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<blockquote data-quote="slugboy" data-source="post: 965333" data-attributes="member: 282"><p>And the year before last, people were asking why we didn’t have someone better than Ace Eley starting, and whether Keion White would be good once he finally came off of his injury. Last year, they played great.</p><p></p><p>Eley and Thomas had better years last year than they did the year before. Linebacker play the year before wasn’t great, but when other defenders graduated, they stepped up and LB was decent for us last year. When you only have four years with a player, you expect another player to step up into the role when people graduate.</p><p></p><p>Yes, you lose production when players graduate. Teams fill that with the next player up or a transfers. Our younger players (like Tatum and Efford) and our transfers (like Moala) are supposed to step up, and other players around them are supposed to step up.</p><p></p><p>By the way, there’s falling off when a player graduates or transfers out, and there’s falling off a cliff. I expected regression on the defense, but not THIS. Players on a P5 team should be better than THIS. </p><p></p><p>Here are the top 5 players from last year’s defense:</p><table style='width: 100%'><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th>Tack</th><th></th><th></th><th></th><th></th><th>Def</th><th></th><th></th><th></th><th></th><th>Fumb</th><th></th><th></th><th></th></tr><tr><td>Rk</td><td>Player</td><td>G</td><td>Solo</td><td>Ast</td><td>Tot</td><td>Loss</td><td>Sk</td><td>Int</td><td>Yds</td><td>Avg</td><td>TD</td><td>PD</td><td>FR</td><td>Yds</td><td>TD</td><td>FF</td></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>Ayinde Eley</td><td>12</td><td>57</td><td>61</td><td>118</td><td>9.5</td><td>3.5</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>3</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>Charlie Thomas</td><td>12</td><td>71</td><td>41</td><td>112</td><td>10.5</td><td>2.0</td><td>2</td><td>28</td><td>14.0</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>114</td><td>0</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>Keion White</td><td>12</td><td>29</td><td>25</td><td>54</td><td>14.0</td><td>7.5</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>Miles Brooks</td><td>12</td><td>34</td><td>18</td><td>52</td><td>2.5</td><td>0.0</td><td>3</td><td>37</td><td>12.3</td><td>1</td><td>7</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>Clayton Powell-Lee</td><td>12</td><td>31</td><td>17</td><td>48</td><td>1.0</td><td>0.0</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1.0</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>KJ Wallace</td><td>11</td><td>29</td><td>17</td><td>46</td><td>3.0</td><td>1.0</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0.0</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></table><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Provided by <a href="https://www.sports-reference.com/sharing.html?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool" target="_blank">CFB at Sports Reference</a>: <a href="https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/georgia-tech/2022.html?sr&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool#defense_and_fumbles" target="_blank">View Original Table</a></p><p>Generated 10/3/2023.</p><p></p><p>Here is the year before. You’re always losing somebody</p><p></p><table style='width: 100%'><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th>Tack</th><th></th><th></th><th></th><th></th><th>Def</th><th></th><th></th><th></th><th></th><th>Fumb</th><th></th><th></th><th></th></tr><tr><td>Rk</td><td>Player</td><td>G</td><td>Solo</td><td>Ast</td><td>Tot</td><td>Loss</td><td>Sk</td><td>Int</td><td>Yds</td><td>Avg</td><td>TD</td><td>PD</td><td>FR</td><td>Yds</td><td>TD</td><td>FF</td></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>Quez Jackson</td><td>12</td><td>45</td><td>57</td><td>102</td><td>7.0</td><td>2.0</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>Ayinde Eley</td><td>11</td><td>42</td><td>46</td><td>88</td><td>2.5</td><td>0.5</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>Juanyeh Thomas</td><td>12</td><td>37</td><td>39</td><td>76</td><td>5.0</td><td>1.0</td><td>1</td><td>6</td><td>6.0</td><td>0</td><td>5</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>Charlie Thomas</td><td>12</td><td>35</td><td>35</td><td>70</td><td>10.0</td><td>3.0</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>0.0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>Tariq Carpenter</td><td>11</td><td>40</td><td>25</td><td>65</td><td>1.0</td><td>0.0</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>2</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>Wesley Walker</td><td>10</td><td>24</td><td>20</td><td>44</td><td>0.0</td><td>0.0</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td>2</td></tr></table><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Provided by <a href="https://www.sports-reference.com/sharing.html?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool" target="_blank">CFB at Sports Reference</a>: <a href="https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/georgia-tech/2021.html?sr&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool#defense_and_fumbles" target="_blank">View Original Table</a></p><p>Generated 10/3/2023.</p><p></p><p>We lost a lot of other players too—Domenick and Walton, for example. We lose some to the portal, and we need to get new players in to replace them. We got Eley and White from the portal—while you might not expect everyone to be as good as White, you do expect the players you get from the portal to contribute to a good solid defense.