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<blockquote data-quote="Skeptic" data-source="post: 411206" data-attributes="member: 2175"><p>Good questions, all. Seems fair to conclude that yes, teams are defending us better, and after 10 seasons and maybe half a dozen games against the offense, that's to be expected. What seems to have changed is that while our defense seems predictably bad, in the past we could just outscore the other guy. Not by a lot mostly, but enough to overcome some frightful defensive experiences. (TOP means little when you consume seven minutes to score and immediately give up the equalizer inside of three.) The difference on offense I think I've seen is the lack of options on the edge. You can win with the QB doing most of the shoveling -- Navy and last year Army particularly just stuck it off the tackle with hard-running QBs -- but I don't think we're built that way. Marshall got a lot of yards for sure, but W-L slipped. A cheap guess for me is the lack of the option pitch, particularly the triple option which deprived us of our best athletes on the edge, made more problematic because teams are defending us better with exposure, and defense. I still think if Marshall can get at least passable running the option, and if the new defensive guy comes through with a serviceable scheme, we can have a great year in 2018. (Nailing some of those vertical passes is kind of an annual pilgrimage, but you never know.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skeptic, post: 411206, member: 2175"] Good questions, all. Seems fair to conclude that yes, teams are defending us better, and after 10 seasons and maybe half a dozen games against the offense, that's to be expected. What seems to have changed is that while our defense seems predictably bad, in the past we could just outscore the other guy. Not by a lot mostly, but enough to overcome some frightful defensive experiences. (TOP means little when you consume seven minutes to score and immediately give up the equalizer inside of three.) The difference on offense I think I've seen is the lack of options on the edge. You can win with the QB doing most of the shoveling -- Navy and last year Army particularly just stuck it off the tackle with hard-running QBs -- but I don't think we're built that way. Marshall got a lot of yards for sure, but W-L slipped. A cheap guess for me is the lack of the option pitch, particularly the triple option which deprived us of our best athletes on the edge, made more problematic because teams are defending us better with exposure, and defense. I still think if Marshall can get at least passable running the option, and if the new defensive guy comes through with a serviceable scheme, we can have a great year in 2018. (Nailing some of those vertical passes is kind of an annual pilgrimage, but you never know.) [/QUOTE]
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