{"id":743141,"date":"2026-02-10T19:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/743141\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T19:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:53:14","slug":"daronte-jones-its-not-how-they-line-up-its-how-they-wind-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/743141\/","title":{"rendered":"Daronte Jones: \u201cIt\u2019s not how they line up, it\u2019s how they wind up.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Daronte Jones is the Washington Commanders new defensive coordinator, and we finally get a chance to hear from him today. Dan Quinn spoke to the media to introduce Jones, and new offensive coordinator David Blough. Quinn made it clear that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hogshaven.com\/pressers\/396860\/dan-quinn-introduces-two-new-coordinators-washington-commanders-nfl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Jones will be running his own system<\/a>, which will be his first time calling plays at the NFL level.<\/p>\n<p>Versatility and adaptability:<\/p>\n<p>Building trust with the players:<\/p>\n<p>Remaining \u201cmultiple\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>Lessons from year as LSU\u2019s DC:<\/p>\n<p>Figuring out how every player learns:<\/p>\n<p>Growing up a Redskins fan:<\/p>\n<p>Dictating the terms on defense:<\/p>\n<p>Commanders strengths on defense:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daronte Jones is the Washington Commanders new defensive coordinator, and we finally get a chance to hear from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[427,7,6,23612,855,111,10421,2480],"class_list":["post-743141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-commanders","tag-commanders","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-pressers","tag-washington","tag-washington-commanders","tag-washington-commanders-news","tag-washingtoncommanders"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116048088719928618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}