I have a gut feeling Grantham returns next season...

Same here. Gonna be hard to watch.

I sure hope not. If this was even an average defense it changes the complexion of this season.

Straws please tell us who that DC is? Of course we have had issues on defense...but listen to Murf on Top Billin and he says that everyone has had issues on defense year. What separated us from Bama was a good run game and a helluva OL....and it didnt hurt that the refs made it 12 vs 11....just look at Jones throwing the ball into the ground because he was being sacked..if it had been Trask? I saw many times Gator jerseys grabbed by Bamas OL. It would be nice if the field was level.

In this age of air raids no team is safe. Thats why UT sucked...no elite wrs, no elite qb. Look at how Ole Miss got so many yds against Bama earlier in the season...and they dont have a defense! UGA had issues with Bama and us because of mediocre qb play and lack of elite wrs...now that JT Daniels is the qb..they have been throwing and use the run game less. All teams will now start to change their offenses to compete if they dont have an air raid offense.

We now face OU in the Cotton Bowl and I would have preferred Sugar or Orange for recruiting.

Mac didnt face any air raids like this year either. You still havent told us WHO the hell can be our next DC? We all wanna win...but you know me Straws...I defend coaches to an extent. What you and I think doesnt matter....what does Mullen think?

BTW did you see Saban chewing his DC a new arse on the sideline?

Again...name the DC?

I would rather take a chance on an up and comer than have this blowhard come back with younger players next year.

The only reason we stopped teams this season is because of dropped passes. I would rather give Robinson a chance to make a name for himself than watch Grantham mail it in another season.

Using a coach's past to justify his present isn't solid reasoning. Kirby would be a National Championship tier coach if we just went off of 2017. Instead, he's second in the East after getting blown out by a team he can never beat and his rival with less talent.

Grantham is not there mentally these days, call it being old or washed up, whatever you want. His defense has given up more points per game than McElwain's did when he got fired around mid-season.

That's terrible.

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Again...name the DC?

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The real answer here is the whole reason we have the athletics administrators that we do is so we don't have to do that. A fan doesn't need to have a name in the hat to recognize that having the #62 defense overall and #7 in the SEC is a problem. A fan doesn't need to have a name in the hat to see all the same problems still being there after three years. A fan doesn't need to have a name in the hat to have noticed our defense was regularly completely lost this season.

Your logic is that if we can't name a solution this instant then we shouldn't bother even bringing it up. However, that's not our fricking job as alumni. You see, we pay people like ADs and Coaches millions of dollars a year based on the fact that we know we don't have the time or expertise to thoroughly vet every coaching candidate who may be out there even in an instance where everyone and their brother can see there's a fricking problem with the current guy.

So, honestly Reel, I'm glad you aren't dead because I actually worried the COVID got you, but that is just a plain stupid fricking retort.

But since you made it, sure, how about:

Let's start with every D1 DC whose players can at least line up and get set when the opposing offense decides to go hurry-up. The "modern offense" excuse is one thing, but it doesn't make up for constantly having a defense that seems lost and confused pre-snap.

As far as passing offenses killing us -

Najee Harris rushed for 178 yards and two touchdowns with his long being 29 yards.

Isaiah Spiller rushed for 174 yards and two touchdowns with his long being 24 yard in the aTm game.

And on that note, every fricking high powered passing offense is not an "Air Raid" offense. The spread has been in the SEC for decades now, but there is a reason there was all the discussion about Leach "bringing" the Air Raid to the SEC.

Pretty sure LSU is still running a pro spread, and Mullen still digs the smashmouth spread. None of these offenses are Air Raids simply because they are producing a lot in the pass game any more so than Spurrier's were.

Just because it's up tempo with some passing doesn't mean it's a fricking Air Raid. That's a specific version of a spread offense, and we didn't play anyone that runs it this year. Though I'm sure MSU would have hung 30+ on us too.

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Per Hal Mumme, the Air Raid is based on 3 offenses.
The West Coast Offense. Hal would go to clinics put on by Bill Walsh every year
The BYU Offense. While he coached at UTEP, Hal would study Lavell Edwards offense as much as he could since he had access to all their film being in the same conf. He once beat them by running their own plays against them, which gained him an invite to their facility to talk ball.
The Run and Shoot. Hal met Mouse while Mouse was on the road recruiting, pretty much locked him in a room with him and talked ball for 8 hours. His staff was also one of the few who didn’t walk out of Mouse’s clinic when passing was seen as “too risky” by other HCs.

Hal and Mike came up with the Tempo part of the offense while on a recruiting trip to a Florida. Watching a practice run their 2 min offense or “bandit drill” it occurred to Hal that that was the final piece of the puzzle to make his offense what it is today.

Hal will tell anyone that he didn’t create anything, he just packaged plays that put strains on defenses and repped the hell out of em.