Matt Burke

And he's, you know, our third or fourth interior lineman.

And then, uh, you know, going to Cade McDonald, who we talked about, uh, you know, Matt Burke, the defensive coordinator, every time he's talked about him, he's, you know, he's a bigger guy.

We haven't really had a nose tackle in this scheme.

It's always been lighter three techs or two eyes.

And I think they're going to try to make them play two eyes, a bigger guy, but you know, they wanted to address the run stopping issue up the middle, um, which I think Tommy Togiai is a beast, but, um, You know, I think that he's a developmental piece still like he is playing in a new scheme for one and also two new techniques and Matt Burke has mentioned that every time he speaks his name.

Basically, he's always kind of said like, hey, this is a guy who we're going to hammer home technique hammer at home hammer at home hammer at home is going to take a while take a while but like his growth is not going to be gradual it's going to be.

you know, low.

It's there's a lot to it, but

But right out of the gate, they face each other.

Uh, quickly, Josh Jacobs was inactive for both of the Vikings games last year, but one of the things that football people have been talking about this off season, the, the, the rise of Flores-like defenses, Vance Joseph-like defenses, Matt Burke-like defenses, DeMeco Ryans, was to shut down that, that lateral, that outside zone running game.

Josh Jacobs is a between-the-tackles gap runner, and we're gonna see a lot more of that, because that is believed to be kind of the antidote to what we're seeing in the rise of some of these defenses.

And so to not have him, a true between-the-tackles violent runner, sucks.

And now you've got Jesse Minter scheming it up for the Chargers and their personnel.

And you've got Matt Burke and D'Amico Ryans doing it for the Texans and their personnel.

Vance Joseph and the Broncos.

Mike McDonald and the Seahawks.