The Washington Commanders front office was planning to meet with former head coach Wade Phillips about the team’s defensive coordinator job Friday evening, according to a source with knowledge of the search process.
But Phillips, whose defensive acumen was critical to the Denver Broncos’ victory over the Carolina Panthers in last season’s Super Bowl, is believed to be weighing an offer to become defensive coordinator of the Los Angeles Rams. And it’s possible he could accept that offer before sitting down to talk with the Commanders for the second time in three years about their vacancy.
The Rams on Thursday hired Commanders offensive coordinator Sean McVay as their new head coach, signing the 30-year-old to a reported five-year deal.
Phillips, 69, a former head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, Buffalo Bills and Broncos, would be at least the third candidate to interview for the Commanders defensive coordinator job since Joe Barry was let go the week after the Commanders ended their 2016 season with a lackluster 19-10 defeat to the New York Giants that shut them out of the playoffs and left them with an 8-7-1 mark.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...nsive-coordinator-job/?utm_term=.2abd60db16fc
A bit of a bummer.
