12-02-2018, 04:40 PM
(12-02-2018, 04:20 PM)lex24 Wrote: Cal had significantly better linebackers (particularly inside) and a much better overall secondary. Did you notice how their safeties flew to the ball. Wilcox is a very good defensive coach.
As for Anderson, I truly doubt he has gotten worse at his job. He simply doesn’t have the same level of talent.
My question is: how did Wilcox end up with better athletes to build his defense around when 1) he inherited the weak D of Sonny Dykes and 2) he has only had two years to right the ship? Does this mean Dykes had great athletes that were simply underutilized or badly coached? And how did our athletes end up being worse than Cal's when defense has always been a lynch-pin of the Stanford football philosophy? Yes, I know it is tough to recruit top defensive players; but we used to have them. Something is no longer working. For example, is there any player on our current defensive roster who is likely to be drafted after this year? Okereke maybe? Our D used to be plugged with NFL-caliber players. No longer.