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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 5151583, member: 837"]
Sorry, meant dramatic turnaround in general. We've been irrelevant nationally for going on 25 years. Some solid seasons mixed in there, but even in those, we're not really in a national discussion in any meaningful way. So I wasn't speaking specifically defensively.

As for our defense, the third-down defense was great. We seemed to get much tougher in the red zone as well. So if it's bend but don't break and that's our system, then those are good signs. But, did you think we played well on that side of the ball?

Ohio opened with two drives that took up the entire first quarter -- 25 plays, 104 yards with both ending in our red zone. They then added a 7 play, 72-yard drive that took just 1:14 and would have ended the half were it not for Fran (intelligently) using our time outs.

In the second half they opened with a 5 play, 75-yard TD drive, had another that was 4 plays, 75 yards for a TD and their final two drives went for 7 plays, 60 yards ending in an pick at our own 25 and then put together an 11-play 60-yard drive that ended in our red zone again.

So six drives that reached the red zone, a seventh that ended at our 25. They had big plays and, as you mention, plenty of chunk plays. The piled up 430 yards of offense, won the time of possession battle and threw enough to keep us off-balance.

I mean, I don't know. If that doesn't cause any concern for you against a supposedly lesser opponent, I guess we just see the game differently.
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