Quote Originally Posted by Really Clark? View Post
Look we are not going to agree. They are not ready. Even C34, who is a big proponent of Mullen playing more of our younger guys right now see's it. He is with you mostly but they are not ready and he is saying the same thing. Not demanding perfection at all. Just don't limit what we can call defensively and from the safety position. Heck the number of all world 5 star safety's from complex high schools that actually start from day one is probably less than 30%. Which means only a few a year at these big programs you keep talking about playing freshman. It's very few at the safety position from day one. LSU needed safety help last year and Allen didn't get heavily involved until what? 6-7 games in. And another thing what have our safety's given up this year in big plays? Yeah yeah I know competition level. Of which the freshman screwed up much bigger than anything Coman and Market have this year. But at least we have kept it in check so far. We are at 100 yards less per game this year compared to last so far. I don't expect it stays that way but for other than injuries, God forbid, they both are not out there heavily against Auburn or A & M unless they make big steps. May be they will and they show out. I think it's only a matter of time. Just not sure that it's not really next year or late this before that point. Which is very much par for the course for most highly rated safety's across the country.
Big programs usually have safeties that are good enough where it is not an issue- and therefore have the luxury to redshirt or be more cautious with a freshman safety. If we had good players at safety right now- I would be fine redshirting or having Peters and McLaurin as back ups. But as Coach34 also agrees with me- safety is an issue right now. There is no reason to start freshmen over legitimately competent upperclassmen that are performing.

We have played a lot more run heavy teams this year thus far- and with QB issues combined with schemes of our opponents that is going to continue other than a couple of exceptions like A&M and Ole Miss. That's part of the reason why we haven't given up as many big plays.