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Originally Posted by Dryden
The problem the past two years has been alternately having DEs that aren't complemented by the DTs, or vice-versa, and the early exits of a parade of great Jrs in the secondary that ultimately burned us in 2006 when a number of things (injuries, lack of development, etc) robbed us of depth. All you need to know to see how we got burned against UF in '06 is consider that the starting back four consisted of a RS Sr former walk-on, a RS Sr who had previously been a career back-up, a RS So career back-up who was only playing due to injury to the #1, and true So Malcolm Jenkins.
3 of the 4 would not have started any other year but that year. They won the jobs by default. The soft zone was to protect them -- that didn't work out so well.
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Do you think the spread was responsible revealing the weaknesses, as you had great stats going into the game. I mean, I defer to what you say of course, but that same crew seemed to achieve great success along the season. So I'm wondering, do you think it was the spread system that put the pressure on them that they had not seen, or what?