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My .02:
The breakdowns of the individual positions are well documented. Front 4 is the strength, I think the LB's can easily be replaced and the safties are strong, its just the corners and getting the unit to jell as a whole.
My concern for 2009 is that the young corners make Heacock go back to the rush 3 drop 8 style of 2006/2007. I think this DL can be very good but it takes a special kind of defense to make a living doing that and I'm not sure this edition is going to quite be in that class. On the plus side of the ledger, not many opponents aside from probably the Bowl game and PSU seem to have the QB and offensive weapons to make us pay for that style of D.
The breakdowns of the individual positions are well documented. Front 4 is the strength, I think the LB's can easily be replaced and the safties are strong, its just the corners and getting the unit to jell as a whole.
My concern for 2009 is that the young corners make Heacock go back to the rush 3 drop 8 style of 2006/2007. I think this DL can be very good but it takes a special kind of defense to make a living doing that and I'm not sure this edition is going to quite be in that class. On the plus side of the ledger, not many opponents aside from probably the Bowl game and PSU seem to have the QB and offensive weapons to make us pay for that style of D.
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TheIronColonel
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Not that I think USC will be short on offense this year, but can you name one returning starter other than Joe McKnight? I know USC is never short of talent, but (and correct me if I'm wrong) they're going to have a lot of new personnel this year.
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leroyjenkins
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TheIronColonel;1459074; said:
Stanley Havili, and Damien Williams accounted for 3 TD's last year....... Besides McKnight's 12 for 120?? night.
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ShakerBuck
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TheIronColonel;1459074; said:
they return their top 4 RBS, entire offensive line, starting WRs and TE.
They do replace Sanchez, but i believe his game against us last year was only his 2nd start.....they always reload at QB.
bottom line is their offense will be very talented, deep and experienced
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t_BuckeyeScott
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I think USC's offense is assumed good until proven otherwise. Tell you this much I would much rather face next year's State Penn offense than next year's Trojan Offense.
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TheIronColonel
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leroyjenkins;1459093; said:
No no, I meant point taken. I'm aware that they return the entire offensive line and most (all?) of their receiving corps. I just couldn't name any of them, whereas you can. I'm not sure USC's offense will be better this year than last, but that doesn't mean they won't be good. They're almost certainly going to be better than Penn State.
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leroyjenkins
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TheIronColonel;1459263; said:
McKnight scares me a lot. Ive been spending a lot of time at WeAreSC, and have a pretty good grasp on what they have and what they think. They believe that their run game will be dominate, and are pretty confident in a win.
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WaitingforKickoff
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Middle LBer.
The defense starts in the middle. If you can't stop the opponent from getting five or six yards a pop up the middle, you are toast. I'm not sure we can just assume that the next guy is going to be as good as Laurinatis.
The defense starts in the middle. If you can't stop the opponent from getting five or six yards a pop up the middle, you are toast. I'm not sure we can just assume that the next guy is going to be as good as Laurinatis.
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