Ryan Poles

put that puzzle together it's actually four safeties that are not under contract for next year so um i got a lot of faith in our process that we'll we'll we'll do that i will i think kevin's a special player i have no problem saying you know that's a player that we would like to have back but again when you add the other safeties into that mix and all the other decisions we have across the roster cap restraints things like that it'll be a challenge but

That's part of what we do.

It was incredible.

I loved watching him.

I asked him the other day, just his messaging to the team.

It moves the team, and they're locked in, and they listen, and they take it back to the locker room and to the field, and the buy-in was incredible.

I go back to training camp.

He needed a physical day in the dog days at camp, and that was a really cool opportunity to see those guys buy into what he was saying, do something really hard, and in the moment, does it feel good?

No, but they believed from his message that that would help

us down the road and they went all out with it and you saw that go through the entire season ben talked about the poise under pressure in some of these late you know one score games how did you see the staff sort of foster that throughout the year yeah i go back to he set it up in the beginning i mean we watched some examples across the league of games that were a little you

you know, out of whack at halftime and even into the third quarter.

And we had some guys in the room that have been in those situations and heard from them.

How did you handle it?

Locker room, your teammates, and poise was really kind of the common message between everybody.

Or if it was on the other side, it was a lack of poise.

And so it started early.

The staff is on the same page with Ben.

They don't panic.

They keep coaching.

And they put their – part of really good coaches, in my experience, is they put you in tough positions in training camp and in practice to see how you handle it, and you get repetitions at it, and it comes alive on game day, which it didn't.