Dennis Allen

And, you know, you look across the board at all three levels of the defense.

And and I just feel like, you know, you go in and you watch it.

And in some ways, you're you're a little you're 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?

And so I think that was a big part of what we do in the off season.

We'll have the same discussions next year, you know, and it's, it's still going to come back to how can we coach it better?

How can we teach it better?

All right.

How can we help our players reach their maximum potential?

And I think,

Anytime, if you look at it any differently, I just don't know how you're going to have a lot of success.

Well, look, he's definitely in the mix at defensive end, and if you go back and you watch the tape and you watch his improvement from week one, all right, until the time that he got hurt in the Cincinnati game, you saw a lot of improvement, all right?

And that's one of the things, when we talk about the pass rush, okay, one of the things that we've talked about

It gets back to the fundamentals and how we teach those things.

We lost some of that because we were so focused on the scheme.

And that totally falls on me.

And so I think if we do a better job of the fundamentals and the techniques of doing

those things that we're going to ask them to do, um, that we'll get, we'll get better at that.

And I think we'll see, you know, our pass rush improve in terms of just our guys rushing as one unit.

All right.