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good points.
LT didn't register a tackle against Loserville and BC (i don't remember if he played). at that point we were trotting out a nicked up Deen/JHH/LIchtenstein/Gore/Moten at DT. not great.
now with just the DTs we have on the rooster right now i don't think it's unreasonable to think that C+C Music Factory can do what LT and JHH/Deen did last year at DT or better, which wasn't awful when they were all healthy. Not cause the new guys r world beaters but cause the other 3 r two undrafted guys and a guy who just went SMU when all the big boy progrums were DT shopping. low bars and all.
get this guy barrow and our top3 is better than it was last year. moten either gets better or he doesn't. and as long as campbell doesnt portal my assumption is they view him as a rotation piece (or he's the unwelcome guest who wont leave). he doesn't have to be jerome brown, just be better than Gore/Lichtenstein were for 10-20 snaps a game.
we'll need at least 1 of the freshman to play significant minutes by the end of the year i think, but i think we'll be alright at DT, and definitely will be if we get barrow.
LT went down in the FSU game. Not sure why but we held up well vs. BC without him. But we really struggled v Louisville and Rutgers because he was out.
I'm higher on Taylor and Hunte than you. I don't think you can categorically say that Barrow + Cook are better than those two, probably a wash.
And I don't even know who our third guy is right now. Deen was better than everyone else at DT last season and he is gone. Horton still injured. Moten has yet to step up. Some people who saw Cook hated him, others said he beat up on Carpenter, so is that pro-Cook or anti-Carpenter?
Net/net, even if we land Barrow, we need ANOTHER quality DT to be confident we'll be better than last year's group. I know people will point to the true freshmen, or having Bain or Mesidor move inside on certain snaps. But that's relying on hope.