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With Andrew Luck on the sideline and a streak without a 100-yard game from a running back at 50 and counting, there wasn’t much doubt about the Colts’ need to improve their offensive line play this offseason.

The team signaled it would be a focus by hiring Joe Philbin to coach the unit and continued to address the area by drafting four offensive linemen last week. That’s the most the team has picked up in a single draft since 1983, when the draft lasted 12 rounds.

Now comes the time to put the new coach and those new players together with the holdovers from 2015 in order to build a stronger unit. Guard/tackle Joe Reitz said that Philbin has “been great to work with so far” and that he’s making playing faster a priority for a line that knows what needs to happen in 2016.

“We know we need to improve and we will be better this year,” Reitz said, via ESPN.com. “I think that’s what we’re building for now. We’re laying the foundation, fundamentals on the field and building together as an unit. It’s not always the best five out there. It’s five guys working together as an unit. I’m excited to see where it can take us in the future.”

It would be unusual for a player to say in May that he and his teammates will be worse than they were the previous season and the bar for the Colts line is low enough that some improvement should be expected. They’ll need more than just a minimal gain to create the changes needed, however, and any proof that they’ve found it won’t be coming for months.