Last week, Redskins head coach Jay Gruden reached out to quarterbacks coach Matt Cavanaugh and asked if he’d be interested in taking the open offensive coordinator position, which had been left vacant by Sean McVay, who had, himself, just become the Los Angeles Rams’ new head coach.
Cavanaugh, without hesitation, said “absolutely,” and Gruden mulled over his response for just a couple of days before offering Cavanaugh the job. The short process was predicated on a desire to keep continuity after a record-breaking offensive season.
“Promoting Matt Cavanaugh was easy. We’re not going to make wholesale changes offensively,” Gruden said on "Redskins Nation.