I will say this about the Defense. During our stretch of the 5 toughest games the opposing team didn't continue to push

Nov 20, 2017
6:42:03am

SouthernBlueBlood All-American

the ball. In my opinion they all decided that the game was certain and they just ran the clock out not feeling the need to put up numbers. I think our defense hasn't looked as good as the numbers suggest.

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It’s not the defense!

mm73

11/20/17 6:16am

I counted 5 games the defense was not good enough to win

HighHorse

11/20/17 6:22am

Offense is terrible, but defense is bad too.

rggee

11/20/17 6:26am

You are wrong. Defense is better than average according to S&P+ rankings.

mm73

11/20/17 6:35am

I truly believe the defense numbers look a lot better cause we're always down

rggee

11/20/17 6:45am

Wisky could have put up 50 on us.

johnnycarson

11/20/17 6:58am

70, they could have put up 70 if they wanted to

Kajdin

11/20/17 11:46am

You may be right about opponents taking their foot off the pedal late in games

mm73

11/20/17 7:03am

Lsu, Utah, wisky, miss, boise. All loses. Usu toss-up.

johnnycarson

11/20/17 7:05am

The loss to USU can be chalked up to injuries. Even with our backup QB we were

mm73

11/20/17 7:17am

Utah scored 19. That's not a failure by the D.

LifeLongLakerFan

11/20/17 7:47am

right. but they played ball control the whole game. utah is much better on

johnnycarson

11/20/17 8:36am

Utah knew they had the game at halftime? U do know we had a chance to win in

viper

11/20/17 9:23am

nobody on the planet thought we were going 90 yards on utah to win the game.

johnnycarson

11/20/17 9:56am

Agreed. Would still lose big vs. Wisconsin, also losses against LSU and Miss St

Game Changer

11/20/17 7:32am

i still don't think we beat boise and definitely not utah.

johnnycarson

11/20/17 9:01am

Defense is lousy according to FEI rankings

Coop

11/20/17 6:48am

its really hard for me to say the defense is good when we let opposing qbs

johnnycarson

11/20/17 9:04am

Agreed. BYU just lost 16-10 to UMass. Hard to fault the defense for that.

Game Changer

11/20/17 6:28am

The defense manages points fairly well but struggles to get off the field

Junior Deputy

11/20/17 6:33am

Yup. The defense is not good on 3rd down, and stinks at getting pressure on the

mm73

11/20/17 6:43am

The good news is that our ability to manage points seems to indicate a sound

Junior Deputy

11/20/17 6:53am

I will say this about the Defense. During our stretch of the 5 toughest games the opposing team didn't continue to push

SouthernBlueBlood

11/20/17 6:42am

Agreed. Opposing offenses have been able to move the ball at will against this

BYUlv

11/20/17 9:22am

Independence is Over for BYU football

FootFAN

11/20/17 7:11am

Way too much criticism of the defense recently.

eddog

11/20/17 7:28am

I agree to a point, but it's like comparing Al Franken to Roy Moore

Roko's Basilisk

11/20/17 7:39am

It's also not just the offense. The entire team is poor.

SpiffCoug

11/20/17 7:51am

At this point it is the entire team

stonecougar

11/20/17 8:02am

The problem is our defense has a lot of experienced guys who have digressed

Dynasty1

11/20/17 8:07am

Does S+P adjust for opponent difficulty? Because in the FEI, which does, we are

BeefNoodleSoup

11/20/17 8:18am

S&P+ does, too, but it tracks different things in a slightly different way . . .

Coop

11/20/17 11:48am

RE: Does S+P adjust for opponent difficulty? Because in the FEI, which does, we

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