He played for two teams with Super Bowl aspirations this 2026 NFL Season — Houston and Detroit.
Glover Quin’s rise from the boondocks of Mississippi to NFL All-Pro is instructive for players, too.
This week on the Go Long Pod, I catch up with one of the best safeties in recent memory. Quin spent four seasons with the Texans and six with the Lions in starting 148 straight games. His best season, hands down, came in 2014. That playoff year in Detroit, Quin picked off an NFL-high seven passes. He guides us through them all.
Many war stories are shared. (Once, Quin caught three picks with a cast over his hand. How? He relives it all.)
He played for Jim Schwartz, Jim Caldwell and Matt Patricia in Detroit. Go Long readers may remember Quin’s name coming up back when we reported on life under Patricia. Players were not fans! Quin explains why the ex-Patriot coordinator failed so miserably as a head coach.
In Detroit, Quin also played with Matthew Stafford. We get his thoughts on the reigning NFL MVP.
As for today’s Texans defense — a crew full of savages — Quin offers a take you won’t hear anywhere else.
Nowadays, he’s a father of three and running his own business in Houston: “GQ Frames.” Life is good and he certainly earned every inch.
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