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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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List Of Washington Commanders Head Coaches
The Washington Commanders are a professional American football franchise based in the Washington metropolitan area. They are members of the East division in the National Football Conference (NFC) of the National Football League (NFL). The Commanders were founded in 1932 as the Boston Braves, named after the local baseball franchise. The franchise changed its name the following year to the Redskins and moved to Washington, D.C. in 1937. In 2020, the team retired the Redskins name after longstanding controversies surrounding it and briefly played as the Washington Football Team before becoming the Commanders in 2022.

There have been 31 head coaches for the franchise, four of which played for the franchise during their career. Joe Gibbs is the only coach to have more than one tenure with the team. Two different coaches have won NFL championships with the team: Ray Flaherty in 1937 and 1942, and Joe Gibbs in 1982, 1987 and 1991. Gibbs is the all-time leader in games coached and wins, and Dudley DeGroot leads all coaches in winning percentage with .737. Of all the coaches, seven have been elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Flaherty, Turk Edwards, Curly Lambeau, Otto Graham, Vince Lombardi, George Allen, and Gibbs.

Coaches

# Number of coaches
GC Games coached
W Wins
L Loses
T Ties
Win % Winning percentage
00† Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a coach
00‡ Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a player
00* Spent their entire NFL head coaching career with Washington
# Image Name Term Regular season Playoffs Awards Reference
GC W L T Win% GC W L
Boston Braves
1 Lud Wray 1932 10 4 4 2 .500 –
Boston Redskins
2 Lone Star Dietz* 1933–1934* 24 11 11 2 .500 –
3 Eddie Casey* 1935* 11 2 8 1 .200 –
Washington Redskins
4 Ray Flaherty † 1936–1942 78 54 21 3 .720 4 2 2
5 Dutch Bergman* 1943* 10 6 3 1 .667 2 1 1
6 Dudley DeGroot* 1944–1945* 20 14 5 1 .737 1 0 1
7 Turk Edwards* ‡ 1946–1948* 35 16 18 1 .471 –
8 John Whelchel* 1949* 7 3 3 1 .500 –
9 Herman Ball* 1949–1951* 20 4 16 0 .200 –
10 Dick Todd* 1951* 9 5 4 0 .556 –
11 Curly Lambeau † 1952–1953 24 10 13 1 .435 –
12 Joe Kuharich 1954–1958 60 26 32 2 .448 – Sporting News Coach of the Year (1955)
UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1955)
13 Mike Nixon 1959–1960 24 4 18 2 .182 –
14 Bill McPeak* 1961–1965* 70 21 46 3 .313 –
15 Otto Graham* ‡ 1966–1968* 42 17 22 3 .436 –
16 Vince Lombardi † 1969 14 7 5 2 .583 –
17 Bill Austin 1970 14 6 8 0 .429 –
18 George Allen † 1971–1977 98 67 30 1 .691 7 2 5 AP Coach of the Year (1971)
Pro Football Weekly Coach of the Year (1971)
Sporting News Coach of the Year (1971)
UPI NFC Coach of the Year (1971)
19 Jack Pardee 1978–1980 48 24 24 0 .500 – AP Coach of the Year (1979)
UPI NFC Coach of the Year (1979)
20 Joe Gibbs* 1981–1992* 184 124 60 0 .674 21 16 5 AP Coach of the Year (1982, 1983)
Pro Football Weekly Coach of the Year (1982, 1983)
Sporting News Coach of the Year (1982, 1983, 1991)
UPI NFC Coach of the Year (1982)
21 Richie Petitbon* 1993* 16 4 12 0 .250 –
22 Norv Turner 1994–2000 109 49 59 1 .454 2 1 1
23 Terry Robiskie 2000 3 1 2 0 .333 –
24 Marty Schottenheimer 2001 16 8 8 0 .500 –
25 Steve Spurrier* 2002–2003* 32 12 20 0 .375 –
– Joe Gibbs* 2004–2007* 64 30 34 0 .469 3 1 2
26 Jim Zorn* 2008–2009* 32 12 20 0 .375 –
27 Mike Shanahan 2010–2013 64 24 40 0 .375 1 0 1
28 Jay Gruden* 2014–2019 85 35 49 1 .418 1 0 1
29 Bill Callahan 2019 11 3 8 0 .273 0 0 0
Washington Football Team / Commanders
30 Ron Rivera 2020–2023 67 26 40 1 .396 1 0 1 George Halas Award (2022)
Washington Commanders
31 Dan Quinn 2024–present 0 0 0 0 – 0 0 0

Footnotes

  1. ^ A running total of the number of coaches of the Redskins. Thus any coach who has two terms as head coach is only counted once.
  2. ^ George Preston Marshall, owner and founder of the franchise, sought to rename the Boston Braves after leaving the stadium they shared with the baseball team of the same name. He chose the name Redskins in honor of Dietz, who was Sioux.
  3. ^ DeGroot was a member of the United States rugby team that won an Olympic gold medal during the 1924 competition in Paris.
  4. ^ Fired after seven games
  5. ^ Fired after three games in the 1951 season.
  6. ^ Lombardi died before the start of the 1970 season.
  7. ^ Gibbs full coaching record with the Redskins is 248 regular season games coached with a record of 154–94–0 and a W–L percentage of .621. He is also 17–7 in 24 Playoff games.
  8. ^ Took over for last 3 games of the season.
  9. ^ Fired five games into the 2019 season, with Bill Callahan taking over for the rest of the year.