HOUSTON — Ping pong tables. Loud music. Basketball courts. Competitive practices between the offense and defense, weekly. Jacked and pumped.

Where have you heard this before?

With Seattle. The Seahawks.

Well, they are singing a similar tune in Atlanta led by their coach Dan Quinn.

Quinn admits all of the above were things he stole from the Seahawks and his former boss, Pete Carroll, during two years there.

But Quinn has brought his own, distinctive touch to the Super Bowl participants from Atlanta.

Like his obsession with process.

Monday stuff is done on Monday. Thursday stuff is done on Thursday. Heck, preseason games in early August are treated, as crazy as it sounds, like this Sunday’s Super Bowl.

“It starts our first preseason game. We call it ‘Championship Week,'” said Falcons safety Ricardo Allen. “That’s how we do it around here. Every game is treated the same. So when you get to a game like this, we already know how to treat it. We’re used to it.”

Of course, there were influences on Quinn’s resume, some mighty impressive ones.

“Way back from when I first started with the San Francisco 49ers, during that time with Steve Mariucci and Terry Donahue and Bill Walsh,” said Quinn. “I went to the Dolphins, which was with Nick Saban and it was kind of going to football grad school so to speak. Then to my time in New York with Eric Mangini and then out back to Seattle with Jim Mora and then with Pete.

“I had all these different influences on my career kind of coming up,” he said, “but it was during my three years with Pete that kind of gave me the model of doing it in your own way and this is what it could be, looks like for him.”

What Quinn has done this year is nothing short of remarkable. The Falcons were on nobody’s radar heading into 2016, after an 8-8 season in 2015, in which the Falcons were being the Falcons, blowing a 5-0 start to the season.

Quinn, though, won people over. Not only by being a nice guy, which is universally known in NFL circles, but creating one-on-one contact with everybody.

Nobody appreciates that more than Quinn’s quarterback, Matt Ryan, who was left for mediocrity after three non-playoff seasons at 18-30.

“Dan has been super influential for me personally,” said Ryan. “He does such a great job of connecting with you on a personal level, understanding what makes you tick and what makes you go, and he has kind of nailed that with me. He has nailed that with everybody on our team.

“He’s a great motivator. He also makes things feel real normal,” Ryan added. “That’s probably one of his best attributes, is that regardless of the situation we’re going into, he’s really honest, really up front, and he makes you feel real comfortable in all situations.”

Falcons defensive line coach Bryan Cox appears to have those same traits in Atlanta, unless he is talking about Quinn.

“He is the most positive person in the world,” said Cox yesterday. “There is no one more positive than Dan. I will say it again, there is no one more positive than Dan Quinn that I have worked with.”

Win or lose on Sunday — and Quinn has a very good team that easily beat two good teams, Seattle and Green Bay — Atlanta appears to be on a course it hasn’t been on … maybe ever. The Falcons have the look of a team built for the long haul, with a quarterback, coach, general manager (Thomas Dimitroff) and owner (Arthur Blank) that rival any team’s.

Maybe even the Patriots.

Bill Burt is executive sports editor for CNHI Sports Boston.

Falcons GM Thomas Dimitroff spent six seasons as a scout for the New England Patriots before taking over in Atlanta in 2008.

Dimitroff explains how he identified Dan Quinn as the right guy for the job:

“When we started that whole process with Dan, Dan is so authentic. The way that he approaches things, he has so much passion for this game. He is a very competitive guy and he controls it in the right way. There’s a time and place for when that personality comes out. He was a guy that was very communicative through the process and all I knew about him was that he believed in speed, athleticism, explosiveness, sort of fire and passion on a team and honestly, at the core that’s what I felt like I was very, very interested in over the years. Have really good football players who are really athletic who create matchup difficulties, because it’s a matchup league and if you can’t run, you can’t stay in phase one way or another and Dan believed that.

“There were many, many things. Also Dan said – and he mentioned in his presser the other day – from the day we started talking privately he had a goal to have one of the best relationships with a general manager in sports and that was music to my ears of course, because you can’t in my mind survive in the league without a really good communicative and productive relationship between a head coach and general manager.”