Commanders coach Ron Rivera 'not worried' about job status after 35-point loss - ESPN

DALLAS — The Washington Commanders' players didn't want to focus on possible coaching changes — and they're not convinced any would help.

After the Commanders lost 45-10 to Dallas — their eighth loss in 10 games dropping them to 4-8 — the speculation once again turned to the job security of fourth-year head coach Ron Rivera and his staff.

Rivera said about his situation, «I've told you before I'm not worried about anything. All I'm going to do is do my job and see how things go. That's the only thing I can do.»

But multiple players said they're not focused on the coaches fate.

«It's only when you guys ask,» Washington left tackle Charles Leno, Jr. said. «No one else is bringing this s---- up. We don't talk about this s----; we don't care about this stuff, we're listening to our coaches following game plan and trying to win games.»

Because it's the fourth year of Rivera's regime, and the first of owner Josh Harris, there has been constant talk about the coach's future. Washington won the NFC East under Rivera in 2020 but hasn't finished with a winning record since 2016.

Harris has said he wants to give the staff a full season to better evaluate the entire operation. But the Commanders have lost three in a row and, in two nationally televised games, have been outscored 85-30.

«Who's going to step in and be the head coach? Who?» Leno said. «I don't know.… Where we are right now I don't know that's going to help anything. I just feel like when you do stuff like that in the middle of the year, I don't know, I really don't know.»

Leno said even if Harris promoted assistant head coach/offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy to interim coach, «it will be the same because at the end of the day EB will be focused on offense and