Podcast Preview: Alabama vs. Vanderbilt, with help from Philly Boyz
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Note: (Andrew Bone talks recruiting around the 30 min mark on podbean)
Know the foe: Digging deep on the very hot Vanderbilt Commodores
BamaInsider.com managing editor Kyle Henderson asked five key questions about the very hot 3-0 Vanderbilt Commodores for Saturday's contest, and Chris Lee of Vandy Sports answers them.
1. What Makes Vanderbilt's Defense Go?
It's a combination of a bunch of things.
First, coach Derek Mason needed a few years to get the kinds of players he wanted in terms of size and speed. To keep it simple, Mason wants big guys who can run. Look across the field--there's 6-foot-5 Jonathan Wynn at one end, 6-foot-5 Nifae Lealao in the middle of the line, 6-foot-3 Oren Burks at middle linebacker, 6-foot-3 corner JoeJuan Williams locking down one side of the field, and guys behind them like a pair of true freshman defensive linemen in 6-foot-6 Dayo Odeyingbo and 6-foot-4 Jalen Pinkney.
And these guys are fast. Maybe not Alabama fast, but fast enough to play at a high level, for sure.
Second, they're smart, and they're mostly his guys. Mason talked on Tuesday about how the defense can now understand two or three times what it could when it got there. Mason admitted he threw too much at them in Year 1. He pulled back and gradually started challenging them with more info again, and here we are.