 Being able to spend time here and be able to keep them right, how beneficial is that to you throughout the season? Well, I mean, I think we're all trying to do the same things. Obviously, we're trying to win. We're trying to make our teams better. We're trying to improve them, and it's competitive. There's great ideas. I think there are best practices, and the data, and the health and safety, and a lot of those reports, and being able to have that data, I think can really help us. So this is a great group. It's a great fraternity to be a part of. We understand how competitive it is, but it's a great group to be able to get to see and work and visit with. Well, I mean, I think I have interest in everything that goes on in that committee. I mean, if there's something specific that you want to discuss, I mean, I would love to. But I think I've tried to take it all as serious as I possibly can and put the time in with the other committee members, have dialogue, listen to all the ideas, listen to everybody's thoughts, and try to come to a consensus on what's best for the league. And you're not going to get everybody to agree on everything, but I enjoy the process. What do you think about it, at the end of the process? No, I don't think that's the, I mean, the injuries in the kick play are significant. The injuries, the rate in which those occur on those plays are significant. It's space, it's speed, and I understand it, you know? But it just makes sense. Like, I don't know if that's going to eliminate, that's going to decrease punts, maybe a few teams go for it. If their punter isn't, doesn't excel in that, you know, it's five yards, but we put it at the 25 for, you know, the kickoff. So if the ball goes in the end zone on a kick, on a free kick, we put it at the 25 yard line or a scrimmage kick, make it just consistent. Punting's gotten so good, you know, they've really far exceeded, really in the last few years, I mean, just the distance and how good some of these guys can be in a plus 50, you know, the different kicks that go and used to stand on the 10 yard line with your heels on the 10 and it's like, don't back up. And now if you don't catch it at the seven or eight, it's going to stop within two yards. That's how good some of these punters are. So, you know, I just like the idea just from the consistency standpoint of putting it at the 25 and just making it just like the kickoff. We've looked at those and we've studied those. You know, then the ball is in play, the ball of the return is in play. So, they can't tell us what the injury rate is or what that looks like on that format, even though that that's what they're doing. We do know that the ball's in play. You know, what are the impacts of 10 players standing five yards across from each other? What's the helmet contact? You know, what is all that? You know, those are great ideas and we'll continue to explore those and look at it. Yeah, I think maybe starting with Daniel, you know, Brunskill, just some versatility. You know, somebody that I think we've always appreciated from afar. Just look at his versatility and his ability to play across the line. I also like the fact that he's self-made. This guy spent two years on a practice squad and this is a player that went and played in an auxiliary league to come back and make it. You know, and so I try to use him as an example to my own son, to Tyler. Like, hey, you know, look at this guy's, you know, story. He started a bunch of football games and you know, now he's on our team and you know, so I like really that versatility. Andre Dillard, you know, is a player that we feel like his best football is in front of him with a new opportunity, very skilled, pass protector, which is something that we have to improve on. We have to be able to protect our quarterback. Bad things happen, we've all seen it, we've always talked about it. So I was excited to be able to add him. Sean Murphy, Bunting, he's got really good length, good athleticism, good ball skills and again, I had a situation in Tampa. You know, we've all seen it even myself. It's sometimes a change of scenery and a new opportunity can do players well. So excited about that. Arden Key was a player that has factored and has seen him grow, met with him. A lot of these guys, we've referenced our 30 visits of them coming in and I said, I'm just proud of them. I mean, the guy had a lot of question marks, people had a lot of concerns about him and told him I was proud of what he's done in the league, you know, to come in and be able to figure it out and move from the 49ers to Jacksonville and now be excited to come to our team. And, you know, he's got a lot of great energy. I love his juice, but also his ability to play at different spots across the front on third down and his ability to impact their quarterback. Aziz really just, you know, just getting to know him in his background and his maturity. Really liked the way that he plays, but also just the person and who he is. Am I leaving anybody out? Okay, and Luke, you know, we're just able to add some length and some speed to the linebacking core and a premier special teams player in the past and thought that he had some versatility to play inside, potentially play on the edge in some packages and, you know, he's got some length and has some speed. Well, I mean, I think