Ray Fittipaldo

How much do they truly like Will Howard?

Or is this a bit of a smokescreen as to how much they like him?

Ray, the thing that worries me a little bit, I brought this up to Joe last hour, that outside of preseason games where we didn't get to see Howard play and, okay, he looked good in some drills with the football and shorts period of things,

The other guys that have been highlighted players in the football in shorts period of the offseason are Roman Wilson and Caleb Johnson.

So it doesn't exactly paint a pretty picture because it's two guys that were healthy scratches for majority of the season.

What should we expect the dynamic to be when it comes to coach, GM, assistant GM?

Because Mike Tomlin used to love the offseason activities like the Senior Bowl, like the Combine, everything with –

free agency, the draft, and he would even get into the activities if he was still the coach down at the Senior Bowl this week.

Mike McCarthy not really striking me as that same guy.

So is this going to be more of a the coach is going to coach and the GM and assistant GM are going to put the team together?

Or do we think McCarthy will have a lot of input in who they have on this roster week one?

Ray, you mentioned to the guys yesterday afternoon that Mike McCarthy is going to be allowed to expand the coaching staff a little bit.

So we are going to see physically more coaches.

So you're pretty confident in that.

We're already kind of seeing that.

They're going to interview Jari Evans, who is a borderline Hall of Famer.

He's down to, I believe, the finalist for the class year of 2026.

Now,

Clarify, if you can, that would be as the assistant offensive line coach, right?

Because they already have Campin coming in here.