The 2023 season was the Washington Commanders' 92nd season in the National Football League (NFL) and their fourth and final under head coach Ron Rivera. It was the first season under owner Josh Harris, who headed a group in the offseason that bought the franchise from Daniel Snyder for $6.05 billion.
The team replaced offensive coordinator Scott Turner, who joined the team in 2020, with former Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy, who was also named assistant head coach.[1] Defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio and defensive backs coach Brent Vieselmeyer were fired following a 10–45 loss to the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving.[2]
The team failed to improve or match their 8–8–1 record after a Week 13 loss to the Miami Dolphins, resulting in their seventh straight non-winning season, and were eliminated from playoff contention for the third straight year following a Week 15 loss to the Los Angeles Rams. Despite starting off with a 2–0 record for the first time since 2011, the team imploded thereafter, allowing the most points by any team that year (518) and having the worst point differential in the league (−189), in conjunction with having the ninth-worst ranked offense of the year.[3] These problems resulted in the team going 2–13 the rest of the way, which included them being swept by the division for the first time since 2019 and a devastating eight-game losing streak to close off the year.
After the season's conclusion, on January 8, Commanders managing partner Josh Harris officially announced that the organization had parted ways with head coach Ron Rivera.[4]
With the Detroit Lions defeating the Los Angeles Rams in the Wild Card round of the playoffs, the Commanders now hold the longest active playoff win drought in the NFC and third-longest in the NFL (behind the Miami Dolphins and Las Vegas Raiders), not having won such a game since 2005. With the Lions winning their NFC Divisional round game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers the following week, Washington alone now holds the longest conference championship appearance drought in the NFC; both Detroit and Washington had last appeared in the 1991 NFC Championship Game.[5]
^"Commanders hire Eric Bieniemy as assistant head coach, offensive coordinator". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
^"Commanders fire defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio in wake of blowout loss to Cowboys". NFL.com. Retrieved November 24, 2023.
^https://www.espn.com/nfl/stats/team
^"Statement from Washington Commanders Managing Partner Josh Harris". Commanders.com. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
^"Washington Commanders hold NFL's longest championship drought". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved January 25, 2024.
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