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Message: [QUOTE="omniorange, post: 869102, member: 636"] By what standard was this year's defense "much better" than last year's. Seems to me the best one could say is they were even. Not counting the FCS team, this year we played 4 offensively challenged teams that had trouble scoring 3 TDs in most of their games against teams with even average defenses, but when we faced any team capable of putting up huge numbers, they all did 48, 49, 56, and 59. Our defense last year at least managed to hold some of the better offensive teams we played like Louisville and Mizzou to less than 30. Heck, even Minny that hadn't scored an offensive TD in like forever toward the end of the season, managed two of them to almost pull out the bowl game. Not trying to minimize the huge contributions that the seniors on defense had over their careers with us, but if you think this year's defense was "much better" than last year, then you are indeed overreacting, imho. Cheers, Neil [/QUOTE]