When it comes to other teams getting in the redzone on MSU, they score at a clip of 94.12 %. That is good for 13th in the SEC. You can almost forget to play defense for the rest of the field but if you get stingy in the redzone, you can still win giving up a bunch of yards. We have to do better here.
Disturbing MSU defensive stat
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Kind of odd, wonder what causes that? I'm guessing it's indicitive of our young/struggling secondary, because they're the ones that the redzone should help out the most. Everything speeds up down there in terms of passing and they have less ground to cover on any single plays. Both of those should help the defense, and I'm guessing it's not helping us out much..?
Is this right?
I'd like to see the numbers
When you say score, I'm assuming you mean TD. But the numbers aren't going to add up given the long TDs against LSU and AU and the time State caused a fumble and held LSU to a FG before half.
I'd like to see the numbers
He literally means scores
17 attempts, 12 TDs, 4 FGs
We've actually had the second fewest redzone attempts in the SEC (although most teams have played one game more than us).
Our defense it pretty much middle of the road in most categories. You can google "college football stats 2013" and there is a nice website that details about every stat you'd ever want. I'm too lazy to link it.
17 attempts, 12 TDs, 4 FGs
We've actually had the second fewest redzone attempts in the SEC (although most teams have played one game more than us).
Our defense it pretty much middle of the road in most categories. You can google "college football stats 2013" and there is a nice website that details about every stat you'd ever want. I'm too lazy to link it.
cfbstats.com
Having fewer redzone attempts can be a really good or bad thing. We are currently 7th in points allowed (23 ppg). With A&M, Bama, and Ole Miss coming up I would think we'll finish bottom half. With our upcoming opponents we need to improve our redzone defense. Create some turnovers, block a kick, etc...
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That would be correct. But I expect a team to put points on the board in the redzone. Bend-but-don't break, which we don't run, is based on giving up more FG than TD.
The balance comes in the 2nd fewest redzone attempts. Here's the major damage.
oksu 3 rush td
au 1 last second td pass
lsu 4 rush td, 1 pass td (before half).
There is nothing good about opponents scoring 94.12% of the time inside the 20 regardless of how you spin it. For perspective sake, we are 117th in the country in this regard. Look at the top 40. Plenty of teams have fared much better than us with the fewer opponent attempts. Link>>> http://www.cfbstats.com/2013/leader/national/team/defense/split01/category27/sort01.html