You are missing the point entirely --- or, I am not articulating the point well --- or a combination of the two. I am making no statement whatsoever of who is better or who is not. No excuses of any sort are being made. There is nothing to own up to. A loss is a loss -- it happens. The point is simple... NU is inordinately prone to beating themselves by making unforced errors (sometimes getting away with it against lesser opponents --- other times not against better opponents). The number of unforced errors NU makes exceeds, by a wide margin, that of the typical team. Watch other games... rarely, if ever, do you see a team drop so many uncontested passes, fumble so often, repeatedly get so many procedure penalties, etc. Our biggest enemy seems to be ourselves. More so than is usual. Much more so.
None of these are excuses for losing ... they are reasons for losing.
One poster correctly pointed out that we are "not a championship caliber team." Agreed. I only add that it is not because we do not have "championship caliber" talent or potential --- we probably do --- it is rather because we are not, in the general sense, taking care of what can be controlled well --- basically we are too error prone.
I return the questions. Why are we so error prone and how can it be fixed?
gotcha and i do agree championship teams take better care of the football but maybe the coaching staff should of been proactive and sat taylor down for cody when it was apparent he was rattled turning the ball over. also the play calling has been very weird at times rex was running the wild cat well and we could of limited some of these turn overs by simply pounding the rock instead of dropping back and passing.