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I have a story up now about the state of the offensive line.

The impact that James can make on this group, listen, they gave up 65 sacks last year,

but it's a different line, it's a different quarterback, and it's a different coaching staff with

different ideas on how to call plays and the scheme to run. How that all can help protect

Jaden Daniels much better than what they did last year with Sam Howling. Again, that was a whole mess of errors.

It was howling the ball. It was a constant complaint that you'd hear, or not complaint, but a

constant concern and coaching point for coaches all season. And there were times you got better,

and then times he still held the ball a little bit long and you know then it was an

offensive line that would give up some pressures but it's also a coach who kept calling pass play

after pass play after pass play even when the game was always close in the first half that didn't

help that group either so it's one thing after then it's also about how does how does the run game

marry the past game the play play action, that's something that

this group I think they think will do, you know, that they feel pretty good about that and how

it can help the play action, et cetera. Now you got to go out and do it. Anyway, that story is up now in

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