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slugboy, post: 965333, member: 282"] And the year before last, people were asking why we didn’t have someone better than Ace Eley starting, and whether Keion White would be good once he finally came off of his injury. Last year, they played great. Eley and Thomas had better years last year than they did the year before. Linebacker play the year before wasn’t great, but when other defenders graduated, they stepped up and LB was decent for us last year. When you only have four years with a player, you expect another player to step up into the role when people graduate. Yes, you lose production when players graduate. Teams fill that with the next player up or a transfers. Our younger players (like Tatum and Efford) and our transfers (like Moala) are supposed to step up, and other players around them are supposed to step up. By the way, there’s falling off when a player graduates or transfers out, and there’s falling off a cliff. I expected regression on the defense, but not THIS. Players on a P5 team should be better than THIS. Here are the top 5 players from last year’s defense: [TABLE] [TR] [TH][/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH]Tack[/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH]Def[/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH]Fumb[/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH][/TH] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Rk[/TD] [TD]Player[/TD] [TD]G[/TD] [TD]Solo[/TD] [TD]Ast[/TD] [TD]Tot[/TD] [TD]Loss[/TD] [TD]Sk[/TD] [TD]Int[/TD] [TD]Yds[/TD] [TD]Avg[/TD] [TD]TD[/TD] [TD]PD[/TD] [TD]FR[/TD] [TD]Yds[/TD] [TD]TD[/TD] [TD]FF[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]1[/TD] [TD]Ayinde Eley[/TD] [TD]12[/TD] [TD]57[/TD] [TD]61[/TD] [TD]118[/TD] [TD]9.5[/TD] [TD]3.5[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]3[/TD] [TD]2[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]4[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]2[/TD] [TD]Charlie Thomas[/TD] [TD]12[/TD] [TD]71[/TD] [TD]41[/TD] [TD]112[/TD] [TD]10.5[/TD] [TD]2.0[/TD] [TD]2[/TD] [TD]28[/TD] [TD]14.0[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]2[/TD] [TD]2[/TD] [TD]114[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]2[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]3[/TD] [TD]Keion White[/TD] [TD]12[/TD] [TD]29[/TD] [TD]25[/TD] [TD]54[/TD] [TD]14.0[/TD] [TD]7.5[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]4[/TD] [TD]Miles Brooks[/TD] [TD]12[/TD] [TD]34[/TD] [TD]18[/TD] [TD]52[/TD] [TD]2.5[/TD] [TD]0.0[/TD] [TD]3[/TD] [TD]37[/TD] [TD]12.3[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD]7[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]5[/TD] [TD]Clayton Powell-Lee[/TD] [TD]12[/TD] [TD]31[/TD] [TD]17[/TD] [TD]48[/TD] [TD]1.0[/TD] [TD]0.0[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD]1.0[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]2[/TD] [TD]3[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]6[/TD] [TD]KJ Wallace[/TD] [TD]11[/TD] [TD]29[/TD] [TD]17[/TD] [TD]46[/TD] [TD]3.0[/TD] [TD]1.0[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]0.0[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Provided by [URL='https://www.sports-reference.com/sharing.html?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool']CFB at Sports Reference[/URL]: [URL='https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/georgia-tech/2022.html?sr&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool#defense_and_fumbles']View Original Table[/URL] Generated 10/3/2023. Here is the year before. You’re always losing somebody [TABLE] [TR] [TH][/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH]Tack[/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH]Def[/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH]Fumb[/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH][/TH] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Rk[/TD] [TD]Player[/TD] [TD]G[/TD] [TD]Solo[/TD] [TD]Ast[/TD] [TD]Tot[/TD] [TD]Loss[/TD] [TD]Sk[/TD] [TD]Int[/TD] [TD]Yds[/TD] [TD]Avg[/TD] [TD]TD[/TD] [TD]PD[/TD] [TD]FR[/TD] [TD]Yds[/TD] [TD]TD[/TD] [TD]FF[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]1[/TD] [TD]Quez Jackson[/TD] [TD]12[/TD] [TD]45[/TD] [TD]57[/TD] [TD]102[/TD] [TD]7.0[/TD] [TD]2.0[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD]2[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]2[/TD] [TD]Ayinde Eley[/TD] [TD]11[/TD] [TD]42[/TD] [TD]46[/TD] [TD]88[/TD] [TD]2.5[/TD] [TD]0.5[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]3[/TD] [TD]Juanyeh Thomas[/TD] [TD]12[/TD] [TD]37[/TD] [TD]39[/TD] [TD]76[/TD] [TD]5.0[/TD] [TD]1.0[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD]6[/TD] [TD]6.0[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]5[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]2[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]4[/TD] [TD]Charlie Thomas[/TD] [TD]12[/TD] [TD]35[/TD] [TD]35[/TD] [TD]70[/TD] [TD]10.0[/TD] [TD]3.0[/TD] [TD]2[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]0.0[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]5[/TD] [TD]Tariq Carpenter[/TD] [TD]11[/TD] [TD]40[/TD] [TD]25[/TD] [TD]65[/TD] [TD]1.0[/TD] [TD]0.0[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]2[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]6[/TD] [TD]Wesley Walker[/TD] [TD]10[/TD] [TD]24[/TD] [TD]20[/TD] [TD]44[/TD] [TD]0.0[/TD] [TD]0.0[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]2[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]2[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Provided by [URL='https://www.sports-reference.com/sharing.html?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool']CFB at Sports Reference[/URL]: [URL='https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/georgia-tech/2021.html?sr&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool#defense_and_fumbles']View Original Table[/URL] Generated 10/3/2023. We lost a lot of other players too—Domenick and Walton, for example. We lose some to the portal, and we need to get new players in to replace them. We got Eley and White from the portal—while you might not expect everyone to be as good as White, you do expect the players you get from the portal to contribute to a good solid defense. [/QUOTE]
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