Half of the teams in your stats actually rated HIGHER in yard per play on offense VS. defense, so not really sure what your stat proves.
It shows that championship teams are great at both, and that our offense is a lot closer to that level than our defense.
It also disproves the notion that it's "an offensive game now." Three of the past four champions were first overall on defense.
Yet none of those "great" defenses were truly great defenses. Great defenses used to hold teams to 9 points. When people tell you the game has changed and that it's an offensive game just look at how the defensive numbers sharply declined recently. No one is holding teams to 9 points per game.
Now, look at offensive numbers and how they've skyrocketed recently. If you can't see that change then you're not looking because you're **** bent on a heel dig to get your defense mantra over. The game has changed dramatically over the last ten years.
Take your Bama defenses for example. If you try to line up and play power football with them you make them look great. Look at how they mangle your traditional old time line up and smash it at em offenses.
Same thing every year with Bama. Then, when they face a diverse offense that spreads then out and negates their brute power and tests their coverage they don't look like a great defense. They've been carved up regularly by spread offenses that run and can throw the ball. Not so much when you line up and play into their strength.
No one with a shred of intelligence is arguing that UM should ignore defense so I don't know why you're so **** bent on proving that defense is important. Of course it is. No one has argued otherwise.
All that most of us are saying is that you're not going to dominate football on that side of the ball anymore. You get some key stops, you play good 3rd down D, and you force turnovers. No one is suffocating anyone with defense anymore.
No one smart wants a guy like Kingsbury, who fields teams that don't even tackle. And no one smart wants a guy who is clueless offensively.
I would prefer an offensive whiz because that's the hardest thing to build and to keep humming if you lose a coordinator. I also want to be able to face a team that might have more talent that year like an Alabama or Ohio State or FSU and be able to equalize things with a high octane offense. Those offenses were built to negate the talent advantage that some teams have.
No one has given me a good argument against Gary Patterson and his choice to join the high octane offense ranks. That dude is a genius in my book and certainly way more football astute than any of us on here. That guy was all about the defense first approach his whole career. He actually came out and said in an interview "if you can't beat em join em" when he opted to start spreading it out and throwing more.
