From the sound of Broaddus' scouting report, Dan Quinn picked up right where he left off. His Commanders defense is rolling much like his Cowboys defenses did, and Broaddus gives a preview of what to expect in the video above.
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00:00Some things never changes your boy Dan Quinn on defense.
00:18Oh, yeah.
00:19Dan Quinn is got, I'll tell you what, Dan Quinn has got one of the best tackling defenses
00:24in the National Football League, by the way.
00:25But not against the run?
00:26No, not against the run though.
00:28Top five though, top five.
00:30You know, when he was here, Dallas was the best tackling team, I didn't know this, Dallas
00:34was the best tackling team in the National Football League last year.
00:38And everywhere Dan Quinn's been, he's been in top five.
00:41See, you got to figure out what drills is he doing?
00:43That's what I was trying to remember.
00:44I was trying to think of like, God, how many of these practices did I watch in training
00:49camp and what was Dan Quinn and Joe Witt and all these guys doing?
00:55You know, I was sitting there probably talking to you or Dawson or somebody while I should
00:59have been watching tackling drills.
01:01Because everywhere Dan Quinn goes, his team's tackled, you know?
01:05And the Cowboys have really, it's one of the things they've really, really struggled at.
01:09We were on it last year when we were talking about you should probably just cap Mike McCarthy
01:13and make Dan Quinn head coach.
01:14Now that we saw what he's done, finding the offensive coordinator again.
01:19I kind of feel like that there's some people in the organization, in the Cowboys organization
01:24that would have, would have been dancing right with you.
01:26On that one.
01:27I think there were a lot that would have been happy.
01:28But I mean, revisionist history, we were like, can't, the defenses aren't good against these
01:33motion offenses and they don't beat any good teams.
01:37They get run on.
01:38I guess the running thing, though, seems to still be the case.
01:40Like Dan Quinn does struggle defensively against the run.
01:43There's been some struggle there.
01:44Their leading tacklers, actually, is Bobby Wagner and the two safeties.
01:49What does that tell you right there?
01:50Yeah, they're getting to the second, third one.
01:53I mean, I told you earlier, nobody, I mean, they're, they're like top three in allowing
01:58runs that first downs for first downs, like 93 first down, you know, conversion runs.
02:06Yeah, because they just don't, they give up, you know, they just give up yards running
02:09now.
02:10We'll see their, their pass rush has gotten a lot better.
02:14And the first five weeks of the season, they were, they were down in pressure rates.
02:19But since week five, and I looked this up because I was like, I watched all the sacks
02:24and then I started, I broke them down by pressures and stuff, just started watching.
02:28And the commanders, I was curious about this and I went and looked at the metrics on this.
02:32They've generated the third highest pressure rate of 41% since week five.