Quote:A team's offense and defense don't play separately in their own little vacuums.  One side of the ball can and does affect the performance and stats of the other.  This does not excuse deficiencies on defense like the lack of turnovers we've seen, but it does excuse them in situations where our offense turns the ball over on our own side of the field which leads to easy points for the other team.  We seem to do that more than any other team.  I haven't checked the numbers this year, but we did turn the ball over inside our own 40 more than any other team last year when I created a thread about it.