don't let the stats against powerhouses UMASS, Rice, UTEP and FIU fooled you.Originally Posted by Bearpaw
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don't let the stats against powerhouses UMASS, Rice, UTEP and FIU fooled you.
Just play solid and we will win out. All we can ask of our team is to beat the opponents on the schedule.
Meh, just putting things in perspective. I think it is funny that Charlotte has a better rushing defense than SoMiss.
But, we are comparing it to other teams who also are playing those kinds of teams. And we've already probably (not sure on FIU or ODU) played the top 3 East teams.
...I won't, as long as you don't let our poor defensive passing stats against Texas Tech, WKU, and MTSU fool you.
This is NOT a good stat. It means that Tech's D can't get off the field and gives up too many 3rd down conversions.
Why in the world would a team want to run the ball when they can just throw it.
It's amazing how a defense gets better when they're playing the absolute WORST offenses in the country...FIU, UMASS and Rice...
Tech's DC is not getting better, he's just game planning against extremely inept offenses.
apparently quite a few of our fans on here are happy with the current state of our D.
I'm happy with our team after a 1-3 start. And the defense is improving. Should win out.
JFW
FIU's offense is working way better than before they fired their coach. I think they'd beat UMass in a rematch.
I think they had 500+ yards vs MTSU. I say our D did fine vs them. Especially since one of their scoring drives were bailed out by the refs. The only reason MTSU beat them is because of 3 turnovers.
Really, I listed that so I could highlight that WKU has 666 total tackles... a bit apocalyptic
I'm not happy, just listing information. I am happy with our sack totals, and Xavier's and Ferguson's performances. Besides that, our D scares me. With that said, I have hope that we may be improving, and not regressing.
It would be great to see this years defense against a K-State, Ms State, or similar. We know we look terrible against prolific offenses and great against anemic offenses. Other than ARK, we don't know how we look against average offenses. But....scheduling is hard, so we won't know until possibly bowl season.
Its only fair since we played some pretty good offenses in MTSU, TT, and WKU. We seem to play better vs. balanced teams. We get destroyed by pass heavy teams and option teams. If you try to balance run and pass though.. we got you right where we want you!
Our D is on a good run, albeit vs bad teams. The newcomers are getting experience and might actually have some confidence for the next true test in USM.
Who?
I'm not "happy" with it, but I'm not one of those who says "fire the DC" without giving reasons. There are several reasons this defense played bad in games 2-4. One includes lack of conditioning, but nobody dares question our S&C guy. FWIW, our DC has taken the blame for the TT loss and it's probably not all on his coaching decisions. Our HC likes to tinker with things like defense and special teams from time to time.
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