 How is the defense in comparison to where you'd like it to be at this point of this offseason? It's tough to make any comparisons year-to-year, Teresa, so we're at the training camp, but we got some guys that are out there and hopefully we get 11 out there every time. I understand there's going to be moving parts throughout the season. That's kind of where we're at. A lot of this has been good for us, against more kind of red zone and then third down those critical situations that we have to improve at. Mike, even beyond your top three, you've got a lot of size and length with that wide receiver. No smaller guys have become maybe a bigger thing around the league. And I know you've got Cam and Mason, but is there a logic behind you? Do you guys like big receivers and does Ryan maybe like big receivers? I think that everybody has a skill set. And so we have guys that have great size, great length, and most important is the production. However big you are or however fast you are, you have to be productive to be able to function within our offense and be able to block who we need to block and be able to beat man coverage and be somebody that's quarterback trust. Some of that length and if you use that length and some of that play strength to get open, that's great. And you can play big and within the rules and have a large catch radius. I would imagine that you don't have to be as accurate as a quarterback if the catch radius improves. So there's a lot of things that go into it and it's important that each player plays to their skill set. Mike, what do you stress most during the minicamp and how do you go about maybe incorporate some of the guys who have not been here and with the guys who've been here throughout the OTAs where you don't skip a beat? We're not going to wait for anybody to get up to speed. We're going to keep rolling. And we expect those guys that haven't been here to be ready to go. And I think for the most part they were. We stress the same things, whether it's phase one, phase two, phase three or veteran minicamp. We want to be able to play with great effort and finish and be conditioned enough to do so. We want to continue to understand the concepts and the details that go along with each play offensively or defensively. And practice fundamentals and technique, things that we believe are critical. Harry? Mike, the tight end situation. How do you work when we know that Swain was mainly a blocking guy and Perkster was mainly a receiving guy? How do you work in order to avoid predictability when one or the other is in the game? We play with multiple tight ends. It's a tight end and a fullback in there. Sometimes there's two or three tight ends. That's all part of formation and things and making sure that we're teaching those guys ways that they can do their job, whether that's in the passing game or in the run game. That's certainly something that we always have to be conscious of throughout our different personnel. Coach, we talked to you about the value that you guys find in cross training for guys like Darrington. What kind of value are you looking for them to get out of today when you guys are maybe mixing them up in individual drills and stuff like that? We start off every practice with ball disruption and ball security. For the entire phase three, we'd had defenders practicing their different forms of ball disruption and the offensive guys taking care of the football. I don't know how critical that is and that's going to be a team key. But in hopes of us turning the football over, we want to be able to make sure that we're taught properly to take care of it and try to go and score, but making sure that we're taking care of the football now because that's our responsibility as defenders. If we do turn the ball over, just want to make sure that we're good there and teach the offensive players that if we do happen to turn the football over, maybe there's an opportunity for somebody that's not being as safe with the ball that we could maybe punch or hammer that football out. What's up coach? I wanted to kind of get your take on just the synergy that you guys got with yourself. Jim Haslett, Jim Schwartz, as well as Shane Bowen, how you guys are able to avoid that too many chefs in the kitchen concept. How is that working for you guys? I mean there's a head coach that obviously is going to have the final say in everything we do, but that's the same on offense and defense and special teams. That's my job to make sure that we're doing things that we feel like can help us and from everything that I've seen that there's been support there and Jim's coaching the inside linebackers and Jim Schwartz is trying to help us throughout the entire defense and have communication with myself and Shane and the entire staff. I think the one thing that everybody has to realize is that there's going to be disagreements. Disagreements between John Robinson and myself and we have conversations about them and we communicate and you know when you leave a meeting you have to all be on the same page when you go and give a message to the players and that's what's most important and that's what's critical and that's what's happened and that's what will continue to happen. Thank you. Hey Mike. I'm interested in you guys giving a tryout to Hassan French you know I guess it's probably similar to Adam Kuhn in some ways but what do you like about a guy with that kind of potential athletically and at the same time you know was it a bit of a challenge trying to teach a guy you know while you're trying to go through a kind of a mini camp with you know more of the veteran players? I guess similar that one played basketball and one wrestled but other than that you're looking for athletes John you're looking for guys that learn and you understand that you may not know as much as the rest of these these guys that have been here have played football in college and are making trying to make this transition to the national football league but