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8 hours ago, MeanGreenMat said:

That’s because of the offense scoring 37. If we held Tulane to even the 34 points like Charlotte did last night, we could have won. We have an amazing offense, but we have one of the worst defenses in the conference COUNTRY. 

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16 hours ago, MeanGreenMat said:

That’s because of the offense scoring 37. If we held Tulane to even the 34 points like Charlotte did last night, we could have won. We have an amazing offense, but we have one of the worst defenses in the conference. 

I understand that, but I’d rather give up 45 and lose by 8 than give up 34 and lose by 31.  I know I’m in the minority though.

I also understand that you guys want to keep our offense and just have Charlotte’s defense (in this example), but that’s not the way it works.

Also, our special teams that gave Tulane the ball inside the 25 didn’t help either.  So I guess we probably should wish we had Charlotte’s special teams as well.

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3 hours ago, Cooke County Kid said:

A loss is a loss. 

So you’re saying if Texas Tech had beaten us by a field goal that the general public wouldn’t view us more favorably?

And I don’t know the attendance for the Wyoming game, but I bet it would have been much higher if the Tech game had been close.

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14 hours ago, MeanGreenMat said:

That’s because of the offense scoring 37. If we held Tulane to even the 34 points like Charlotte did last night, we could have won. We have an amazing offense, but we have one of the worst defenses in the conference. 

Hang on ... Let me check the math on that

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15 hours ago, MeanGreenMat said:

That’s because of the offense scoring 37. If we held Tulane to even the 34 points like Charlotte did last night, we could have won. We have an amazing offense, but we have one of the worst defenses in the conference. 

Sooooo Tulane had 14 offensive possessions and 472 yards of offense against us. Against Charlotte? 431 yards on 8 offensive possessions. They scored on all but 2 possessions against Charlotte, one of which was a missed 34 yard field goal. They did whatever they wanted against Charlotte's defense and took their sweet time while doing it. If needed or if the pace called for it, Tulane could have put up any amount of yards and points necessary against Charlotte.

People keep laughing at me for putting some blame on the offense and special teams but the reality is, you can't give the ball back every 2 minutes. Maybe it's great when you score but when you don't it spells disaster. You also can't turnover the ball 3 times on your side of the 50 and twice with 30 yards which is basically the red zone. These up tempo offenses have almost never worked on a consistent basis because it constantly puts stress on your defense. Every 2 minutes they're back on the field. No defense is going to survive through that. 

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1 minute ago, GMG_Dallas said:

Sooooo Tulane had 14 offensive possessions and 472 yards of offense against us. Against Charlotte? 431 yards on 8 offensive possessions. They scored on all but 2 possessions against Charlotte, one of which was a missed 34 yard field goal. They did whatever they wanted against Charlotte's defense and took their sweet time while doing it. If needed or if the pace called for it, Tulane could have put up any amount of yards and points necessary against Charlotte.

People keep laughing at me for putting some blame on the offense and special teams but the reality is, you can't give the ball back every 2 minutes. Maybe it's great when you score but when you don't it spells disaster. You also can't turnover the ball 3 times on your side of the 50 and twice with 30 yards which is basically the red zone. These up tempo offenses have almost never worked on a consistent basis because it constantly puts stress on your defense. Every 2 minutes they're back on the field. No defense is going to survive through that. 

You may not want me, but you’ve got at least one other person on that hill with you.

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