Am I the only one who thinks our defense will end up being better this year?

I think our quality depth across the board will be better. I'm worried that Roquan's superior play was the missing piece that made the engine run last year and I'm not sure how we replace that. The good news is a ton of guys got reps last year. I'm just not sure we have that dominating presence on the defense a la a Roquan, Pollack, Jarvis, etc. I think we may just be solid across the board (which if the offense can improve on last year any may be enough)

I think we'll be a much better defense at the end of the year than the beginning.

That South Carolina game scares me putting a lot of new starters on the road early in the year against an experienced quarterback. Hopefully we'll be able to outscore them if it becomes a problem.

Having Baker will help stabilize the secondary and I think our DL will be top 10 in the country. The linebackers worry me a little.

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Outside of replacing Roquan I think we will upgrade at every position

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"Besides that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"

If we can dominate the DL and get pressure rushing 4, consistently, our inexperienced but talented db’s and lb’s will be fine. But our defense will not be as good as last year, but next year should be even better than last year .... and the way Kirby is recruiting, this should be the last year we ever have to ‘rebuild’ ... from this point forward we’ll just reload like Bama does.

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If we can dominate the DL and get pressure rushing 4, consistently, our inexperienced but talented db’s and lb’s will be fine.

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I think our D-line will be able to do that, along with solid LB play should help our DBs out a lot. By seasons end I definitely see them being better then last years D. We weren't even in the top 50 Turnovers gained, tackles for loss, and barely cracked the Top 50 in total sacks(came in at #48) last year. There is no reason for us not to improve on those things this year.

Will be impossible to replace lost LB productivity from last year but can improve secondary and d line. We will be deeper everywhere. If you can get 1-2 young dbs to step up we will be good enough

Once you think about this class we just signed and got damn our DEF is gonna be stacked for years to come.

You guys keep naming more and more guys that I keep forgetting about that are capable of being studs.

I'm interested in seeing which group gets the better of the other in spring practices, between the OL and DL. Should be interesting.

I am concerned about our front seven.

Hopefully we can get some polished depth at OLB. Worried about losing Atkins and Thompson, too. Less talent inside might hurt the performance of our average DEs in Clark and Marshall. Again, hope some new guys can provide depth.

I think our secondary will be just fine.

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Worried about losing Atkins and Thompson, too. Less talent inside might hurt the performance of our average DEs

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I don't think we have less talent there. That's one position that got rotated often during the game and we have a lot of guys who have experience there

Yea he came on really strong late