Palmetto Proving Grounds

For me I look no further than lack of depth on the outside and the lack of pure talent at the safety position. The CB's have no real depth and when one goes down it destroys continuity. We do not have a standout safety and that causes confidence issues. These issues combine to force trust issues. The CB's don't know if the guys behind them will be there to help and the guys at the back have a revolving door of guys in front of them. Because of all of this the coaches cannot call bump and run and press coverages forcing DB's 7-8 yards off the line. When this happens the DB's get sick of being beat short and try to "create" plays by jumping routes. This opens them up for busted plays and the safety cannot help out. Coaching and recruiting are key and it will take an offseason to fix both.

Other problems include:

- They will not wrap up
- They may have had inflated opinions
- Teams can't run so they test and test and test again
- Injuries

There are many problems and they need to get fixed but I would hate to throw the baby out with the bath water in this case just because we had one bad year. We have been so good at DB for so long I refuse to think that this will not get corrected by next year.

As for the CB's I think we reload well next year with Victor Hampton and Brison Williams. I think that Legree could improve a ton but I think I read somewhere that it simply has not clicked yet. As for the safety's... I'm REALLY hoping that Kadetrix Marcus comes in and is ready to go because I don't see a ton of options there unless we move some people.

As for guys still out there... we MUST get Sheldon Royster because he could step in right away and play safety I think.

Our guys ALWAYS bite on the double move. ALWAYS. WR running wide open

By the time spring practice rolls around, there will be a new secondary coach. Spurrier is no fool, he knows what he has to do.