7 games in we have scored more in regulation than we did in 2019 against 6 of those opponents. I realize this isn't the only relevant metric but an important one. Charlie's stats are now almost Identical to those of last couple years. Just more evidence that the modest regression on defense (primarily due to losing entire dl that was the strength of the team) is the primary reason we are losing rather than winning close games. You can argue we should have improved on offense but that wasn't realistic in hindsight given lack of practice in new system. We are now basically just rebooting what worked moderately well last year. Reason to give Fedora and Aranda an "incomplete" on grading this year.

The stat that jumped out at me from Saturday is that Charlie threw for 31 of 39. That's 79%! If he had done that all season, we'd probably have more wins and he'd be in a few record books. We should not forget that his senior year in high school his completion percentage set a new record--nationally.

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7 games in we have scored more in regulation than we did in 2019 against 6 of those opponents. I realize this isn't the only relevant metric but an important one. Charlie's stats are now almost Identical to those of last couple years. Just more evidence that the modest regression on defense (primarily due to losing entire dl that was the strength of the team) is the primary reason we are losing rather than winning close games. You can argue we should have improved on offense but that wasn't realistic in hindsight given lack of practice in new system. We are now basically just rebooting what worked moderately well last year. Reason to give Fedora and Aranda an "incomplete" on grading this year.

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Last week was the first time all year that we've gained more than 366 total yards in a game. We averaged 421 last year. We average 1.3 fewer yards per play this year than we did in 2019.

The offense has been better the last three weeks than it was the four weeks prior, and that's a good thing. But last year's unit was far more efficient and defense-friendly than this one has been, and it's basically 100 percent attributable to the difference in run production.