James Gladstone

So when I'm just doing it by myself, I'm focused in on typically a single player going from one play to the next.

in large part, just evaluating what that guy's doing.

When you start bringing a coach's lens into the conversation, they start diagnosing scheme across all 11 on offense.

How's that matching up against what we're getting in the look from the defense?

And then three minutes later, we're moving on to the next fight.

It's a classic.

But you get a PhD every off-season of trends schematically when you start diving in with our coaching staff on a lot of the draft work and free agent work.

So that's always a level up for our scouting staff, analytics staff that are in on those conversations and get an idea of some of those layers that you may not otherwise keep top of mind unless you're focused on the schematics.

Absolutely not.

I get to process it a slower tick.

I don't have to be so rapid fire.

No, it's good.

I get to take a pause a little bit and think about it differently.

That's a critical piece.

As I think back to our opening dialogue as to taking a position, me sitting at the podium with Tony and Liam, John, Mark, and TK, pure collaboration was what came to mind in our decision making.

Without it, it becomes very challenging to showcase a clear visual for how a player is going to fit our environment, how a player is going to fit into our team or a position group.

So I think in order to come to that conclusion, we gotta have a lot of back and forth.

We gotta have a lot of insights being brought to the table and see where it is that we have alignment and where we don't.

And in the instances that we don't, we keep watching more.

And if we're unable to find a common space, which we are in some instances, you gotta move on to the ones that you can.