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Things are going very well, stability may be more important,As much as everyone here hates Grantham, the players love to play in his style of defense. Im not convinced we automatically upgrade if he leaves.
Things are going very well, stability may be more important,As much as everyone here hates Grantham, the players love to play in his style of defense. Im not convinced we automatically upgrade if he leaves.
Bam Hardmon who is a DL coach...MM who has engineer some real BAD defenses with Atlanta, Mike Peterson an OLB coach...
Why on earth would you suggest any of these guys other than that they were "Florida" guys...We don't need a "Florida" Guy...we need the best available DC and recruiter.
Charlie Strong's Team Defense Rank at Louisville, Texas, USF
Louisville: 18, 17, 37
Texas: 31, 87, 91
USF: 41, 95, 75
Basically this shows you what I've been saying all along. Strong's time has passed him by as a competent DC in this era.
I think Marconand CJ seemed to be just killing time til the draft, unfortunately.
I HOPE Marco was just hurt.
Not to pick nits or anything, but the worst our defense ever got from a yardage standpoint was in 2017, when they were 31st in the country. Last year was 28th, this year was 9th. Other than those two years, we've pretty much always been top 15-20 in defense at worst every year no matter who the DC is. Losing Grantham wouldn't change that.In all seriousness how many actual options are out there that would be a definite upgrade over Grantham if he does get a HC job? I think he's probably the best DC we've had since Dan Quinn (which isn't saying much) and be it his fault or someone else's has done it with a lot less talent than probably anyone at Florida since I can remember. Hell Donkey tells us daily this is the least talented team since the 80's but yet the total defense rank has went from what the 70's or 80's to low teens these past 2 years?
I know he's a fat red faced bastard that wears black on game day and that makes most peoples vaginas hurt but hell how much faith do you have in Mullen to actually hire someone better? I'd rather fire the safety coach, rb coach try and get upgrades at those positions and see what happens next year than have Grantham leave and take 3 or 4 coaches with him and have a major rebuild for next year.
All of you hating on Grantham are going to come to regret it
how much faith do you have in Mullen to actually hire someone better
Last year was 28th, this year was 9th. Other than those two years, we've pretty much always been top 15-20 in defense at worst every year no matter who the DC is. Losing Grantham wouldn't change that.
I’m not aware of any defense that fared well with LSU this season. Our sin was allowing 279 yards through the air to a team that otherwise averaged 234, namely Georgia.
Even that wasn’t a total sin. Our offense let us down in Jax every bit as much as the defense.
Jax was a complete team failure... LSU was beating the schit out of everyone's defense.
I honestly dont care what he looks like, how he acts, or what school he coached/played for or at. I care about getting off the field on 3rd and long. I care about a defense playing smart and sound in space, taking good angles, wrapping up and making tackles. And I care about safeties and corners that properly play their assignments and are coached to understand how to be in position to make a play or at least make a TD saving tackle if/when burned or beaten by an offensive play call that exposed the weakness in the defensive play call. For these reasons, I'm fine with him becoming Coach failstate.Let’s imagine Grantham spent his entire career at Virginia Tech, his alma mater. Would he be taking the beating here that he does? I seriously doubt it.
His mortal sin, besides being a bit too emotional on the sidelines at times, is having worn the red and black. There are certain people here who are unable to look past that.
I honestly dont care what he looks like, how he acts, or what school he coached/played for or at. I care about getting off the field on 3rd and long. I care about a defense playing smart and sound in space, taking good angles, wrapping up and making tackles. And I care about safeties and corners that properly play their assignments and do what's necessary to be in position to make a play or at least make a TD saving tackle if/when burned or beaten by an offensive play call that exposed the weakness in the defensive play call. For these reasons, I'm fine with him becoming Coach failstate.
No dwags is an easy rule and would have cleaned up alot of the Lost Decades.His mortal sin, besides being a bit too emotional on the sidelines at times, is having worn the red and black. There are certain people here who are unable to look past that.
I honestly dont care what he looks like, how he acts, or what school he coached/played for or at. I care about getting off the field on 3rd and long. I care about a defense playing smart and sound in space, taking good angles, wrapping up and making tackles. And I care about safeties and corners that properly play their assignments and are coached to understand how to be in position to make a play or at least make a TD saving tackle if/when burned or beaten by an offensive play call that exposed the weakness in the defensive play call. For these reasons, I'm fine with him becoming Coach failstate.
A couple of comments from the twitterverse re Grantham:Let’s imagine Grantham spent his entire career at Virginia Tech, his alma mater. Would he be taking the beating here that he does? I seriously doubt it.
His mortal sin, besides being a bit too emotional on the sidelines at times, is having worn the red and black. There are certain people here who are unable to look past that.
Not to pick nits or anything, but the worst our defense ever got from a yardage standpoint was in 2017, when they were 31st in the country. Last year was 28th, this year was 9th. Other than those two years, we've pretty much always been top 15-20 in defense at worst every year no matter who the DC is. Losing Grantham wouldn't change that.
I think that’s scoring defense, which makes sense in 2017 given all the defensive touchdowns scored against us.Yeah I'm not sure, I believe it was "team defense" or "total defense" but those rankings were
2017 - 69th
2018 -20th
2019 - 7th
Its pretty clear there is a large consensus about grantham and how effective his defenses are once theyve done the job on 1st and 2nd down. Stereotypes exist for a reason...A couple of comments from the twitterverse re Grantham:
-He’s gonna spend the offseason trying to figure out how to blitz on offense
-Mississippi State was staring at a 3rd and 9 in their search for a new head coach, but, in hiring Grantham, have managed to pick up the first down.
-I guess next year 3rd down will actually be a meaningful down in Jacksonville
-Grantham needs to be a Canadian coach. Since they punt on third down, he won’t get abused on it so often.