sjb75 said:

Penn State has also played Ohio St. and Oregon. They have played very good teams.

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tkirish said:

Do not misunderstand me. I am not saying that as an excuse. I am simply pointing out that they played a very physical and emotional game last night. One week from now it will be a similar setting. It is difficult to do that two weeks in a row knowing there is so much on the line. If the Game were 10 days out or more I think mental and physical recovery would be fine. I am hoping they can play as tough as they did yesterday. That’s all I am saying

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ZibbyQuinn said:

Lack of depth on the interior was always a concern, edges have been solid. Junior T, Oben, Burnham, Bryce Young have done a great job. Down to Cross, Hinish and Rubio on the inside. Did any other players get snaps at DT?

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Get Nasty said:

keytron is not like Love IMO. Keytron does have great vision, balance, runs hard and doesn't go down easy, but lacks top quickness or speed. He's more like ettiene we just went against.

Singleton has the home run speed, but goes down very easy. Singleton is similar to price IMO, love is a unicorn.

PSU Dline is undersized but shoots gaps hard, and their lbs fly downhill like ours. They secondary is not as strong in pass coverage, and can be had against in the air. We have more talented depth at LB than PSU but psu lbs are better in coverage.

We will have the ability to move the dline more so than we did with Georgia, but psu dline will be better at exploiting spindler/coogan and the fact they aren't very nimble on their feet.

I think ND just needs to run leonard earlier. Hopefully our pass game is improved.

Stopping penn state, i'm confident we'll slow their run game down, it will be our lbs/safeties covering their rbs and TEs.

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savvyandsassier said:

Well, sorry then. My sincere apologies. Pretty much everyone on this board harbors at least some not inconsiderable antipathy for BK, and usually anything or any player or success achieved, or anything even coterminous with his time at ND by association. And most to many display actively virulent hostility for him. And so I must have confused you with someone else.

RL has been cash money this season for ND, totally delivered as expected, including the lousy passing, which hasn't held us back thus far, and gave a chance for Denbrock to flex his OC chops and scheme very effectively around him. But he doesn't compare to Ian Book as a ND QB, on the merits. If we win the next two games then maybe we can revisit it.

There you go, I answered your question.

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SubwaydomerDFW said:

This team is hanging on by a thread at DL. Is KVA coming back? Any assistance on the edge will be helpful down the stretch.

Onye quitting the team possibly?. Bothelo coming back thankfully. Should be ok with frontline guys Logan Thomas Bryce young maybe the freshman DT can contribute next season I think he EE.

Clemson won their titles because of a dominant DL and a QB and lots of average players with a couple playmaking receivers.

My point was that a dominant D line is really all this team needs.

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ftnfan62 said:

Just rewatching this, it really was worse than I remembered.

The sideline interference was “do they really need to call that”.

The first PI was “He had his hand on the shoulder pad that’s PI”

Then on the face mask “you can call that, you don’t have to but you can”

The PI on GA on that same drive. 2nd and 7 with the defender holding the ND guys arm was “that just aggressive coverage”.

What a bunch of tools

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ftnfan62 said:

Here is the rule.

Is face guarding illegal in college football?​

Morelli is incorrect about at least one thing: Face-guarding (i.e., a defender facing the player he is covering, rather than looking at the ball) is not illegal at the NCAA level. Rather, college football has the same penalty threshold as the pros — face-guarding is legal, as long as there is no contact.

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4-4-3 said:

I felt that the D-LINE -- almost counter-intutively -- played BETTER than it had in a number of games Mills played in.

Its quickness and mobility NEUTRALIZED Georgia's O-Line's ALLEGED RAW POWER -- much of which DID NOT APPEAR to show up.

I think Golden's scheme was SUPERB, and the D-LINE simply went out and executed. So much so that I had to wonder WHERE WAS THIS KIND OF EDGE PRESSURE ALL SEASON? For it to show up in THIS GAME was remarkable.

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scubastevefl said:

Can we move the game to Green Bay so we can have this

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NCDomer1 said:

Here we go again so the disparity in talent between the SEC and every one else is because they win championships , of course the NIL has a lot to do with it or maybe coaching and development over a four year period beats portal princess`s. ND was out weighted on the defensive line by over 30 lbs , but dominated. ND had twice the amount of penalty yards especially that BS illegal motion call
: therefore, zero argument from anyone. Gunner did not play a bad game even though he was constantly running for his life from our defensive ends .
Where are the five stars in the portal ND could use DT`s weighing in at 325 LBS basically space eaters.

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Irish_inPSU said:

I believe it will be something to keep an eye on. Hopefully Cross and Love in particular, their injuries aren't bad and they can heal up for the game.

I'm just as worried about a "hangover" after this game with UGA. We put our heart and soul into this one as it was a big one for the season and this program. We've all seen those next game hangovers from teams (aka NIU!!!!). But, this coaching staff is a different beast compared to prior staff's that ND went through. They'll have to boys ready to go.

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Patrish said:

That Notre Dame controlled the entire game against Georgia when Chaseball stated that Georgia had a huge talent advantage, a huge gap in talent over Notre Dame ?

How could Notre Dame have won that game by a score of 23 to 10, and that was with Georgia getting more than a little help from the refs

Chaseball, how did the team with a huge talent gap beat a team with a huge talent advantage ?

Inquiring minds want to know

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HDK said:

I thought they called it because Faison went in motion before Evans was fully set, or maybe I'm thinking of another play. There were a hell of a lot of penalties.

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Kelso86 said:

The issue with Faison's call was that the TE was not set long enough (remember, he had just shifted prior to Faison) before Faison took off to go in motion.

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Kelso86 said:

You can sub all 11 players before the ball is put in play -- the ball is determined to be "put in play" when the center puts his hands on the ball. If you watch the replay, the long snapper never puts his hands on the ball -- thus, the ball has not been "put in play". That was the key to that play.

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NDinNJ said:

Again, it was a different game back then, They were primarily an option team, and they played a brutal schedule compared to what ND plays today.

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