Ben, good morning. How are you, sir?

Good morning. I'm doing great. Thank you.

Well, it's just a pleasure to talk to you. We're very excited for the start of the season.

We know that the roster cuts is a, it's a difficult day, an important day.

How do you feel about where you're at right now with time, a ticking and the season and the

offing?

I think we've had a tremendous training camp.

We achieve a lot of the goals that we set out to do, which is, you know, techniques and

fundamentals, mastering the scheme, situational football.

So we're in a good place going into this first week,

and I think we're going to continue to get better as the season goes on.

In terms of the roster, I think Ryan and I have had some really good dialogue

on where we're at, where we could potentially get better here over the next two days.

And I think us as a coaching staff have a lot of confidence in the guys that certainly

are going to make the 53, but we're hopeful that the guys on practice squad are going to be

able to contribute at some point this year as well.

What do you think the strength of this roster is?

And when you look at it objectively, do you believe it's talented enough to win the NFC North?

Yeah, there's no question.

Talent's not going to be an issue in this league.

You know, it's all about these guys going out there, believing in what we're doing,

how we want to play ball, executing at a high level, and we'll see how it plays out from there.

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