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[QUOTE="nzm136, post: 1877414, member: 2531"]
Actually, last year's offense was better. Admittedly, we've only played 2 games - one against an fcs team, and one against a top 10-15 team - so 2016 season stats are pretty close to meaningless right now. The unreliability of statistics especially true in this case because we have a new coach and a new system, so we don't really have the players to fit the system and the players that we do have are still learning how to play in it. However, for the fun of internet banter, the 2016 Orange squad has only scored 80% as many points per possession as the 2015 Orange.

We have more points per game, but that's just because we have a faster tempo. If our defense is equally good, then we could expect to lose more games, and we could expect more blowouts. In other words, so far we stink more and we do it faster.

All that said, these stats are completely meaningless right now for a number of reasons, and I expect them to improve over the course of the year. Still, I think that they provide an interesting perspective.
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