[winflop]

There have been a few games where come the fourth quarter, our defense, especially, has fallen apart.  While I’m not sure that injuries are much more than a stochastic event (though the correlation with Turkey’s departure is is eyebrow raising), I think our conditioning has gone down a notch and it shows.  I liked it better when in the fourth quarter we were the ones pushing tired defenses around.

BC

It helps to be the team whose offense is on the field for 35 minutes per game rather than being the team whose defense is out there for 35 minutes per game. But yes conditioning appears to have slipped as well.

[winflop]

There have been a few games where come the fourth quarter, our defense, especially, has fallen apart.  While I’m not sure that injuries are much more than a stochastic event (though the correlation with Turkey’s departure is is eyebrow raising), I think our conditioning has gone down a notch and it shows.  I liked it better when in the fourth quarter we were the ones pushing tired defenses around.

BC

It helps to be the team whose offense is on the field for 35 minutes per game rather than being the team whose defense is out there for 35 minutes per game. But yes conditioning appears to have slipped as well.