Washington Commanders head coach Dan Quinn addressed the media on Tuesday. Here are five takeaways from his press conference.<\/p>\n
He connected with Daronte Jones instantly.<\/p>\n
The Commanders went through a lengthy process to find their defensive coordinator, which Quinn is grateful for in hindsight because it allowed him to get an even more detailed look at the unit in terms of what went wrong and what could improve. It also resulted in Quinn interviewing with Jones, and it didn’t take long for them to connect.<\/p>\n
“I think from a football standpoint, we hit it off quickly,” Quinn said.<\/p>\n
The origin of that connection stemmed from a shared defensive philosophy. They had similar feelings on how to play defense, create turnovers and disguise coverages. Quinn described Jones as “one of those people you meet and you’re like, ‘All right. I get it,'” and it helped him feel like he and Jones were aligned before they could get to know each other well.<\/p>\n
It was the difference-maker for Quinn, and as the Commanders went through a process that involved both experienced and younger coaches, he kept coming back to Jones because of his experience as a teacher and his football acumen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Commanders head coach Dan Quinn addressed the media on Tuesday. Here are five takeaways from his press…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[427,33525,7,1806,6,1805,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-753585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-commanders","9":"tag-five-takeaways","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-football-news","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-subsection-news","14":"tag-washington","15":"tag-washington-commanders","16":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753585","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=753585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}