When the NFL Gamers Affiliation put out its report playing cards for every NFL crew, the Washington Commanders completed lifeless final. Among the many ugly grades had been F-minuses within the crew’s remedy of households, locker room and coaching room.
Commanders proprietor Josh Harris, who purchased the crew from Dan Snyder final yr, is vowing to repair that.
“I’m not an F-minus man,” Harris mentioned, by way of JP Finlay of NBCSportsWashington.com. “I didn’t even know you possibly can get an F-minus. Clearly, we’ve jumped throughout that. Initially, that report was primarily based on interviews that occurred proper across the possession change.”
Harris mentioned bettering the crew’s locker room and coaching room is a significant offseason mission that Normal Supervisor Adam Peters and head coach Dan Quinn are getting personally concerned in.
“It’s clearly one thing we’re centered on. Actually, Adam and Dan needed to depart the NFL conferences briefly to go have a dialogue with the architects. We’re making an attempt to make lots of modifications shortly. The NFL participant neighborhood is a small neighborhood, the NFL teaching neighborhood is a small neighborhood. We wish to be a spot that everybody says, ‘That’s an amazing place to be.’ And subsequently, we have to improve that facility, and we’re upgrading that facility,” Harris mentioned.
Harris mentioned the crew has plans to improve nearly in every single place, together with the taking part in floor, though he mentioned he doesn’t know the way quickly each change might be made.
“There’s solely a lot you are able to do,” Harris mentioned. “Now we have to have a look at, How a lot can we do? It’s so much just like the scenario we had been in after we took over final July: There’s solely a lot we might do earlier than the season. There’s solely a lot we are able to do earlier than coaching camp, and we’re going to try this.”
Cleansing up the mess that Snyder left behind gained’t be a straightforward job, however Harris is aware of it’s an necessary job.
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