that, yeah, in those positions, you know what I mean, and there's still a lot of positions that we need to address, whether that's through, you know, multiple ways. But do I think that Luke showed ability to run on special teams? Yeah, do I think that Aziz plays fast? Yes, on film. Do I think Art and Key showed a level of speed and violence when he rushed? Yes. You know, Daniel and Dre, you know, they're alignment. Just stay between their guy and the ball and finish in the quarterback and finish longer than the guy with the ball. So, you know, we'll see it. That's continuing to develop. At the receiving position. Yep. Sure. Yeah, you know, I mean, I think we're always just, you know, we're trying to put the right pieces in place, right, whether it's a big fast guy, a small fast guy, it's a smaller quicker player, it's you're trying to find what the fit and the value is at every position. And so, we ran an eye and everybody on the coaching staff and personnel side, we all understand that we're gonna have to find some guys that can get open and catch the ball that are hard to tackle after they catch it. And so, we're gonna continue to do that. With Kevin, I mean, Kevin's under contract. Kevin's a valuable, valuable member of our football team. I've said that, his durability and his leadership, you know, and so, we'll see where things go. But as of now, there's nothing to report. The communication has been really good. I tried to make a great connection with him as a player and a captain on our team for five years. And, you know, those are conversations that, you know, will happen between Kevin and his agent and Ran and myself and, you know, try to find ways to continually improve our football team. Well, I don't think that that's, you know, those are hypothetical questions. I don't know the defense. He's been a part of our team for five years, so I can't hypothesize what that would be. Yeah, you know, nobody really can identify anything and changes are made until we go out there and start to play games, meaningful games. You gotta win, you gotta score points. And you gotta take what personality that you have and put them in the best position. So, excited to where things are now with Tim and the conversations with Charles London and Justin Outen, Tony Deuce, our offensive line staff, Rob Moore. I love where it's at, but to say anything more than that, you know, would just be a prediction. I think you have to spend some time with them. You have to be able to figure out who they are, you know, when things aren't good, you know, when things, when there's adversity, how do they respond to adversity? What kind of teammate are they? Can you trust them? Can you trust them to prepare? Can you, are they accountable? And if they're not, are they willing to address it and own it and fix mistakes? You know, it's really just looking at whether you can trust everybody that you wanna have a part of the organization. Well, I don't know if they love a football and, you know, their actions. I mean, you know, we wanna invest in people. We wanna invest in the right people, whether they're players, coaches, you know, anybody that's a part of our organization. Like, we wanna hire great people. We wanna coach great people. And yeah, they have to be talented. But I just know that it's too hard when there's inconsistencies. Yeah, he is, he is. And so, you know, I was happy for Chase to be able to get that opportunity with the Rams, you know, knew that probably when we hired him didn't think it would be long. You know, Soak and I had talked about, you know, what we would need to do. And he kept coming back to Anthony Levine, you know, just talking with him and hearing him what he was doing in Baltimore and the type of player that he was. And excited it is to get rolling with him. And he's got a lot of passion for coaching, Tennessee State guy. And he's excited. I mean, he just, and he's like, he was a little unsure, just like a lot of young coaches and former players that, you know, they think they wanna do this. And then finally he's just fully committed and give credit for staying with him. And then Tom Quinn brings that veteran presence. So I was really excited to be able to add both of those people to the special teams, you know, match just an O-line guy. You know, he's kind of, you know, loved the interview, loved his energy, loved his ability to teach and what he wanted to communicate to the players. So I felt like, you know, with those three in the O-line room, you know, could easily give each coach, you know, five guys. Let's say we signed 16 guys, are we going to the training camp with 16 offensive linemen, could easily see each one of those coaches just taking a group and saying, hey, you work with this one, you work with this one, or you have the tackles, you have the guards, you have the centers, whatever it may be. That's how good I felt about, you know, Matt and his communication. Had a real, you know, maybe I didn't explain this quite as well, but, you know, trying to bring Anthony along and really have a vision for him and believing in him, but just needed a little bit more experience. And I'm excited that we were able to add both of them. And Tom's going to be able to help Anthony and Tom's going to be able to assist with AUK and Anthony's going to be able to help AUK and our gunners and some of