He did so much for us. He evolved in so many different areas. We were just trying to use his natural abilities to help us and to help him. |
It's a very exciting group. They see a lot of light at the end of the tunnel and there's a lot of competition. |
It's always a challenge. It's a challenge because we've got some new faces and some new guys and you just have to start over just with the stuff that you are teaching. |
It's important to get guys that can come in and play early because we're losing so much. But the big thing is the last couple years, it's been hard numbers-wise to get linebackers in here because those guys were starting since they were sophomores. So just our numbers were down. |
John's a football player. We're looking for the guys who can play football and then we're going to try and put them in the best situation. |
John's a football player. Where the football is, John's going to be. |
The book on us last year was that we couldn't stop the run. But we worked hard on that phase of our game over the spring and summer. |
We really think that we've got a lot of young kids that are going to play hard and run around. They've just got to get some experience. |
We think we have a good group - probably seven guys who could end up starting for us. We'll see how they develop over the rest of the summer and then through fall camp. There's a lot of competition - healthy competition. |