Immediately following the Washington Redskins loss against the Dallas Cowboys in Week 17, minutes after the final snap concluded, the NFL world got a shocking notification that Ron Rivera was meeting in D.C. for the vacant head coaching position.
The Redskins went out and got a man known for the exact opposite of what football has been like in D.C. over the last 25 years. Ron Rivera is a man of discipline, structure, accountability, family and lastly, victory.
Rivera is a defensive-minded head coach, the first of which the Redskins have hired since 2001.