re: We may be worse in football this year..

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We were a top 25 FEI offensive efficiency team this year...

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Which means what, when you can essentially flip a coin for every offensive possession between whether we score or whether we turn the ball over to the other team?

We punted 6 times vs. A&M, one more scoring possession and we win the game.

We punted 9 times vs. LSU, one more TD and we win the game.

We punted 8 times vs. Liberty, you know the story.

That puts us at 10-3, sitting pretty.

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Which means what, when you can essentially flip a coin for every offensive possession between whether we score or whether we turn the ball over to the other team?

We punted 6 times vs. A&M, one more scoring possession and we win the game.

We punted 9 times vs. LSU, one more TD and we win the game.

We punted 8 times vs. Liberty, you know the story.

That puts us at 10-3, sitting pretty.

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So what's your issue with the FEI evaluation of efficiency given their methodology? Let's look at the body of work as a whole vs some one off examples. If our efficiency was better we certainly would have won more games.


And if there's nothing wrong with their methodology how can a top 25 offense be bad? It could be better but it wasn't bad.

I think you've got a handful of sour grape examples here when the offense didn't bail us out. Where the rating gives them a fair season long comparison to other teams based on overall performance.

Defense played well enough to win maybe 2 more games this year. Offense played well enough to win the majority that we did.

Man, our Defense even in the liberty bowl, to be up as much as we were and slow it down (thanks Pittman) the D couldn't hold a small fart bro.

Defense was horrendous over all, using the same efficiency ratings. Our Offense was top 25... Defense bottom 25. You have a predisposition for hating our Offense for some odd reason. Both could be better, but if the offense was bad, the Defensed had many "hold my beer" moments!

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Well, not all of us. I’ve posted evidence after evidence that for all the suck that was our defense, our offense was worse.

I agree that the offense saved the defense’s arse in a couple of games, but the defense played well enough to win 3 more games this year, and the offense let us down.

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2021
Offense- 30.9 ppg
Defense- 22.9 ppg

2022
Offense- 32.5 ppg
Defense- 30.6 ppg

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2021
Offense- 30.9 ppg
Defense- 22.9 ppg

2022
Offense- 32.5 ppg
Defense- 30.6 ppg

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I agree the average is bad, but the fact remains that in giving up 21 to Liberty, 13 to LSU, and 16 to aTm, they cave up significantly less in those games.

What does that say about our offense in those games, considering they were all losses?

Cherry picking i suppose...

Good on them for those three games. Which isn't saying much about them if the offenses on those teams were absolutely terrible at that time.

So, let's go game by game. TAMU LOLOLOLZZZ! Dude, their offensed sucked donkey kong. Nice Job Odom. LSU at that time was terrible, but kuddos to Odom I suppose. Liberty, What division do they play in... Well, I will give a bit more credit because of Freeze. Freeze whould send Pittman, Briles, and Odom a gift for getting him back as a HC in the SEC.

Now, We had to score 31 to beat a Cincinnati team that was decimated by draft, and players leaving. WTG Briles...
Odom? Nahh!
44 against USCe... Odom, not bad I suppose. Held the to lol, 30 But this was also prior to Rattler getting much improved for the season.

Missouri State... Dang Odom. We almost lost because of your Defense. Thank God Briles had us tuned up! 38 points by the good guys should always win against teams like this, even with BP as coach.

Bama, during their worst season in years... Yeah, still bama. Give him a break here.

Miss State... 40 fricking points given up. FIRE ODOM NOW! Our offense wasn't good either... but... 40 pts. and you want to get onto Briles. Yeah/NO!

BYU, well done everyone! Next game please

Auburn, LOLZZZ sure... Good job everyone.. against the worst Auburn we will see in a long time imho

Ole Miss, BRILES COMING OUT PARTY>>>> WOW Well DOne Briles
Odom??? Yeah, ok

Mizzou, FIRE THEM ALL!.. until the next day... lol

Kansas... 55/53. TY Briles for doing an incredible job while (SARCASM HERE) obviously job hopping, looking for a much deserved raise and respect considering what the Defense has given you the past two years. Nice to see you can multitask . WPS!

Seriously man. Defense sucked donkey dong always, Offense sucked it sort of. IMHO of course.

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Without going back to look, it gives credit/points for first downs, some kind of points for drives with better than expected results whatever that is, and a couple of other things that I noticed.

Offense is on the field to score, and not give the ball to the opponent’s offense. I think what I compiled does a much better job of illustrating that.

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The problem i see with what you compiled is I'm lacking a way to compare it and know if those numbers are good or bad. I also do think offenses who get more first downs and drive the ball are better than offenses who don't even help field position. In football traditionally is a game of inches where field position matters. Our defense negated that advantage often though

how many points per game and what percentage of possessions are you expecting us to score on? like what are our indicator points to know good bad, mediocre?

I’m not a fan of going for it on 4th down while in field goal range early in games. Seems we rarely made it and the missing out on 3 points seemed to bite us in the arse at the end of games.

We have a solid kicker, use him.


It’s a kick in the gut to the players to come up empty for no good reason.