More stats showing how pathetic our D was last year

That post really isn't about our D at all? Aside from starting field position, which can equally be attributed to our poor ST imo.

The title of the post is

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Fun with numbers – Georgia’s 2013 offense

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What does that have to do with defense?

Also, the body of the post

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Basically, outside the red zone, this was an offense that was quite effective when the rest of the team managed to stay out of its way. The problem was, as indicated by the starting field position and possessions per game stats, that didn’t happen as much as it needed to.

The most impressive part of that, of course, is how much Georgia was able to do on offense despite all the injuries. With the walking wounded hopefully returning to full strength, it lends support to the argument that the most important part of Hutson Mason’s role this season is to be a good game manager. Now if something can be done about that whole rest of the team staying out of the offense’s way thing…

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ETA: Unless I'm missing your point and you're pointing out how bad the defense was because our offense was still pretty good.

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-couldn't get off the field
-allowed long drives
-allowed 3rd down conversions
-couldn't get much needed turnovers

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Well yeah, but none of that was mentioned in the blog. I'm not talking crap, as our defense most certainly was pathetic...it just seems like the linked blog was more about offense.

Think happy thoughts.

I didn't have shite to do yesterday so I watched the 02 auburn game. Man I miss the hell out of that era of the richt tenure. Just physical, hard nosed, tough arse football and we played lights out on defense. Our jerseys looked a hell of a lot better too.

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.

Makes sense to me