re: What is it about Josh Dobbs....

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now you just need a defense that doesn't fold like a wet paper bag when the games on the line

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Defense will be better this year:

Coaching upgrade - check
Talent upgrade - check
Returning starters and depth - check

Tennessee only gave up 20 ppg and improved from 24.0 ppg the year before. They should improve again this year.

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now you just need a defense that doesn't fold like a wet paper bag when the games on the line

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To be fair, they did make the game winning stop against UGA and USCe (even those teams got down the field a bit). But yeah, we had a problem with that, and that's a large part of the reason why we made the DC change in spite of only allowing 20ppg last year. Jancek was a pretty good DC, but our defense under him consistently struggled to get stops late in close games, and with a season coming up where we have a chance to potentially do big things, Butch decided we couldn't afford more of that this year.