Future secondary...

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I made that comment this last week. This will be our best secondary (talent wise) since the late 90's.
 
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Yes. As a group, this will be our best secondary since the late 90's. No disrespect towards Prince.

Me and you are way off then. I see at least one safety spot as a huge question mark, one projected starting CB that couldn't play dead last year(although athletically gifted), and the other corner(jones) was mediocre the last half of the season. Hoping the new coaches make a world of difference though. That is definitely a position group where coaching can boost the on-field performance in a big way.
 
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The potential for this group is high. I can see where it may well become the best. But....

It's impossible to compare what might happen to what has already happened. It's pointless, one side has statistics the other has 40 times and verticles.
 

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C'mon guys. I realize they may never be as good in reality as they are on paper, but from a recruiting standpoint they look like the best secondary as a collection that we've had in a long time. I meant no disrespect to those that have come before them. Haha! It's good to have that problem (and expectations).
 

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I disagree. You are putting this group ahead of 2009? 2003? 2010?


C'mon guys. I realize they may never be as good in reality as they are on paper, but from a recruiting standpoint they look like the best secondary as a collection that we've had in a long time. I meant no disrespect to those that have come before them. Haha! It's good to have that problem (and expectations).

Indeed. Prince was a 3 or 4 star RB coming out of AZ I think it was. Dennard was a late 3* find. The Bullocks brothers I honestly don't remember what they were ranked, 3* a solid bet

If this group that includes Lamar Jackson, Bookie, Blades, Goodrich, and potentially Griffith live up to billing, this could be quite a group.
 

Cornicator

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A lot of the claims are a tad baseless here. However, there are a few things we can all agree on:

- If you can't play shut down defense in the back end with this amount of talent, then you should probably stop playing football.

- While its premature to compare them to the best of all time, its also reasonable to say its a significant step up from trotting out dudes like PJ Smith, Harvey Jackson, Josh Mitchell, Daniel Davie, and Andrew Green. And at the very least, Nebraska won't be in a situation again where they need dudes like Justin Blatchford to play out of position at Nickel or undersized transfers like Byerson Cockrell to come in a league like the Big Ten, when they're really built for playing in a more pass happy league like the Big 12 or the MWC.
 

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Wasn't it 2009 D that led the country is scoring defense? That group was amazingly good considering how much they were on the field! Remember how brutal our offense was?
 
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