David Blough enters his first season as the Commanders\u2019 offensive coordinator. Washington HC Dan Quinn said Blough has the \u201cit\u201d factor and is making an effort to \u201cstress him out\u201d at practice in hopes of developing him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are certain people who have that \u2018it\u2019 factor. He does,\u201d Quinn said, via Jonathan Jones of The Athletic<\/a>. \u201cAnd so the best way I can help support is to stress him out here at practice. I\u2019m trying to do that every day, not just to the players, but to the staff as well.\u201d<\/p>\n Blough\u2019s goal as their new coordinator is to build their system around QB Jayden Daniels and have it stand for years to come.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cOur hope was that 10 years from now we built something so strong that whoever is coming here to coach Jayden is running Jayden\u2019s offense,\u201d Blough said. \u201cIt\u2019s all built around this young man who\u2019s the centerpiece of this organization. Tom Brady ran the same offense for 20 years. That was our goal. We don\u2019t want him switching terminology and verbiage ever again.\u201d<\/p>\n As for Daniels\u2019 focus in 2026, the quarterback mentioned that he\u2019s trying to go through his \u201cpre-set process\u201d to decipher defenses.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cYou gotta have a general idea, like, this is my key defender on this concept, this is what they could be in possibly,\u201d Daniels said. \u201cYou\u2019re not gonna have all the answers to the test, right? You don\u2019t wanna go out there and chase ghosts. You still gotta react and play ball. You gotta do your pre-set process, you have to go through your rolodex and stuff that they could do from your film study. Those guys get paid money to get sacks and blitz and all that, so you have that half-second of, \u2018Oh shoot, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on,\u2019 type of moment. You might turn around and somebody might be right there. But the more you do it, the more you rep it, the more comfortable you get with it.\u201d<\/p>\n Cowboys OT Broderick Jones, who was traded from Pittsburgh, believes one of the main reasons why he struggled was because he had to continue bouncing between left and right tackle.<\/p>\n \u201cFor me, I would just say bouncing around, just not being able to get my feet set,\u201d Jones said, via Steelers Wire<\/a>. \u201cThat was a challenge for me. Coming in, hopefully I can stick to one side. Compete for that, get comfortable, get familiar with it, get familiar with who I\u2019ll be playing next to and go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n