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    Last in total "D"

    Not to beat a dead horse but LAST is bad. Hopefully the players read this and decide last is unacceptable.

    "Tech has one of the most porous defenses in the country ranking last in total defense while giving up 585 yards a game."

    How sobering it is to see LAST in print. With the returning players on "D" I expected us to be competitive. If we are to have a special season it will no doubt come down to how much our defense can improve and of course the offense has to continue to be productive. The next (4) games will tell us a lot. We will not outscore everyone - got to play some "D"

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    Re: Last in total "D"

    Stats are very misleading. The defense is not that bad. When you have team that scores as quickly as ours does you will eventually give up yardage. I have watched both games and even though there is always room for improvement, there is also no need to panic and make drastic changes.

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    Re: Last in total "D"

    Quote Originally Posted by wmladawg View Post
    Stats are very misleading. The defense is not that bad. When you have team that scores as quickly as ours does you will eventually give up yardage. I have watched both games and even though there is always room for improvement, there is also no need to panic and make drastic changes.
    Why does a good offense give a pass (no pun intended) to an absolutely horrible defense? There is absolutely a need to panic, because it's about to be a long season if this doesn't get fixed.

    On the other hand, there's no way we can be worse!

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    Re: Last in total "D"

    No we are not giving them a pass. There are some very good players on the defensive side of the ball. Adjustments need to be made but we are not the worst defense by any means.

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    Re: Last in total "D"

    Quote Originally Posted by wmladawg View Post
    Stats are very misleading. The defense is not that bad. When you have team that scores as quickly as ours does you will eventually give up yardage. I have watched both games and even though there is always room for improvement, there is also no need to panic and make drastic changes.
    Not that misleading.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wmladawg View Post
    No we are not giving them a pass. There are some very good players on the defensive side of the ball. Adjustments need to be made but we are not the worst defense by any means.
    Certainly the worst in yards allowed.

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    Re: Last in total "D"

    This is a video posted on the Illini board of a short interview with their co-offensive coordinator on what he thinks of us and our defense. Notice the "stats don't always tell the truth" line.

    /edit: The first Tech question comes in at the 0:25 mark.


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    Do we really have... a lot of juco players....22, 23 24 years old? Come on, man!
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    Re: Last in total "D"

    Quote Originally Posted by wmladawg View Post
    Stats are very misleading. The defense is not that bad. When you have team that scores as quickly as ours does you will eventually give up yardage. I have watched both games and even though there is always room for improvement, there is also no need to panic and make drastic changes.
    Stats are not misleading. We are giving up 42 points per game. Good defenses don't give up 42 points per game regardless of how fast the "O" scores. When the deepest receiver is 10 yards in front of the safety and catches the ball for a 10-15 yard gain over and over again - that is bad defense. We either get better or our potentially special season will become not so special.
    I still believe we will outscore the majority of our opponest, especially in the WAC but in order to have a special season we will need to stop some folks. Saturday will be our biggest test thus far so we'll see if the "D" can improve. All offenses have off games when things just don't click or the opposing "D" is really tough. It is those times when giving up 42 will get you beat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BruceWillisDawg View Post
    Stats are not misleading. We are giving up 42 points per game. Good defenses don't give up 42 points per game regardless of how fast the "O" scores. When the deepest receiver is 10 yards in front of the safety and catches the ball for a 10-15 yard gain over and over again - that is bad defense. We either get better or our potentially special season will become not so special.
    I still believe we will outscore the majority of our opponest, especially in the WAC but in order to have a special season we will need to stop some folks. Saturday will be our biggest test thus far so we'll see if the "D" can improve. All offenses have off games when things just don't click or the opposing "D" is really tough. It is those times when giving up 42 will get you beat.
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    Re: Last in total "D"

    I agree, you can't sugar coat this by saying, "well, our D spends a lot of time on the field because our offense scores so much. If our D was any good our opponents would be punting the ball or committing turnovers. The way I see it, both games would have been separated by several more TD's with a GOOD defense.

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    Re: Last in total "D"

    We seem to have a good first half, but then slowly go down hill as our D can't adjust to the other teams half-time adjustments, then by the 4th quarter it's like we are worn out and just stop trying. We've only allowed 2 touchdowns in the first half in both games, with the first quarter being a TD shut out in both games. Only thing I can attribute it to is youth and stamina, we have too much of the former and not enough of the latter...

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    Re: Last in total "D"

    Quote Originally Posted by techman05 View Post
    I agree, you can't sugar coat this by saying, "well, our D spends a lot of time on the field because our offense scores so much. If our D was any good our opponents would be punting the ball or committing turnovers. The way I see it, both games would have been separated by several more TD's with a GOOD defense.
    If we have an average defense (ranking wise) we would be unstoppable. I will be happy with a defense ranked in the 70-80's this year.

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