This set of numbers is unfamiliar territory.
This is gonna be about the defense. Much will be made about the offense's lack of identity, lack of consistency, lack of imagination, and lack of being the type of offense we're used to. There will be plenty on that later. This is a glass-is-half-full-because-we-just-beat-a-top-fifteen-team-by-three-touchdowns type of post. Let's go.
-1. Turnover difference. Okay, so that's partially about the offense. Now we're done with the offense. The defense recovered a pair of fumbles including one around the five yard-line. Turnover difference hurt us last year because we weren't forcing them nearly often enough.