Cowboys to hire Dan Quinn as defensive coordinator, following the firing of Mike Nolan - CBSSports.com
Cowboys to hire Dan Quinn as protecting coordinator, following the firing of Mike Nolan
It didn't take long for Dallas to find its next protecting coordinator as Dan Quinn and the Cowboys have became an agreement for the former Falcons coach to take on the role heading into 2021, CBS Sports Cowboys Insider Patrik Walker confirms. The recruit of Quinn comes in the aftermath of Dallas firing protecting coordinator Mike Nolan at the end of last week once one season with the club, but the team may have had a wandering eye for a new DC even afore officially showing him the door.
As Walker reported backward on Monday, Jerry Jones and the Dallas brass had already begun looking at candidates prior to letting Nolan go, which decided them to jump right into the gape over the weekend and eventually find their way to Quinn. His formal interview occurred on Monday once a virtual interview on Saturday and it appears as he conveyed enough during those chats for the Cowboys to work mercurial to lock him into that key role within their club.
Most recently, Quinn established as the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons, a role which he started lead in 2015 and held until midway above 2020 where he was fired after a 0-5 start. For his career, Quinn owns a 46-44 narrate as a head coach and has some transparent pedigree as a DC, helping lead Seattle's protecting unit during the Legion of Boom era and a Super Bowl XLVIII title.
That blend of head coaching accepted and elite acumen on the defensive side of the ball necessity help Dallas improve upon what was a less-than-stellar electioneer on that side of the ball.
Under Nolan, Dallas decided 29.6 points per game, which ranked as the fifth-highest in the league. The Cowboys also gave up 158.8 rushing yards per game, which was the second-most in the NFL over the jets of the regular season. Those struggles on confidence with Nolan at the helm, as Walker reported back on Dec. 20, had Jerry Jones "secretly fuming leisurely the scenes for weeks" so it examined like it was only a matter of time afore Nolan got the ax.
From here, Jones, McCarthy, and Quinn can turn their attention to filling the protecting line role that is still vacant behindhand the firing of Jim Tomsula. Once that is unfastened and the rest of the staff is solidified, Dallas can zero in on revamping the personnel so that they can be a more formidable reached next season.
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