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Early 2019 defensive seating chart
NT LETULIGASENOA Taimani Bandes
DT ONWUZURIKE Tuitele Bronson
BUCK POTOA'E Bowman Tupuola-Fetui
SAM TRYON Ngata Rice
MIK SIRMON Beavers (Heimuli?)
WIL WELLINGTON Tafisi Calvert
SS McKINNEY Gilchrist
FS MOLDEN Williams
NICKEL IRVIN Bryant
CB TAYLOR McDuffie
CB GORDON Hampton
Lots of youth. Thin depth in places. But blue-chip talent all over the field. Especially in light of the soft schedule, I think the D has a chance to be decent in 2019. #awfullycoldforapril
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Do you have Molden and Irvin flipped?
The offense has a lot of returning experience and the newbys should be better outside of Gaskin and McGary.
If Salvon runs with more toughness, the line gets better, and the scheme/playcalling improve...look out, the sky is the limit.
Have Tryon play Buck and get Ngata ready to go at SAM.
McKinney will be fine.
Avoiding new players being mismatched in these big games will be a key for us breaking through and winning an NY6 in the near futue
There's no fucking way Benning is a starter next season. I don't care if he occasionally flashes against the run. Dude cannot rush the QB. He can't even convert speed to power as a bull rush guy. Tryon will be a starter for sure so I agree there. Benning will need to hold off Zion, Laiatu, and Ngata and I don't think he will. A move to 3-tech would be better for him.
Yup, I've got Wellington as one of the starting inside backers for sure. He's pretty good and will bring a veteran presence in the middle of a very young defense. Beavers is solid too but can't play a single game without getting injured. I agree, they should not rely on him as a starter next season. He'll be a quality depth guy to rotate in though. I'm fine being a doog who loves try hard walk-ons so I think Edefuan Ulofoshio is going to challenge Sirmon for the other starting job next to Wellington. He's the new walk on sleeper people are excited about except this time it's a try hard black kid who actually looks pretty talented.
However the competition works out at inside backer I have no problem saying the new starting tandem will be better than BBK and Bartlett. I'm not worried about that position group at all. There's some good talent and football instincts there to work with. People think we're thin there and yet we'll probably be deeper than we've ever been at ILB under Petersen. Throw in Calvert and likely Heimuli who can both play right away if need be and we're stacked with good to great talent at ILB.
I like Tuitele at 3-tech ahead of Bronson because he's a bigger body but at the same time there's likely a big strength difference between the two with the edge going to Bronson. You also have Mosiah Nasili-Liu at 3-tech who is also a strong ass dude and very athletic. Wouldn't be surprised to see Tuitele redshirt.