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[QUOTE="tep624, post: 1875509, member: 430"]
That's just not reasonable.  You have a coach that has brought in a staff that is implementing two new systems on both sides of the ball - they aren't catering these systems to the talent, they are instilling the systems and letting the chips fall where they may (and we can debate the merits of that until the cows come home but that is DB's way clearly based upon what he has done in his past and what he communicated prior to this season).  That's why we're playing a Tampa 2 with a 5'8 safety (love Cordy but let's get real here - if Babers was in a gym class picking players for a team he's not picking a 5'8 to play safety in his system).  There was a reason why this staff rolled the dice on adding two late additions, at least from a size perspective, prototypical DB's for their system in Moore and Pierre who both unfortunately didn't qualify.  There's a reason why Carl Jones is playing as a true frosh.

We shouldn't have regressed if this was Shafer's staff using the same systems as last year and the players they recruited for those systems.  This is year one with a lot of square pegs and round holes.  It's going to be painful.  I think our D Line will eventually become stronger as the season progresses but the back 7 is for the most part not suited for this system and it will show week in, week out.

My only hope is that the offense kicks in early enough that they can overcome the defensive limitations we are going to have all season and we can win enough shootouts to get bowl eligible.  Other than that - don't count on it.
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