I'd say the mass attrition of DLinemen forcing us to play certain guys early and others out of position meets my metaphor a little better. I have no idea how you can say "the pieces were ok enough.."
I dont know how you still refuse to acknowledge the improvement in the d after the scheme was tweaked. The pieces were there for a top 60 d. The coach wasnt. Thank god for paul. All i am asking for is top 60. We would lose one game last year. Maybe 2 with fsu
Btw. Not one of those departing dl were starters. Sure depth. But we didnt have dl injury issues. Even pelton said that was a miracle.