My memory of things back in the Osborne days was that our defense was always ahead of the offense to begin fall camp and it took the offense until the end of fall camp to catch up. I think that had to do with the fact that defensive schemes were simpler and more straightforward and the offense had to get their timing down and reads of the defense post-snap and stuff like that. Eventually, we'd have a potent offense, but the offense was always playing catch-up. As I recall.
This writeup makes it sound like the script has flipped under Frost a bit.
Offense is really stressing the D right now and, though we think we have a pretty talented D, the offense is exposing them. Chinander made a comment to the effect that this offense really makes it clear who on the defense made a mistake. And, while we think we have a pretty talented, athletic, big and deep D-line, apparently the offensive line in this particular practice was pushing the defense around.
This is FANTASTIC news for anyone who was worried about our OL sucking again this year. It also suggests our QBs have picked up the offense well enough to make the defense look like they have some catching up to do.
Sounds like the biggest question mark is defensive secondary. And that might only be because our offense is so fast-paced and our receivers are that good.
It'll be interesting to see once the bullets start flying for real.