Dennis Allen

I mean, we're not making any decisions right now in terms of where we're at on the roster.

we're going to give everybody an opportunity to go out here and compete and earn whatever playing time that might be.

He is a guy that we're excited about.

He's a guy that's got a lot of the skill set that we're looking for, and now we'll just see how quickly he progresses.

There's nothing that Ben said in here that he and I haven't talked about.

You know, we've had all these discussions.

And I think when you look at things, the first thing you have to look at is, okay, what could I have done better?

And then what could we as a staff have done better?

And we had a lot of discussions, you know, this offseason about a lot of different things.

And one of the things that we identified was, you know, me, we focused so much on installing all the scheme,

last year because it was brand new.

And we do have a high volume of things that we carry in the defense.

And we focus so much on that that we lost sight of some of the fundamentals and techniques that it takes to function, to do those things.

And I don't think we were as fundamentally sound defensively as we need to be.

So how do we have to coach it better?

Well, let's minimize how much we're focused on the scheme, okay, and let's focus on not what we're going to do but how we're going to do it.

And I think that's how we're going to improve.

And, you know, you look across the board at all three levels of the defense, and I just feel like –

You go in and you watch it, and in some ways you're disappointed because it doesn't look exactly like you want it to look.

But you're also really encouraged because if we can get better at those fundamentals and techniques on all three levels of our defense, how much can we really improve?