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[QUOTE="PAcuse, post: 5486860, member: 715"]
Ward was easily or worst in the "modern ear" (Marrone on)
He had the worst yard per game under any DC.
If we purely look at yards per game (to keep it simple)
Ward is clearly the worst with an average of 458 (YIKES)
Then Bulloch with 384
Long with 380
ERob with 377
Tony White with 374 (Covid year really spiked his numbers, without it he is 330 yards)
Shafer with 350 (Big East helped but still a solid DC)

I think it's to soon to say if he is the 2nd worst we've seen
His defense had some solid games last year hidden amongst some bad outcomes (Pitt) and then some terrible games (BS, ending of Stanford)

One of the big issues with perception of last week was to many people thought losing their QB and RB would handicap their offense.  Heupel is an offensive master mind and clearly can plug and play players into it.  It's also a top tier SEC team.

It's a simple look at DCs (lots of other things that can be looked).  GRob has a ton of work to prove to me that he is a good DC.  If we want to break into the big boy world of football you need both coordinators operating on high levels (see FSU).
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