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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1872831, member: 40"]
Here's what we have to hope:  that next year, the DEs who are so woefully unprepared this year as frosh [Pickard, Black, Coleman, Newton, maybe Ruff] aren't such liabilities after they get some game experience and have a full year in the S&C program.  And that over the next three years the talent / depth we have at DE turns into a strength instead of a huge liability.

And that guys like Carl Jones, and the two incoming recruits [Coley and the kid from MA] help to shore up size / athleticism / talent deficiencies in the secondary, giving that unit a shot in the arm and more size to compete.

We'll have all three DTs returning next year [hopefully Slayton shifts back to DT, where he belongs, because he's too slow as a DE for us], and that as juniors these guys will give us the type of play you'd expect from upperclassman, making us better against the run.

Also need to get bigger at LB to fit this system.

And it will be nice when we can redshirt some of our players on D instead of having to rush them out onto the field before they're ready due to roster shortcomings, like we're being forced to do at DE.

Another thing that would help the defense would be to have improved play from the OL, which would go a long way toward keeping the defense off of the field.

We're never going to be a shut down defense under Babers.  But we need to improve, and the fastest path to improvement is via recruiting for the system.
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