Wait, a defensive minded HC is allowed to have a top NFL defense?!?
January 4, 2026
Wait, a defensive minded HC is allowed to have a top NFL defense?!?
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Like I get that its obviously frustrating to see a defensive minded HC have a great defense while DQ hasn’t put a decent defense on the field yet. But McDonald and the Seahawks had so much more going for them on both sides of the field before he got there compared to here with four straight years of Rivera drafting. AP literally said on his first day that there wasn’t a lot of talent on the team and that is still going to take time to fix.
Dude, you need to take a break from Reddit. You’re always karma farming lol
We’d be better off if Quinn embraced being a defensive-minded head coach. He tried being hands-off with the defense and being a CEO-style coach. Unfortunately, being a CEO-style coach requires managing the clock, timeouts, challenges, situations, etc. and Quinn is terrible at those.
Are you guys going to continue to beat this dead horse? You sound like you work for Grant and Danny. The personnel sucks. We have zero blue chip players on defense or even red chip. Stop engagement farming.
Quinn’s defense is all smoke and mirrors, and if he’s allowed to have the players he needs on defense here he’ll restore the smoke and mirrors before it’s exposed in the postseason in embarrassing fashion ala Dallas/Green Bay. His defense sucked in Atlanta, as well. Oh and his stint in Seattle? He inherited the NFL’s #1 defense in points allowed and #4 in yards allowed, all of which was the year before he joined to become their defensive coordinator.
It’s amazing how much this bum conned so many into thinking he was instrumental in Seattle or in Atlanta (Kyle), or even HERE (Jayden).
I get that we’re frustrated but who the fuck is going to coach these guys to a top 10 level? just look at the roster
I think Quinn’s scheme was always sort of bad, even in Dallas, but any scheme can look good if you have a top three edge rusher. My biggest issue right now is that there doesn’t seem to be any clear direction with the defensive unit. Every positional group has massive question marks, and even positions we’ve invested a lot of money and resources into like DT, have still underperformed (within reason, of course).
Obviously, there’s the argument that no one can perform without talent, but he hasn’t added much talent either or shown any sort of developmental trait. Mike Sainristil took a massive step back, Newton’s development was delayed a year due to injury and then he got stuck on the roster behind Kinlaw, Quan Martin might be the worst safety in the league, Jordan Magee has shown flashes but I don’t really trust him as a starting Mike in the absence of Bobby Wagner, and Amos was decent—but how much of his development was stunted by Whitt and the injuries on defense?
Wait a team with good defensive players can have a top defense?
Blaming Quinn is amateur hour.
McDonald is legit, though. A more modern day coach.
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Like I get that its obviously frustrating to see a defensive minded HC have a great defense while DQ hasn’t put a decent defense on the field yet. But McDonald and the Seahawks had so much more going for them on both sides of the field before he got there compared to here with four straight years of Rivera drafting. AP literally said on his first day that there wasn’t a lot of talent on the team and that is still going to take time to fix.
Dude, you need to take a break from Reddit. You’re always karma farming lol
We’d be better off if Quinn embraced being a defensive-minded head coach. He tried being hands-off with the defense and being a CEO-style coach. Unfortunately, being a CEO-style coach requires managing the clock, timeouts, challenges, situations, etc. and Quinn is terrible at those.
Are you guys going to continue to beat this dead horse? You sound like you work for Grant and Danny. The personnel sucks. We have zero blue chip players on defense or even red chip. Stop engagement farming.
Quinn’s defense is all smoke and mirrors, and if he’s allowed to have the players he needs on defense here he’ll restore the smoke and mirrors before it’s exposed in the postseason in embarrassing fashion ala Dallas/Green Bay. His defense sucked in Atlanta, as well. Oh and his stint in Seattle? He inherited the NFL’s #1 defense in points allowed and #4 in yards allowed, all of which was the year before he joined to become their defensive coordinator.
It’s amazing how much this bum conned so many into thinking he was instrumental in Seattle or in Atlanta (Kyle), or even HERE (Jayden).
I get that we’re frustrated but who the fuck is going to coach these guys to a top 10 level? just look at the roster
I think Quinn’s scheme was always sort of bad, even in Dallas, but any scheme can look good if you have a top three edge rusher. My biggest issue right now is that there doesn’t seem to be any clear direction with the defensive unit. Every positional group has massive question marks, and even positions we’ve invested a lot of money and resources into like DT, have still underperformed (within reason, of course).
Obviously, there’s the argument that no one can perform without talent, but he hasn’t added much talent either or shown any sort of developmental trait. Mike Sainristil took a massive step back, Newton’s development was delayed a year due to injury and then he got stuck on the roster behind Kinlaw, Quan Martin might be the worst safety in the league, Jordan Magee has shown flashes but I don’t really trust him as a starting Mike in the absence of Bobby Wagner, and Amos was decent—but how much of his development was stunted by Whitt and the injuries on defense?
Wait a team with good defensive players can have a top defense?
Blaming Quinn is amateur hour.
McDonald is legit, though. A more modern day coach.