Washington Commanders head coach Dan Quinn addressed the media on Sept. 9. Here is a full transcript of the press conference.
“Tell the Truth Monday, and I really wanted to kind of recapture that with everybody, just because I never wanted it to be coach, speak with you guys, and it’ll be something that we’ll do every Monday. It really is one of the most important days for us, and the only way it works and that you guarantee the growth is to face the truth and really never to run away from it. So, the ability to detach from the emotions after losses, after wins and learn the lessons, those are huge and that’ll be huge for us this week. So, I thought I’d just give you a little insight about what goes on during the week and how we do it. So, on Tell the Truth Monday, I visit with the team and I talk about turnover margin and talk about the tackling margin, penalty margin, starting field position, and the explosive plays from the game. And those five big topics kind of round out our style and how we want to play and the things that we want to play like. We watch video. Show the examples, plus and minus, and we have standards that we want to uphold to. So, we show those and it kind of supports the accountability. And then it, from there, it goes down to the unit offensively, defensively, your special teams, and then finally into your own position group and the individual technique. So, I just thought I’d give you a little insight because it’ll be something that will hit on every Monday about how we go through the process. Then tonight you clear it and all the stuff that you move forward on is for the next game and the next opponent. But I wanted just to give you a little more insight about what it meant and why we do it. So, with all that said, I know we visited last night, but let’s get started with some of your questions.”
“Yeah, I think it was confirmed. I think mostly Nicki, from the competitor side, I felt that. I think if you’d asked him, there’ll probably be a few throws that he would either like to rip or where the progression may have taken him. But by and large, I felt from the competitor side, that was it. Those were some of the things I saw even on some of the runs, we didn’t have a lot of design quarterback runs, but some of the ones that he did, I think if he’d asked him again, he’d probably wanna let it rip to one of the guys on some ops. So missed opportunities. Those are the hard ones. I think the one to [WR] Terry [McLaurin] to start the second half and those ones, but by and large, he really felt comfortable in those spaces.”
