Lions back from the bye, good to have coach back on the show.

Dan, are you actually able to take time away during a bye week, or is your brain still obsessing about football?

Yeah, I mean, it's hard.

I can get away more than the normal mentally, but yet it never really goes away for a full day.

So it's, you know, you're always doing something.

You're always thinking about something.

So what were you thinking about over the by week in regards to football?

What was the point of emphasis offensively or defensively?

How do you want to see this team get better?

Well, I think it's, you know, just how do we, you know, how do we clean up a few areas to where we're running a little more efficiently, you know, and whether that's personnel, that's coaching, that's scheme, you know, it's situations.

So, man, I'm really just looking at everything, man.

I look at myself first and what can I do?

What am I doing that is not good enough?

You know, how do I help the staff, how do I help the players,

and then work out from there.

So just, man, there's just a couple of things that I know we can be better at and really

on everything that I said, you know, just working through some of the fundamentals, the technique,

and then, you know, how we go about our business in each situation.

I'm sure there was some evaluation, obviously, that went on over the by week.

You get a chance to take a deeper dive into offense, defense, specialties, but also players.

When you dug into some of the performances of the players, from the guys that are back from last year's team,

who's taken the biggest step forward?

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