I only hope the D will continue to improve next year when we lose most of our talent in the front seven. That could be a really good barometer for measuring how good this staff is at developing younger players.
Elam, Meant, Hatcher, Ware, Middleton, Firios, Jones, Love, Miggins, Bell, and Allen are going to have to step up a good deal next year and hopefully they will shine. There has been precious few high quality performances by that group up to this point and if they step up and push our defense forward that will be a testament to good coaching. If they don't that may be indicative of the dearth of talent we have recruited or coaching or both.