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Was it the Offense or the Defense?

texas_sicilian

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It’s a fricking no-brainer and anyone with a pair of functioning eyes and a handful of working brain cells knows that the offensive production (or lack thereof) was physically and emotionally draining on the defense.

Has consistently happened over the past several years, and is beyond frustrating.

You can’t look at the two sides in a vacuum, stat wise. They feed off each other.

We also won TOP several times as well, yay, where did that get us?
 
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It’s a fricking no-brainer and anyone with a pair of functioning eyes and a handful or working brain cells knows that the offensive production (or lack thereof) was physically and emotionally draining on the defense.

Has consistently happened over the past several years, and is beyond frustrating.

You can’t look at the two sides in a vacuum, stat wise. They feed off each other.

We also won the TOP several times as well, yay, where did that get us?
And we have our answer
 

4th. down

Active Member
It’s a fricking no-brainer and anyone with a pair of functioning eyes and a handful or working brain cells knows that the offensive production (or lack thereof) was physically and emotionally draining on the defense.

Has consistently happened over the past several years, and is beyond frustrating.

You can’t look at the two sides in a vacuum, stat wise. They feed off each other.

We also won TOP several times as well, yay, where did that get us?

Very well stated.

It's human nature when the defense is sitting on the bench and the offense is either turning the ball over or gets another 3 and out and you have to go back and hold them again and then back to the bench and the same thing happens again. Finally you just say scheiss it.
 

fanatical frog

Full Member
Lot's to work on on both sides of the ball. Per B12 conference stats, the offense ranked sixth in the conference in points scored per game.....the defense ranked......also 6th in points allowed per game. Looks like a push. Also, the offense was 2nd in conference in TOP controlling the ball for just over 32 minutes per game on average.....so our defense got more pine time than eight other teams in the B12.
 

Eight

Member
not that the numbers become significantly better, but someone might want to tell matt the frogs were actually 3-3 in games this year that they defenses allowed less than 300 yards of offense

the games they won:

apb (215 yards)
purdue ( 204 yards)
kansas (159 yards)

the games they lost:

ksu (261 yards)
baylor (294)
wvu (244 yards)

should the defense had to carry the load in those 3 losses?

no, but in two of those losses (baylor and ksu) the frogs had the lead and allowed a very, very late score to tie the game and give up the lead

as others have pointed out this isn't an either or matter
 

TxFrog1999

The Man Behind The Curtain
In a pitcher's duel is it the pitcher or the offense that gets the loss?

It's both.

This was a team issue from top to bottom. Offense didn't help the defense several times this year, but there were too many times when the defense HAD to make a stop and couldn't get off the field, and a few games where there wasn't a chance for the offense to contribute or keep up (SMU and ISU). If you have a championship caliber defense they can stop anyone, if you have a championship caliber offense they can score on anyone, neither happened this season.

Was the defense better than the offense? Absolutely. But, this is a team sport.
 

Froggish

Active Member
Lot's to work on on both sides of the ball. Per B12 conference stats, the offense ranked sixth in the conference in points scored per game.....the defense ranked......also 6th in points allowed per game. Looks like a push. Also, the offense was 2nd in conference in TOP controlling the ball for just over 32 minutes per game on average.....so our defense got more pine time than eight other teams in the B12.

believe your stats are off as the NCAA after 12 games has us at

-Scoring Offense 8th in Big12 / 58th Nationally barely behind Tech
-Scoring Defense 5th in Big12 / 59th Nationally

Edit: I’ll add if you factor out non FBS we are even worse on offense..Roughly the same Def.

Finally the overtime points for and against us in the Baylor is also throwing off the stats..We were statistically much better defensively.

But yes we weren’t championship quality on either side of the ball..
 
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