How risky are the Commanders' recent coaching hires for Dan Quinn?
The Kevin Sheehan Show
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This from Simmons. Simmons writes, who the hell's Darnel Stapleton? Yeah, he's our new |
| 0:10.3 | offensive line coach. He was the assistant offensive line coach under Bobby Johnson. Bobby Johnson |
| 0:18.4 | was fired after the season. And so the offensive line search |
| 0:25.0 | concluded with the elevation of the assistant offensive line coach, Darnell Stapleton, |
| 0:30.8 | getting the offensive line coach. What do you want to know about Stapleton? He actually |
| 0:34.9 | played in the league for the Steelers and started on those |
| 0:40.0 | 2008 Steelers that won the Super Bowl over Arizona. He was an undrafted free agent out of Rutgers. |
| 0:48.9 | He made the team as a rookie in 2007, but was inactive during that season. |
| 0:54.9 | In 2008, he replaced Kendall Simmons, who was the right guard who got injured. |
| 1:01.2 | He started the final 12 games of the year, started in all three of their playoff games, |
| 1:06.2 | including the Super Bowl win over Arizona. |
| 1:11.3 | And then, in 2009, he was placed on injured reserve with a knee injury, |
| 1:18.1 | was never offered another deal, played for the Florida Tuskers in the UFL for a brief moment, |
| 1:25.8 | signed with the Patriots, but was waived two days after they signed him |
| 1:29.8 | in August of 2010. Then he started a coaching career that started with the New York, New York |
| 1:37.2 | Sharks of the professional women's football league, then went to Montclair University. |
| 1:46.9 | I'm sorry, Montclair Academy. |
| 1:49.0 | I'm assuming that's a high school program. |
| 1:51.9 | And then got a job as a graduate assistant at Rutgers, |
| 1:55.0 | then coached O-line at Bucknell, |
| 1:57.6 | O-line at Sam Houston State, |
| 1:59.8 | assistant O-Line at Louisiana. Then, for two seasons, |
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