***Warning Wool Alert**** Just realized we have..

[57stratdawg]

a 'top 2' overall player at each level of our defense:

Taveze Calhoun #2 Overall CB
McKinney #1 LB
Chris Jones #2 DT

Hopefully some of the scrubs like Matthew Wells, Justin Cox, Preston Smith, PJ Jones, and Kaleb Eulls get it together. **

In case you didn't know, we are stacked on D.

 

[drt7891]

MuLLeNz CaNT CrOoT!!1!1

 

[Wizard.sixpack]

gotta love McKinner...**

 

[AHSDawg]

and Tavez...**

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Love #7 on that CB list as well.

Baaaaaah!

 

[chew1095]

Only school in the conference with a top 2 overall player at each level.

 

[coach66]

Jessie Palmer may be right, he thinks we may have the best defense in the SEC.

hopesoku

 

[chew1095]

Said we look like an NFL team on defense. Not sure I can wait until August.

 

[Philly Dawg]

We certainly didn't start the year last year looking like the best defense in the SEC, but by the end of the year, you could start to see something.

 

[57stratdawg]

Alot of depth too.

Calhoun gets hurts? Redmond is good.
McKinney gets hurt? Brown can handle it.
CJones gets hurt? We're boned.

 

[Digging dog]

AND we no longer have to worry about getting peed on at the "trough"

 

[PBRME]

Look at the oline for all the wool shearing needed.

 

[Sutterkane]

Isn't Dillon Day on the Remington watch list? Clausell sucked in 2011 but he's gotten better every year. I'm tentatively ok with our O-Line.

 

[esplanade91]

Isn't Dillon Day on the Remington watch list? Clausell sucked in 2011 but he's gotten better every year. I'm tentatively ok with our O-Line.

These things work themselves out that way. If you start an undeveloped offensive lineman early you'll be rewarded years later if he's able to stick with it. Sherrod, Jackson, Day, Clausell...

That's partly why that 2009 starting offensive line class was so good. Croom **** the bed recruiting and started every one of those guys the second they showed up on campus. By the end they outperformed.

Offensive line chemistry and development is something I'll never understand.

 

[TaleofTwoDogs]

Let's hope that a year makes a difference because based on stats, last year's

defense was pretty pedestrian in SEC games - 8th in total D (406 ypg ) & 8th in points allowed ( 29.6 ). Hopefully, the last couple of games will set the standard for 2014. My hope is that we can make it pass LSU by a couple of pts, lose to Bama by less than 10 and crush the sheeeet out of Aubarn.

 

[mcdawg22]

Look at the oline for all the wool shearing needed.

It amazes me every Summer we go into these things overlooking glaring weaknesses, then are flabbergasted in October why we aren't in the top 15. The OLine is going to be an issue, hopefully one we can overcome.

 

[TheGoat.sixpack]

Look at the oline for all the wool shearing needed.

Having Malone healthy will weaken those shears.

 

[PBRME]

4 of our starting 5 will be really good. RT is a big question mark, and depth is even bigger.

 

[CookieMonster.sixpack]

My hope is that we can make it pass LSU by a couple of pts

Ha! Now that's funny.

 

[121Josey]

Look at the oline for all the wool shearing needed.

The OL won't grow any wool but it also won't shear it. The D will cover the blemishes on the OL. Plus, this is the most depth on the OL that they've had in 3 years.

 

[121Josey]

Calhoun gets hurts? Redmond is good.
McKinney gets hurt? Brown can handle it.
CJones gets hurt? We're boned.

So, the drop-off is devastating from CJones to James/Virges/Adams but not from McKinney to Brown? I thought it would have been more of the reverse.