Dan Wiederer

You can't see achievements like they had last year and go, all right, that's great.

It's no, we're on to the next thing and we've got to figure out how to be better than we were last year because there were still three more weeks of football left.

after we stopped playing.

And so I think Ben's understanding of how to acknowledge that and then how to message that both to his coaching staff and the players is pretty unique.

And it's something that's going to be an engine of what they do going forward.

Well, it's leadership 101.

If you're going to be very, very demanding of all the people around you, you have to be very demanding of yourself.

And so for Ben to be able to look in the mirror as much as he looks in the microscope of everybody else, he's got an opportunity to kind of connect in that way.

And he does so in a really...

productive way, you know, and you feel the responses he gets from all the people around him.

And so, look, they've got to go to work.

The players are going to be back in the building in less than three weeks.

April 20th is the official start of the offseason program.

You're going to have your phases, you know, your OTAs and your mini camp.

And then they are promising a very, very grueling training camp because that's what he believes in.

And so the runway to that training camp is going to be interesting to monitor.

And then it's just got to be an understanding of everybody who's walking through those doors that there are no slow days, right?

Like, there's work that needs to be accomplished.

And so you better check in and walk through the door as soon as you put your key card to that key card reader.

You better be ready to go to work.