our special teams, our safety, DB, wide receiver, skill guys. So I think they all bring a certain level of a certain skill set to coach and special teams. Well, I think that he's got to earn that ret, earn it, and, but I think that that's, you know, that's why you're making some of these moves in free agency. You know, he's got to go out and earn it just like everybody else, but I think he's going to have the opportunity to do that. I don't really recall last year's draft evaluation. I think that you won a lot of games in UNC. It seemed to be a great leader. You know, I just, that's a long time ago. I'm sorry. In who? I think, I mean, leadership, you know, how these guys rally and what the players around them, you know, how they feed off of them. Their toughness, you know, accuracy, you know, how do they take care of the football? You know, there's the turnover margin and the rate of success in our league is, those are two telling of a stat to not look at the way that a player protects the football, whether that's in the pocket, whether that's scrambling, or that's when they throw it. You know, if they're putting it in harm's way, that's a tough way to win in this league is, you know, 75% of the teams that win a turnover margin win the game. Yeah. No, yeah, no, it's, we've decided that we want to make a connection, a personal connection with every player on our team with every coach. And some of those connections and those relationships are stronger than others. I've always said that. And we want to get to know them. We want to be able to help them on the field. That's our first job, but off the field as well with anything that they have with what we have. And we're together a lot. And so that personal connection, that means something. But there is a business side. There is a professional side that we all have to work through. And those, all these players that, you know, I would say that have been here for five years since I've been here really have meant a lot to our program, to our team, to our organization, to our fans, you know, to our coaching staff. And so we'll continue to work through all those professional conversations, the best that we can as we continue to build, you know, a football team that we feel like can win a championship. I don't know what damage control is. I mean, this is just having conversations throughout the roster with players. You know what I mean? Contracts are up or they have years remaining on their contract or players that are in restricted free agents. I mean, you're always trying to have honest conversations with them and understand that there is a business side of this in trying to do what's best for the team. Of course, you know what I mean? Of course we do. That's, you know, we're in March. We're continuing to build a football team, the best football team we can. And Ryan's healthy, he's getting healthy. I would say that, you know, he's putting work in. It's been good to see him around the building. So yeah, you know, we always expect that. But to make predictions, I think I've been through this last year, I'm not gonna commit to anybody being on our roster on September. You know what I mean? I've seen it change too quickly. And of course that, you know, we want Ryan as our quarterback and everybody else that's helped us win. That's what we want. Some, great, I've always enjoyed money. I've always enjoyed our relationship and our conversations. Appreciate his viewpoint on player evaluations. It was always easy to work with and happy for him for this opportunity that he has in Arizona. We got an opportunity, we coached him. He took the coaching, he's extremely hard worker, I'm happy for him to have this opportunity to go and get a significant contract for himself and for his family. I mean, he played hard. He was coachable and he played hard and he was able to produce when given the opportunity he did. So that's a credit to him. All the credit goes to him and what he was able to do. And I always thought, these guys, whether we can bring you back or whether you can go somewhere else, like that's why you do this, is to support your family and to take care of your family and everything else. He was versatile and so he was able to place spaces and spots where we needed him due to injury. But I'd say predominantly he played more inside than he did outside. But in a short week, he played outside for us and he was always into it. Anytime that we gave him a new task or job or role, he was all in. Well, I'm not sure it was, yeah, let's go. I'll give it a try and love his energy at practice. Happy for him. I would like to. You know, I mean, we do have some conversations, I think with a few teams. Can't really commit to anything right now but because of the schedule. But I think that they will probably travel to somewhere and work and then probably host somebody the third week. There's some data that some of these injuries that we can try to mitigate after the first two weeks of training camp. So the recommendation is that the joint practices occur after the first regular pre-season game. So we'll try to do weeks two and three potentially. I don't personally support those proposals. I don't support using replay to address flags on the field or potential flags. We tried that disastrously. And so if that's a word, Ashley but consistency is something that