Dan Wiederer

Yeah, I would say the conversations we had with the guys at the end of the season just in terms of their feedback and how the year went.

But what I'm looking for is just kind of the hunger to get back to it and the hunger to –

pick up where we left off.

I think there's good awareness so the guys know they can't just show up and it just happens.

I think Ben's did a great job just in terms of a leader maintaining, like, this is a new year and we've got to get back to work.

But you see this hunger from this young group of guys that want to string, you know, year after year after year together.

They see it.

They know what kind of work they have to do.

Again, you have an organization that's constantly learning from the past and seeing where the voids are, where we need to get better, if that's from a front office, coaching, and playing standpoint.

I like that.

I like that.

Look, Ben Johnson has led this charge.

He has led this charge since being at the lectern postgame against the LA Rams.

So I kind of like that more or less.

Dan, what I'm hearing is Ryan Pohl is following the lead of his head coach.

yeah and the operative word there that he repeated a bunch of times is hunger right and and it sounds like they are very confident that they are not going to have to revive that hunger that it's still there amid the returning players that it's there within some of the newcomers they brought in and that hunger is just going to have to be present

from the time they report to the offseason program on April 20th all the way until the time that next season ends.

And so they're leaning into hunger, and they certainly feel like they have a coach that can bring it out of them.

One of the things that George McCaskey told me in our side session was he doesn't really feel like, even though Ben has brought up the quality complacency a lot, he doesn't feel like there is going to be a problem at any time under Ben's watch of complacency entering the building just because of the way the head coach is wired and then the natural hunger these players have.

Well, then the guy who might be the most hungry would be the quarterback.