We'll only have a lack of experience not talent next year

Dec 2, 2013, 1:30 PM

QB: We lose Tajh and that's a big blow just from a leadership stand point. However, both Cole and Kelly have in game experience and Watson is coming in early and has also played in our type of offense in HS so he has time to make the spring a very interesting battle for the QB position.

RB: I love McDowell but we are more than deep at the RB position with Gallman and Dye coming off RS. Can you imagine what either of those power backs would have done against SC with the way McDowell was punking them?

WR: we lose Sammy and possibly Bryant but we bring in early enrolee's as well as get Preister from Fork Union. Also Peake is back and fully healthy and the ever capable Humphries is joined by a year smarter and better Williams, Hopper and Green. We have numbers and talent here.

OL: we lose Thomas and Shatley. Both great leaders at the OL and good players. Still Battle will fall into the LT position where I think he'll excel. I believe Crowder will take the RG position and be a force from everything I've heard about him so far. RT will again be up in the air but I think we'll get some kind of answer out of Anthony, Gore and Timothy. Also Eric McClain is an option.

TE: We bring everyone back except Smith but we'll be fine here as long as they improve their blocking over the off season.

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The entire DL comes back aside from beasley but Ebo comes off a RS and he is a lot like beasley in terms of speed rushing and strength. Also Shaq Lawson is going to be an eve bigger monster.

LB: We lose Shuey and Christian and that hurts in terms of experience and because Shuey is such a force. Still we have A LOT of talent here that's going to be a year older and some fast young bucks coming in. O'Daniel will probably take the SAM LB position with TJ Burrell backing him up. Ben Boulware and BJ Goodson are thumpers that lay the wood every time they hit. The three coming in are all highly rated and very good so I wouldn't be surprised to see 1 or 2 of them to avoid a RS.

Secondary is going to be solid early on and then a dominate force. We only lose Robinson and while he's been good this year he's still in my mind our weakest CB in terms of coverage. We get Alexander, Baker, Edmond from RS along with seniors in Jenkins, Breeland and Peters. We get all of our safeties back with another year under their belt. That's a four deep of experienced and talented players.

Our D is going to be better next year then this one and that's saying something.

We'll only have a lack of experience not talent next year

Linebacker and secondary need a speed infusion.

Defense should be a force next year

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