Brian Rolle would bring an attitue to our defense thats what he would bring... To be honest I don't think our defense is mean enough, they don't strike any type of fear into an opposing offense. Brian Rolle the way he hits would make eveyrone around him better. Personally the more gifted linebacker probably would be Homan, but the one who would benefit our defense from an attitue stand point would be Brian Rolle which is why I hope he starts. When you have a kid out there flying around jacking every thing that crosses his face it makes the kids around him that much more aggressive, and that much more likely to create turnovers and to make them more tentative the next time around. I love the way that guys hits and thats what our defenses is missing. We don't have any heavy hitters right now on this defense, but I believe every single one of them would have a attitude if someone just stepped up and made it a point to make the ball carries PAY.
When I think of
OSU defense I think, very sound, fast ,won't get beat by the big play, BUT not that aggressive of a defense. Thats atleast what I think of when I think of our defense. It's ok to play this non blitzing, sit back and make the tackle type of defense when the teams you face dont have the athletic ability to get around you, but when the competition level rises our defense has not performed all that well with this conservative approach. IMO, its not the players, its the coaches scheme. The coaches coach the kids up very well, because IMO we seem to know what we're doing but the thing is we can't play this passive defense ALL the time.
I mean this defense from last year/this year will all be moving onto the NFL most likely so the talent is there you can't deny that. Do we have a good defense HELL YEAH we do we HAVE THE BEST DEFENSE, but when you let other offenses dictate the speed or the tempo of the game you're going to pay when you run into a team that can go toe to toe with you. It's like in a fight if you're fighting someone thats smaller, sure let him swing on you first it won't hurt that much. However, I dunno bout you guys but if it was someone my size or slightly bigger (better) I'd want to take the fight to them you're surely not going to go into it with a conservative approach. You don't let them come out and push you around and dictate how the game is going to be played. Now to their credit they were a little more aggressive against LSU, but IMO NOT ENOUGH. We have a back 7 that will all most likely see extensive playing time in the NFL one day so stop being so gun shy about being beat DEEP! When the only team on your schedule that can play with you is USC why do we fear the big play so much? If we get beat deep, fine just sit down with your defense do some adjusting and get back into the game and get after it again. It's only going to cost you 3-7 points if you get beat deep and with our offenses we can get those points back.
Also about the SEC... we need to get some OOC games with them to get our feet under ourselves here. I know this would be funny to see but I'm serious when I say this.. Play Vanderbuilt, Kentucky,Arkansas, and Ole Miss over the next few years just to get some wins and to put a stop to the mental road block that is the SEC. I think now its not so much they're better, its just that they know they can win were as we DOUBT we can win. We've got to get some wins against these guys.