you know can they pick things up quickly do they improve from drill to drill will they improve tomorrow what kind of concepts can they grasp and you know they have a willingness to play a collision sport like football play it at the level which we feel like is important with great effort and finish. Roy Curtis. Coach you talked about not waiting for anybody from any camp. Elijah Molden didn't get any of the OTA's a rookie camp how did he handle his first day out there were you happy with his ability? Well he's been out there in some capacity throughout some of the OTA's so it's not like this was it's his first day and you know he continues to learn and develop and study so we'll just keep working with him and put a lot on their plate see what they can handle and see what they can retain when we come back to training camp. And Arthur. Hey Mike how has Caleb Farley been doing with his rehab behind the scenes and just how has he been transitioning I mean transitioning as you guys you know head into mini camp? Transitioning in what regard then where's I don't know where he's transitioning to? What I meant was just how how has he been doing just with rehab as you guys transition into mini camp? Yeah I mean it's no different than for Caleb and or Bud or you know Taylor or any of those guys that weren't out there we asked them to to work as hard at getting back as those guys that are out there on the field and we have a specific plan for everybody and their individual and what they need and what they do with our relationship with Todd and Frank and how we work together between the training staff and coaching staff and the strength staff we feel confident in each of their plan. Caleb is somebody that I enjoy coaching and being able to watch him do the the rookie walkthroughs that we have you know the rookie walkthrough seven on sevens he's grasping the knowledge and what we're asking him to do and he's working hard and he's working hard to get back to be back with his teammates but say everything has been positive you know and in what role that he's we've asked him to perform. Steve Lehmann. Hey Mike we got our first look today at January Jenkins he seemed to be an aggressive guy out there how much does his skill set fit into what you want your cornerbacks and DBs to play like and how much can he be sort of a teacher on the field as some of these younger guys do get more reps. Well I think what we want our DBs to do is be not let their man catch the ball in man coverage and and play with great vision and break in zone coverage but that's what we want them to do. Janoris has shown that throughout his career love his energy as a player it's fun to fun to coach kind of smile on his face and love love football you know I mean I think that guys that have done it at a high level in this league you know are great resources for for younger players for coaches to have conversations with and and try to help and I think Janoris will be certainly one of those guys. A couple of follows Jim Wyatt. Mike we talked to Bud Dupree we're going to talk to Bud Dupree today for the first time since he signed how's he been since he's been with the club from a rehab standpoint to zoom standpoint and just as he prepares for 2021 season. I would say everything that I said about Kayla Farley. Jim that you could say about Bud he's a professional you know I know Kayla's a rookie but Bud is a professional he communicates well communicates with Todd about where he's at where his rehab and his you know therapist and then when he's here communicates with me that's been the biggest thing that we asked these guys to do is to communicate and then you're now working here with the group and engage meetings and he's working hard and doing everything we asked him to do. Glennon. Mike how much different is it from last year in terms of being able to get you know kind of hands-on work with these guys as opposed to the COVID situation last year and maybe you know not only for you but maybe for like a guy who was a new coach last year like Jim Haslett you know who never really got to see his guys during the offseason. I mean Jim's coached a lot of years so you know we had a lot of training camp practices it's just it's good to be around players it's good to have team team meetings and be able to talk to these guys and ask them direct questions and continue to coach them you know we it's why we do what we do we want to win championships we want to win but but it's also you know making connections with our players so that we can we can coach them and and try to improve what they do on the field and and how they live their life off of it. No more. Paul. How much has a guy like Bud been able to do in terms of kind of establishing his place among the guys or does he just need to be patient and wait for something? I don't know I think that'd be a great question for the guys or for Bud you know I mean I have a relationship with Bud so I couldn't comment on on his relationship with with anybody else. How about his role though in terms of leading the way or showing people stuff you talked about the veteran guys kind of being models for the younger guys and resources for the coaches. Sure they have conversations you know when Bud's out there his role will change right now his role is to to get as healthy as he possibly can and be ready to go and continue to work hard. What his role is in the field right now isn't hasn't been defined. Last question Trisa. Mike the schedule this week right now it looks like you're on the field again tomorrow Thursday you're the only one scheduled to talk to us is it has you have you changed the schedule of minicamp is it just two days or and if so is that just a reflection of how much work you've been able to do in a very you know getting back to an off season after not having one last year? We're just not going to practice when I we're not going to be out there practicing you know we'll be in here working but you know we won't be in here practicing.