How good was our defense in 2018? Yet...

[fraggle]

no one drafted yet...unbelievable:

Our 2018 defense

And this came with horrible special teams and a lame offense...go figure!

 

[pyhooya]

D was overrated...but the main thing is nobody stood out on D. Team shut down the teams they played against(well most of them) Willis was the only one that had a chance to get drafted in the first 3 rounds and that was a small chance.

 

["U"crazy]

D was overrated...but the main thing is nobody stood out on D. Team shut down the teams they played against(well most of them) Willis was the only one that had a chance to get drafted in the first 3 rounds and that was a small chance.

Said who?

 

[Canes305acc ball]

D was overrated...but the main thing is nobody stood out on D. Team shut down the teams they played against(well most of them) Willis was the only one that had a chance to get drafted in the first 3 rounds and that was a small chance.

How?

 

[Canes305acc ball]

How?

 

[nycane]

manny's defense has made alot of the golden holdovers look better than they are as far as nfl prospects.
he now has to show he can develop the kids he's recruited.

 

[fraggle]

So Diaz made chicken salad from chicken ****

 

[RedPill Stepdad]

It's the scheme. The scheme we run makes good talent look great. GW should have already went off the board though.

 

[bobbydigius]

The competition we faced made our defense look better than it was.... ACC Coastal sucks and we dominated it. When we played against LSU and Wiscy, well....

 

[M3N]

manny's defense has made alot of the golden holdovers look better than they are as far as nfl prospects.
he now has to show he can develop the kids he's recruited.

Hold overs? He’s had guys for almost 4 years. Manny hasn’t developed anything

 

[dirtyred786]

The competition we faced made our defense look better than it was.... ACC Coastal sucks and we dominated it. When we played against LSU and Wiscy, well....

Willis dominated against LSU. He didnt play against Wisconsin

 

[AllAboutTheU]

Hold overs? He’s had guys for almost 4 years. Manny hasn’t developed anything

You don't have one of the top defenses in the country without developing guys. This is just stupid.

 

[305to954]

It's the scheme. The scheme we run makes good talent look great. GW should have already went off the board though.

I agree with this partly. The scheme highlights our guys a lot.

 

[RedPill Stepdad]

I agree with this partly. The scheme highlights our guys a lot.

Look at Corn, had his best year when Manny got here. Chad started to show out when Manny got here. The scheme we run brings the best out of our players.

Regardless though, GW is a **** of a talent and is a steal this late in the draft. He would have put up the numbers he did this year in almost any scheme.

 

[Handsome Squidbum]

Drafts like this one make me respect Diaz ae a coach even more. NFL teams are pretty good judges of talent. The fact that we still haven't had a player drafted means Diaz was able to put together a dominant defense without elite talent. Going to be fun to watch what he can do when he has a team full of prospects with first round potential.

 

[jjacks93]

Hold overs? He’s had guys for almost 4 years. Manny hasn’t developed anything

Yea because we all thought Romeo Finley would ever have an impact here after his first couple years

 

[TheEye]

Our D looked great...against over rated teams.

 

[jkaz1]

No, it wasn't "overrated".

It was rated exactly where the stats said it was - such as tops at 3rd down conversion and pass defense. And near the top in other categories.

Reducing PPG allowed is the opportunity going forward with our defenses.

Get that stat down near single digits and we're competing for championships.

D was overrated...but the main thing is nobody stood out on D. Team shut down the teams they played against(well most of them) Willis was the only one that had a chance to get drafted in the first 3 rounds and that was a small chance.

 

[954canelife]

If you say our defense was overrated you don’t watch football. Our offense was non existent last year, we put so much pressure on them. The unit was good but no individual player was dominant the entire season. It’s simple

 

[jjacks93]

Yal that keep saying the D was overrated need to stop listening to your SEC friends ... defense performed very well ESPECIALLY considering the bad spots it was put in by the offense and special teams over and over again . Don’t underestimate the effect of playing comfortably or with a lead , something this defense wasn’t able to do often because of the O

Wisconsin to me is an outlier with all the noise around the program about ppl wanting Richt gone, ****** offense shtting on the defense all year, combined with Diaz leaving , them boys ain’t care about no physical cold *** game in NYC . LSU outside of that 75 yard run they really didn’t do much against our D, again, offense and special teams killed us

We can argue competition all day but the same South Carolina that put up 30 points in 3 quarters at the Swamp on Florida was shut down 28-0 by Virginia in their bowl game . 0. So to me it’s not as cut an dry as , oh it’s cuz we play weaker competition