Phillip Daniels Sees "A New Era"

It's a sudden shift, the jump from mostly-empty hallways to near-100%-participation in offseason workouts. And this season, that shift was even more noticeable. "New faces," Brian Orakpo observed. "The weight room's different. Lot of changes like that, but it's good for the long run. Obviously 4-12 wasn't good, so they had to make a lot of changes, and that goes for personnel, coaching staff, and everything like that." Phillip Daniels was even more blunt. "Everything pretty much changed," he said. "It's a different look. A new era." And that seemed to be the prevailing sentiment among the players that I talked to: changes had been made, but they were necessary, and they put the team on the path to something better. Daniels, for one, is excited for the chance to do something new. "I was in the last defense for ten years," he said, "and I'm gonna have fun just learning something new. It's gonna be f...