Quote:Gutted? Or poorly coached?


We were within 7 points of 6 of our losses. Our defense was terrible, but the fact that no adjustments were made and o'Brian punked Bradley by exposing how ridiculously predictable our defensive tendencies are kinda renders this argument of a gutted defense as rather weak.


I'm not saying the defence was built, but keeping us within 7 means they weren't gutted...


You asked further up the thread how many more wins would a good coach have brought in... there were several games that we left on the table.


Not only that, but it's a team game, with multiple aspects, offense, defense and special teams.

While the defence was clearly weak, there were 6 games where we weren't being blown out and within striking distance. Good coaching makes the difference -- public service announcement--- this is my opinion.

 

 

 

I respect your opinion, though with last year's defense consisting of several players that may not be starters on most other teams in the league, players playing out of position and a number of starters on IR thus creating our inability to stop the opposing offfenses, would it not be safe to say that Bradley coached them to outperform well enough to keep us within 7 points in those games you mentioned? 

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