Depth chart changes

Hating on brooks ellis is stupid. Is he the best covering linebacker ever? No.

Would our team suffer without him even against spread teams? Yes

I'm the biggest Brooks Ellis hater in the state, I didn't see him make the glaring mistakes against LA Tech like has the past 3 seasons.

In saying that, I'd rather we play a 3 man front with him as a DE/LB, but if you're going to do that then Randy Ramsey is who play because he can get to the QB where as Roessler/Ellis/Beanum/Winston etc can not.

You're better off playing Wise/Ledbetter/Agim in a 3-4 with Ramsey on the weak edge and Ellis on the same side as Ramsey to provide intermediate coverage and run support.

I'm hoping Rhoads has some coverage tricks up his sleeve for TCU, leaving Ellis to spy on Hill is a recipe for disaster. Gotta use Greenlaw for QB containment.

The chess match between the coaches will be really interesting to see on Sat.

Well this is not good at all. It looks like CB injuries are the new WR injuries.

— CB Kevin Richardson is out for the year with a pectoral injury. Looking at a four-month rehab

— DJ Dean will be back this week. He's listed as the backup to Jared Collins at field corner. Without Richardson, look for him and Henre' Toliver to play a lot of nickel

— Jared Collins had been nursing a back injury, which limited him Saturday. Shouldn't affect him much moving forward.

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Recruiting the type of nose guard to run a successful 3-4 in college is extremely difficult. Bijohn would not be the answer there and I don't think we could recruit consistent enough to run it.

Don't think we could get enough quality LBs for 3-4. Ellis is a run stop LB and he's really good at it. His draw back is that he doesn't have the speed/agility for coverage.

I would rather us get a little more physical in coverage and aggressively use Ellis reading and blitzing.

Seemed like we did that more late in the year last year.

Wondering if Pulley's stupid out of bounds hit earns him any stadium steps this weekend. That could've lost the game for us considering they were driving and in our territory.

Also nice to Randy Ramsey's name - his sack was pretty impressive and he looked the part. If we're going to play 4-2-5 against TCU, I'm hoping that Ramsey can log significant time at one of the end spots to essentially serve as another linebacker on the field.

Maybe it's just me, but our D-line doesn't seem deep like it was advertised to be all summer. The end positions are manned by Wise (great) and Beanum (good), but the backups are an undersized rush package lineman (Roesler), a converted LB (Ramsey), and an upperclassman with zero career sacks (Winston). Not to mention the fact that both down linemen techniques are backed up by true freshmen. I'm not chicken littling, but that's not a defensive line I'm extraordinarily eager to take into SEC play right now.

I think our dline is ok. Nothing to write home about about though so far. Definitely better than last year, how much is yet to be determined.