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John Keim
Washington’s commanders finished their coaching staff by hiring the grandson of the legendary coach and announcer of the NFL John Madden.
Jesse Madden will serve as offensive quality control coach of the commanders in his first NFL work. Madden spent the previous four years as support in Michigan, first as a field marshal and then as defensive.
John Madden trained the Oakland Raiders for a victory at the Super Bowl XI in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, where Michigan beat Alabama in a semifinal playoff game in 2024. John Madden later became famous for transmitting, commercials from Beer and then for a video game that bears his name.
And yes, his grandson plays Madden. Jesse Madden told Los Angeles Times that he was playing the game with his teammates when the journalist called him a few days before the Wolverines played in Washington in the National Championship in 2024.
“For me, it’s not crazy because it’s all I have known my whole life,” Madden told the newspaper.
Madden once told the news group from the Bay area that grew up studying the teams of his grandfather’s raiders. During the pandemic in the spring of his third year in high school, with a new coach and formal practices are not allowed, the newspaper reported that Jesse Madden learned 1,600 plays and organized informal training.
At that time, his grandfather told the newspaper: “His work ethics is incredible. Even without anything happened due to Covid, he practiced every day as if he were going to play.”
His grandfather could see him play in a game in Michigan, a 2021 televised victory over northern Illinois, three months before he died on December 28, 2021.
Washington also hired Brian Schneider as an assistant coach of special equipment. It passed 2022-23 in charge of the Special Teams of San Francisco, a position that he held in Seattle from 2010 to 2020.
