Dan Wiederer

It's getting to know the offense first, and then it's those two guys, Caleb and Garrett, getting to know each other in a way that allows them to communicate and see things similarly.

So that doesn't just happen.

You don't just plant the seed on April 20th and it just sprouts.

These guys are going to have to water that seed.

They're going to have to tend to it.

And they're going to have to figure out a way to bring that relationship to life so that it produces results similar to what Caleb and Drew got last year.

And so that's going to be a process that's going to be worth watching here in the next four or five months.

There's no question, and that's what you want to feel.

And one of the things that we talked to Cole Komet about this morning was just the experience of hosting two playoff games in January and feeling that.

at the highest level, that buzz, that energy, that sort of civic pride that we all know was there.

And he said, honestly, that provides a hunger and incentive for us to want to go host more home playoff games, right?

The guys that were a part of that understand what that felt like, understand what the advantage of that was.

And so you want to have that as part of your regular winter routine going forward.

And so, yeah, like you understand where this fan base is.

They're revved up.

They believe they've got an answer at quarterback.

They believe they've got the answer at head coach.

They believe this team exists.

is ready to open a window to enjoy football in the fall and in the winter for eight or ten years.

And so it's a fun place to be, and it requires a lot of hard work, obviously, as Ben has made very apparent here, that you're going to have to put in the work in order to achieve those things.