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“He adds the value of mobility and being outside the pocket and creating scrambles to run and on scrambles to pass,” Quinn said. “Teams wanted to try a certain unique thing, a spy or what have you, but we’ll just continue to look at that as we progress.”
The Commanders traded for receiver Deebo Samuel Sr. and left tackle Laremy Tunsil to bolster the lineup around Daniels. Quinn called Samuel an “explosive player” who creates problems because he can line up all over. General manager Adam Peters called Tunsil one of the “two or three best” pass protectors in the NFL.
But Quinn said Daniels can help himself improve through footwork and positioning. The team also wants him to continue improving his decision-making on the run. Quinn emphasized that during the season and said he liked how Daniels progressed.
“We thought he made a lot of improvement extending plays,” Quinn said. “Early on in the season, they were extending to run, and then now they got extending to throw the ball down the field. But for him, the footwork, that’s one thing I know he’s going to dig in hard on this year.”
This time last year, Dan Quinn was barely two months into a full staff rebuild and roster overhaul as the new coach of the Washington Commanders. He didn’t have a quarterback, had no idea whether the one he and General Manager Adam Peters were eyeing would be available with the No. 2 pick in the draft and had more questions than answers about the franchise’s ability to dig itself out of a decades-long hole.
My, how times have changed.
At the NFL’s annual meetings this week, Quinn’s priority was not rebuilding but simply building more.
“The vision of who we want to be, that’s better than a year ago where we were trying to sell hope of what that is,” he told a table of reporters outside the Breakers resort Tuesday. “But now we’ve actually seen examples of that and … our play style.”
Quinn: “We call them work-ons. These are the things that we want to get better at. So, for him, some of the techniques that a lot of quarterbacks use are footwork and body position of where to go and where to throw. We thought he made a lot of improvement, extending plays early on in the season. They were extending to run, and then now they got extending to...
