Lets discuss Grantham

[moou]

Lets get this out of the way, Gratham did a great job this past year. Lets say if he stayed for next year, and his defense performs good, but we lose some games (ex: bama and bears) because of the long ball. Fans start getting chippy and the middle of next year Moorhead is busy defending the defense.
Plus I have probably given to much credit to the Georgia fans rants.

I think in long run better that Gratham leaves and Moorhead has his own man.

 

[tatedog]

Let's also keep in mind that Grantham wasn't exactly following Buddy Ryan. Overall the defense was greatly improved, but better teams still had their way at times.

 

[57stratdawg]

Gratham was fine, but year two in a 3-4 is always going to be better than year 1.

 

[kired]

He did a great job with our defense this year. But I will say he probably benefited some from the schedule we had. Our weakness was obviously the deep ball. If you look at the teams we played, only UM and UMASS are in the top 65 nationally in passing yards per game. We didn't face many teams who had the combination of a good QB and WRs to take advantage of our poor CB play.

I'm not sure how well his defense is going to work if the SEC begins to develop a few more quality QBs. Obviously he needs some shutdown corners (which we didn't have).

 

[KurtRambis4]

I'm not discounting

Grantham, either, but a lot of our issues in 2016 were solved from experience and adding players to fill weaknesses, too.

 

[msstatelp1]

I like the Grantham defense and the fact he brought us back to Mississippi State style aggressiveness but to be truly successful you have to have Smoot/Bean or Slay/Banks type DBs every year. Unfortunately, it's hard to keep those kinda players around and by year 3 or 4, the defense usually breaks down because everyone has learned to attack deep.

 

[Dan Dority]

Think back to the LSU game, if #7 catches a few of those deep balls it's a whole different season.