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00:00 So Pete Golding came into the seasons like this has to change.
00:04 There are certain things that we have to do that is going to take this defense from
00:09 good to great to elite.
00:11 And part of that is protecting cornerbacks and
00:14 also being able to man cover when you need to do it.
00:18 The defensive line we've covered.
00:21 That means the defensive backs are gonna have to cover a half a second to a second
00:25 less than they would before because of the pressure that they are going to get.
00:29 That is one way that they could help the cornerbacks over last year's 10.
00:33 The other thing is they need to find some more athletes.
00:37 They need to find players that can man cover and we talk about Pete Golding and
00:42 his idea of defensive backs being a certain way.
00:47 And we are going to talk about the new players they brought in.
00:53 But one thing that shouldn't be lost is the strength of the secondary was
00:58 the spine of the defense and when I say spine, I mean the safety positions,
01:02 the linebacker positions honestly, and the interior of the defensive line with like
01:07 JJ Pegues, that was kind of the strength of this defense and
01:09 the reason they were able to take apart bad to mid offenses.
01:14 And part of that on the back end is Trey Washington.
01:16 Trey Washington ended up with 83 tackles, three picks, two passes defended,
01:23 played free safety very well.
01:24 Now everybody was concerned whenever he was going to take over that after AJ
01:29 Finley moved on to the NFL, that Ole Miss was going to be hurting at the free safety
01:34 position, well Trey Washington quite simply made that position his own and
01:38 played it very, very well.
01:41 In fact, two out of the top three leading tacklers off of last year's team
01:45 were safeties, that was the Trey Washington and John Saunders was third as well.
01:50 They were also leaders on the interception realm.
01:53 A lot of the good plays that happened on the defense happened at
01:57 the safety position.
01:59 The third leading tackler by the way was Dejon Anthony.
02:02 We'll talk about how Ole Miss is going to try and replace him as well.
02:06 But this is a player in Trey Washington that Ole Miss recruited.
02:11 John Saunders was a quarterback that was recruited and
02:13 transferred out of Miami of Ohio.
02:16 He played in that slot corner position and played it actually quite well.