• 11 months ago
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00:00 Let's talk about defensive coordinator Dan Quinn. What is the latest with DC?
00:04 As we speak here in this moment, Ben Johnson, the Lions offensive coordinator,
00:09 who's done a spectacular job there and was certainly a finalist with the commanders,
00:14 has told them no. Now it's funny to watch the media kind of unfold here. The Washington Post
00:18 has written very simply that their understanding is that Johnson told Washington and the owner
00:26 Josh Harris and his people, "I want to win a Super Bowl and we're close in Detroit."
00:31 And we're not close. We wouldn't be close in Washington. And I don't think that's unfair,
00:35 right? We're close in Detroit. Adam Schefter at ESPN says that the ownership got spooked,
00:42 is his word, by Ben Johnson's salary requests. That seems like somebody's trying to make
00:49 an apology for what went wrong. That would be saving face for a new Washington owner,
00:58 Josh Harris, to basically say, "The reason we didn't hire him, the reason they didn't hire him,
01:02 is because he asked too much." That doesn't add up to me. Josh Harris is trying to separate
01:06 himself from the Dan Snyder era, where being a cheapskate and not to mention scandalous,
01:13 was an everyday thing. And he's not willing to pay for the coach he wants.
01:19 And it doesn't sound right. So with Ben Johnson now saying, "I'm staying in Detroit," that means
01:24 Ben Johnson's not going to Washington. And it means Ben Johnson's not going to Seattle,
01:29 where Dan Quinn is a finalist. So Ben Johnson out means Dan Quinn gets to move up more than a little
01:36 bit as a candidate for the final two vacancies among NFL coaches on the coaching carousel.
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