Does everyone know our Defense is ranked 8th in the country

I don't think too many people will view chavis in a negative light.

If we had an adequate offense, we'd be ranked even higher.

That's b/c Florida played keep-away.

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in scoring defense? Cause i sure see a lot of, "The jury is still out on Chavis" and "3rd and Chavis" comments

All with a terrible offense that keeps putting you on the field.

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Still short-sighted. You can't explain away everything with a single statistic or a single reason.

There too much of a gap between #8 defense and #106 offense.

Chavis gets an A+ in my book.

Not because his defense has been dominant, but because his defense is on the field the whole game.

IF, our Offense was competent, I would bet the D would be a lot better.

Funny how that works.

I haven't been one of those. The defense is giving up a lot of yards in between the 20's but has been very good in the red zone. They have been on the field a lot due to our offense. The defense ins't the problem but I just hope we don't jumt the gun and give chavis a huge raise and extension just yet. We have enough money tied up to peeps who aren't worth what they are getting paid.

The "bend but don't break" defense gives your offense fewer opportunities to score.

Every time you give up a "3rd and Chavis", you have 3 fewer plays to move the ball yourself.

Overall, I think we are ranked 28th or so on defense, below 4 or 5 SEC teams. That's good, but not fantastic. A lot of those stats were built up during that ULL/Vandy/MSU/UGA run, too.

There are two reasons our offense sucks, and one of them is entirely on Chavis. Part of the reason we get so few plays and possessions on offense is that Chavis refuses to actually stop the other team with aggressive play calling. We give up 3rd downs, especially 3rd and longs at a ridiculous clip.

The UF game is a perfect example. While we held them to 13 (including a missed FG), they kept our offense off the field and dominated TOP.

Same in several other games. The defense is not DICTATING the play. The Ole Miss game plan was horrendous. I am sorry. We let them run and pass all over us and got lucky our defense stopped them several times inside the 20. You can't keep expecting your defense to hold up like that. Look at the MSU game.

The only decently coached defensive games this season were Auburn and UGA. Otherwise, Bend-don't-Break defense hurt our team.

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Cause i sure see a lot of, "The jury is still out on Chavis" and "3rd and Chavis" comments

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Did you miss the last three games? Specifically, did you miss the first half against La Tech and Ole Miss?