Back in March, when free agency was underway and people were trying to make sense of the Commanders’ signings, Craig Hoffman and Logan Paulsen talked about the Seahawks’ and Dan Qinn’s use of defensive end Red Bryant back in the day, and suggested that Javon Kinlaw could fill a similar role for the Commanders. Hoffman, at the time, couldn’t remember the term used by the Seahawks, but someone, somewhere, later said it was called the “elephant end”. That was almost, but not quite, right.
The term, being new to a lot of Washington fans like me, seems to have caused some confusion.