The Commanders headed into Thursday night’s game against the Giants desperately needing to win, if they wanted to have any chance of competing in the NFC East. After their 24-21 win, Commanders head coach Dan Quinn was a combination of exuberant and relieved.
“We needed that. We needed every bit of it,” Quinn said. “This is one we had to have, and our guys make sure we have it.”
After the win, the Commanders are 3-5-1, two games behind the division-leading Giants, and the Commanders now own the head-to-head tiebreaker over the Giants. Quinn’s team is still a long shot to win the NFC East, but given the state of that division, it’s not unreasonable to think the Commanders can compete.
And compete is what they did on Thursday night, in a game that went down to the final minute, just as Quinn said the Commanders expected.
“Going into it, we thought this is going to be all four quarters,” Quinn said. “It felt like the most adversity, but also the most belief. It was a balance of both, and we definitely needed that.”