Hey, welcome to Out to Pasture.

This is Dave Hyde is joining us.

And Dave, you know, Joe's out.

And I don't know what he's doing.

He's out visiting his dad and this.

And so I appreciate you jumping in and taking a place of Joe.

And I think it's going to be a little better show than with Joe. So I appreciate you having you. Don't expect me to tell all my past background stories from the 80s like Joe does. You know, I don't have those stories. Well, look, that's what we're about. I mean, we're about, we're about digging back into the, uh, no matter what we talk about, there's always some, some connection to, to Don Schuller or back in the 80s or 70s or whatever. And that's why we're out to pasture. That's why it's called out to pasture. I can tell you the time Shula reamed me out for columns, but, you know, not behind closed doors like with the team.

Hey, so first of all, I haven't spoken to you a lot about this.

Just the whole situation this season, you know, Mike McDaniel's out, John Eric Sullivan's in,

Jeff Halfley's in, and what their presence has been so far and what their messaging has been so far.

And I think when you, from my standpoint, when you look at them up to this point, I think they've delivered what they're, what they're selling to the public.

Yeah, let's start here.

This team's rebuilt so many times and got it wrong so many times.

And for the first time, and I've written this in the Sunset, and a few times,

they got it right, right from the start.

What they said, we're going to get rid of the coach and the general front office at the same

time, bring in the best personnel guy possible and let him structure his organization.

And you've seen he brought in, you know, a coach he knows well from Green Bay,

obviously and Halfley.

They went out and they went after their quarterback from Green Bay and they brought him

Malik Willis.

And you've seen some restructuring in the front office, which hasn't been done in,

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