Reality sometimes is hard to face but we're in serious trouble defensively

You win games with offense and championships with defense and our defense is absolutely horrible, but I don't blame the players. At this point of the season, we shouldn't be having major issues, especially against a team like Missouri. Yes, they were undefeated but they beat a bunch of tomato cans, period.

I'm starting to believe this is a coaching staff issue. I understand having to make minor adjustments in games, but early on Missouri was slicing us up like we were a winless SWAC team.

Sometimes, you make mistakes with hires and I think this may be one. Our defensive players aren't motivated, out of position, making wrong reads, wrong scheme alignments and no adjustments until we are two scores down. We start every game defensively chasing our tails and that should not happen this far into the season.

We need a complete defensive staff overall, with the exception of the top recruiters because you need them to continue to bring in top defensive talent.

I feel confident in saying we will escape Auburn, but we're in for a butt kicking against Alabama. It's the last thing I want to see happen, but the reality is our defense is not very good. We escaped Missouri, but Alabama is a whole new ballgame!

We are so blessed to have Daniels because we would otherwise be battling Vandy for the worst team in the SEC. We're so bad defensively that we might even make Jimbo look like a good coach! Let that sink in...