Carson is the reason the D has to play "perfect" football.
Do you realize that NU only had 10 drives last night? They scored on 8 of them. Their best starting field position was their own 32 yard line.
That's horrible.
That's beyond horrible.
The only things that kept them from scoring 100 were:
1. Our offense did not turn the ball over
2. There were no breakdowns in special teams.
3. Our offense gained yards and ate a lot of clock.
I know typed this after the debacle last night, but this "perfect football" analogy is for the whole season.
Not only can the D not give up big plays (duh) but it cannot give up many points (more than probably 17) per game average or KSU doesn't win, because you know as well as I that CCQ cannot hoist a team on his shoulders and throw his way to a victory.
And don't gimme the BS about "the drive" vs. UCF...had he played well the entire game (or even average) he wouldn't have had to pull that drive out of his ass to win the game.
I didn't mention that our horrible defense also did not create a single turnover.
If the D could have ever stopped NU it would have given the offense a chance. The three drives that we scored on were the only three drives that started beyond our 40 yard line (none started in NU territory.) Both times we forced Nebraska to punt our offense came out and scored. Our offense only had one three and out in 10 drives.
Our drives went for:
0,17,23,25,27,30,39,48,54,56
That's not bad at all. You can win football games with an offense like that if your defense is even moderately capable.
When your offense is driving the ball and not turning it over and putting the other team in poor field position every single time, it's not at all unreasonable to expect your defense to only allow 17 points.
