Q. For this defense, when you get a chance to get on the field?
DEMARCUS WALKER: Coach Lovie, he's very detailed. He coaches everybody up, calling everybody out. The small things that you could just tell, just from his college background, you could tell he's bringing it to the league.
Q. What happens when you start the season with the defensive line making plays like last week?
DEMARCUS WALKER: It's a great energy to have around, and everyone feeds off each other. When everybody -- somebody down, you try to pick them up. When it's time to make plays, you want everybody to make plays also.
Q. Culley told us this morning that everybody's available. He'll play more people. It's a first time for us to see that whole team in action. What do you think we'll see out of the group as a whole?
DEMARCUS WALKER: Instead of playing great football, I feel like we played good enough last week, got to play better, and I feel like that's the goal. Just playing better football and going out there and winning.
Q. Is there anything that you all didn't do that you want to do better?
DEMARCUS WALKER: I mean, I feel like there's always room for improvement from running game to passing game to turnovers. I feel like we can all get better at every aspect.
Q. The battle of the offensive line, where have you seen them grow at all since the beginning? Looked like from the beginning you were all getting a lot of work in. What do you feel has been the progress?
DEMARCUS WALKER: Once you keep playing football and getting the dust off, getting the chemistry down pat, you start seeing those guys communicating well, starting to understand the defense and starting to pick up on things that we do.
Q. (Inaudible question)?
DEMARCUS WALKER: This staff is more -- like I told Coach Lovie, he's more on the detail. Those small things I used to get away with, Lovie, he's on me so precisely. I love that, you know what I'm saying? I feel like that's what turns somebody from good to great. And me just taking in that coaching, staying with Coach King and working on the smaller things that I can do to become a better player and help make the team and help this team win, I'm all in on it.
Q. (Inaudible question)?
DEMARCUS WALKER: Some dogs, you know. I definitely see some guys I'd love to go to war with.
Q. Is it technique or picking up on tendencies? What would you say are some of key small things?
DEMARCUS WALKER: Technique. Technique-wise and just letting it go. Sort of taking the handcuffs off me and just letting me, you know, do certain actions. It's a little different when you're in an attack style defence. So these last two years playing a read defence.
Q. Have you been around a coach that's more passionate and talks more about turnovers than Lovie Smith?
DEMARCUS WALKER: No, you know. Lovie, he's bringing like a different approach that I haven't seen in a long time. Hey, he's letting the talent flourish, and that's the type of coach I want.
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