Yep a defense we'll see a ton of next year.
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All of your post is based on Gratham's defense and the other guys stepping up their play. Thomas is the only interior guy that truly complimented Simmons. Hoyett is average, Greene did better but still isn't dominant and both can be singly blocked freeing other lineman to double team. If Rivers is legit then things change if they're all in the game at the same time. If they're in different rotations it's a moot point.
my post is based on us being in a 4 front next year like we were yesterday. Sweat was wearing out that LT and Simmons had 8 QB hurries as a DT. That is just sick. 6 QB sacks against one of the top dual threat guys in the country- and it should have been 8-9 sacks but he was just too good of an athlete to escape.
He?ll be sure fire first rounder if he comes back. He?ll be a high end late first rounder to mid rounds if he came out this year. He needs to go through the process to experience it, but I hope he comes back and makes a mint next year.
State?s NFL resume is pretty legit right now.
I know what most teams do. You do realize we just started doing this predominantly this year? Prior to running our 4-3 defense we kept the LB lined up over a WR? So don't act like it's the norm for State.
If the new DC does it we're just catching up. Grantham even used the 5th DB as a safety instead of a corner causing us to get torched all year deep. If we go with 5 dbs you still don't know if it's a corner or a safety with the new DC. I know Bama does it with a safety but we're not bama. Saturday we used primarily corners instead of safeties as the 5th DB and they shined.
Yeah, offenses are already at a disadvantage because they only have 10 blockers (ball carrier doesn't count) to handle 11 defenders. Double team 2 D-lineman and now it's 6 to block 9... no amount of clever scheming can overcome that kind of disadvantage. I mean, you can't even double Simmons and run away from Sweat to solve the numbers problem, because Sweat is so fast he'll still make the play from the backside.
Agree dawg28. Grantham was a MAJOR upgrade over Sirmon, but I saw room for lots of improvement as the season progressed. English gave us one of our top-3 defensive game plans on the season against L'ville and Jackson, imo. Or maybe I should say, halftime adjustments although his gameplan in the 1st half was solid.
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