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18 IllustrateD volume 24, issue 5 f a chance. Now, personnel-wise … Ra'Zahn (Howard) is a completely different person as a nose guard, he'll give people fits inside. You have Jake Replogle a year older, playing a little stronger. (He) understands it. If he's at 270, if we can get him to 280, it will be unbe- lievable inside because he uses his hands so well. And you have Ryan Russell, if he can bend the edge, like he did against the guys he was playing this spring, he has to play hard like that, he will get two sacks a game. He will, if he can bend the edge on guys. And then Jalani (Phillips), he feels like he has some val- ue. That's huge, very huge." Q. How do you convince guys like Russell and Phillips that the level they've been playing maybe isn't quite as much as they can and need to give? Hazell: "I think it's got to come from me, it can't always come from Coach (Rubin) Carter. If I can pull those guys aside one-on-one and say, 'You're going to play against some tackles (during the season) that are very average, you've got to be able to beat those guys one-on-one.' I heard a great saying from a high school coach at our clinic the oth- er day. He said, 'You've got to change the math. If it's one-on-one, that ain't a good math equa- tion, you've got to beat the one-on-one. You've got to change the math, make the offensive guy have to beat a two-on- one.' But I've got to use a little bit more psy- chology to get inside their heads to say, 'This is what you're playing against and you can set that guy up and get around him.' " Q. They seem to talk it but the action … Hazell: "… has to follow. No question. And they've got to understand that. What happens a lot of times, that I saw, is they get blocked at some point in time. Everyone is going to get blocked. You can't go into the tank because you got blocked. You've got to be able to come back and get after it a little bit better." Q. Are your linebackers going to be better? Hazell: "I think they are. I think Sean is always better. Joe is a guy you have to watch. Jimmy Herman is who he is. He's athletic, not as physical a guy as you would like, but where we're playing him, at a removed Tom Campbell Hazell liked what he saw from the defensive line, particularly young but emerging tackle Jake Replogle.