Something interesting and also painful I found.

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- 12/08/2024 at 11:39 PM #237195
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  EagleMountainUte
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  X link to NCAA offensive visual.
  
  X Link for defensive visual
- 12/09/2024 at 7:21 AM #237199
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  2008 National Champ
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  Defensive link isn’t working for me
  - 12/09/2024 at 7:52 AM #237205
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    EagleMountainUte
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    Got it working I think again.
    - 12/09/2024 at 8:01 AM #237207
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      2008 National Champ
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      Working now and the charts match perception. The Colorado and Iowa State games hurt Utah’s overall defensive rankings but on a pure by play analysis, that was a top level defense we watched in 2024. With even a competent offense we’d be talking about it being one Utah’s best ever instead of thinking that the defense could/should have done just that little bit extra to win more games.
      - 12/09/2024 at 8:32 AM #237211
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        jshame17
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        Yeah, I was irked by Whitt’s comments that the defense failed to get stops at end of games like they needed or expected. F that Noise.
        
        This chart shows exactly what we all thought. This isn’t on the defense. It is 100% on the offense and some extent, special teams.
        
        1/3 of the program showed up this season.
        
        PS: the offense link doesn’t work for me.
        
        12/09/2024 at 9:14 AM #237217
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        2008 National Champ
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        The offensive chart had Utah in the lower left. There were only 6 teams worse on both axes (axesses? axis?). The word is pronounced ack-cees but it doesn’t look right when I type it. No matter how it’s spelled it was putrid and the chart backs it up.
        
        12/09/2024 at 9:19 AM #237218
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        jshame17
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        So, we had a championship worthy defense and an offense worthy of program relegation or shuttering.
        
        What a season!!! I’m going to go cry now…
        
        12/09/2024 at 4:27 PM #237297
        
        //r00t4Utes
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        It’s “axis”.
        
        And thanks for posting this, I saw it lost night and was looking for somewhere to post it.
        
        I mean, most recognized how much the defense was at a disadvantage. But you’d still see hate and disrespect towards the defense, and this shows just how much we may have not even appreciated the D as much as we should have.
        
        It wasn’t perfect and could’ve created more TOs and couldn’t potentially gotten that “1 more stop” and who knows, with a better offense it could’ve had enough energy or momentum to get that.
- 12/09/2024 at 4:09 PM #237293
  
  UteBaron89
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  This tells me that all we needed was a middle of the road offense to be CFP caliber. Thinking about each loss, this checks out. With a 2021/22 offense, we’re 13-0 and #2 in the final ranking. Just like most that know the program were expecting.
- 12/09/2024 at 4:17 PM #237296
  
  Extra Medium
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  We would have been 11-1 with a average offense.
- 12/09/2024 at 4:41 PM #237298
  
  utefansince79
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  Five games where the offense had one single TD (in one of them a pick-6 and a TD on a blocked punt wasn’t enough for a win, another was against a TCU team that gave up 66 points to their twin-cities rival SMU).
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