Who will be on our D-Line

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Okay, seems to be our glaring weakest link. So...who do you guys think will make up the interior of our line? I know we aren't as weak on the outside. But lets get some rotation ideas.
 
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Hughes, Walls, Brown, Sykes, Jeffery(if he can lose weight), Nelson(doubt he will contribute much). Maybe we move Thomas back over to DL as well, we are going to be thin with little experience. Hughes has so much potential, hopefully he comes out and dominates this year.
 
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I'm kinda hoping Coach Wilcox and Coach Smith can up with something to make this a strength.
 
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orangepridenation said:
Okay, seems to be our glaring weakest link. So...who do you guys think will make up the interior of our line? I know we aren't as weak on the outside. But lets get some rotation ideas.
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Weakest link will be on the OLine, as we have to replace 4 starters from last years team, with practically no one (besides the lone starter we get back) who has a lot of playing time experience...

As far as D Line goes...

DE -- Walker, Martin, Williams, Bohannon
DT -- Hughes, Walls, Jeffery, Sykes, John Brown (if he makes it in)

And watch for the freshmen to push for playing time as well
 
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dt- walls, Hughes, brown if he gets here. Could change in spring, but to now, haven't seen anything that shows more than this is ready to play. Might see an end get moved in on obvious passing downs to try to help out.

BigOrangeFanatic said:
Weakest link will be on the OLine, as we have to replace 4 starters from last years team, with practically no one (besides the lone starter we get back) who has a lot of playing time experience...

As far as D Line goes...

DE -- Walker, Martin, Williams, Bohannon
DT -- Hughes, Walls, Jeffery, Sykes, John Brown (if he makes it in)

And watch for the freshmen to push for playing time as well
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I'm just praying John Brown gets cleared to play ASAP. I think he has a good chance of pushing for a starter role. Im very excited about Hughes I think he'll be a great contributor as long as we can find some quality depth to rotate in and out. Dont count out Walls either.
 
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I think Walls and Hughes are going to be the guys at DT....I am really excited to see what the D-Line looks like after 6 months with Chuch Smith...I bet Walker and Martin have Breakout years...
 
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Don't forget about the early enrollees....any chance J. Smith and C. Miller get playing time at end? Any chance G. Williams gets moved to d-tackle? IF B. Warren comes back, could he play end? COACH EM UP CCS!!!
 
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hadn't thought about Williams possibly moving inside to play some at DT that might give us our best 4 guys out there at the same time if he can play inside
 
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If some guys such as Jeffrey, Walls, and Nelson develop into at least depth guys then IMO we will be ok. Hughes will be pretty solid, and if Brown makes it in then we may not be so weak at the DT position.
 
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I agree with everyone, I think montori will have a breakout year. He just needed to have a year in the sec to get some experience.
 
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Hughes should be a monster...IF we have enough depth behind him to keep him fresh throughout games and second half of the season. IMO we can afford NO LESS than 5 SEC caliber DT's. 6 to 8 would make me feel much better.
 
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BigOrangeFanatic said:
Weakest link will be on the OLine, as we have to replace 4 starters from last years team, with practically no one (besides the lone starter we get back) who has a lot of playing time experience...

As far as D Line goes...

DE -- Walker, Martin, Williams, Bohannon
DT -- Hughes, Walls, Jeffery, Sykes, John Brown (if he makes it in)

And watch for the freshmen to push for playing time as well
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DE's are going to be strong. You can include Fowlkes, J. Smith, and C. Miller, too. That's strong.

The DT's have potential to be strong if they are healthy and eligible. If everyone you listed can play this year I will not be concerned about our D-line.
 
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tnfalcon said:
Hughes should be a monster...IF we have enough depth behind him to keep him fresh throughout games and second half of the season. IMO we can afford NO LESS than 5 SEC caliber DT's. 6 to 8 would make me feel much better.
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We have four on the roster. Four. That's why we are in trouble.
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ALock4UT said:
DE's are going to be strong. You can include Fowlkes, J. Smith, and C. Miller, too. That's strong.

The DT's have potential to be strong if they are healthy and eligible. If everyone you listed can play this year I will not be concerned about our D-line.
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We need five dtackles for a minimum rotation. Heck, we don't even have five on the team til brown qualifies. The likelihood that more than two of those guys are ready to play at the Sec level is remote at best. Then think injuries, no way around it we are in trouble. They will probably find an end or two to move down, but that's not a good fix, but probably all we have.
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Volunteeer said:
We need five dtackles for a minimum rotation. Heck, we don't even have five on the team til brown qualifies. The likelihood that more than two of those guys are ready to play at the Sec level is remote at best. Then think injuries, no way around it we are in trouble. They will probably find an end or two to move down, but that's not a good fix, but probably all we have.
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Yet they felt like they could move a guy OUT of DT position, Victor Thomas, who would have given us 5, if we went by sheer number of bodies alone.

Still, I don't dispute your basic position: if John Brown didn't make it in and if Montori got injured, we'd be strugglin.
 
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orangebloodgmc said:
Yet they felt like they could move a guy OUT of DT position, Victor Thomas, who would have given us 5, if we went by sheer number of bodies alone.

Still, I don't dispute your basic position: if John Brown didn't make it in and if Montori got injured, we'd be strugglin.
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I'm not trying to slam the kid, but how bad do you think he was to get them to move him from dt? I suspect.... Pretty bad. I don't think people get that bodies is not what we need. These guys are special athletes to play the position, you just stick a strong 300lb guy in there without the necessary quickness, technique, mean streak... he getseaten alive. A true decent end who is too light to really be effective against the run is better than, say a converted olinemen. Teams will even put linebackers (tenn has done it before)there before they do that.
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m37bruno said:
I think Walls and Hughes are going to be the guys at DT....I am really excited to see what the D-Line looks like after 6 months with Chuch Smith...I bet Walker and Martin have Breakout years...
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No offense, but it's not like last year's D-Line coach was a scrub. Unfortunately, he's one of the best in the game...but a slimeball
 
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lowcountryVOL said:
No offense, but it's not like last year's D-Line coach was a scrub. Unfortunately, he's one of the best in the game...but a slimeball
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Yup. We will be in good hands if smith is even close to o, espec since it's his first year.
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