re: More stats showing how pathetic our D was last year

Yep, the possessions per game is telling. As you say it suggests that our defense could not get off the field. What's odd though is our run defense was significantly better than in 2012 while or pass defense was much worse. Apparently opponents were getting a lot of first downs passing.

The starting field position was even worse. This tells me that we got very little return yard on either kickoffs or punts and that when our defense did stop the opposing offense, it was deep in our end of the field.