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[QUOTE="upperdeck, post: 3194417, member: 474"]
We know the D has issues.. But I also think that as 2 weeks ago showed you can fix a D easier than you can fix an O..

Defense is about guys being in the right spot more often than it is about talent.

Sometimes you get guys in space and you lose that battle but more often its about a guy not being where he is supposed to be or about a guy not making a tackle.  Those are things you can correct in the film room, by getting better talent, or by calling a Better play.

But the thing that drives the bus will be the offense, getting that corrected requires a functional oline..

Since week 9 when Bergeron became the starter and then a couple weeks later we made the 2nd change

FSU 51-192
BC 42-159
Duke 43-286
Lou 52-261
almost 220 a game and 32 pts

the previous 7 weeks we avg 110. and 24 pts

I dont care who we played thats a huge jump in production if we see that again this week thats a huge trend in the right direction and its not being masked by a highly productive running QB.

If we go for 200 plus running this week even in a loss against 4 of the teams on our side, thats something to take from the season no matter the results on the field.  the oline is basically coming back

when you start running for 200 it doesnt take much to fix the passing game, maybe the QB isnt as dinged up as he is now, maybe we score 7 more pts in a couple games.

Its still means the D has to get better.  to me as much as I wanted to win the last 3 i also wanted to get better and I still think a new coach/new blood as the DC is the answer. Winning the last 3 might have pushed us to not make that change. 5-7 is still better than yr 1-2 and winning 2 of the last 3 after fixing the oline issues is positive energy to add to hopefully a solid DC hire
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