Diante Lee

your head coach is going to set the defense philosophy and now having a legitimate impact player on defense, it's going to solve so many of the problems that we have been talking about with this team being on these wild rides from looking like legitimate contenders on defense one week to one of the worst in the league the next week, right?

So that's one piece of it that's going to help your offense.

And then the other thing, and I think this is very specific to Max Crosby,

When he comes here, I'm going to walk him in the office.

You know who the first person is that he's going to go shake hands with?

It's going to be Kyle Hamilton.

I'm going to say, hey, Max Crosby, have you ever played with a football player as good as Kyle Hamilton?

And he's going to say no, right?

Not even close, yeah.

We're going to pull up on the projector all of the depth charts that he's played on and be like, who was the third best defender that you have ever played with in a given year?

I can guarantee you, you probably don't remember.

Your third best defender on this team could be Roquan Smith.

It could be Nnamdi Matabike if he's healthy.

It could be Marlon Humphrey if he's healthy and playing at max capacity, right?

So I think that there's also a force multiplier potential here for Max Crosby with the rest of the guys that he's going to be around, especially in Jesse Minter's defense that I think could open up

a way of playing for Baltimore that we haven't seen since 2023 when Mike McDonald was there, right?

And this might even be a higher end of that because the best version of Max Crosby certainly can give you more than Jadavion Clowney and Kyle Van Noy did in 2023.

I'm going to borrow your words.

Just a little bit of doing too much, but I'm not mad at it.

I'm not mad at it.