How we ended up ranked in statistical categories

[BoroVol20]

I just can't for the life of me figure out what happened to our defense. There was legitimately a point in the Ole Miss game where I wondered if we were the best defense in the SEC.

Treadwell was shut down, AJ and Barnett lived in their backfield, and they couldn't move the ball. It felt like teams struggled to move the ball all season.

Then the 1st quarter of Bama happened and that was it, the defense was never the same after that.

Good point. We really need these freshman defensive backs to step up next year. Personally, I think Randolph is a step slow and McNeil misses tackles too often. In order to be competitive in the SEC, you just have to have dynamic safeties at both positions.

 

[nagle]

Good point. We really need these freshman defensive backs to step up next year. Personally, I think Randolph is a step slow and McNeil misses tackles too often. In order to be competitive in the SEC, you just have to have dynamic safeties at both positions.

imo, Randolph is a pure nickle safty

 

[BoroVol20]

Another thing about these stats. Not only sacks allowed but TFL allowed. Sheesh. We all know that the O-Line had their problems, but Hurd and Kamara must be able to break tackles.

 

[walkenvol]

In light of these stats, how in the world did we win 6 games? These numbers look like a 2-3 win season?

 

[daj2576]

Ranked in the SEC vs only the SEC which is closer to what you want:

Scoring O- 7th
Total O- 8th
Rushing O- 11th
Passing O- 7th
Penalties- 2nd
Sacks allowed- 14th
TFL allowed- 14th
INT's allowed- 11th
Fumbles lost- 8th
3rd down conv- 11th

Scoring D- 9th (27.1 ppg vs 30.6 ppg in '13)
Total D- 8th
Rushing D- 9th
Pass D- 4th
Sacks- 1st
TFL- 2nd
INT's- 1st (t)
Fumbles recovered- 13th
3rd down conv allowed- 6th

Punts- 4th
Returns allowed- 2nd
Punt ret- 8th
Kick ret allowed- 2nd
Kick ret- 1st


Nothing we didn't know I don't think. Some improvement on D and an OL short of being decent on O.

That is more meaningful but still falls short of being a helpful tool, especially if one is trying to compare outside the conference.

People should read 'Moneyball'. I did and I hate baseball. One of the keys to Lewis was how baseball had been tracking statistics for 100 years and pedaling them as meaningful when they were anything but. For some reason football hasn't learned from that and I believe it's largely because the consumer who watches the insanity that is Gameday believes that passes for meaningful evaluation when it's just hype filled propaganda. "This team has never won on a Saturday following a full moon when the quarterback wears matching socks, after the commercial we'll ask [insert random celebrity guest] who wins tonight."

 

[agent|orange]

I just can't for the life of me figure out what happened to our defense. There was legitimately a point in the Ole Miss game where I wondered if we were the best defense in the SEC.

Treadwell was shut down, AJ and Barnett lived in their backfield, and they couldn't move the ball. It felt like teams struggled to move the ball all season.

Then the 1st quarter of Bama happened and that was it, the defense was never the same after that.

After that we gave up 199 yards in 3 quarters against Bama.

South Carolina was bad, I'll give you that.

We totally shut down Kentucky with 252 yards allowed.

Mizzou got 410 yards but 216 of those were on the first and last 2 drives of the game.

Vandy got 272 yards against us.

So what we've seen is a sound Defense, in my opinion. South Carolina and the 1st Quarter of Bama were the outliers. We still are very weak in the DL interior and have little quality depth at DB. We're getting there. I have confidence, now, in our D.

The Offense on the other hand....

 

[Catbone]

So our offense is almost the worst in all of football mainly due to the OL and our defense is average. We are very disciplined and have good pass rushers.

There's the summary.

 

[VolInBlueNation]

I just can't for the life of me figure out what happened to our defense. There was legitimately a point in the Ole Miss game where I wondered if we were the best defense in the SEC.

Treadwell was shut down, AJ and Barnett lived in their backfield, and they couldn't move the ball. It felt like teams struggled to move the ball all season.

Then the 1st quarter of Bama happened and that was it, the defense was never the same after that.

The big thing that stood out to me in that game was Alabama realized they needed to scheme and get their best receiver on anyone other than Cam Sutton. After that you started seeing more teams line up their best receiver in the slot or just anywhere to try and get away from him. It continued to surprise me when people actually tested him vs. just throwing the other way they had to be open.

 

[Volinnooga]

Wow! at the penalties, those SEC refs love us.

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We got very few holding penalties; usually because the defensive lineman was past us before we could grab him.