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Hey, Frank. So you know what? I want to ask you, Greg, about the defense and in particular the linebackers, because it looks like a transition here has taken place. And Nikobi, Nikobi Dean has usurped Jahad Campbell. And my question to you was, I mean, watching the edge group the other day, I know the numbers maybe reflected a different story than what the naked I saw in terms of the pressuring.

I thought Patrick Johnson struggled mightily. And again, I get it. He's going against Andrew Thomas

a majority of the time. So I understand what he was going up against. But how did Jahad Campbell

not factor more into maybe as an edge rusher? And I know that you don't know that. You're not in the

meetings or whatnot. But from what you've seen of him as an edge rusher, does he give a little bit more than what we had? Because I was shocked at his snaps for the game. All I know is that what I saw when he was in college, because he hasn't really been deployed as an edge rusher with Eagles. and in fact fact, he didn't play one snap as an edge rusher in their nickel defense.

The only time he was on the edge was in their base 5-2 front.

So we really haven't seen him do that.

But I can tell you when I watched him in college, I thought he was far more explosive as an edge

rusher than he was as a stacked backer.

So again, you hit it on the head.

I can't answer that question, but they don't seem to want to put him there.

And Dean clearly, I mean, Dean played a lot more snaps than Campbell did last week.

Campbell is down to about 20 snaps. And I don't know if that's the way it's going to be going forward. But, you know, the only thing I can tell you was they were really happy with Dean last year down the stretch until he got hurt in the playoffs. They thought he had really gotten better and better and better. And over the course of seven, eight games, the one thing that's always hard for me to know for sure, Frank,

and I'm just being honest, is because I'm not charting every play.

You know, I can't do every player on every play.

I can't do that.

And even if I could do that, I still would know exactly how he's being coached and what he's being asked to do in the context of every defensive call.

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