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The Sports Junkies

Are The Commanders Sleeping On Mike MacDonald?

The Sports Junkies

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4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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From 01/31 Hour 3:

The Sports Junkies debate if Mike MacDonald is the best remaining candidate to become HC of the Washington Commanders.

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0:00.0

Welcome back.

0:01.0

Chuck E's on 106, having the fans.

0:03.0

So found some interesting nuggets in this article written by, I think it's Brian Manning

0:10.9

Yahoo Sports, but he references Rappaport and Shefter.

0:17.0

Look, Shefter got it right. Shefter said if I had to bet Ben Johnson's, you know, the presumption was Ben Johnson to do Washington,

0:26.0

Dan Quinn to Seattle, he said if I had to bet at least one of those things won't happen if not to, right?

0:31.0

So Schefter said that. But there's some nuggets here in this article

0:36.9

about Stephanie McDonald to continue what we were talking about. Mike

0:42.4

McDonald's wife Stephanie Stephanie, was a cheerleader for the

0:46.9

Washington Redskins. She also, according to this story, sang the national anthem

0:51.8

for the commanders a couple of times and her

0:54.0

father raised her I don't know where her parents lived a Washington fan so she

1:00.1

has ties the area was born in Annapolis, went to high school in Fredericksburg.

1:07.6

So you've got that.

1:08.6

But also he points out there's a connection between McDonald and Washington senior vice president of

1:13.3

football strategy Eugene Chen

1:15.4

Chen and McDonald worked together for six seasons but even I think to the point where

1:20.6

they I think they shared an office at one point like they're close like

1:23.4

they know each other pretty well but even beyond that the thing which really

1:27.7

jumped out at me in this article now we don't know if this is Washington

1:31.8

but Rappaport said that one of the teams looking for a head coach,

1:37.8

right now they're too, called McDonald the best interview they've had by far. Rappaport said, quote, he is young, he is

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