Everyone points toward DeBord’s offense as the issue and it does have its shortcomings, but the issue IMO is the defense. Comparative stats:
2014 Total Off 371
2015 Total Off 418 or +13%
2014 Scoring Off 29
2015 Scoring Off 37 or +28%
2014 Total Def 365
2015 Total Def 414 or -13%
2014 Scoring Def 24
2015 Scoring Def 25, or -4%
I understand that the 37 points per game average will float downward over the coming weeks, but we have only averaged over 30 ppg 4 times since 2000. The defense needs to step up, specifically with the pass defense and more specifically with the pass rush to help out our secondary.
It's a good point. Our defense has issues at LB and we're too slow at safety.