'"Not the communication you would normally think — player to player — but, no, it was more player to coach and coach to player," Ryan said. "I think that bodes so well for us moving forward and I'm excited about it. We put Manny Lawson in a spot he shouldn't be playing, inside linebacker. But, you know what, we let him do it because he ran the whole show. He was vocal. That really helped us. You have to be. You have to be that confident and run it. And he did. So those are the things we can take as a positive last year from our defense. Being together and going through the growing pains we did will benefit us moving forward."'