Buy/Sell regarding our D

[bierto]

After looking at the stats in the Marcellos article:
1st in the nationin >30 yard plays
3rd in the nationin redzone tds
18th in the nationin scoring defense
16th in the nation in passing yardage

BUY/SELL: We are better off playing off of opponents receivers and limiting big plays

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[dawgstudent]

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[BehrDawg]

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[AzzurriDawg4]

It is obviously effective if you are looking purely at the defense. A problem I have noticed however, is that it allows the other team to control the clock and puts more pressure on our offense to score when they get possessions. Take the Kentucky game, they had some long drives in the 2nd half and it seemed like our offense was barely on the field. Two long drives by our opponent coupled with a 3 and out by us can basically eat up a quarter of football. <div>
</div><div>The job of the defense is to 1) prevent the other team from scoring, which we are doing quite well and 2) get the ball back to the offense, which we could do a little better. That said, I would only trade defenses with about 3 teams in the league right now - Bama, LSU, USC (and maybe UGA). I will take being the 4th or 5th best D in the SEC all day. </div>

 

[Johnson85]

I'm happy with our D so far, but I'm concerned that a good passing offense will take the underneath routes all day and put points on the board.

Hard to argue with results so far though.

 

[GloryDawg]

That does happen a lot but I think they could solve a bunch of it by playing tighter on 3rd and 7 to 3rd and 9. Seems that's when we get hit with that underneath the most. It is hard to defend in any case but when you are giving five yards cushion, it makes it a lot easier for the offense to convert. I am not a coach and really don't know much but that is how I see it.</p>

 

[FISHDAWG]

those #'s look even better

 

[coach66]

we do but I can't argue with the results where it counts.

 

[Chesusdog]

Like someone else said though, they need to switch it up from time to time. We can't let teams dink and dunk down the field all day. Play a little tighter on third downs, maybe try to jump a sideline route if safety help is there.

 

[patdog]

It is obviously effective if you are looking purely at the defense. A problem I have noticed however, is that it allows the other team to control the clock and puts more pressure on our offense to score when they get possessions.

I love the fact that we're not giving up points. But I wonder where we rank in average starting field position for our offense. I don't know that there is a stat for that, but I'm thinking we'd be pretty damn low in it if there were. As for time of possession, we're #117. Bend but don't break has it's place, but at some point you need your defense to give you some 3-and-out's.