Ryan Poles

And as it hit me, and no one's described it that way, I was like, if I'm going to leave this organization, I have to get off of that because if I'm acting out of fear or acting out of closed-mindedness, then we're not going to be in a good spot.

And that's given me a lot of freedom to kind of weather the storm, but to see things the way they are.

There's a couple situations, even with Caleb, where for some reason when things just feel like they're ebbing away from you, it almost validates like,

especially the noise part of it, you're close.

You talked about a young, talented kid.

They get a lot of crap from the outside world.

To me, they see the talent.

They see what this could be.

Let's just keep pushing forward and get through this and get to the other side.

This year felt like a little bit of a breakthrough.

I know you can't take success from...

last year and bring it into this year, we start over and, and there's a lot of work to be done, but it felt like a breakthrough in terms of like, all right, we can settle that part.

Now we can start mastering aircraft a little bit.

Yeah, it's definitely a priority.

There's a lot going on right now.

We'll eventually start having those conversations.

It's been cool because anytime you have a new coaching staff come in, you're hoping that they saw the same vision as you did.

And in terms of Ben, Dan Rochard, Kyle, the van, they share that vision.

not only you know we're excited about where he's at but we're really excited what Darnell can be if he continues to put in the work that he has been we think he can be you know a really talented tackle in this league and help us win championships now one of the things that I do like is Darnell Wright was the guy you drafted on tape was the guy you put in the position to play the position he had on tape everybody saw what they got there

Philosophically, I feel the same.