re: Nobody is above critique and criticism. There are issues with the defense.

Yes the D needs to be addressed but we'll have to win with what we've got. Luckily our offense is lights out and good enough to carry us to a championship. Other years our D has carried us.

There are times our D looks good, there are times we don't seem to play with the aggressive bite we're used to seeing. Injuries, playing with a big lead, lack of depth are all showing up. Hopefully we'll be healthy enough come late December.

A couple of the frustrating things to me are not great tackling 10 games into the season. You'd think we would have improved on this.

Also, even if Saturday was an 'outlier' against a very fast QB & RB - Ole Miss has run a similar run scheme the last several years, regardless of coaching. We have 10 years of game film watching our own D get fooled by misdirections & fakes vs. Ole Miss. And our D still got fooled by those same plays. A couple of the big plays Saturday were guys just not staying home on defense.

I've been giving Aranda the benefit of the doubt, but tackling and discipline on defense are on players and coaches to address.