I had a thought come to mind this morning while contemplating last nights game. Could we have witnessed our OBD listening too the media hype this week and not taking the Trojans as seriously as they should?
Yes the questionable penalties and the injuries had an impact to the game, but the dropped passes, messed up snap, fumbled exchange and constant false starts is loss of focus leading to poor execution.
Another I noticed, someone mentioned a couple weeks ago that it appeared the DL last some of his aggressiveness. While I think he did make a few poor calls in the game up north, it really seems like he is restraining himself to much and it's affecting his desire to step on the neck of the apposition.
On that note it could be argued " just look at the last two game" as an argument against this thought, but I point to the same games, save thw cal gamae, and say you can see that they could have put up more points instead of running out the clock.
Just some thoughts...