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Always much appreciated when you tune in. Don't forget, you can read my work on ESPN.com. And if you notice a little, if you're watching this on YouTube, you notice a little bit of anything different with my mouth. I had some dental work done today. The one side is all kind of puffed up. So I kind of feel a little bit like Kramer in the Seinfeld episode, you know, let the expletive fly, Mel Tourmet, all that. If you're a Seinfeld fan, you get it. If not, Google it. Anyway, I had some work, so it's a little bit funny to see my mouth, maybe, whatever. So you get used to it, but it's still, it's still kind of shot up, and it's still, the Novakane is still very much in effect. So we'll get through it, folks. Anyway, appreciate you tune in. Today's another five

thoughts that. It's brought to you by AAA this time. So I'm going to get into that in a minute.

And not a whole lot else to talk about. I will be doing another podcast Sunday for Monday,

just because we got to get through the weeks here. They're not doing a lot this week because there's not a whole lot to say. There are some topics I am interested in discussing on these five thoughts, including, you know, the defense and discipline under Dan Quinn, Jaden Daniels. Should Jaden Daniels play? I know Bram and I talked about this on the podcast the other night, but not a lot of people are listening right now, so I'm going to talk about it again. But I also have some different thoughts on it too, and the thoughts are kind of not so much evolving, but like the more you talk to people, the more you hear certain things about why he should play or why they want to see him play. We'll talk about, I watch Jordan McGee, Josh Connolly, Johnny Newton, talking a little bit about them. Really like what I've seen from Johnny, excuse me, from Jordan McGee as I have all season. So we'll get into that in all, I guess, right now. So let's get to it. There's nothing else to talk about because there's really nothing else. And I'm going to talk about the kickers as well. So here we go. Number one, the defense was definitely more disciplined under Dan Quinn. Now, that could be for a variety of reasons. And it's not like one guy goes in there and says, like, this is, we're going to do this. You've got to do this get out of here, but one, it's hard for one guy to change all that. This is a combo effort,

and it always is. Whenever you have a defensive call, offensive game plan, it's a combo effort.

Now, one guy's calling the plays for sure, but a lot of people go into making it work. They have an

input, right? It's not like, and the coordinator takes the input and crafts the game plan that's what

happens so that's kind of what happens here so one of the things i told you about in the five

thoughts last week and i talked to dan quinn about this and i asked him that like how can one person

affect this like what can you do and it's really about again going the combo effort but it's

really about okay in practice first practice. First of all,

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