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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3540726, member: 289"] - Because Vegas said so. - Pay no attention to last year’s 49-6 win, when everything went on our way: you can’t depend on that. Steve Standard had takeover the defense and set up a stunt where the ends went inside and the tackles around them to cover the flank, giving the blockers angles they weren’t ready for. Louisville saw it on tape and sent their fast backs on sweeps the tackles weren’t fast enough to get to and rolled up 56 points on us. It was a one-time thing. We’re using a completely different defense now. - And our new defense is missing its most renowned player, safety Andre Cisco and our other safety, Eric Coley. It got gashed for 453 yards and 23 first downs. Tech would surely have won going away except for an appalling 5 turnovers and 15 penalties. Will duke be as generous. - 275 of those yards came on the ground, a likely weakness of the 3-3-5 defense. Most of the plays were right up the middle. David Cutliffe will have seen that and so will the coaches of our other future opponents. - Duke’s greatest strength lies across the line of scrimmage from our biggest weakness: they have two outstanding defensive ends, Chris Rumph, 9greta name), and Victor Dimukeje and a ball-hawking safety: marquis Walters. Dino Babers compares them to our own Alton Robinson, Kendall Coleman and Andre Cisco from the previous two years. Last year Tommy DeVito got sacked 43 times. In the first three games this year he got sacked another 15 times. A lot of people view him as gun-shy or even punch-drunk because He’s always on the run, (and doesn’t do well when he is), and has been sacked so many times. Babers said before the season that the ‘cavalry’ would be coming in the form of injured linemen coming back to the team about now. But on his show Thursday he simply said “I don’t know” when I asked him when the cavalry was coming. - Duke’s greatest offensive strength is their find tight end Noah Grey. It’s too bad we don’t have any good tight ends. We must not or we’d be throwing to them. Grey ahs 19 catches for 203 yards and 3TDs. Our guys have 2 catches in three games for 11 yards and no scores. So they must not be any good. - People think the Georgia Tech game blew away all of our problems. Problems don’t go away that easily. [/QUOTE]

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