The Mata Peko was on the wrong side of the football for a long, long time, like a decade plus in Cincinnati.

But he certainly got the right idea now that he's coaching the defensive

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Pecco will inherit, of course, more than just Cam Hayward.

In that group, he'll have Derek Harmon, Keanu Benton, Y.A. Black, Sebastian Joseph Day,

Esazi Otomew.

Draft pick, Gabriel Rubio. Logan Lee is back.

For the most part, though, he's going to have those first four that I mentioned.

And he's going to expect those first four to, and I quote directly, lead from the front.

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He's used that phrase a lot this summer.

And I got to tell you, the concept alone sounds really, really enticing after a lot of what we've

seen in recent years.

Because Cam would lead from the front, and he'd be almost all alone in doing so, at least until

Harmon came along.

And Harmon remains now, as he was a year ago, you'll recall, the hope that Cam will get the help

he needs to shut down the running game without help from behind.

One point I've been trying to make for months is that for all the criticism

that gets levied against Patrick Queen, Peyton Wilson, to a lesser extent, Cole Holcomb,

about their role in the run defense, and it is a real one, it's not something that they take

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