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speakle and homes afternoons on the score well we're certainly going to coach better than what we did a year ago

and i like i said before it starts. We've made a concerted effort and

how we're going to get that done. We were excited about the guys that ended up finishing the

season on IR, the trajectory that they were on, both Dio and Shamar. When you look at it from

the start of the season to the point where they both got injured, we saw growth and we saw them trend in the right direction in terms of what we want to see on game day.

I think I think Sweat had one of his better years in the NFL, whether that shows up in the sack total or not.

He's a very complete player, both run game and past game.

And I think you saw tremendous growth from Booker when we were finally able to get him back as well.

So a combination of us being able to coach better and those guys taking the next step as part of this system.

That's Ben Johnson after the draft talking about working with what they have, perhaps

specifically on the defensive line, but across the roster in general and coaching them up.

It's Spigs and Ryan McGuffey on the Spiegel and Holmes Show on the score, 104-3, the

score, this station's been around a long time. Mike Mulligan's been hosting for a long time.

He wrote football for years before he ever became a host.

That man knows football.

And I always think of him when I hear that phrase coaching him up.

Because I don't even remember what era it was,

but it was after an off-season of Bears inactivity.

When he said one morning, he said, I think their plan is just to coach him up better. And it was so clearly him going, that's not a

good plan. But here we are. The difference is that this time we actually trust these coaches.

And that's an interesting place to be, and that very much includes Dennis Allen, the defensive coordinator.

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