we're all striving for. And hopefully the points of clarification that we've discussed at length with the officials, with the officiating department can hopefully start to close the gap of some of those inconsistencies. I was striving to make it more consistent. Those are my conversations. And the commissioner's right to evaluate the officials. My goal is just to try to make it more consistent so that everybody sees it as closely through the same set of eyes as possible. That you see it as a foul, that Tehran sees it, that Ashley sees it, that Sean Hockley sees it and that the player sees it. Because then everybody, then there's no questions. Speed. I mean, this is a fast game. I mean, I stand behind the quarterback in practice. And it's like, was that a hold? And if you're not looking at the right place in the mechanics, you know, DPI. You know, I talk with this to Tehran all the time about this. Like we want to not necessarily reward the defender, but we got to give them some leeway for playing the ball. Like 50-50 balls and we throw it 40 yards downfield should just be that. It shouldn't be 65 for the offense and 35 for the defense because there's a DPI in there. So if we're teaching them to find the football that some of that contact, you know, or play the football, we should all see it the same way. And if he's not playing the ball and there's contact, we should all see it the same way that it's a flag and not, uh, it's, no, was he playing the ball? Was there contact? There should be a flag. Well, I mean, I think that you have to, you know, you have to have a foundation for what you believe in. You know, I think we do. You know, I think you have to figure out how some of these players learn what they're capable of and not giving them too much and not overloading them. You know, whether that's using Roger McCreary as an example, like how much do you want to put him inside? How much do you want to play him outside? You know, one call and I've lived this world where you hear cover two and you're an outside corner. Here's my responsibility. You moved 10 yards inside and now you have a completely different responsibility. You're like, oh, I'm the nickel. Like I went from corner to nickel or I'm a safety and I went from safety down to money or I went from safety to nickel. So that may seem like it's not a big deal, but you know, in the heat of the moment and the speed of the game, though those two job responsibilities based on where you align are very different. So if we do have younger players, then we have to identify what they can do and what they can understand. And the more that they can comprehend and understand and can play more than one position, then we'll do that. But I think that's our job first and foremost. You know, you have a guy like Daniel Brunski, right? He's going to know every position along the front because that's what he's been able to show. We may get another player that may just be able to play one position and understand what his one position is. Sure. Yeah, you know what I mean? We've had communication with both those. We've seen chance back in the building as he recovers from the knee surgery. Jamarco, you know, disappointed. I know he's disappointed, you know, kind of in the injury and coming back and trying to compete at training camp and you know, didn't work out like any of us wanted it to, but he will have an opportunity, you know, and we'll just have to see. But, you know, he's got to come back healthy. He's got to come back ready to go. And I think he understands what the competition is going to be. We have to put, we have to have competition, you know, throughout our roster. That's something that's critical. That's the only way that everybody gets better. Absolutely. As of now, you know, I would anticipate us adding another kicker, not closing the door and bringing Randy back either, but we have to provide some competition there and everywhere else. Just being conscious, and this wasn't, you know, whether, and you can include David Long in that. I mean, it's just a recognition of, you know, and it's all of us. It's, we're all, you know what point in time is there, are there warning signs before? You know what I mean? Are you starting to feel something and are you trying to work through it? Or what is the load management? You know, I mean, what are those signs? And just use those two players as examples. I mean, we have to figure out how to get Elijah Molden on the field. I mean, Elijah improved when he played. He helped us and he got better at nickel and Shane and the staff, you know, they were finding ways to blitz them, to have them cover and reroute. I mean, but then, you know, then he goes through a process and he tries to come back with, you know, whether it's, hey, the return to play, they're coming back, hey, I feel really good. Okay, well, just because you feel really good doesn't mean you do more than what we've asked you to do. But that's a good thing, but it's also a bad, like that happens sometimes with Elijah. He's like, coach, I feel great. I'm like, I know Elijah, this was only the plan for today. And then I turn around and then you're back out there, like, and I appreciate that you want to do that. But we got to figure out ways to get you on the field and keep you on the field. So whether it's Christian Fulton, it's just an