Ole Miss Doesn't Need A New Wrinkle | It Needs Half The Playbook Gone

Every take on this bye week has the Ole Miss defense needing a new wrinkle. That's the wrong line. Florida ran for 302 yards and Ole Miss managed one tackle for loss on 53 carries — that is not a scheme that needs more, it is one that needs less. Stephen Willis put the five-to-ten-call theory to three former Rebels and all three agreed, before Will Echoles said "paralysis by analysis" at the podium on his own. Nine days to Vanderbilt. Eight games left, and every goal still on the board. Steven Willis sits down with Tom Vanderford, the mayor of Corinth, and does three things with a bye week: diagnoses what actually beat Ole Miss in Gainesville, builds the defensive reset he would hand Pete Golding on Monday, and takes apart the reported Adidas offer that could change how this department is funded. The figure being floated is roughly triple Nike's reported counter.