Ben Johnson

Well, we're certainly going to coach better than what we did a year ago.

And like I said before, it starts there.

We've made a concerted effort in how we're going to get that done.

We were excited about the guys that ended up finishing the season on IR, the trajectory that they were on, both Dio and Shamar.

when you look at it from the start of the season to the point where they both got injured, we saw growth and we saw them turn in the right direction in terms of what we want to see on game day.

I think Sweat had one of his better years in the NFL, whether that shows up in the sack total or not.

He's a very complete player, both run game and pass game.

And I think you saw tremendous growth from Booker when we were finally able to get

him back as well so um combination of us being able to coach better and and those guys taking the next step as part of this system um you know i i think we got some pretty good pieces to work with so that is essentially the we have pass rush at home answer

I couldn't be more pleased with Ryan and his crew.

These scouts, they went out this fall and they collected all kinds of information and I think they absolutely nailed it.

We found guys that fit our DNA and what we want to be about.

We found it round one through round six there, our last pick.

And even in some of these guys we're picking up right now, I think we're still finding our type of guys.

So that was important for us.

And you would hope from year one to year two with this coaching staff and the personnel department, we're so much further along than we were a year ago at this time.

So that's what's encouraging to me and Ryan.

And I really look forward to seeing these guys hit the grass here in a couple weeks.

We're both really excited about it.

We're going to be so much further ahead from our communication standpoint than what we were a year ago.