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   Foreword.   
      
   Ron Rivera was an unwanted catalyst behind the unneeded name change   
   for the Washington Redskins to "Commanders", more commonly known as   
   "Commoders".   
      
   Ron Rivera stabbed the Commoders owner in the back multiple times by   
   leaking team information to the press.   
      
   Ron Rivera stabbed John Gruden in the back when some of the   
   information he helped leak inadvertently smeared Gruden.   
      
   Ron Rivera and the NFL sttempted to portray him as some sort of   
   military hero when he never served a single day in the uniform of   
   his country.  He was a woke military brat.   
      
   Ron Rivera went to UC Berkeley, and we all know what kind of un-   
   American marxist leaning person goes there.   
      
   Any NFL owners considering hiring this dishonest untrustworthy   
   individual would do well to explore other options.   
      
   * * *   
      
   The Washington Commanders wasted no time in starting anew.   
      
   After his team fell to the Dallas Cowboys Sunday and finished its   
   season with a 4-13 record, Washington owner Josh Harris fired Ron   
   Rivera early Monday. Harris enlisted former Golden State Warriors   
   general manager Bob Myers and former Minnesota Vikings GM Rick   
   Spielman as part of an advisory group to help him and his limited   
   partners search for a new head of football operations and head   
   coach.   
      
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   Commanders GM Martin Mayhew and executive vice president of   
   football/player personnel Marty Hurney will stay on with the team   
   through that search process.   
      
   The Commanders’ moves came at the start of a day of change for   
   several NFL teams. Just after midnight, the Atlanta Falcons fired   
   their coach, Arthur Smith, and more moves are expected across the   
   league as team owners reshape coaching staffs and front offices.   
      
   Keep track of the firings across the NFL   
      
   In Washington, Rivera’s departure ends his four-year run as coach   
   and kicks off a wave of changes that will overhaul the team’s   
   executive leadership.   
      
   “We’ve done it in a bunch of sports, and I’m highly confident we’re   
   going to do it here,” Harris, who also owns the NBA’s Philadelphia   
   76ers and the NHL’s New Jersey Devils, said in November.   
      
   Rivera set out on his own rebuild four years ago, when former   
   Washington owner Daniel Snyder appointed him head coach and top   
   football executive. Rivera had spent the previous nine seasons   
   coaching the Carolina Panthers and was widely respected as a coach   
   and leader.   
      
   The chance to control Washington’s football operations was a selling   
   point. So, too, was the chance to fix the team’s culture, which had   
   eroded in 20-plus years of Snyder’s ownership. Rivera soon became   
   the primary voice of the team as it navigated two name changes,   
   multiple NFL- and federal government-led investigations into its   
   workplace and operations and probes by three attorneys general.   
      
   “That was a lot,” Rivera said last week. “A lot more than I had   
   anticipated there.”   
      
   Who will be Washington's next head coach? Here are some names to   
   watch.   
      
   In 2020, his first season in Washington, Rivera was diagnosed with   
   cancer and underwent chemotherapy and proton radiation while   
   continuing to coach. He didn’t miss a game. In 2021, the U.S. Drug   
   Enforcement Administration searched the team’s headquarters as part   
   of an investigation into the head athletic trainer, whom Rivera had   
   hired, for illegally providing controlled substances to players. In   
   2022, rookie running back Brian Robinson Jr. was shot twice during   
   an attempted robbery in D.C. just before the start of the season.   
   Just a few months later, Snyder announced his intent to explore a   
   sale of the team, setting in motion the process that led to Harris’s   
   $6.05 billion purchase.   
      
   “[I] was trying to keep the focus on the players,” Rivera said last   
   week as he reflected on his time in Washington. “... This is a   
   player’s game. You don’t have the players, you don’t get the players   
   doing the things that they’re capable of, you’re going to struggle.   
   And that’s, I think, part of what we’ve had to deal with.”   
      
   Rivera’s ability to shield his team from the turmoil was no small   
   feat, and players often said it was among his greatest strengths.   
      
   “I can think of coaches right now who couldn’t take on a task like   
   this,” left tackle Charles Leno Jr. said in 2022. “They wouldn’t be   
   able to control what they can control.”   
      
      
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