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SEND FIVE: THE FIX FOR THIS DEFENSE IS TEMPO, NOT PERSONNEL
Two answers to the same question, and they do not agree. One is about tempo. The other is about three specific players.
Segment one: this defense has died by a thousand cuts for four games. Rush four, drop seven or eight, and every offence in this league will take five yards at a time because you are letting them. The one stretch it looked different was the first half against LSU, when Ole Miss got after Sam Leavitt. Pressure helped the run fits and the secondary too. Send five. Force an early read.
The honest risk: five-man pressure against an offence that snaps it inside fifteen seconds is…
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