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WUSA9
This week, receivers coach and former NFL receiver Bobby Engram told WUSA9, “It’s a pro-style system that I’m used to, just different terminology. It’s been exciting to see the guys and how they’ve responded to Dave and just him rolling out the vision, the playbook, the plan.”
Engram said the new scheme has been met with a lot of energy and that everyone is working tirelessly, being highly intentional about making sure everyone is on the same page ahead of next week’s mandatory minicamp and onward into training camp.
“Yeah, I love it, man. Those guys are all ball. It’s a selfless group of guys, players, and coaches,” Engram shared. “The main goal is how can we get this room to be really good, one of the best in the league. …We all have a different perspective. We’ve all had very similar yet different experiences, and I think that bodes well for everybody in that room.”
A to Z Sports
“I wanted to take the lessons from ’25, learn them, and then burn, you know, all the others,” Quinn recently told CBS Sports’ Evan Washburn. “In fact, before the new coaches came in here for ’26 to everybody else outside, we wrote some things down on a piece of paper, [used] a couple big, like, paint stirs, wrote down some stuff, [and] lit a big fire in one of those big cans. [We] said, ‘All right, what’re the things we’re leaving behind?’
“There’s got to be the lessons that we’re taking from this past season, because it wasn’t all injury-related. We weren’t as connected, we weren’t as tough, we weren’t as clutch, and so some of that’s practice, some of that’s connection, some of that’s, you know, the scheme, the coaching, all of it. You can put everything into one big pot.”
“I pulled out some tape from a random 2024 OTA practice, and one from a ’25 OTA practice, and I showed some of the players this offseason to say this was a team [that was] desperate, and this one wasn’t as desperate,” said Quinn.
“Sometimes, you might just be one degree off, and then in July you’re this far, August [a] little further, further, and by October, what the hell, you know? And it was such a hard lesson to go through and to learn.”
Quinn made sure to exclude any new coaches and players who weren’t around last year and for good measure. They had zero to do with...
