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The Mean Green's defense accepted the challenge of outplaying the Southern Miss defense and put together its best game of the season, amassing two turnovers, forcing three three-and-outs, totaling four sacks, and giving up only seven points. The final score was 30-7 and it was a performance head coach Seth Littrell called the best overall performance from all three phases this season.

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7 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

https://247sports.com/college/north-texas/ContentGallery/Ten-takeaways-from-North-Texas-Mean-Greens-win-over-Southern-Miss-Golden-Eagles-123327235/#123327235_1

The Mean Green's defense accepted the challenge of outplaying the Southern Miss defense and put together its best game of the season, amassing two turnovers, forcing three three-and-outs, totaling four sacks, and giving up only seven points. The final score was 30-7 and it was a performance head coach Seth Littrell called the best overall performance from all three phases this season.

He's the coach of the team, so he has final say, but I'm skeptical here.   
I think the defense's performance through the first 3.75 quarters of the SMU game was just as dominant, if not moreso... while the offense was WAAAAAY more productive.   The SMU beatdown was the best OVERALL performance I've seen this season.

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43 minutes ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

He's the coach of the team, so he has final say, but I'm skeptical here.   
I think the defense's performance through the first 3.75 quarters of the SMU game was just as dominant, if not moreso... while the offense was WAAAAAY more productive.   The SMU beatdown was the best OVERALL performance I've seen this season.

100%... i rewatched a good chunk of that game to make sure i wasn't exaggerating, but that was straight domination by our team over the first 3 qtrs.

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51 minutes ago, greenminer said:

I tend to think a 3-3-5 is extra vulnerable defending the run.

This is evidence to the contrary.

I thought that too until I went to watch the Tulane game in 2013. 
The McCarney ground & pound behind that senior-laden, big-time OL with Antonio Johnson, Badger, Lemon, et al & the prototypical thunder/lightning combo of Byrd/Jimmerson...  they were cruising into that game. 
I saw the Tulane Defense ran the 3-3-5 & thought, "Oh man, this is going to be a LOOOONG day for them."
Then, their LBs were everywhere & Byrd/Jimmerson couldn't get anything going.   Then, the stupid screen pass... & we lost the game.  

From then on, I knew that scheme could work against the run game if the right people were in place.

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