2 a carry with one rushing first down in the entire game. In a game there was never more than seven apart. They dropped back to pass 39 times, 35 throws, and four sacks. Only 15 carries went to rushing backs. And Croskey Merritt, who leads this team in rushing this season with 239 yards, did not get a carry. He wasn't on on the injury report either. Fans want to know why. Austin Ekeler ran 8 times for 16 yards. White ran 7 times for 28 yards. And Daniels carried 4 times for 16, the same yards Eckler got on twice as many carries. Add it up. 3 of the 12 on 3rd down. 1 of 2 in the red zone. 13 points. That is David Blough's offense. A guy that took over this position in January after never calling a play at any single level of football. That was the whole knock when they hired him. Eight games in, guess what? That knock is a product. Here's his season in one number. 21.5 points a game over eight games, and just 13 tonight at home. After the Giants tied, Dan Quinn, who was asked, who is calling this? He said, Dave's the one that calls it, but I want to make sure I'm clear on my guidance too. So the coach has guidance, and the coordinator is the one calling it, but they don't have a single answer. For a 4th and 7 team, the worst part, we've seen this movie before. Look at the season, 8 games, 5 of them were decided by 7 points or fewer. Washington is 1 win, 3 losses, and a tie in those. Those are games coaches are supposed to be winning. Clocks, timeouts, 4th downs, the final 2 minutes, this is relying on them and that's why they make the money. And in the last Four weeks, all of those things have went completely wrong in front of everyone. October 11th, Washington led the Giants 27-13 in the fourth quarter. The Giants tied it with 1.43 left and it went to overtime. In overtime, with 12 seconds left and the ball at the Giants' 24-yard line, Washington had no timeouts. Daniels was sacked for no gain, no spike, no field goal try. It ended 27-27. Dan Orlovsky said it was all on Dan Quinn. Michael Irvin said he puts 80% of the blame on coaching. And Magic Johnson, a part owner of this team, said he was in disbelief. Then Monday night in San Francisco. Washington trailed 20-3 and lost 23-17. On a field 4th and 2 from the 49ers 13. Quinn appeared to send out the field goal unit afterwards. That's how it looked on video, and the fans haven't let it go. And you get to today. In the third quarter, Washington challenged a ruling on the field, and it was upheld. That cost a timeout. By 1.44 left in the fourth, Washington has used all three of its second half timeouts. The last two stopped the clock on defense, and they got the ball back on their own nine with 52 seconds left. Daniels spiked the ball twice on that drive. 31 seconds and 9 seconds left. And the Rams used two timeouts of their own in the last 8 seconds. And there's nothing this coaching staff can say when it comes to how they left the end of a game. Daniels had to make up 91 yards in 52 seconds with no timeouts left. This is a situation where fans are asking, how do we even get here? Hey listen fans, if you're as mad as me and you want to stay up to date on hopefully the firing of these two guys, hit that free subscribe button down below and I'll continue keeping you up to date, but let's continue on with this rager. Because Dan Quinn knows exactly how this sounds, because he's said it before. After the Giants tie, Quinn said, It starts with me first off, no doubt about it. He said he was furious, he said the urgency wasn't there, and he said that's the part that pisses you off the most. When he was asked about confidence in him, he said, I'm just as pissed. This is a really hard loss, man. That was on October 12th, and now we're sitting on November 8th, and it's the exact same thing. And the question fans are asking, when does it end? Here's what we know about Quinn's job. After the tie, front office sports reported that firing him wasn't under consideration, and that running backs coach Anthony Lynn was floated as the interim option. That was before today. Quinn said the plan goes from him, to Blau, to Daniels, so when it breaks, there are three places it can break, and two of them wear headsets, and we keep hearing the same sentences. After the tie, he also said, this is my responsibility, nobody else's. At some point, taking the blame has to come with fixing it. Here's my take, you can sell a team losing a game against a good Rams team. But what you can't sell is a coach and a first-time play caller making the exact same mistakes week after week. Because the players have done their part. Nick Cross recovered a Puka fumble in the second quarter and intercepted Stafford in the third at the Rams 27. Daniels was 24 of 35 for 273 yards, a touchdown and no interceptions. Van Jefferson had five catches for 58 yards and the score. The defense stopped the Rams on 11 of their 14 third downs. The Rams were flagged 10 times for 70 yards. Even Quinn's challenge in the third quarter was right. At 7:44, it overturned a 20-yard catch on third and fourth, and the Rams punted. The team did enough, the calls just didn't. Schedule doesn't help. Washington is 2-5-1, and on Thursday night at 815 Eastern, they're at the Giants.