We lost only TWO from Last years D

I’m with you. I don’t understand it.

#2 in the country, just dropped over 40 on the best defense we will face all year. we have a Heisman finalist at qb and yet people still bitch... I'm not amazed anymore but damn, do better.

Usually needed DWhite to blitz to get pressure ... and when he did, there was a very high probability that he was going to get pressure on the QB.

Devin white was very good both in his individual play and as a field general. We have looked lost at time and it feels like that has somethign to do with it.

But honestly we have had 2 bad game plans.

We challenged Trask and Ehlinger to throw on is and they did

and both times we waited too long to dial up the pressure.

We are not getting much of a push out of our front 4, and we need to start getting more creative bringing blitzes

Delpit is playing more center field than he did last year. I think that is probably out of necessity as we don't trust any other safety back there.

We lost Battle too and his replacement, Harris was injured.

White an AA
Greedy all conference

Adds up

White's leadership was exceptional. Missing that and his closing speed are massive losses.

All a setup for Bama and we beat them by 40? Maybe the staff is so confident in our offense and they know we can win this way, that they are intentionally playing soft zone and only bringing pressure when absolutely necessary to secure the victory

We lost Battle from last year and the guy that played behind him...
Additionally, having Battle back there enabled us to play Stevens at a different position and allowed us to be aggressive with Delpit.

White was literally the best ILBr in the country so that matters to whether you want to believe it or not.

We are also trying to change (a little) the style of play for our front 7. Most recently we have prepared to stop the run, which we can do when we really want to. However, we are slowly trying to change into an attacking front 7 which means we need a slightly different kind of personnel in a spot or two. Hopefully we get those types and it enables us to be a little more individually explosive at the LOS.

Short answer is.... you shouldn’t discount what Battle allowed us to do, not what White was able to on the field.

Think we found something in the 2nd half lastnight. Just have to be a more attacking defense and bring pressure more. Marcel Brooks is a PLAYER. We’re honestly just missing a few more DB’s... Todd Harris and Kelvin Joseph (sigh) would help a ton right now.