00:00the players in that locker room, the coaches on the staff plan on winning now totally period.
00:07But I do think there's been a real reminder to fans. Yo, they went four and 13 last year.
00:13When you go through some of these analytical numerical models, the modeling doesn't look
00:20that great. Yeah. Vegas only has them for six and a half wins. They do play a bunch of teams
00:25that made the playoffs last year. Like what is improvement for Adam Peters and even Dan Quinn,
00:31because he's part of this too. Like Quinn is focused on week one, but it's also looking at
00:36this as a long haul, right? He knows he got to crawl before he walks. I do think the last week
00:41has been a real reminder of all right, man. Jahan's got to go. The Dotson trade doesn't make
00:49them better for that Tampa game, but it makes them better long-term. They also realize we want
00:55a different person in this role, right? Yeah. Sending away John Ridgeway is because they're
01:01going to run their defense different and they want to give Phil Mathis a chance and they don't need
01:06two big bodied, you know, primarily lined up over the center or the center guard gap guys.
01:11Yeah. And you got something back for him. Now you got an extra six, you know, you can do with two
01:17sixes, maybe move up to the fifth round. Like the more options you have going forward, the better.
01:23And I think that's what these guys are all about. I think the ultimate thing is at this point,
01:30we don't know what the round, the picks that they picked up is going to end up being.
01:36Suppose the third that they got into being another Terry McLaurin. How about those two
01:41sevens end up being a fifth or six? Sure. And they get somebody that could go out there and
01:46play eight, nine years for them. I think the thing of it is, you know, we have to understand that.
01:52And I know every time we always talk about, well, like when guys don't have a name or reputation
01:57already, we go, oh man. But those guys, when they started off, they didn't have names or
02:00reputations either. They grew into that and you have to give it a certain period of growth time
02:07to become the team you want to be. But we seem to want, as soon as you plug one or two people in,
02:13oh, we're perfect now. No, we're not. They got to build their chemistry. They got to get their
02:17camaraderie going together and they have to grow. And that normally is going to take a year, two
02:22years for people to start doing it. And then as you can keep having the people enter and people
02:27leave out, now it stays for a long time. Instead of what we used to do, we always go find old
02:32players from other teams. We give them all the money and then we never, ever let the younger
02:38guys even grow and get ready. I don't think this organization, the way they're doing it now,
02:43will be doing that.
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