Quite a few of the Commanders’ free agent signings have previous ties to the new regime, and that’s especially pertinent on defense – where Dan Quinn has brought in two edge rushers who played for him and Joe Whitt in Dallas last year, as well as ex-Cowboys center Tyler Biadasz, and now Bobby Wagner, the lynchpin of Quinn’s Legion of Boom in Seattle.
“Busy doesn’t always mean productive, but they’ve been both, and the Wagner signing illustrates two things to me,” Kevin Sheehan said Thursday. “Foremost, for those that didn’t want Dan Quinn…listen, I don’t know what kind of head coach he will be, we’ll see, and it will take a while to see how it shakes out, but reconsider if you hated on it, because there are many people who would not be in the building right now if he wasn’t the head coach.”
That starts with the All-Star coaching staff, but it’s those players and others, too.
“Obviously the Cowboy connections and Niners connections, but Dan Quinn commands a level of respect around the league that the search committee saw from the beginning,” Sheehan said. “It was a huge advantage, because it gave them an opportunity to add quality people to the organization from the jump. Like, Bobby Wagner has been flat out a badass player/leader, and I don’t know that the organization has had a player of his stature in a long, long time.”
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