We’re now deep in the cycle of ‘how do you feel after Dan Quinn’s intro presser’ debate, but here’s an interesting avenue that BMitch & Finlay took live from Las Vegas on Tuesday: how much should Kyle Shanahan saying “having DQ and (Adam Peters) is about as good as it gets” excite Commanders fans?
“What do we make that if you believe in Kyle Shanahan and the Niners’ success, Adam Peters had a big hand in that and Dan Quinn hired Shanahan years ago?” JP Finlay asked. “Do you buy it all?”
“I buy it, because look at the stops Peters has had, and all the success they’ve had,” BMitch replied. “I’m not saying he did everything, but he picked up on things, and you can see where he started it in San Francisco. A lot of people get mad, but when you look at football operations, the most important person in the building is probably Adam Peters – he’s the guy that's gonna be deciding on what type of people to put together, what type of format.
But look at what he’s done, and what Dan Quinn has done with defensive players – the game of football isn’t about picking a guy who is already ready, I’s about developing guys you pick and having the right mindset. So when people get mad, I ask how they felt when Peters was hired? I’d believe overall you’d have a better chance of success than what you’ve had.”
Landfill played the cuts of Adam Peters explaining when and why they thought Quinn was the right choice, and Josh Harris reaffirming those thoughts – and yeah, in JP’s mind, if you believed in Harris and Peters when they were the ones who took over, why are we all of a sudden doing a 180 and questioning the process from the beginning?
“I thought, frankly, Dan Quinn was impressive yesterday,” JP said, “and whatever you thought of the hire, after listening to Dan, you feel a little bit better. To borrow your kind of phrase B, Dan Quinn's gonna have to show me, right? Like, I'm gonna have to see it on the field this fall, but I can understand why he impressed them in this process. You could feel that charisma and energy.”
But he’s not Ben Johnson or insert other sexy name here, you might say, and that’s when Brian, master of tangential yet spot on analogies, likened the Commanders’ search to the courting process – in essence, judge a book by its content, not its cover.
“We look at it like Ben Johnson was that very sexy and beautiful woman that you wanna ask out for a date, and then you walk over to her and you ask her to go out, and when she opens her mouth, you regret asking her out because her conversation does not match what she looks like,” Brian said. “You’re like, what the hell is this? Maybe that's what happened. Dan walks in, and he’s the average girl, but when she starts to speak, you say, okay, she speaks my language and can talk to me about more than one thing. I think that's how things worked out; a lot of times we look at people and say this is the person, but we don't know that until think about it. That man leads a group that spends $6 billion for a team, so when you sit down and you start listening to people talk, you're like, okay, this guy was the guy we wanted, but he seems clueless. The other guy is saying what we believe and what we think. You can partner with that; as we stated, we wanted to see what the connection is gonna be from top to bottom, and I think you can understand by listening to Peters and then Josh and then Quinn, it sounds like the same language being spoken, right?”
Damn, B! Indeed, you can hear their entire discussions about the presser above!
