Dan Quinn explains what the Commanders' crazy resurgence really means to him and the rest of the team

Let's just be real for a moment: It's not supposed to happen like it did for the Washington Commanders in 2024.

Teams entering just the second year of new ownership, while also uprooting the front office, coaching staff and most of the roster, aren't supposed to go from a Top-2 draft pick to playing in the NFC Championship Game within less than a calendar year of getting off the ground.

But that's exactly what Adam Peters, Dan Quinn, Jayden Daniels, and the rest of the crew did last year. And it was an absolute joy to watch and follow along he way.

The stink that came with being one of the NFL's biggest laughingstocks and worst franchises has pretty much disappeared over the last year. It usually takes several years, if not decades, to eradicate such the awful odor Dan Snyder and Co. left hanging around. Peters and Quinn reversed that trend, however, and it has the Commanders franchise on a trajectory it hasn't seen in quite some time.

Not only are the Commanders one of the NFL's current darlings, but Washington football is coming back to the D.C. area in the form of a new stadium at the old RFK site. It doesn't stop there either: Washington was named the official host of the 2027 NFL Draft last week.

"It reminds us all why we're here. It really does," Quinn told reporters Saturday. "You know, from [managing partner] Josh [Harris] to [general manager] Adam [Peters] to myself and the staff. You have a real sense of like, what the fan base has been about, and what they are. We feel that energy as members of the organization.

"So to be a part of that, and to feel that, man, that's a really cool thing. So we want to [show] out [as] hard as we can to make sure they know we're going to give everything we have."

I mean, outside of adding a Lombardi Trophy into the mix, I seriously don't see how it times could be more exciting for a franchise. Quinn and the Commanders are well aware of this, too, and they're going to do everything they can to keep the arrow pointing as upward as possible.