Todd Grantham possible new DC?

[Ifyouonlyknew]

Steve is saying a deal with Grantham & MSU is in the works.

[Dawg-gone-dawgs]

Has CJ Avery signed yet?

[Dawg-gone-dawgs]

HUGE if true!!!!

[Ifyouonlyknew]

Has CJ Avery signed yet?

Pretty sure he's already on campus.

[Dawg-gone-dawgs]

He was primary on Rivers I believe.

[Dawg61]

This is such an overblown narrative. He got out of the way of Sirmon this year.

Then why does our secondary continue to reenact the Great Wide Open going on 5 years now? They give 5 yards of cushion every play to every receiver and they haven't covered a tight end in 8 years once.

[Dawg-gone-dawgs]

Ha. Just a thought.

[Dawg61]

Steve is saying a deal with Grantham & MSU is in the works.

oh man cancel my viagra for life

[Big4Dawg]

We are losing Linguist to Arkansas. Maybe TBuck will coach secdonary and will will hire Grantham brothers.

[Cooterpoot]

Then why does our secondary continue to reenact the Great Wide Open going on 5 years now? They give 5 yards of cushion every play to every receiver and they haven't covered a tight end in 8 years once.

Not true at all. It's a 15 yard cushion.

[Ifyouonlyknew]

Then why does our secondary continue to reenact the Great Wide Open going on 5 years now? They give 5 yards of cushion every play to every receiver and they haven't covered a tight end in 8 years once.

We played press coverage plenty this year we just weren't that good at it. Peters played almost exclusively press coverage.

[Really Clark?]

Then why does our secondary continue to reenact the Great Wide Open going on 5 years now? They give 5 yards of cushion every play to every receiver and they haven't covered a tight end in 8 years once.

Because Diaz and Collins were both very much Cover and Tampa 2 guys. That is what they cut their teeth on. Our secondary issues with talent, injury and understanding of coverage schemes limited what we could do this year. The number of miscommunications we had in the secondary the last two years show the trouble our players have had grasping the schemes. One reason that we had a position change besides injury was because of that issue

[mstatefan91]

Because Diaz and Collins were both very much Cover and Tampa 2 guys. That is what they cut their teeth on. Our secondary issues with talent, injury and understanding of coverage schemes limited what we could do this year. The number of miscommunications we had in the secondary the last two years show the trouble our players have had grasping the schemes. One reason that we had a position change besides injury was because of that issue

Never will understand how a player does not understand his position and scheme. That's kind of what they live for...

[dawgday166]

If true I'm scratching my head as to why he will come. I don't see us as being a step up from where Lville is right now. Great offensive mind on the other side of the ball too. This is a lateral move to me ... and he's guaranteed 1 mill for 5 years at Lville I believe.

Maybe he thinks dealing only with Saban is better than dealing with both Dabo & Jimbo. I dunno ... maybe we offering 2 mill/year.

[thf24]

Then why does our secondary continue to reenact the Great Wide Open going on 5 years now? They give 5 yards of cushion every play to every receiver and they haven't covered a tight end in 8 years once.

Why does everything keep saying this? We played up on the line a ton this year. Collins and Diaz mostly played off, Sirmon mixed it up. I'd even argue it's possible that playing up too much was a significant factor in our awful pass coverage. Playing up too often without badass man-cover corners, which we didn't have this year, is a great recipe for routinely getting beat deep.

[Anonymous]

We are losing Linguist to Arkansas. Maybe TBuck will coach secdonary and will will hire Grantham brothers.

From what I understand, we were going to be adding a coach this year anyway. Seems that in the 3-4 the ILB/ST would be a pretty perfect addition seeing as Todd would be the primary LB coach.

[Anonymous]

If true I'm scratching my head as to why he will come. I don't see us as being a step up from where Lville is right now. Great offensive mind on the other side of the ball too. This is a lateral move to me ... and he's guaranteed 1 mill for 5 years at Lville I believe.

Maybe he thinks dealing only with Saban is better than dealing with both Dabo & Jimbo. I dunno ... maybe we offering 2 mill/year.

Signed a new 4 year contract last year for up to 1.4 /year, after he turned down the Raiders.

Big time cash is about to get dropped for sure.

[chainedup_Dawg]

Anybody who don't believe Grantham would be a huge hire is insane.

I just ask that you please, don't make any predictions

[Dawg61]

We played press coverage plenty this year we just weren't that good at it. Peters played almost exclusively press coverage.

Think the coaches need to go sit in on some practices with the Seahawks and Patriots if they think they are playing press coverage right now. They might be calling for press coverage but they sure as shit ain't playing press coverage correctly. Our DB play has been awful since Banks & Slay got drafted.

[Really Clark?]

Never will understand how a player does not understand his position and scheme. That's kind of what they live for...

I hear ya but with so many different route responsibilities and RPO's in the game I understand how hard it is. Even last night with 2 great defenses and DC's, you saw multiple coverage breakdowns leading to big plays. Heck OJ Howard did it to them two years in a row.