James Gladstone

But 31 other teams were having a similar conversation, and they will have a similar conversation.

And so that's the beautiful part about this profession and the challenge that it brings is that, you know, every year is a new year.

Every team is a new team.

And that's what this offseason will be able to provide.

And so that's what the offseason will be for is getting to know this new team, what it looks like, with the message being, hey, we've got to continue to go 1-0 each week and play the next play.

Yeah, I haven't had any of those conversations yet.

You know, it's been about a little bit of.

Just, uh, talk to him briefly about, uh, how much I appreciated his work this season, his trust, the, the growth that he did make his openness to be coached and coach hard.

Um, and, uh, I think he'll, he'd be one of the first ones to tell you there's a lot of work to continue to do and to be done.

And so, um,

That's what we'll look at for these next few weeks as our coaching staff will, when we get back into the building, all right, what's the three better, three best that we want to end up providing for each player specifically and have some of those conversations when we get back in the building.

James.

How impressed were you with Lawrence over the last half of the season?

Yeah, I was really impressed.

I think, you know, back to the off-season program, there was a learning curve, obviously, and the one thing that was very clear throughout that

sort of window of the cycle was his interest in making sure the operation was clean.

And he was going through step by step to make sure that he was learning the right way and pouring in the right way.

And you could see a turn in the second week of training camp where he began not just learning, but testing, testing what could work, what could fit, all those sorts of things.

So that was kind of a cool evolution over the course of the off season.

And then into the regular season,