See, defensive backs are wired differently than players at any position in any team sport I've covered.

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this. I spent my Monday afternoon over there with the football team on the south side,

and I'd committed to myself upon driving over there that I was going to dedicate however much

access there'd be to however many players to try to focus on the secondary

because you know and i spoke with exactly four of them all four who'd been out and available

each of them one-on-one so there wouldn't be, there'd be

less of a chance that the answers would come across as, you know, forced or phony.

That can happen.

It's just human nature in front of a camera and a whole bunch of microphones.

It's not the same thing.

Darius Slay, Juan Thornhill,

Brandon Eccles, Chuck Clark. And with each guy that I talked to, it was almost like they had

rehearsed before they had talked to me. Like this was something that they were prepared for, which of course was not the case.

But every time I'd ask, hey, what do you guys need to do to get back to where you were, say,

you know, against Cleveland or before that against the Vikings, the answers would sound almost like a carbon copy of this that I got from Slay.

Shoot, man, just got to keep putting together, man.

Each and every day, I go out here and work, man, and build off something.

I know we got going here to be, look ourselves in the mirror and correct our mistakes, you know, and get ready,

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