Shoutout to the DL

backthepack

IDL made it hell for sparty to run the ball, Tuli is maybe our best DL and Tui looked great. Jeremiah Martin is an animal. Bralen Trice is very good. ZTF and Savell are solid. I think they're going to protect the backend a lot this year. We have some guys that can go in the front 4.

AtomicDawg

That was more pressure than we’ve had in a long time and the qb was throwing off his back foot hitting crossing routes. Powell needs to be replaced.

backthepack

Perryman's back next week

whlinder

Did Asa play? I don’t recall seeing him once.

MikeDamone

whlinder said:

Did Asa play? I don’t recall seeing him once.

No. Hurt

whatshouldicareabout

backthepack said:

IDL made it hell for sparty to run the ball, Tuli is maybe our best DL and Tui looked great. Jeremiah Martin is an animal. Bralen Trice is very good. ZTF and Savell are solid. I think they're going to protect the backend a lot this year. We have some guys that can go in the front 4.

It's amazing what coaching and conditioning will do for a team. Also moving Ale to DT has been vital for depth, as they're playing 6 DTs and 4 DEs throughout the whole game

bananasnblondes

Speaking of the DL, I checked put our old friend, Taki's 2022 stat line to see how he's doing. It looks like this

0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0

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bananasnblondes said:

Speaking of the DL, I checked put our old friend, Taki's 2022 stat line to see how he's doing. It looks like this

0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0

Living the dream!

PostGameOrangeSlices

bananasnblondes said:

Speaking of the DL, I checked put our old friend, Taki's 2022 stat line to see how he's doing. It looks like this

0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0

Him and our boy Gee Jr

BeerThirty

OL was hanging all over Martin on multiple plays. Some were blatant.

BeerThirty

bananasnblondes said:

Speaking of the DL, I checked put our old friend, Taki's 2022 stat line to see how he's doing. It looks like this

0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0

Addition by subtraction. Dude was a waste of space.

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What was Mell’s stat line?

PostGameOrangeSlices

Smalls is looking decent with coaching

Ztf is decent but doesnt seem to be the same dude we got a glimpse of in 2020

backthepack

Tuli is so damn good. Best player on our defense. He was dominant last night. Tuitele was great too. Shoutout Inoke and McKeefry

bananasnblondes

DL looks very well coached compared to last year. It also seems to be a position where we have some quality depth

PostGameOrangeSlices

Did Bandes get a meaningful snaps?

BeerThirty

PostGameOrangeSlices said:

Did Bandes get a meaningful snaps?

Yes he is part of the rotation. #55 I think

Quietcowskee

ZTF was about 280 in the COVID year. He looks a little slight now. He probably lost some power.

chuck

Martin is a killer against the run and not a bad pass rusher either. Smalls shows up now too and is also pretty solid against the run.

All around good game for the front 7. Every time the QB escaped I thought for sure there would be flags on the ground. They held a ton. I suppose they let it go for both teams though.

whatshouldicareabout

PostGameOrangeSlices said:

Smalls is looking decent with coaching

Ztf is decent but doesnt seem to be the same dude we got a glimpse of in 2020

We also had a much, much better secondary in 2020, so that also factors in, too

Neighbor2972

Don't think this group will ever be a dominant pass rush, but they can be good enough. The difference in the run defense is extremely impressive though, we have like 4-5 guys now who can reliably set an edge an get off their blocks. The past few years we've had maybe (1?), EDGE who could do that.

We were starting freshmen Savell and Cooper McDonald jesus christ I forgot. Finally having some players who can hold up physically makes it so much easier.