We're doing all this WHILE giving the ball away like crazy

postmodernprimate

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How much better could we be if we weren't spotting everyone 7-14+ points worth of turnovers every game?
  • We're -7 in turnover margin the last 5 games.
  • We've lost the turnover margin battle in every one of those games.
  • We gave up 3 straight games of fumble returns for TDs
  • We're ranked 125th out of 128 teams in turnover margin
Also, Grant McKinniss god bless him is 128th in punting average (with a hang time of about .3 seconds and a 10 degree arc).

We're going to have to fix this to have a chance in a rough finishing stretch, but it's encouraging to realize just how much more ceiling this team potentially has and how easily attainable that ceiling is if we can just clean things up a little.
 

ulismyman

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Jan 11, 2015
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I could live with a few fumbles if we ever forced any...we have always sucked at forcing turnovers
 

UKRob 73

Heisman
Jan 25, 2007
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At some point, you think we get these cleaned up. Hell, even Boom is one of the biggest culprits.
We even gave them 7 points on the late hit out of bounds.
 
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tntuk

Heisman
Jan 17, 2002
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How much better could we be if we weren't spotting everyone 7-14+ points worth of turnovers every game?
  • We're -7 in turnover margin the last 5 games.
  • We've lost the turnover margin battle in every one of those games.
  • We gave up 3 straight games of fumble returns for TDs
  • We're ranked 125th out of 128 teams in turnover margin
Also, Grant McKinniss god bless him is 128th in punting average (with a hang time of about .3 seconds and a 10 degree arc).

We're going to have to fix this to have a chance in a rough finishing stretch, but it's encouraging to realize just how much more ceiling this team potentially has and how easily attainable that ceiling is if we can just clean things up a little.
If we clean up the TOs or hell, have a game where we are +2 or +3 in TO margin, watch out.
 

megablue

Heisman
Oct 2, 2012
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The fact that we've been this hard to beat despite THESE deficiencies is pretty phenomenal. It's a sign of youth, as well as talent and grit for our team.
We clean up the small things, and we take things to ANOTHER level.
Also, it may be a sign of the competition....to be honest. Nonetheless, it is impressive that we've won the games we have, despite the turnover margin.