When your defense struggles to either stop the run or the pass, you are looking at a shit season season with a couple or more losses to teams you should have beat on paper. But when your team struggles to stop the run and the pass... Yeah... trainwreck...
3rd and 7? run-pass? Flip a coin, because that's what their OC is doing. There's about the same odds of getting a first down either way. Rush none rush 5, equals to about the same pressure...
Blitz? Oh yeah, we've got that fuck! Dammit the QB used a two inch hip juke to avoid the fingertips of the blitzing fool that just ran past... At times I can only picture our would be tacklers sweeping ice in front of their ball carrier...
But the most infuriating thing of it all is, as inept as the defense has been, if we would have made only half the plays where the defensive call put someone (at times more) in the right spot to make the play, we would be a one loss team with a huge win over a high ranked OU, and wins over two other ranked opponents with Baylor about to become our 4th ranked bitch...
I'm not ready to throw this coaching staff down the disposal yet, but there is zero excuse to be had for allowing either blowhoma schools back into the game just to make it close, and almost unforgivable to let them actually pull out wins...
It all starts and stops with the defensive line and I'm not sure we have any combination of players to fix that this year... Maybe-hopefully stop the bleed, but this isn't an issue that can be fixed "overnight". It'll take some serious portal voodoo, juco magic, and possibly the sacrifice of a virgin or ten to the recruitment gods to get the bodies in next year who can make an impact right out of the gate.