Everybody wants to talk about the SEC championship drought and who's gonna be the next contender but nobody is talking. Defense. And I'm looking at our defensive personnel right now and I'm telling you the pieces are there to be elite again. We have been quietly stacking bodies in the front seven that can wreck games. The secondary is deeper than it has been in years. The scheme is settled. The culture on that side of the ball is nasty. I saw that ESPN defensive plyaer ranking and I get it nobody is putting our guys on the national list yet. Fine. That's exactly how we like it. We have had top-10 defenses before when nobody saw them coming. The difference now is the experience. We have guys who have been in the system for multiple years. We have transfers who came in hungry. We have a defensive staff that knows how to attack SEC offenses. The narrative that we are just an offensive rebuild away from competing is lazy. Watch what our defense does this fall. Watch how we set the tone in the first quarter of every game. This is Auburn football. We stop the run and we rush the passer. Everything else flows from there. The rest of the SEC better be ready because the teeth are back on this side of the ball.