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I actually agree with your points here for the most part. Do I think the offense struggled more? Yes.I get what you're saying, but I still have to pin this loss entirely on the offense. Tying to pin a loss on the defense that only gave up 13 points is just silly.
Going into the game I thought if we could hold them to 20 or less we'd win because you're right, their offense is bad.
Let's say they go for it on fourth and get the TD and make it 17....and maybe even kick the FG earlier in the game to get 20...we still should have been able to score three TDs throughout the game to win.
Do we need to improve on defense? Yes. Did the defense do enough where we should have won yesterday, absolutely.
If we had this year's defense in 2011 or 2012 we'd have won the ACC. Instead, since out offense has been so self destructive this year, our average defense was simply only able to keep us hanging around in the games.
In the end I'm not pinning a loss on any particular unit. There is still doubt in my mind about the effectiveness of our defense yesterday. The reason for my post was that I think some are oversimplifying their impact suggesting they were absolved of any responsibility (my interpretation).
UGA's defense is also stronger than their offense, so it's also not an apples to apples comparison. Should our offense, even in its current state, have been able to muster 14 points? I'd say yes. However I also agree we would have needed more if UGA was forced to push the issue on offense.
Really, debating the lesser of two evils right now is just not fun. And we're not even talking about the special teams cluster this year, but that's for a different thread. I thought they did ok yesterday.