idea of how do we work past some of these things that have continued to happen? And we've tried to track the mileage, we've tried to track the speed. You know, the acceleration is something that we have to track. I know that was, you know, something with David to start, stop. He's a sudden player. But, you know, we have to find ways to eliminate and try to mitigate some of the soft tissue injuries. Well, no, just being conscious. No, just being conscious of making sure that they're training, that we're all training the same way that we're gonna play. Like, I've asked Frank and Brian Bell and Tyler Rouse to meet with our coaches extensively about the drill work that our coaches do and what we're gonna ask our players to do on the field. It's not about running 40s. It's not about doing one 10s. It's about how do we put these players in similar drills that can recreate the acceleration, the changes speeds. Like, we talk about the special teams play. I mean, we train the release. We train a staggered release, a sudden movement that opens up their hip, that crosses over. Like, if you don't train that and all of a sudden you do that, then you're gonna have some groin issues or we try to train the speed phase where they're running and they got a guy tugging on them. Like, that's not good for hamstrings. So we have talked about that in the rules. Like, can we watch a guy that's tugging a guy to start calling penalties there? Maybe, maybe not. But then now it's the deceleration. It's to come to balance from going 20 miles an hour to coming to balance, changing direction. So we've trained all those in the off-season. Like, Frank meets with Ock and they do the release on the hoop. Okay, they're doing that one day. Then the next day it's just straight speed and then it's straight speed to come to balance, to go from 20 miles an hour to come to balance and then redirect. So we're trying to put them in the same positions. So we just ask them to do that when they're away so that when they come, I'm all set with the 40-yard dashes and the 110s and that. Like, we gotta keep training in the way that we're gonna play and explain that to the players. And the trainers have been great. Like, they all have trainers and we communicate with them and if they go to Florida, they want our feedback. And it's been really cool to reach out to those guys. Hey, here's what we're doing. This is what we talked about at Area Focus for this player and they've all been on board and I'm glad they're all going somewhere and working. If they're not gonna be with us, rather than be somewhere who somebody's willing to communicate with us and help us. Good, yeah. I think it's very good. I mean, I think it is. I mean, we just, our trainer, Todd just won a national award, the NFL for a trainer. You know, whatever the Players Association's anonymous evaluation of our program, we addressed pretty much everything that we could. But I don't want ever want it to be, I don't want a program that needs an anonymous survey. I want our players, like I want to make a connection with them enough and them to trust me enough to say, Coach, I'm not really sure. And I've had conversations with players. Like guys, you have to talk to us and say, Hey, here's how I feel. This is what we would normally do after a game, but maybe you feel a different way this week. And we modify to every single player, whether that's the plan on the practice field, that's the plan in the weight room. This player doesn't squat. This player doesn't do this. This player, this is how they do it. And they have a menu to pick from. And then the return to play. Like these strength coaches, you guys watch, they're with the trainers and they're running from this guy to this guy. And they're doing those same drills that we talked about before a player comes back before we put them back onto the field. So we're always trying to find ways to be better. We're always trying to find ways to keep our players healthy. And we'll continue to do that. And I don't see it and it's not all on the player and it's not all on the strength coach and it's not all on the trainer. It's all of us working together that if there is an injury, how do we get them back as quickly and as safely as we can so that they don't re-injure it and when is a good time to, I always go through this. Can you make it worse? Can you do your job, right? And can you protect yourself? And that's how I evaluate whether a player should come back and play in the game or be ready to go. Yeah. I think it's certainly you can. I don't think you can avoid the position. A lot of these times, these tackles are in space. And if you've ever been, with one of them kitty cats out there in space, they're hard to get to it. Sometimes when you have an idea that you want to take the hat out of the game and a helmet out of the game, sometimes that ends up on the back side of them. And so you either end up in a gator roll to get them down or players drag them down. We have to be able to identify these and say, hey, take care of your fellow player. Can you get them down without coming down on the back of them? But I don't know if we can put that in a rule right now. And we'll just have to continue to identify it. I know the injury rate is significant on some of these behaviors where you get the full body weight on the back of the legs.