Ryan Poles

I know Ben was very intentional with getting the football to create opportunities.

But when you have Colson start to pop up, Luther, Cole, Rome was going through different things throughout the season, but started hot early.

So unique situation overall, but I know we were happy with him throughout the season.

What was your tone with him in the exit interview, just setting him up for what he can expect in the future?

Yeah, very similar to the other guys.

Went through the season.

The next meeting, we also want to know what they need from us to help them be successful.

But real positive conversation with DJ and really everybody on the roster.

Yeah, you know, when we first got Dennis in, it's really for all the coaches, position coaches, coordinators.

They came in and talked about what they need, like what's the prototype.

I knew from what Dennis was bringing, scheme change over the last few years, it was going to take a little bit of time to get exactly what we needed.

But as you go through that season, you ask more questions.

You sit in the weekly e-mails of our roster all the way to last week here and then go through their UFA stacks and inserting where our players line up in there, both guys under contract and not.

You get more and more clarity as you go through.

So I feel pretty good about that.

Yeah, I think it paints a clear picture in terms of makeup.

I like to follow the whole journey.

I don't hold it against the 18-year-old that gets a million bucks to go to school and maybe didn't have his priorities straight.

I think most of us here, if that happened to us, we might be doing some crazy things too or maybe not focused where we should be focused.

But I want to see the learning lessons that come from that.