'I’ll remember that forever for sure' – One very unexpected moment by Dan Quinn may be the jolt the Commanders needed for the season

Quinn popped back up with blood running down his face, Matt Gay kicked a 56-yard field goal before halftime, and players were fired up. Bobby Wagner, one of the biggest leaders on the team, talked about how that single moment shows who Quinn is as a coach.

“Man, I think it just represents who he [Quinn] is, to be honest," Wagner said. "He talks about it all the time, just his mentality, and it's literally like ‘If you get knocked down, get back up and keep going’. He literally did that. His nose was bleeding, everything's bleeding, and the cut, and he stayed there, locked in, and got some treatment. At halftime, he came back out, so it was cool to see.”

"I mean, whenever you see somebody that leads the ship go down like that," Wagner added. "Then bounce back up, everything that he preaches to us, we felt like we saw that in that moment. He got knocked down, got hit pretty hard, and he didn’t have any pads on or anything. He came back up, and it was kind of like a movie. While he was getting treatment, we weren't sure if he was going to be able to come out. So, we're gathering everybody, I'm getting ready to speak, and then he comes out of nowhere and [he ’s] like ‘I got it’. And it was just a cool moment, I’ll remember that forever for sure.”

The team was in the locker room after the game, discussing how fired up they got from seeing it, and how it motivates them to play even harder for a coach who can take a hit like that and bounce back to keep leading the team. Javon Kinlaw, who wasn't on the team last year, summed it up perfectly for the whole team and why they love Quinn.

Another leader on the team, Frankie Luvu, even gave Quinn a game ball in the locker room after he addressed the team and celebrated the win, while showing off his new battle scars on his nose.

The vibes were low during the past week following the loss to the Packers, but a game like this has the fan base fired up again. Quinn taking that hit on the sideline has the players motivated to play their hardest as they prepare to head to Atlanta next week to take on the Falcons.