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Forced Turnovers

ChrisL68

ChrisL68

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There are 127 teams in college football.

The only two teams that have yet to force a turnover are Wake Forest and Virginia.
 
Just by dumb luck you think you'd get one in four games. Yikes.

Hard to win with inferior talent without a short field here and there after a pick or fumble.
 
We just don't have strong enough lines to win many games. We get pushed around. When your lines are this weak, you can't really complain about anything else.
 
ChrisL68 said:
There are 127 teams in college football.

The only two teams that have yet to force a turnover are Wake Forest and Virginia.
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Positive spin: We are only 121 in turnover margin. There are several teams worse than Wake. So there's that.
 
sailordeac said:
We just don't have strong enough lines to win many games. We get pushed around. When your lines are this weak, you can't really complain about anything else.
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The D-line is further along than the O-line, we seemingly always considered undersized up front on defense, but we've got some young talent up there that will just get bigger. I think it hasn't helped that Tylor Harris hasn't been 100 percent, he's a mature good sized DT, but he's been dealing with a bad foot for awhile. I do like Zeek Rodney at DT and Stewart at d-end and hopefully we get Duke back at some point. Josh Banks does a good job, but he's undersized at DT really.
 
You could see the guys clearly trying to strip the ball. It did backfire several times giving them extra yds.
 
Janvion's missed interception really hurt yesterday as they ended up scoring a TD on that drive.
 
ChrisL68 said:
There are 127 teams in college football.

The only two teams that have yet to force a turnover are Wake Forest and Virginia.
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Chris, I was going to say--What forced turnovers? Amazing stat--just us & UVa.
 
sailordeac said:
We just don't have strong enough lines to win many games. We get pushed around. When your lines are this weak, you can't really complain about anything else.
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Not relevant. Turnover battle is a big part of our two losses in spite of subpar OL play.
 
TownieDeac said:
Not relevant. Turnover battle is a big part of our two losses in spite of subpar OL play.
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you have to get a lot of turnovers if you constantly get pushed around on the line of scrimmage

does anyone know of a theory of football that says control of the line of scrimmage is "not relevant" for winning games?
 
A pick six in each of our loses, (the difference in our last). And special teams that's aren't so special. The OL will get better at the OT position, unfortunately the interior three are as good as they'll ever be.
 
sailordeac said:
you have to get a lot of turnovers if you constantly get pushed around on the line of scrimmage

does anyone know of a theory of football that says control of the line of scrimmage is "not relevant" for winning games?
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It's not relevant to the thread. Of course it's important to the game.

I've written about the lines on here and BSD. But it has little to nothing to do with the turnover battle, which is the thread topic.

Controlling possession, via play calling, clock, and turnovers is how games are won and lost.
 
How many picks have we thrown this year because the QB has been hurried or hit on the throw? The "giving" half of the turnover battle has definitely been influenced by poor line play.
 
All I've said is that our inability to control either line of scrimmage dwarfs all of our other problems into insignificance, including the lack of turnovers. The turnovers will come. The control of the line of scrimmage is increasingly unlikely before next year at the earliest.
 
Yes and once again it's titled "forced turnovers."

Our D has many strengths this year but forcing turnovers isn't one of them.
 
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