For the second straight week, the defense played aggressively throughout the game. For the second straight week, they got burned early on for some big gains and then locked down after halftime. For the second straight week, they allowed 21 points in the first half and just three in the final 30 minutes, stringing together several second-half stops to get the ball back to the offense.
Unfortunately, this time the offense couldn’t match the defense’s second-half resurgence. The result was a 24-10 loss in a game that never really felt as close as the score indicated.