Unconquered

Very interesting...

It begs the question on why he is in love with an aggressive defensive style, when he we wasnt when he hired Stoops.

Perhaps he has realized that Stoops style has weaknesses than can be exploited by very average offenses (NC State 2nd half, UF)

Or maybe Stoops was less "miltiple" than we thought he was going to be?

Maybe he just wants a change?

I realize teams do this all the time...Hell, FSU will have changed schemes 3 times in 5 years.

Anyone have any thoughts on why he is so in love with a change all of a sudden?

I remember when Stoops was introduced to us that he promised lots of turnovers. Said his defenses were designed to produce them. As much as I appreciated what he did for us defensively, the lack of turnovers was always a huge disappointment.

Seems very doubtful at this point...

Wonder who #8 and #9 are

We didn't produce crap for turnovers last year but I believe we were far and away #1 in the nation in forcing three and outs.

I want an attacking, turnover forcing machine as a defense too. But Stoops had us as a top 3 defense in back to back seasons. Gonna be tough to duplicate that much less improve upon it to be honest.

I look at the times we lost or had tough games last year and almost always the opposing defenses were aggressive. NCST, VT, and UF. All aggressive, in your face, style of play.

I think Jimbo recognizes how that style turned the momentum on big hits and turnovers. I just know that I kept longing for Mickey's "pin our ears back" style several times last year and it never happened. This would be a good thing to mix in given our personnel.

Producing 3 and outs is great, a lot more than most defenses can say, but forcing the 3 and outs last year rarely flipped field position. That was a time we missed Greg Reid the most. Our defense forced the punt, but often times, we had guys back their too timid to catch and return, make stupid decisions trying to catch in traffic, or just let the ball hit and roll. The 3 and outs combined with the lackluster punt return team negated that advantage. Our offense rarely got a short field to work with. I will gladly take a few less 3 and outs, a few busted coverages, for a chance for our talent to be used to its advantage on defense, creating turnovers and flipping the field that way rather than relying on special teams.

All I can think of is that he was lumping in the 2015 commitments (2- Derwin James and Deandre Johnson) and he may have simploy misspoke. I don't believe there are any silents at this point for 2014.