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Pretty much everybody plays man defense against us on the edge. Saturday was no different in that respect. Their guys at safety (and LB) did a REALLY good job of turning and running with our ABs on play action.

Thats me. We all think we know, don't we. Hahaha.

Folks, we have gotten used to some mediocre defense. I have only looked at the first half so far, but I would say CPJ is right on. There are a lot of games won with 22 points in CFB by teams who play excellent defense. I think that is the only point CPJ is trying to make. We did play well on...

It is amazing to me that we are prattling on about we need to do this more, or that more, or this better, or that better, considering we just set an all time record for offensive efficiency last season. No team in the history of the game (since the stat was invented a decade or so ago) even came...

I'm not even going to open that or try and imagine what metric was used. Call me closed minded. How is anyone to know? I guess we could invent something like games with a score to try and figure it out.

Having watched much of the game closely, I would agree, in that my characterization of all the pushoffs etc as borderline. Had the call gone the other way and offensive PI called, people wouldn't be complaining. However, with that said, I have seen worse officiated games. We got beat. IMHO, the...

Good stuff.

I thought Devine was really good, at least in a physical sense. I doesn't seem to matter who lines up across from him. There was a poster here (can't remember the thread) lamenting the loss of Mason. Well, I am sure we miss him, in several ways, but Shamire is a special player in his own right...

I choose to look at things this way: Half ND's defense will be in the NFL (this is a sure thing), they did extra to prepare, we played the worst game (execution-wise) since 1985 (according to coach) and we still put up 22 points with two missed FGs and a TD called back that resulted in 0 points...

This time last week, it was all rain for South Bend predicted as well. I don't start paying attention until Friday.

I thought Skov ran hard, but there were a few plays where it looked like he ran to the wrong side of the block up front. He also ran to the wrong side of the QB once. That is a guaranteed busted play. The guy plays with a lot of effort though. He will figure it out.

Maybe he threw to Smelter more because he would actually come back for the football. That is probably the "chemistry" we are all talking about.

Yeah. I just got back from the radio show. He felt the WRs played as well as anybody. That may be true overall, but I saw some things that sent me through the roof. Maybe I am not being fair just picking a few things out and not looking at the big picture. Whatever. My sentiments haven't changed...

I hear you loud and clear Cheese. I just don't agree. Maybe his definition of winning the battle up front was holding our guys up from getting to the second level (maybe there should be an emphasis on the word "holding"). That is not physical domination in my book. It was a good tactical battle...

I don't really agree that we got our butts whipped in the trenches. We certainly didn't dominate either, but to say we got whipped in there, I believe is incorrect. In space is another story. They made the field look small. They shrunk it down and beat us to critical spots. A few well timed push...

That is a lot of responsibility. Hopefully you won't need that again this year!

I think we have plenty of talent to win big games. I think we are good enough to beat ND. We just weren't on the day that it mattered. They had a very good scheme cooked up for us on defense. I respect what they did a lot, however, we played poorly. Sometimes there will be games that are just a...

As far as the counters go, I think they repped the back side that way during practice. Middle and play side defenders go with motion. Back side defenders crash the LOS in case of counter. I could be wrong. WR play needs work. You are right.

Thanks for the sentiment. Personally, I am not really worried about the polls right now, but twenty-ish sounds fair.

I am glad you clarified. That guy is a really good player. He gave us more trouble than any player I can think of for a while.