Let’s go ahead and start with the defensive concerns before we get to the offensive concerns...and the coaching concerns...and the state of the program concerns.
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Why are we so bad at stopping the run this year? Loss of Malloe and on-the-job training for Rip Rowan? DC Bob Gregory? Lack of Vita Vea/Greg Gaines-type players? Something else? - fwdawg
You know that fwdawg is concerned about the rushing defense because they submitted 3 separate questions about it in slightly different forms. There were multiple times in the off-season that both Jimmy Lake and Bob Gregory said that the number one priority for the defense was figuring out how to do a better job against the run.