re: What challenges will we see from the aTm defense??

Secondary is not very good. They give too much cushion and tackle poorly. After the Ole Miss game our DC mentioned "tightening up the coverage" in the secondary for La Tech and decreasing the amount of cushion. The DBs apparently didn't get the memo.

LBs are pretty good, but not great. Hope to see an inspired game from them on Saturday.

Starting DL is fairly good but depth is very thin.

You can expect to see a fair amount of blitzing and we should have a little more success with it than we did against La Tech. Their QB doesn't hold the ball long enough for the blitz to get there unless one of the front seven is uncovered and even then he has a quick release.

Run defense has been inconsistent, tackling needs improvement. Pass defense has been mediocre to poor but no teams other than Arkie to some extent and La Tech to great extent have been able to really exploit it.