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The time of possession in our games have been pretty lopsided in our favor so it's not like our D should be tired.
One other thing that I didn't realize, as you say our defense is 43. But our offense is 48. Not much difference yet the O gets 10 times the criticism as the D, despite the fact that IMO our D is supposed to be the better unit going into the year while the offense was still coming along.
I think the biggest problem that fans have with our offense is we've moved the ball but hasn't scored like that. We've played 3 non conference games & a mediocre LSU team & we have scored like we should've. I think that's where the frustration for the offense comes in. Especially when we have an offensive genius as coach.
But even that is not entirely accurate. We have had 16 possessions inside the 20 and converted on 14 of them. That's good for 8th in the SEC and only 4 behind 2nd place.
Where we really stall out is between the MSU 40 and the opponents 30 - so we are out of FG range and unable to advance.
Yea the two empty possessions inside the LSU 25 (pick and missed fg) and the empty possession on first and goal at the Memphis 2 really stick out. Other than that, we've been ok.
Just to be clear, we are 12th in scoring defense, and 7th in ypg on defense. While the bottom half part was technically correct, the dead last part was not.
Also I believe they are showing our defense giving up 25.8 a game when in fact we have given up 21 non-defensive points(14 on pick 6 and fumble and 7 on special teams) so our defense is actually only giving up 20.5 points a game which isn't bad at all.
Agreed. That's why I can buy the argument that ypg is a better stat to measure a defense.
If our D can just stop giving up huge explosives for TD twice a game they'd be really good.
Yea, I feel like our O and our D are sort of polar opposites. We think our O has major issues because even though we eat up a lot of yardage we are not putting up that many points. Our D overall doesn't give up all that many yards but gives up a pretty large number of points because we give up big plays that go straight for TDs. To demonstrate this I looked up on teamrankings.com our statistics and so far our total offense average is 41st in the country but our scoring offense is only 59th. An even worse disparity though is that our total defense is 33rd in the country but our scoring defense is 65th (almost double).
So, in my view, even though our defense LOOKS better than our offense they have actually been no more effective than our offense where it counts which is on the scoreboard. Yes, I know some of the points we've given up have been directly off either the offense or special teams and that has been a factor that makes our points allowed a good bit worse. But still, while I know we don't even try to play bend but don't break defense, regardless we are breaking WAY too much and we have no defensive scores. Someone said that our defense had only played the one bad game against LA Tech. Well, I don't know how you can give up 3 TD passes of over 40 yards in a game to LSU and say your defense played well? And on top of that we gave up ANOTHER TD pass in the game where we had them pinned back at 3rd and goal from the 12. That is just not getting it done. Bottom line goal of a defense is to prevent scoring which we aren't doing very well.
Synopsis needed.
We are 14th in Pass D- dead last
http://cfbstats.com/2021/leader/911/...02/sort01.html