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Dudley Dawson on Arkansas' Defensive Expectations · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  When you look defensively at this team, some issues at times give it up
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  big plays in the passing game, and some other spots. What does that
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  unit look like? Obviously, if you have an offense that's going to you
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  know, stay on the field, you know, be able to control the
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  football maybe even and put some points on the board, that makes it easier
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  for a defense, what does that unit project like this year? Well,
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  I think when you look at the defense last year, they did not have
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  enough SEC defensive lineman in their rotation and obviously that's what they felt as well,
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  because they went out and really went after those guys. It really stocked
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  that up. Now we're going to have to see how they, you know,
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  play against SEC competition because some of them are coming to schools that they
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  were not as big, but they have certainly added to that mix. I
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  felt good about the secondary most of the season, and I think they feel
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  good about the guys that've got coming back. Some of them are young,
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  have son a lot of talent. I feel like they feel pretty competent in
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  their defense, and they feel pretty confident in the offensive line with an area
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  that for whatever reason, last year when you had some some guys that got
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  drafted in the NFL some guys that had worked together well before. It didn't
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  work out either. It again, I take it back to the to the
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  dan Enos failure thing. And I'm not saying he's a bad guy or anything,
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  but it just didn't work. Uh it was. It failed miserably again.
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  And I do think that that those are the spots that they feel like
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  they had to go get after and they feel good about it. Like I
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  said, I think they feel good about the linebackers even though they lost some
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  and the secondary and it's the key key thing to go get some defensive linemens.
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  Again. They all look good in their in their pads and all look
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  good out there. We'll see how they do when they match up against uh,
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  you know, the other SEC teams in Oklahoma States the mental sport.
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  The one thing I will say is that you can, uh there have been
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  times in these last few years when they haven't looked like an SEC football team
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  getting off the bus. They will this year and I We'll see how they
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  go out and play