re: Barry Odom has earned his 3rd year

Odom let Cross have another shot at installing Read 2 and it failed miserably. It's a great system but there are over 150 different calls and corresponding keys to Patterson's system. Walters and Odom never used it and Cross was the guy who had to make it work. It didn't on any level and made the second level of the defense play extremely slow. After Auburn they spent the next two weeks changing back a traditional 4-3 look and Cover 2/3 with a lot of A gap pressure. Getting Logan back and the quality of opponent factors in but guys are hitting their landmarks and making faster reads. 38 TFls and 16 sacks are the end result of the change. That helps the back end of the defense out.

I am still not sold on Walters but he will have another season to make a believer out of me.