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You can find us there as part of Empire Media, AMPIRE. Always much appreciated when you tune in. Don't forget, you can read my work on ESPN.com. Had a story up. Actually, it was a few days ago. So if you've read it, that's great. If not, it's still there. and it's about like what the what the commanders accomplish this offseason,

what they still need to accomplish,

and we'll get into some of that a little bit now. But as we get closer to the draft, and we're inching

there, we're about a month away from the draft. So this is great. Like we can finally now

digging deeper on the draft because we're now through that free agency first wave and you'll get

some bargains coming up and they have to sign a couple more guys. But really it's now the focus

becomes a draft, the seventh pick, the 71st pick, what are they going to do? What should they do,

et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Now today I'm going to give five thoughts on the defense,

and a lot of it's going to be on the pass rush

because that's what has been a big focus of the offseason.

These guys wanted to get players who affected, impacted, impacted the passer.

And that's what they feel like they have done.

Now, they've helped in other areas,

too, like Leo Chanel has been a very good run defender as well. So, you know, there are other ways

they're doing it or helping their defense, but it starts with impacting slash affecting the pastor.

So I'll get to that in one minute. The only thing I really have to say before we get there

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