GMG_Dallas

Yes, they need to play complimentary football the entire game. Not half the game each and never at the same time.

This bold part is what I'm saying. I'm not pointing all fingers at the offense. I'm just saying it's really a shame our defense held them to 17 total yards and scoreless for 22 minutes but our offense couldn't capitalize. It's a shame we botched a punt and gave them the ball at our 18 yet the defense makes a stand and forces a field goal which they then miss. Our offense did nothing but punt it back 2 minutes later. Edit to add we didn't punt it back, we again turned it over on downs on our side of the field instead of punting and giving the defense a chance. They scored the next play. You can point to potential momentum changing moments where our defense stepped up yet sadly our offense failed in those moments. Same for the defense obviously. Like you said, we need complimentary football. The deference between good and great right now.

I remember when the board freaked out over Wyoming having their best output of the season against us. They've had more yards of offense every single game since then by 100+ each game. Easy to make your claim now. We can revisit at the end of the season.

Yeah he's just not good. It's not like he had 8 rushing TDs coming into yesterday including a 17 carry 117 yard and 3 TD performance against Navy. That 4th TD is an indictment to how bad our defense is. For perspective, the most any team outside of Memphis has scored against Navy this year is 21. Anderson is responsible for that in their game alone.

Yes Memphis did shoot themselves in the foot on some occasions with bad passes/drops. I'd give you that if it were a couple drives but not 5. Like I said, 5 carries for 4 total yards. That's not shooting yourself in the foot. By the way, zero flags on either team on those 5 Memphis drives. It's not like they were gaining yards but getting called back with holds are setting themselves back with false starts. Our DBs were on them and did so cleanly and our run defense was as well. The lone sack in that span, as the play-by-play guys said, was a coverage sack. A testament to the DB performance on that play. I think I'm being mistaken. I'm not liberating Caponi of blame at all. I'm just saying if we can thrash him for terrible stretches of play, we should do the offense the same. You can't be record setting half the game and a mirage the other half.

If I told you before yesterday's game that we would hold Memphis to 5 consecutive 3-and-outs and 17 total yards over the course of 22 minutes of play but that we'd lose, you wouldn't believe me. If we do the same in the next 2 games and lose, it's a sign of an inconsistent offense. Explosive? Yes. Consistent? No. Touchdown or nothing. That's the way our drives tend to go. Stop looking at total stats of the game and so on. Look at performance during key moments of the game and it was lacking. If we could get the offense and defense performing the way they can during the same stretches of play, we'll win the next 2 games.

In a month we host East Carolina under now-interim HC Blake Harrell who was the DC. I'm expecting us to absolutely feast on both sides of the ball. I trust in our coaches to do just that.

So to be clear, you think it's acceptable to score 3 points over the course of 25 minutes of play. Got it. I'm not saying there should complete blame on the offense but sports are situational. A game is full streaks and during that period of time, our defense took over. Our offense did nothing in return. That’s not going to win games.

What does any of that have to do with the fact that our offense has been inconsistent in almost every game we've played this year? Speaking to last night specifically, our offense did nothing to separate itself during their 5 consecutive 3-and-outs. Instead it was a field goal, a fumble, and some punts. I'll break it down a bit. For 5 consecutive drives, we held them to a collective 5 carries for 4 total yards, 2 of 9 passing for 13 total yards, and had 1 sack. During that time, we put up 3 points. I'm not going to blame the defense for holding Memphis scoreless for 22 minutes because Memphis was possibly never in fear. If we love the offense when they're good, we need to love the defense when they're good. If we're going to trash the defense when they're bad, we should also trash the offense when they're bad. Can't pick and choose. The defense needs to generate turnovers. They've been terrible at that. The offense needs to take care of the football. They've been terrible in that area at times.

Not saying the defense is great by any means but we held them to 5 straight 3-and-outs from the end of the 2nd to end of the 3rd quarters. The problem is we came out of that run with 3 total points of our own. The 2 minute touchdown drives are fun but when we're not explosive on offense, we don't get a whole lot on that side of the ball either. I think we had one drive with 48 yards and no points. Everything else with no points was around 10 yards or less. It wouldn't hurt to run some clock a bit so the defense can rest. This is the same issue we often had with Littrell's teams.

Tried to find the maxpreps but no dice. He did play 4 years in the NFL so I believe he gets the pension. Quite the accomplishment all things considered.

Morrissssss!

Yes there was a mismatch. Guess we don't keep a safety deep despite all the secondary guys on the field. Can't let it happen again.

Was wondering the other day if he was on that team. Nice bit of trivia. Thanks.

Great open field tackle by Texada. Reminded me of Kenny Buyers.

Bs call in my green lenses.

Elbow hits then it pops out. Should be down by contact.

What a break there but thanks to the defense getting the stop after the botched punt

That guy is in his 7th year of playing. You can't be mad about him transferring at this point. Three freshman classes have come and graduated from UNT since he stepped foot on campus. You're never going to keep somebody for 7 seasons when there should only be 4.

My goodness DT

Go MFin Green!!!

With all due respect Billy, we're 5-1. I think we deserve better than moral victories. I also think these players and staff have earned that respect to be expected to win big games. Edit for spelling

Oh yeah I remember it all. Seems to me they wanted to be aggressive to recoup some money and they got a little too aggressive and scared off the suitors long enough that he's now been exposed and they're in trouble. Oh well. A couple years of suck should ground their arrogant spoiled fanbase a bit.

I counted 3 games on ESPN 2 and 2 more games with an ESPN2 or ESPN U flex. Having 5 games on ESPN2 in one season would be great for us. Keep winning and we'll get more big TV slots.

I wonder if they expected him to be hired away by now. The buyout was at 7.5 million until 1/1/2022 at which point it dropped to 7 million. It then was set to go down by 1 million per year until year 6 of the deal. Year 6 through 10 he owes 25% of the remainder of the deal. I don't know enough about how these work but I'd imagine if he was bought out within the first 3 years with a buyout being between 5 and 7 million and without having to pay the remainder of the deal, UTSA would have essentially been reimbursed for most salaries paid to that point. Moving forward is when they really start losing money if he doesn't get bought out and hired away. A failed gamble.