So out of curiosity, I thought I would go back and remind myself of what the BTN crew had to say about our team last year. An overview of their comments were:
- Defensive line is very impressive and athletic. They have real speed coming off the edges
- An extremely deep defense with a whole lot of speed
- Hard to imagine this defense not be very, very good
In actuality, the defense was the opposite of deep, wasn't particularly fast, and most would categorize as average.
Well we had some speed in E.Martin (4.53) & J. Ankrah (4.68). And as someone pointed out, some of the guys they were raving about redshirted. Also to be noted is that our secondary was one of the best in the nation last year. Had we had a little bit of depth or avoided a couple injures in the trenches we'd of been alright.
Besides, this years defense is a hell of a lot faster than last years at all three levels. Especially the LBs.