So its the offenses fault? WOW! Last year the defense won games for us but they can't this year? The O had no turnovers, had almost 300 yards passing. The D gave up 5 TD's and got manhandled. They couldnt' stop Wayne HS's run game. I am getting sick of excuses for the D. Rippon needs to go, we need to amp up the LB size and get more depth on the DT position. UCF was better than we were, no doubt; but I find it hard to believe that with good coaching, we couldn't overcome some of that talent difference.
No its not the offenses fault...other than the fact that they dropped too many balls and Catos completeion rate was half of what its been in previous games this season.
Its not the defenses fault or the offenses fault that UCF is simply more talented. I cant blame our players for that...
I agree we do need more size and strength to go with our athleticism....one of the commentators said that the reason we too the two BC transfers was because we needed defensive guys so bad and that no one else would take them because its too difficult to integrate senior transfers....which means we were not solid on defensive talent to start with this year...
They were even willing to shift everyone around and change many of the guys positions this year ...it just shows you that we simply arent where we need to be yet as far as defensive personell goes...
If our offense had started scoring I honestly dont think UCF would have scored so many points....the defense was on the field too much and got too beat up and were deflated by our offense production and just exhausted as time went on...UCF really got physicall on our defensive....
If we had caught the ball it would have opened up our running game and then the ucf defense wouldnt have been allowed to tee off on Cato...he would have then had more time to play pitch and catch even more...
If we had scored 3-4 TDs...ucf would have scored a lot less....so yes I think our offense hurt our defense in this game....