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If Our Special Teams plays better we're 4-0

ItsPantone278

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Mistook the GB game, so we'd be 3-1, but the point still stands. There are plenty of reasons we lost, but with the obvious growth that has to be made on offense and defense we have been competitive in both aspects. As far as special teams goes, the job is simple, and its the main reason these guys are even on the team other than depth. They MUST improve. Cam's one INT today was set up by bad special teams play.

Get a good group out there that can control the field position so we can finally start winning some of these ball games.

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Those stats are deceptive. We've gotten a lot of "garbage time" stats in the final few minutes when the game is already out of reach.

Don't get me wrong, the offense did a complete 180 from last year, but the inability to stay balanced and score in the redzone is what separates the great teams from the "great stats but 10 losses" teams.

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You wont win many games giving up 200+ yds to a RB.

I seem to remember Forte's rushing TD coming after Mare pushing Hester out of bounds on a kick off, so you can chalk some of those yards of rushing and the TD as some fault on the special teams unit there as well. Again, making a negative impact on the game.

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We aren't stellar on defense, but with this offense, we can put points on the board. The defense has to be better than it was today but they still made big stops that gave us a chance to win. With special teams, it's either go out there and do your jobs and go un noticed, or its suck it up and blow it and make the game that much harder on both sides.

Even with all of the problems we've had on offense and defense we we're still in the game. You just can't make it even harder by sucking it up in the special teams phase of the game.

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No.. really its the special teams. Cost us every game so far. Name one lose where we didn't give up a touchdown on special teams.

The special teams gave up a touchdown today so where did the other 27 points come from? No man our defense is costing us the game!

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