You're overestimating how good our defense is. Its good...not great.
His defense is predicated on sacks, TFL, and turnovers. The latter is a luck based metric and doesn't carry over and is at least in part a reason why our seasons have been doo doo the past two seasons...too many games where we don't get our way with a timely turnover and have been unable to do anything to sway our fortunes. Basically, our success over the past few years, however little, has been predicated on another team ******* up and missing an assignment...this is offense and defense...not like we are dictating games...its been quite the opposite.
Most of our players are incredibly overrated by our own fanbase. You listed plenty of players in a few posts on our defense on the DL and DB and outside of Greg Rousseau (a Mark Richt recruit), I'm not seeing any All-Conference players there yet. Maybe Nesta...but again, two players out of two whole rooms of players...nah man, he can't recruit. He had a pretty **** poor finish to last year - hence the need for the portal...and this year looks like ****, too.
Also, this is less a Manny issue, and more of an issue with the rest of the staff.
I've said numerous times...I dont care how "good" of a coach they are...Rumph, Banda, Hickson, and Stubblefield can all go. They can't recruit at the level needed and expected here. Sorry. I don't think any of them are particularly special as a coach either, but whatever. Butch Barry is getting close, IMO, to joining them. Our OL haul this year and nearly non-existent, and the first half of the year was so bad, its a fireable offense...but I do concede the OL has played better recently.
