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Thanks. I'm gonna look at that play again.... (edited 3 min later)..... That was it. That is a penalty 100%. There was contact made by Errin Joe (with Burden coming in low). Just because it was 80% whiff on Joe's part doesn't excuse him. The intent was all there and there was contact. We were...

Great Question! I will answer as if I know, but in reality, I just think I know. First of all, coaches get to see game film on all their opponents. It is part of an agreement. So, having Duke play Tulane doesn't provide any extra tape for our coaches, but rather condenses things where they don't...

Also, I meant to add that we didn't stay totally vanilla like you might think in a first game. There were some special stunts and blitzes along the way. I think CTR's goal was to come out and make a defensive statement, even if it meant showing some of the tools in the shed. Personally, I am...

That is not the way I remember it. I guess I will need to go back and look for it. There was no jumping over involved.

Nothing but a cheap shot in my mind. No other reason possible.

I feel sorry for the kid, immensley so. I feel no sorrow for the Irish. None. It is a part of football. Next man up. If you can't, tough noogies.

If you bring 5 or 6 EVERY third down, you become predictable. If you KNOW a blitz is coming you can destroy it with well timed screens and dump offs etc. I agree with you, we need pressure, but you can't do the same thing every time. Like I said, they were getting the ball out quickly and never...

It is easy to make too much out of this weekend in the ACC vs SEC grudge match. I saw much of both the games. Anybody who watched, and cared to be objective at all, saw ACC teams that were very competitive against their supposedly better counter parts. In fact, in both games, the ACC, I believe...

Once again, this report is based on a half of viewing. I just can't bring myself to watch every "garbage time" play 10 times. I got what I wanted out of the first half. First off, I want to give the Alcorn St. offensive line some props. They were the obvious class of the team, in other words...

ND did exactly what any very good team should do against a team like UT. I expect ND to be very good. I hope I didn't muddy the waters with my first comment. They looked solid to me in every phase. They have depth and they have athletic talent. I just happen to think we are good too. I hesitate...

Trey Klock (Why do I want to call him "Glock"? What does that say about me?) is a good looking young player. You have to be excited about what some of our newer players bring to the field. He is one of them, I was immediately struck by his foot speed and general quickness. Coming in to the...

Not Notre Dame. Discuss. I hope we clean some things up and get our #1 units a few more reps than last week. Although Two-lane struggled against Puke, they will present a greater challenge than our last opponent, I imagine. I want us to go a little deeper in the play book and make sure the...

None of this means anything to me. Heck, Herbie picks ASU to be in the playoff. They lost terribly last night to A&M. At this time of year, nobody outside of these programs really know what they have. Truthfully, even inside a program it is tough to know. That is why there exists all these...

Never thought ND would be a cake walk. What we can't do in this situation is look at the final score only and the name of the team they played against and draw sweeping conclusions. That game yesterday was its own form of a perfect storm. First of all, TEX is atrocious on offense. When you are...

I have no idea. I'm not that close to the program. Regardless, giving him time this year is not that important, or at least, not more important than making sure Timmy gets snaps THIS year. You never know, we may need Byerly to play a lot. Gotta play for now. You know what I mean?

I have a couple confessions to make. I usually take notes and watch every play of a game before writing these. This week, I did neither. TIFWIW. This writing represents one half of offensive football, albeit a single half watched very intently in two different sittings. Usually, I like to start...

I am about half way through my offensive DVR review, so I will save the details for that writing. I will say this, however, I don't think we played well on offense. How can I say that when we racked up soo many points so easily? Well, we were sloppy whiffing on blocking assignments, taking the...

BB bar has actually been raised. This is not to diminish Either ZL or SD, but the ceiling is higher now. Ball security is an apparent concern though. Gotsis has improved his body. So have a host of others. JT made two bad decisions: forced the ill-timed throw to Stewart, and ran backwards like...

Football is a tough sport. Everybody has a chance to get hurt. I will say this, I don't think there is a more devastating hit to be taken on a football field than a defenseless QB tossing a ball down field only to be blind-sided by a 260 lb DE coming full speed. I would way rather be running...

Well, we have an entire season to go and the games are right there in front of all ACC teams to play against SEC opponents. I'd rather actually win the games than have prognosticators say we are going to win them beforehand. I hate the SEC bias as much as anybody, but let's control the narrative...