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Our Safety's will ensure that this is a top 5 D

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Manny requires top play from his safeties in order for his D to work consistently, and this year, with Garvan and Bolden, we have two veteran players, who form our most athletic S unit since....Maybe as far back as 2004.

The DL will be the splashy party of our D, because they will be so dominant, but Manny's Safety's are the ones who ultimately determine the effectiveness and consistency of our D and this crew will (fingers crossed) be better than the studs we had in 2018.
 
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filmcane said:
Manny requires top play from his safeties in order for his D to work consistently, and this year, with Garvan and Bolden, we have two veteran players, who form our most athletic S unit since....Maybe as far back as 2004.

The DL will be the splashy party of our D, because they will be so dominant, but Manny's Safety's are the ones who ultimately the effectiveness and consistency of our D and this crew will (fingers crossed) be better than the studs we had in 2018.
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IT's a likely possibility...

Given our weak schedule and our upgraded D -- yes we could have the STATS to be top 10 or 5....

But it doesn't necessarily mean we are actually the Top 10 or Top 5 defensive units in the CFB...

For that-- we would need to show it against teams like LSU, CLemson and Bama.
 
I know Ed Reed's role is vague, but you'd have to imagine that he could review film and offer insight into how to defend upcoming opponents. Add that to the fact that they're more experienced than last year and hopefully we'll have a great season.
 
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One thing I've noticed from watching Diaz's defense over the years....There are 3 main ingredients to success, and everything else is just icing on the cake.

1. Solid or highly disruptive play from the DEFENSIVE TACKLE spot as opposed to just anyone on the line. Only a DOMINATE performance from the DE or blitzing LB's can replicate what this does for our defense.
2. Safeties utilizing correct pursuit angles, playing their coverage's correctly, and being a sure-tackler among anything else.
3. Avoiding plays where our LB's blitz a gap already covered by another defender. That kills our run defense just as much as missing tackles.
 
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I know Ed Reed's role is vague, but you'd have to imagine that he could review film and offer insight into how to defend upcoming opponents. Add that to the fact that they're more experienced than last year and hopefully we'll have a great season.
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That's an understatement.

Ed Reed is meticulous analyzing an opponent's offense. He spots "tells" as good as anyone who ever existed.

That's how he played like he was in the opponent's huddle when they called plays.
 
Hurricane23 said:
Not if they’re busy trying to stop the run
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I know this is cart before the horse, but with our high tempo spread O, I think our pass D will be most important in the majority of our games, since we'll strike quickly and they will be playing from behind.

That stated, I don't know why our run D would suffer. This is the best D on paper, that we've had since at 2004.
 
You can't do better then a 3 man rotation of Bolden, Hall and Carter if you ask me. And if Keontra Smith bursts on the scene and allows us to move Carter to Striker (if only to push Frierson) that's even better.

Banda did his part in recruiting all this talent and now he has to do the 2nd part with developing them.
 
Astcloud11 said:
One thing I've noticed from watching Diaz's defense over the years....There are 3 main ingredients to success, and everything else is just icing on the cake.

1. Solid or highly disruptive play from the DEFENSIVE TACKLE spot as opposed to just anyone on the line. Only a DOMINATE performance from the DE or blitzing LB's can replicate what this does for our defense.
2. Safeties utilizing correct pursuit angles, playing their coverage's correctly, and being a sure-tackler among anything else.
3. Avoiding plays where our LB's blitz a gap already covered by another defender. That kills our run defense just as much as missing tackles.
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Dominant.

Otherwise, spot on.
 
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filmcane said:
Manny requires top play from his safeties in order for his D to work consistently, and this year, with Garvan and Bolden, we have two veteran players, who form our most athletic S unit since....Maybe as far back as 2004.

The DL will be the splashy party of our D, because they will be so dominant, but Manny's Safety's are the ones who ultimately determine the effectiveness and consistency of our D and this crew will (fingers crossed) be better than the studs we had in 2018.
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I like it, but I want to see it first. Bubba I believe can be elite, but dude needs to stay healthy, doesnt seem very tough to me. Hall, just needs to prove it!
 
Still waiting for the light to come on with Hall.

The potential is obviously there, but I feel like he wasn’t really an impact player last year.

Honestly, Bolden was playing the best before he got hurt.
 
Canezum5 said:
If lashlee will be effective as advertised we may not need too often
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I get what you're saying, but we still need to stop the run. Especially early in games. If we can't, teams will gladly run it down our throats and eat up as much clock as possible to keep Lashlee and King off the field.

That being said, I think our DL will be a huge strength. We should be fine agains the run.
 
I think the defense will only become dominant if nesta finally takes the next step and becomes dominant and consistent
 
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