[SamuelMcF]

Yeah, Swiss cheese might be a kind phrase for the defense if we’re being real. At the risk of totally jinxing it, there’s pretty much nowhere to go but up.

I think the outsides (DE, OLB, CB) are solid. The interior (DT, ILB, S) is where I see a sieve

We're in a 2-4-5 nickel defense so often that "DE" vs. "DT" should barely even be a distinction. Thomas Booker is 300 pounds now, btw.

Miezan and Mangum-Farrar out for the year after game 1 totally destroyed the ILB room. (Walk-on Ryan Beecher played a significant amount of snaps because we wanted Sinclair to rS and there was nobody else). Add Sinclair with a year under his belt and that group should be better if healthy...at the very least having 4 capable-enough players to rotate should keep them fresh. And of course the new position coach!

Ultimately safety will probably be the worst offender IMO. That position group has been so horribly mismanaged and underdeveloped. Shoutout to "the best DB coach in CFB"!!!

[SamuelMcF]

Yeah, Swiss cheese might be a kind phrase for the defense if we’re being real. At the risk of totally jinxing it, there’s pretty much nowhere to go but up.

I think the outsides (DE, OLB, CB) are solid. The interior (DT, ILB, S) is where I see a sieve

We're in a 2-4-5 nickel defense so often that "DE" vs. "DT" should barely even be a distinction. Thomas Booker is 300 pounds now, btw.

Miezan and Mangum-Farrar out for the year after game 1 totally destroyed the ILB room. (Walk-on Ryan Beecher played a significant amount of snaps because we wanted Sinclair to rS and there was nobody else). Add Sinclair with a year under his belt and that group should be better if healthy...at the very least having 4 capable-enough players to rotate should keep them fresh. And of course the new position coach!

Ultimately safety will probably be the worst offender IMO. That position group has been so horribly mismanaged and underdeveloped. Shoutout to "the best DB coach in CFB"!!!