Secondary a Primary Reason For Pack Gains

New season, new secondary.

After going 1-5, N.C. State coach Tom O’Brien encouraged his team to think of the second half of the season as a fresh start. Then he went out and put some fresh bodies in the Wolfpack’s defensive backfield.

“The whole secondary got changed,” O’Brien said.

DeJuan Morgan moved from strong safety to free safety, opening a spot for redshirt freshman Javon Walker in the starting lineup. Jeremy Gray moved up to the No. 1 spot at one cornerback, ahead of two-year starter Jimmy Sutton. The only starter who remained the same was cornerback DeAndre Morgan, and the redshirt freshman only moved into the lineup four games ago.

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77 Responses to Secondary a Primary Reason For Pack Gains

  1. newt 10/31/2007 at 10:00 AM #

    On his coaches show, O’Brien stated pretty plainly that a cause of the improvement is that the players had either come around to the coaches’ way of thinking or were not playing.

  2. PamlicoPack 10/31/2007 at 11:06 AM #

    I feel pretty good about our D vs. Miami O…key to this game will be ability of our O-line to again pull off a heroic performance and keep the Miami D-line off of Evans. How has Miami’s DBs looked this year? Haven’t heard or read a lot about them…

    Finally, is Dunlop really questionable, or is this a gamesmanship ploy?

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