The defensive standing from last year was a mirage. We were like the 15th as far as scoring. In other words....average. We just had a low total yard count because of the style of football we played. With the ball posession offense we played, there tended to be fewer total posessions per game...this translates to lower total yards for both sides. So, we really didn't have a great D last year...
This year, now that we are no longer doing the ball control offense and are opening things up...we now see what our defense really is...which is really just average...if that.