Midwestern Hawk
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With O'Brien's retirement and the graduation losses linebacker is an area of some unknowns. After watching Spring Game, ILBs are Rodgers and Disterhaupt with Grier and either Rastas/Marler backing up and OLB's of Lawrence and Palmborg backed up by Haas and Poole.
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37 minutes ago, iramurphy said:
The oline will be a work in progress. DB's have some studs but they will need to push the others to get better both at the other starting positions and depth. I think Dline and LB's will be a strength. We should be good at RB and receivers. We have some talent and depth at TE. The oline and QB are the key to our success next year. We must improve this spring in both areas. The line needs to have new guys step up and establish themselves as quality starters. Depth will be an issue like last year especially with the injuries we dealt with. We need to see improvement from all 4 QB's if we are going to get better. Doesn't sound like you guys are seeing any of the backups as capable of pushing Studsrud so he is going to have to push himself to get better. He must improve with quicker reads and more accurate passing. He is athletic and smart enough but must improve on 56% completions. He is the senior and 4 yr starter and needs to make his receivers and offense better not the other way around. We can't have the inconsistency we saw last year. He has done a good job of protecting the ball, but he needs to become a game changer this year for us to be successful. He can, but he needs to have the personal drive to get much better. To me he is a big key to our success next fall and he will need to remain healthy.
Didn't we lose 2 starters at LB? Rodgers should be good but what about the 4th backer and depth? Also what about safety other than Reyes? I would rate potential areas of problem....OL, LB, QB and S.
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2 minutes ago, gundy1124 said:
Outside is pretty easy to learn compared to inside. O'brien and Bakker knew the calls last year. Without Bakker we need someone on the inside to run the front 7 and reportedly Disterhaupt understands the defense well. The other insides still have a ways to go with the comprehension and leadership. You will see good things from our young outside backers this coming season, guaranteed. Safety and inside backer making the calls, make everything work. Just a hunch.
With disterhaupt moving inside, Whi do you see on the 2 deep at outside?
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Any redshirt freshman expected to contribute in a big way on defense or is it too early to tell?
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