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<blockquote data-quote="slugboy" data-source="post: 93096" data-attributes="member: 282"><p>I'm not saying it's simple. If we were a solid defense on 3rd and long, I'd agree, but we're not getting the stops a conservative defense needs to be effective. And blitzing doesn't always mean sending 5 or more--zone blitzes at least confuse the other offense. Crossing the middle against Duke and UNC, we weren't close enough to the receivers to make them drop anything, and not putting much pressure on. We're not forcing many punts, sometimes none, and rarely a field goal. </p><p></p><p>I thought I'd check the numbers and see how we're doing. We're <a href="http://www.bcftoys.com/2014-ppd/" target="_blank">the 116th ranked defense in points per drive allowed</a>, at about 3 points per drive. We don't make our opponents punt (<a href="http://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/stat/opponent-punts-per-offensive-score" target="_blank">ranked #122</a> by punts/score, <a href="http://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/stat/opponent-punts-per-play" target="_blank">#127 by punts/play</a>--nearly last in the NCAA). We give up 6.6 yards/play. Takeaways seems to be the only way we stop the other team (<a href="http://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/stat/takeaways-per-game" target="_blank">we're #20</a>). </p><p></p><p>There are a couple of reasons we lost to Duke and UNC, but giving the ball away on offense was a big part of it (<a href="http://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/stat/giveaways-per-game" target="_blank">link</a>, <a href="http://espn.go.com/ncf/recap?id=400547755" target="_blank">-3 margin to Duke</a>, <a href="http://espn.go.com/ncf/recap?id=400547775" target="_blank">even with UNC</a>). I think most anyone would have been happy blitzing more against UNC at the end--at least we would have had time to come back.</p><p></p><p>I think this team is better off gambling more on defense this year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slugboy, post: 93096, member: 282"] I'm not saying it's simple. If we were a solid defense on 3rd and long, I'd agree, but we're not getting the stops a conservative defense needs to be effective. And blitzing doesn't always mean sending 5 or more--zone blitzes at least confuse the other offense. Crossing the middle against Duke and UNC, we weren't close enough to the receivers to make them drop anything, and not putting much pressure on. We're not forcing many punts, sometimes none, and rarely a field goal. I thought I'd check the numbers and see how we're doing. We're [URL='http://www.bcftoys.com/2014-ppd/']the 116th ranked defense in points per drive allowed[/URL], at about 3 points per drive. We don't make our opponents punt ([URL='http://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/stat/opponent-punts-per-offensive-score']ranked #122[/URL] by punts/score, [URL='http://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/stat/opponent-punts-per-play']#127 by punts/play[/URL]--nearly last in the NCAA). We give up 6.6 yards/play. Takeaways seems to be the only way we stop the other team ([URL='http://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/stat/takeaways-per-game']we're #20[/URL]). There are a couple of reasons we lost to Duke and UNC, but giving the ball away on offense was a big part of it ([URL='http://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/stat/giveaways-per-game']link[/URL], [URL='http://espn.go.com/ncf/recap?id=400547755']-3 margin to Duke[/URL], [URL='http://espn.go.com/ncf/recap?id=400547775']even with UNC[/URL]). I think most anyone would have been happy blitzing more against UNC at the end--at least we would have had time to come back. I think this team is better off gambling more on defense this year. [/QUOTE]
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