We need to bring in more speed in the back 7.

[Odin]

When miami is miami you don't see our opponents easily pull away from our cbs and safeties like we saw today.

 

[can4life]

I been preaching that we need all around team speed.

 

[Ethnicsands]

I heard we dont need to recruit better.

 

[TexasCane90]

knowles has zero speed

But i agree we need more speed... would be nice if our LBs could scoot like hyppolite and flowe can if we some how land them

 

[vivijane]

I have been saying this the last 5 years.....
Atwell should be playing for us....

 

[drewm3i]

Gabe Taylor looks to have great speed. Oh wait he isn't a 5 star and he's too short.

 

[Tee3000]

When miami is miami you don't see our opponents easily pull away from our cbs and safeties like we saw today.

back 7? What?

 

[KingB02]

When miami is miami you don't see our opponents easily pull away from our cbs and safeties like we saw today.

that play no safeties would catch that kid.. he’s fast af himself plus both safeties were lined up outside the hash marks.. they had no angles

 

[fresssh]

Couldnt agree more. For us to really take that next step on defense, we need speed. Part of the reason Tennison was my favorite recruit this cycle. That was a huge blow.

 

[pacusmc]

Tutu can run passed any bodies db’s man.
But yeah, it would be nice to have at least a few sub 4.5 guys back there.

 

[Jassid82]

Lol @guys on here using Tutu as the benchmark of our lack of team speed in the secondary. That kid is running past everyone’s secondary including Bama and LSU if they played them. He has next man speed as Deion says.

 

[Canesfreak]

I think Marcus Clarke and Christian Williams will bring additional speed to the secondary. I think Branch will drop his 40 time after he hits the college conditioning program. Tutu’s speed is at another level, so I’m not sure there is much most CBs can do once he turns the corner and gets outside. That first TD was a mesh play, and I think Pinckney was supposed to cut that off, because Gilbert broke and picked up the other guy.

 

[CanesLifer2]

We need more speed overall, watching the end of the Bama-LSU game showed me what we used to be, we need that speed and violence back, I felt like I was watching the game at 1.5x speed lol

 

[fresssh]

I think Marcus Clarke and Christian Williams will bring additional speed to the secondary. I think Branch will drop his 40 time after he hits the college conditioning program. Tutu’s speed is at another level, so I’m not sure there is much most CBs can do once he turns the corner and gets outside. That first TD was a mesh play, and I think Pinckney was supposed to cut that off, because Gilbert broke and picked up the other guy.

Couch has good closing speed. Im excited about him. Like OP said, we need to add speed to the whole back 7 though.

 

[dukebeeasy305]

I have been saying this the last 5 years.....
Atwell should be playing for us....

SMH how many times we're going to let Louisville cherry pick players like this is beyond me.. All the kid did was win back to back titles in one of the toughest highschool divisions in America being an athlete at QB

 

[Patreek]

Two options:

Take more top recruits from the top recruiting programs (not happening soon).

Or

Take more athletes in classes like Clarke or Restrepo (or to go further back guys like Dallas who was a QB then WR then RB) who may not have a set college position yet.

 

[Ethnicsands]

It’s about evaluations first and foremost. Been saying this since Coker was here. Varies by position also. We’ve reached for athletes who weren’t tough enough at WR and gotten burned. We’ve also been burned by guys who have too little athletic ability. OL recruiting evals are different from DB. Just need to understand recruiting and get serious about it.

Also, rare athletes are hard to come by, but most kids are within a standard deviation of the mean. As for those kids, it’s about attitude, toughness, competitiveness, effort. For the great athletes, if you assume the ones who have it all are hard to get for us these days, then it’s a tough assessment as to whether the ones we target they project or can learn. Kids who are bad athletes, we should not take.

 

[Zbrod95]

I think Marcus Clarke and Christian Williams will bring additional speed to the secondary. I think Branch will drop his 40 time after he hits the college conditioning program. Tutu’s speed is at another level, so I’m not sure there is much most CBs can do once he turns the corner and gets outside. That first TD was a mesh play, and I think Pinckney was supposed to cut that off, because Gilbert broke and picked up the other guy.

Man was zooming on that last TD by Loserville. He lapped Knowles...

 

[Palm Harbor Cane]

Two options:

Take more top recruits from the top recruiting programs (not happening soon).

Or

Take more athletes in classes like Clarke or Restrepo (or to go further back guys like Dallas who was a QB then WR then RB) who may not have a set college position yet.

This is what made Butch a great recruiter!

 

[nycane]

very true