And just as an aside, the Commanders were hampered by injuries on their OL and by the end of the season, were starting 4 first round lineman I believe. Their first pick this year was OL.
Cousins had all day to throw and was not sacked, threw over 70% and nobody in Washington was complaining about the OL when it was a regular theme in DC. Their passing game was built off of play action, meaning the threat of the run game was always there even though they weren't putting up big numbers with all their injuries.
And this was Callahan's first year there. I live in DC so the fans were elated with Callahan's work.
Gotta disagree with some of this, for starters, they were not hampered by injuries and were not starting 4 first round linemen, because Moses was a second round pick and Long was a third rounder. Shaun Lauvao went down early in the season, but Spencer Long, who was a third rounder in 2014, played at roughly the same level. Willing to bet, that Lauvao does not regain his starting job back next year. Lichtenstieger was the big injury that they could not replace, but the other linemen pretty much played every game.
I live in DC as well and again, Callahan deserves a ton of credit for his ability to coach up talented players, which is what he did in Washington as well. Trent Williams (14 starts) was already a perennial pro-bowler and Brandon Scherff (16 starts) was the 5th pick and thus should have been a very good guard. Korey Lichtenstiger was already a very good center, but was limited to 5 games. The big improvement was Morgan Mosses (16 starts) and Spencer Long who were a rookies last season and similar to here, Callahan got the most out of them.
