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RJ just whispered in my ear.

He said, Aaron Glenn was asked if he might take over defensive play. He said, no. I know that's going to be the thing that everyone says, but I always go back to my first year in Detroit when we struggled on defense too. Our head coach had a lot of confidence in me making sure we get it right. And I feel the exact same way. Have a lot of confident Wilkes. He's done a lot of great things in this league as a coordinator. And I'm going to allow him to do his job because one thing's change, then the mentality of everybody starts changing as far as, oh, he can't coach, you know, and that's what happened to me. So I have all the confidence in the world in him, has all the confidence in the winner and all the confidence in the world in banjo. I'm going to let those guys do their job.

All right.

Listen, I don't think that's an awful answer. Well, no. I mean, it's not the answer that you necessarily want. I mean, you're giving up almost 32 points again. I get it, but you're going to do to your defensive coordinator at five games into the season? No, but I also, I mean, when was the last time that Steve Wilkes was successful?

It's been a minute.

So, I mean, when was the last time that Steve Wilkes was successful?

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