Quote Originally Posted by Homedawg View Post
I will say this, Paul Jones reported our second team line consisted of x (which includes lashley) yesterday .... but Scott lashkey didn't dress so his info isn't very good....
Why didn't he dress out?

Quote Originally Posted by Ari Gold View Post
Think about this
The 2017 defense had 2 new major differences than the 2016 defense
Sweat and Coach Grantham
The only other 2 new faces ( I think) were Abram who did break out till the 2018 season and Willie Gay as a true freshman in a very limited role.. the rest of that 2017 defense were all on the 2016 team..

Now not saying we are going to be anywhere near the 2017 team on defense, but it should be much better than the 2016.. if Coach Arnett was the right hire.. he is better than Sirmon I think we all can agree on that
Yes we have a lot of young guys that have to grow up early..but they aren’t 2 stars or Walk ons..

The offense is the least of my worries
Solid QB RB and OL and with CML calling the plays the WR group will be just fine
I will say one thing about the 2016 defense is they had Jeffrey Simmons who even at that time was an obvious impact potential first round guy even at that stage and we knew he was only going to get better.

If we can average 24 PPG allowed on defense we will be OK.