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[QUOTE="TDTOrange, post: 1121503, member: 509"]
I'm laying a lot of the dissatisfaction with the offense at the feet of the defense for this game, if that makes sense.  The biggest issue in the game (outside of not being able to punch it in at the goalline) was that the defense could not get off the field.  Chris Carlson did a good job of breaking this down in an article today.  The Okie defense routinely failed to get stops in 3rd and medium and 3rd and long situations.

We only had 3 possessions (granted 3 or 4 and outs) in the 2nd half after the opening TD drive.  Villanova OWNED the ball, and the defense needed to do a better job of getting off the field.  Now it wasn't for a lack of trying, we blitzed, we sat back in coverage.  Either way there were missed tackles, lack of contain, and missed coverages that all need to improve or it won't matter what our offense does.

I mean we only ran 57 plays in regulation, not quite McDonald's vision.  Obviously, having Hunt for a full game (and maybe even to complete the drive we were on at the time) might have given us a little separation and forced Villanova to change their game plan.

So my wish-list for CMU is to see better 3rd down defense and hopefully that fixes a lot of the other shortcomings we saw.
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