Jets have interviewed Dan Quinn

[bojanglesman]

Per @MMehtaNYDN, #NYJ owner Woody Johnson, along with Charley Casserly & Ron Wolf, will be flying to Seattle to interview Dan Quinn Saturday

Per league rules, Jets next opportunity to interview Dan Quinn (after Saturday) will be after the Seahawks are eliminated from playoffs #nyj

[Ignatius J Reilly]

Another defensive head coach...

[Laxin]

I would like Quinn if this team didnt desperately need an offensive mind at HC.

[bojanglesman]

Bahaha.

Rich Cimini ‏@RichCimini 
The Jets will interview Seattle DC Dan Quinn on Saturday: confirmed. Seattle bye weekend. Back story: He's repped by Mike Tannenbaum. #nyj

[dcm1602]

So Uhm why are we interviewing HC's without a GM?

And more notably why the freak is our team only interested in staff from Seattle

[bojanglesman]

R0n Plckett ‏@CoachRonScouts

Dan Quinn could get hired without a GM in most places in the NFL. Not many people who wouldn’t want him to be their HC
But I do believe that a GM first is a key, Quinn would be the only hire prior to a GM I would consider. Well respected man in NFL FOs

[Ignatius J Reilly]

So Uhm why are we interviewing HC's without a GM?

And more notably why the freak is our team only interested in staff from Seattle

Uh, because any candidate from a successful franchise like Seattle must be a great hire.  Duh.  Can't get a loser at any position from Seattle.

[reuben]

Bahaha.

Rich Cimini ‏@RichCimini 
The Jets will interview Seattle DC Dan Quinn on Saturday: confirmed. Seattle bye weekend. [b]Back story: He's repped by Mike Tannenbaum.[/b] #nyj

GTFO.

That's just weird. 

[bojanglesman]

http://mmqb.si.com/2014/08/06/dan-quinn-seattle-seahawks/#

The Next Great Coach

He’s obsessive in the film room, and his defense embarrassed Peyton Manning on the game’s biggest stage. But what really has Seattle coordinator Dan Quinn on the fast track is the trusting relationships he builds with players


RENTON, Wa. — Here’s how championship teams are built.

Seahawks defensive coordinator Dan Quinn had been on the job less than two months when he got on the phone with Michael Bennett, then a free agent in Tampa Bay and a former Quinn pupil. It was March 2013, and the Seahawks had signed former Lions defensive end Cliff Avril less than a day before. With so many accomplished pass rushers on the Seattle roster, Bennett was skeptical. Quinn was emphatic.

“He convinced me he would use me to the best of my abilities,” Bennett says a year later, after inking a four-year contract extension. “I trusted that.”

Bennett signed on for one year, and Quinn delivered. He moved the 6-4, 274-pounder, undrafted in 2009, from end to tackle in nickel packages, and a year later the Seahawks rewarded his 8.5-sack season with a $28.5 million commitment.

“He’s not married to a scheme; he wants you to grow,” Bennett says of Quinn. “He changes with the players.”

Such is the hallmark of Quinn as a man and a coach—an open-mindedness that has vaulted the New Jersey native, at age 43, to the top of football’s unofficial power ranking of future head coaches. During what will likely be his last training camp as a coordinator, the brains behind football’s No. 1 defense sports a loose-fitting t-shirt, a weathered cap and a toothy grin.

“One of things I’ve learned from Coach [Pete] Carroll is how to use our featured players,” Quinn says. “There’s a tendency to say, oh, he doesn’t fit the system. Coach Carroll is more like, what does he have that’s special?”

That means letting oversized safety Kam Chancellor set the edge in the run game and putting cornerback Richard Sherman in press situations on the line of scrimmage, and of course, matching up Bennett on occasion against lumbering offensive guards.

“All of those guys are so unique,” Quinn says. “You ask yourself, how can we feature them?”

Quinn, who played at Salisbury State in Maryland and got his coaching start at William & Mary, learned how to analyze players for latent strengths from the 49ers’ Bill McPherson in his first year in the league, as a quality control coach in 2001. He learned the 3-4 from Nick Saban in Miami, and he learned how to manage a coaching staff as a coordinator for two seasons at Florida under Will Muschamp from 2011-12.

Yet his defining trait isn’t so much learned as it’s a consequence of compulsion.

Says Bennett, “He’s a master in the film room.”

For Dan Quinn to become the Next Big Thing in coaching, his defense had to leave no doubt in Super Bowl XLVIII against Peyton Manning. In Quinn’s mind, that meant watching two years’ worth of Manning snaps in the week after the NFC Championship Game.

That’s every snap Manning had yet taken for the Denver Broncos, watched, re-watched and mentally catalogued; 1,479 throws, 967 handoffs, 131 touchdowns, 24 interceptions and more audibles than there are minutes in a day.

Says a close friend of Quinn’s, “He’s definitely an obsessive.”

I want to help Dan get whatever job he wants,” Carroll says. “He’s going to be a head coach very soon.
While Quinn was studying, the Browns couldn’t wait. They’d interviewed him once following the regular season, and he planned to turn down a second interview request until after the playoffs. Before the Seahawks won it all, Cleveland inked Bills defensive coordinator Mike Pettine, who led a 20th-ranked defense which broke the franchise record for sacks (57) in a 6-10 season. The Vikings brought Quinn in as a finalist and passed in favor of longtime Bengals coordinator Mike Zimmer.

Pete Carroll was frustrated for Quinn, yet relieved for the Seahawks. Two years after watching Gus Bradley leave for the Jaguars’ head-coaching job, he would have a returning defensive coordinator for the title defense. Quinn, on the coaching fast track, hasn’t spent longer than two seasons in a city since 2004.

“It was a coup to get him back last year, much less this year,” Carroll says. “But I don’t want to look at it that way. I want to help Dan get whatever job he wants because he’s a great coach.

“Our situation in the season worked against him. We played so late that people had to make decisions. Teams get antsy, seeing coaches start to get hired and they couldn’t wait for him, but he’s going to be a head coach very soon.”

[dcm1602]

Quinns resume is kinda light

And Seattles defense was already nasty when he got there.

Plus he kinda looks like Mike Pettine

[reuben]

I think we're substantially more likely to land a quality defensive-minded HC than an offensive-minded one.  A lot of DC's would love to coach and build around The Sons.  Not many OC's are going to sign up to rebuild our offense. 

TBH, I'd have reservations about the football knowledge of any coach who took this job over the ones in San Fran and Atlanta. 

[dcm1602]

I think we're substantially more likely to land a quality defensive-minded HC than an offensive-minded one.  A lot of DC's would love to coach and build around The Sons.  Not many OC's are going to sign up to rebuild our offense. 

TBH, I'd have reservations about the football knowledge of any coach who took this job over the ones in San Fran and Atlanta.

Well Quinns a jersey boy

I could see why he'd want to return home

[bojanglesman]

Quinns resume is kinda light

And Seattles defense was already nasty when he got there.

Plus he kinda looks like Mike Pettine

dcm hates him.  I like him already.

[dcm1602]

dcm hates him.  I like him already.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quinn_%28American_football%29
 
2 years as coordinator in college, 2 in the NFL, when he inherited the most talented defense in the NFL

I'm not gonna pretend for a second I have any brilliant insight into this guy, other than I'd like someone who has done more OC/DC/HCing

[Italian Seafood]

http://mmqb.si.com/2014/08/06/dan-quinn-seattle-seahawks/#

Holy excrement, my friend knows him, played at Salisbury State with him.