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Benjamin Weiss, the mailbag question in here with the rapid evolution of the safety position physically.

Is there potential for this to backfire or is this evolution all positive and merely a result of higher caliber recruiting work?

Thank you.

Benjamin, first of all, I still want to say thanks again. Benjamin showed up at our tailgate

early a few years ago and helped my parents and I set up the tailgate. So I have not forgotten

that. So I do still appreciate that very much. But the rapid evolution of the safety position, is there potential for this to backfire?

Or is the evolution all positive and merely result of higher caliber recruiting work?

I don't know what the positive would or the negative would be.

Like I don't know what the backfire would look like, Benjamin.

I'd be curious to kind of hear from you when you talk about could it backfire. What are you referring to? Are you thinking maybe, like, Benjamin. I'd be curious to kind of hear from you when you talk about, could it backfire? What are you referring to? Are you thinking maybe like you say the evolution of

it physically? Is there a potential to backfire? Are you saying like maybe the additional length

is problematic? Could it create some issues with them from a, you know, if you're a bunch of six, four, six five safeties, are they going to be good tacklers? Can they get low enough? Can they play with good enough leverage? Is that kind of what you're referring to? If it is, then I'd say no, I don't think it's going to backfire. They don't think it backfires if you have misses, which is true if you recruit a bunch of 511 guys. I think they're recruiting

athletes that fit well into what they're trying to do. That's ultimately the key.

Mike Mickens isn't taking six five guys and six four guys just because he wants tall guys.

He loves length and all that, but he's not taking, there's been some taller, longer guys that have like Notre Dame that he didn't go after because they couldn't flip their hips real well. They were a little tight hip. They didn't play with good pad level. They weren't strong tacklers. I think the fact that you're seeing them, they're great football players. They can get low. They can tackle.

They are strong tacklers at the prep level, things like that.

I think they're good fits.

And that's kind of where I'm at.

That's where I'm at.

Super chat from Conrad.

Appreciate the super chat.

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