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Nabbs4u Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 9 hours ago, HTTRDynasty said: At least one fan is excited. He knew in Week 18 😂 Obviously it's week 18, but clearly before week 20, just saying. 🥃 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nagahide13 Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 1 hour ago, RaidersAreOne said: Gonna need you to photoshop a backwards hat into the 2nd AJ pic 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaddHatter Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 For all the hate DC is getting, if Quinn can pull Whitt and Harris to follow him, DC should have a top 10 D very quickly which is a huge improvement form 31st DVOA and if they can pull off the right OC and hit the jackpot on a QB, they could be a major NFC contender in a year or two 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayheykid Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Meet the new coach, same as the old coach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZ_Eaglesfan Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 2 hours ago, MaddHatter said: For all the hate DC is getting, if Quinn can pull Whitt and Harris to follow him, DC should have a top 10 D very quickly which is a huge improvement form 31st DVOA and if they can pull off the right OC and hit the jackpot on a QB, they could be a major NFC contender in a year or two They need a lot of talent infused for this to happen. The defensive staff is solid, but they will need to hit on some draft picks/FA's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeT14 Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 7 hours ago, AZ_Eaglesfan said: They need a lot of talent infused for this to happen. The defensive staff is solid, but they will need to hit on some draft picks/FA's. It's a weird year where we actually have a handful of (high) picks and a ton of cap space. We might actually be able to start that process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HTTRDynasty Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Leadership was always the #1 criteria. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MKnight82 Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 On 2/2/2024 at 12:34 AM, AZ_Eaglesfan said: They need a lot of talent infused for this to happen. The defensive staff is solid, but they will need to hit on some draft picks/FA's. I think we have a lot of talent on defense already. We need some new edge rushers but a lot of the depth chart is full of recent high draft picks. There’s a lot of untapped potential the previous staff didn’t develop. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HTTRDynasty Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 People forget we ranked top 10 in defensive DVOA just a year ago… and 4th in 2020. A lot of those guys are still here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeT14 Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 https://theathletic.com/5242976/2024/02/05/commanders-head-coach-dan-quinn/ Quote How the Commanders landed on Dan Quinn amid twists, turns and ‘outrageous’ actions Johnson and Macdonald took the tour. Seattle convinced Macdonald, now the league’s youngest head coach, to choose a life near the Space Needle over one by the Washington Monument. Beyond two interviews, including a face-to-face chat last Monday, there were strong overtures and, league sources tell The Athletic, a job offer made to Macdonald by the Commanders. Another source confirming we offered Macdonald. Quote Washington held Johnson, the offensive coordinator for one of the league’s most dynamic attacks the past two seasons, in high regard at the onset. “I like Ben. A year ago, he knew he wasn’t ready,” one high-ranking executive with another team texted. “I get a feeling he still thinks he needs time. Who knows? But to break (the decision) while they were in the air is a poor choice.” Article makes it unclear exactly how in we were on Ben, but connecting the dots, it was heavy to some extent and point. Long story short (and as we all already know), Quinn was definitely not the first choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaddHatter Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 6 minutes ago, MikeT14 said: https://theathletic.com/5242976/2024/02/05/commanders-head-coach-dan-quinn/ Another source confirming we offered Macdonald. Article makes it unclear exactly how in we were on Ben, but connecting the dots, it was heavy to some extent and point. Long story short (and as we all already know), Quinn was definitely not the first choice. Have to imagine the length of contract was something that Seattle held in their favor - no GM is going to give a HC a longer contract than he has himself, and with DC only giving 5yrs to their GM, they couldn't match Seattle's offer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HTTRDynasty Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 https://www.si.com/nfl/2024/02/05/takeaways-bye-week-commanders-dan-quinn-search How the Commanders Found Their New Head Coach in Dan Quinn Quote • While those interviews were going on, the five graded each of the candidates in a number of categories: leadership, intelligence, communication, ability to build a staff, honesty and integrity, and consistency of personality. • Quinn, it seemed, scored highly in every category and was different in that he’d been a head coach before. (Morris was the only other candidate who could say that.) In the first interview, Quinn took the group through the 360-degree review he did of his time as Falcons head coach; he told Washington he’d even hired people to do a deep dive into what he’d done right and wrong. Quinn explained how he’d taken the information he got back to heart and worked on it, showing real self-awareness and humility. Quote • After the group compared notes, and without a set number of people they planned to invite back as finalists, the five decided they liked all seven external candidates enough to invite them back for second interviews. After some schedule shifting and moving, the team met with Morris and Slowik in Miami before the conference title games and, eventually, had Weaver and Macdonald set for Monday in Baltimore. Quinn was set for Tuesday morning in D.C., while Glenn and the group were set to fly to Detroit to interview Glenn and Johnson that afternoon, to best accommodate the coaches who were working the conference title games. Quote • Over the weekend, Peters went back through his background work. His former Niners colleagues Kyle Shanahan, John Lynch, Paraag Marathe and Jed York had been generous with their time in vetting candidates, and Shanahan and York had seen Quinn up close at opposite ends of the spectrum: York watched Quinn in his first NFL job, as the San Francisco 49ers’ DL coach from 2001–04, and Shanahan worked for him when Quinn was head coach in Atlanta. What struck Peters was the consistency in what everyone said. • And the polling that Peters, Spielman, and Mayhew did canvassing NFL contacts, from Dallas and Atlanta, and all those people in San Francisco who’d worked for Quinn with the Falcons, was just as consistent. But he wasn’t the only candidate who’d hit for that sort of average, which is why the group went into last week with an open mind—and a still wide-open search. As such, perception that Johnson was the heavy favorite rankled them, especially when it made some candidates leery about staying in the race. • Quinn’s interview at the Four Seasons in Georgetown kicked off at 7:30 a.m., and Peters, Spielman and Mayhew saw a coach shot of a cannon—feeling Quinn’s passion for his work, his excitement about the Commanders job in particular, and how the mutual connections between the football folks in the room created a natural chemistry. When Peters and Quinn went one-on-one, the GM marked down that this was someone he’d want to work with. • Washington’s party of five then boarded for Detroit, and found out over the in-flight WiFi on X (formerly known as Twitter) that Johnson had pulled out of their search. Minutes later, a text that the Lions OC sent at 12:45 p.m. to inform the team of his decision came through. So after landing in Michigan, the group had one interview to do at a Detroit-area hotel rather than two. Glenn acquitted himself nicely, and Washington once again had more to think about. • Spielman, Mayhew and Peters flew from Detroit to Mobile, Ala., for Senior Bowl practices with two candidates in mind: Macdonald and Quinn. They debriefed and resolved to sleep on it. On Wednesday, Macdonald arrived in Seattle for a second interview (that turned out to be more of a coronation) and simplified things for the Commanders. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nnivolcm Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 8 minutes ago, HTTRDynasty said: https://www.si.com/nfl/2024/02/05/takeaways-bye-week-commanders-dan-quinn-search How the Commanders Found Their New Head Coach in Dan Quinn That's a lot of work to land their 3rd or 4th choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HTTRDynasty Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 3 minutes ago, Nnivolcm said: That's a lot of work to land their 3rd or 4th choice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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