I believe Hogs will have a successful season if Franks and Odom live up to their potential and past resume.
SUCKING down the Kool Aid all weekend.
It's a team effort, many pieces involved, so many unknowns / ? marks at certain positions, and ? marks on how COVID will effect everyone / every team, but i truly believe our record will mainly reflect how good these 2 perform.
I've watched highlight videos of Franks all weekend. Yes different team and pre injury, but he has a chance to be elite.
He brings to the table everything we need in a leader and QB. There is no doubt FL team loved him, he was their leader, he has swag and confidence, he has SEC experience against the best, he can extend plays, he can escape, he can scramble, he's cool under pressure, he's fearless, he has a strong arm, has touch, he leads his receivers, and he puts the ball up high for his guys to go get it. Look at his highlights and the maturity / leadership / decision making he had on the field. I truly believe he can lead us to 5 wins.
OL will be solid, great 1st team WRs, 1 great receiving TE, and great group of RBs to take pressure off him.
I also hope Briles lives up to his hype and i believe he will, putting our guys in the best situations to succeed and feed the studs.
Odom will have his work cut out for him, but if he can get the Hogs D to the middle of the defensive rankings in the SEC, which is possible with this group we will win 5 games.
DL will be better than we thought, secondary will be our strength, LB still alot of ? marks and need them to step up, but with playing 5 DBs with a hybrid LB-S, Odom can make up for lack of LB output. I truly believe our secondary will look totally different (needed Catalon to be at full strength that hurt)
Odom has a reputation and resume of being a great DC, we need him to be, but only to get us to the middle of the pack this year. If he can get us to 6 -7 in D rankings we win 5