Athlon - SEC coaches talk anonymously about conference foes

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“I think their offensive coordinator (Dan Enos) is awesome, just really, really good. For instance, everybody’s been chipping defensive ends the same way forever, where you put a guy in the backfield and he puts a shot in the outside ribs as he’s running by them. Well, Enos attached a tight end outside the tackle and widened the end out and the tight end released through the defensive end and got him a route runner. You watch that and the light comes on, like, that’s a really good way of doing that. There’s just a lot of little things you pick up watching them and go, ‘That’s a hell of an idea.’ I really like watching Arkansas and what those guys do."

"Bringing those RBs back plus the quarterback and their All-SEC center, they’re going to be potent."

"They do stuff no one else really does anymore in terms of lining up and playing smashmouth football. It’s hard to defend. They have elements of the spread, but they’ll shift, they’ll motion, they’ll speed motion. They make you play a way you’re not used to having to play, and in our league it’s really just them and maybe Georgia and Vanderbilt who play that way."

"I guess their defense struggling as much as it did last year is why they made a change (at coordinator). I don’t know how much background Paul Rhoads has as a 3-4 guy, but they’re going with it full bore because they just have such a hard time defending the spread. I think also people have an easier time finding outside linebacker bodies than defensive end bodies.”

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