What is it about Quinn that everyone is in love with?

You don't want to follow blindly yet can't take a few minutes to google his name and read what has been written about him as a coach and hc candidate?

Alrighty then

cool article...

www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/seahawks-quinn-mighty-jets-coach-article-1.2071217


RENTON, Wash. — The loudest mouth in all of Seattle knows exactly what’s going to happen when the Seahawks’ playoff run is over.

That’s when Dan Quinn, the maestro behind the NFL’s most fearsome defense, will leave, heading off to become the head coach of some other team, bringing his potent schemes and perfect coaching attitude to another club. And Richard Sherman knows exactly how that is going to work out.

“I think he’d be fantastic,” Sherman told the Daily News.

Yeah, yeah, Sherman said, Quinn will almost certainly land in a rebuilding situation. But he can handle it.

“Obviously, you’re not always getting a great team, so it takes some time to develop,” Sherman said. “But he’ll be fantastic.”

The entire Seattle locker room knows this, because for two years, the Seahawks watched Quinn guide them to into NFL lore, the unit that stuffed Peyton Manning’s supposedly unstoppable Broncos in last season’s Super Bowl.

Two years of guiding this dominant Seattle ‘D’ have transformed Quinn into the hottest head coaching candidate in the NFL. He’s interviewed for five jobs — including the Jet vacancy — already. Every team knows it must wait for him to finish with this Seattle run, but several clubs seem content to wait.
Seahawks defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, whom Jets eye as their new head coach, gets high marks from members of Seattle’s vaunted defense. Paul Jasienski/AP Seahawks defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, whom Jets eye as their new head coach, gets high marks from members of Seattle’s vaunted defense.

Why? Because Quinn, who coached the Seahawks’ D-line in 2010, headed to Florida as an assistant, and then returned as defensive coordinator in 2013, has displayed a style that seems ideal for a head coach, forming bonds with his players, and extracting every last ounce of talent from his defenders.

Quinn is as much about X’s and O’s as he is about player development, as middle linebacker Bobby Wagner learned when Quinn took the job two years ago. Quinn’s first move: Sitting Wagner and breaking down his game.

“I’ve had coaches do that before,” Wagner said. “But those are coaches I’m kinda close with. This was the first thing he did.”

Players love Quinn’s approach. Linebacker Bruce Irvin describes Quinn’s “realness,” and safety Kam Chancellor describes how easily Quinn manages the defense’s “multiple egos,” balancing the quiet Earl Thomas with the loquacious Sherman. “He can help multiple personalities relate to each other,” Chancellor said. “He made us believe. So yeah, I can envision him as a head coach.”

Quinn also doesn’t overburden his players with X’s and O’s. He focuses on empowering his defenders, working with the likes of Wagner, then schooling everyone in fundamentals instead of complicated schemes. Nearly every day includes a review of good tackles and bad tackles.

Quinn builds simple, straightforward defensive schemes, allowing his players to be aggressive and attack the ball. How crazy is the defensive game plan for the Seahawks team that has allowed 6.5 points per game in its last six games?

I think it may be the bald head and goatee

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RENTON, Wa. — Here’s how championship teams are built.

Seahawks defensive coordinator Dan Quinn had been on the job less than two months when he got on the phone with Michael Bennett, then a free agent in Tampa Bay and a former Quinn pupil. It was March 2013, and the Seahawks had signed former Lions defensive end Cliff Avril less than a day before. With so many accomplished pass rushers on the Seattle roster, Bennett was skeptical. Quinn was emphatic.

“He convinced me he would use me to the best of my abilities,” Bennett says a year later, after inking a four-year contract extension. “I trusted that.”

Bennett signed on for one year, and Quinn delivered. He moved the 6-4, 274-pounder, undrafted in 2009, from end to tackle in nickel packages, and a year later the Seahawks rewarded his 8.5-sack season with a $28.5 million commitment.

“He’s not married to a scheme; he wants you to grow,” Bennett says of Quinn. “He changes with the players.”

Such is the hallmark of Quinn as a man and a coach—an open-mindedness that has vaulted the New Jersey native, at age 43, to the top of football’s unofficial power ranking of future head coaches. During what will likely be his last training camp as a coordinator, the brains behind football’s No. 1 defense sports a loose-fitting t-shirt, a weathered cap and a toothy grin.

“One of the things I’ve learned from Coach [Pete] Carroll is how to use our featured players,” Quinn says. “There’s a tendency to say, oh, he doesn’t fit the system. Coach Carroll is more like, what does he have that’s special?”

That means letting oversized safety Kam Chancellor set the edge in the run game and putting cornerback Richard Sherman in press situations on the line of scrimmage, and of course, matching up Bennett on occasion against lumbering offensive guards.

“All of those guys are so unique,” Quinn says. “You ask yourself, how can we feature them?”

Quinn, who played at Salisbury State in Maryland and got his coaching start at William & Mary, learned how to analyze players for latent strengths from the 49ers’ Bill McPherson in his first year in the league, as a quality control coach in 2001. He learned the 3-4 from Nick Saban in Miami, and he learned how to manage a coaching staff as a coordinator for two seasons at Florida under Will Muschamp from 2011-12.

Yet his defining trait isn’t so much learned as it’s a consequence of compulsion.

Says Bennett, “He’s a master in the film room.”

For Dan Quinn to become the Next Big Thing in coaching, his defense had to leave no doubt in Super Bowl XLVIII against Peyton Manning. In Quinn’s mind, that meant watching two years’ worth of Manning snaps in the week after the NFC Championship Game.

That’s every snap Manning had yet taken for the Denver Broncos, watched, re-watched and mentally catalogued; 1,479 throws, 967 handoffs, 131 touchdowns, 24 interceptions and more audibles than there are minutes in a day.

Says a close friend of Quinn’s, “He’s definitely an obsessive.”

well, he had to put up with that ahole richard sherman for a couple of seasons.

Denver wants to interview Quinn per Schefter