How in the world do you not call targeting on the Daniel's hit?

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I just found the “Ignore Poster” feature. All you need to do is click on a poster’s name, then click Ignore.

I think it will avoid a lot of argument. Life is short . . . if there are posters whose posts you’d prefer not to see, give it a try!

The only others I can remember are Faust, Davie, and Weiss Why does ND keep trying?

So is he our guy

Keeping the fingers warm as it starts to creep up to 40 degrees in the open-air pressbox at Memorial Stadium. It should be beautiful here in a couple of hours.

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It is certainly entertaining, but I can't believe how Herbstreit and Davis keep ogling about how fast everyone is and how their offensive lines are so great. Neither has said one thing about how poor their defenses are.

He hates tempo. wants ball control and a snails pace. Wants to fight for inches in the trenches and never talks about being explosive or explosive plays. Quarterback has one big mistake and his first instinct is to go into a shell and back to only running the ball instead of picking his guy up and giving him confidence. We should just run the triple option if this is how it’s going to be

Obviously ND won’t fire the OC during bye week.

There are players who’ve played below their standard, ND standard.

Time to make changes:

QB -Hartman is done. No real reason to keep sending him out there. Angeli or Kenny should get the start after the bye.

C- for 2.75 years #52 has consistently been the worst graded OL.

RT- coaching staff needs to send Fish a message. Let Tosh Baker start at RT for the Wake Forest game. Then Fish can start the remaining week. What bothers me about #54 is his lack of fire and consistently gives up on plays.

Offense philosophy- attack downfield. You can’t rely on crossing routes to be your only completions.

Vyper: Start Burnham over Botelho. Jordan hasn’t done much all year. Let the young Joshua start.

This team has failed because of their coaching staff. Particularly on offense. The offense has to change. He’s clearly not the guy, not the guy to learn on the job. If you guys think this offense struggles with a 6th year guy, it’s only going to be worse with a really young Angeli or FR Carr.

Red flags have come out versus M.Freeman. His game management and style is questionable. His explanation of his thought process leads you to believe he doesn’t understand certain aspects of football. I’m concerned for this program. Freeman will lose recruits, the offense inspires NOBODY. Changes have to be made.

My five defining plays beyond those white flag uniforms for the Irish:

1. Phil Mafah’s 41-yard touchdown run
2. Jeremiah Trotter Jr.’s pick-6
3. Sam Hartman’s second red-zone failure
4. Xavier Watts’ interception
5. Jeremiah Trotter Jr.’s second sack

What did I miss?

If I'm a parent of a football star young kid who's looking for a positive role model, I'm probably gonna lean towards someone more like Marcus Freeman who's relatable and "cool", but also more authoritarian and team centered not some reckless MF like Deion is going to attract a bunch of unwanted attention and subject my kid to injury and ridicule.

My 2 cents.

Deion is the reason Travis Hunter has a lacerated Liver.

Regarding his son and play calling this writer nailed it. All ego.

If I'm CMF and in another recruiting battle over the next Dylan Edwards im negatively recruiting the hell outta Deions program.

Even though Tyler Buckner committed turnovers, it’s not like Sam Hartman is playing mistake free football. Need to think twice about bringing in a transfer portal qb in for one year. Thoughts?

Only hope

Great runs, gashing Clemson's D. Backup safeties have got to be thinking run. So what does Parker call? A pass in the flat, behind the line of scrimmage. It had no chance against a D forcused on the run. What might have been a better call? Gee, maybe something to challenge Clemson's # 4 and 5 safeties. Play action and over the top.

Parker just calls plays. He has no clue what he is doing, no leverage, no scheme.

It would be interesting to let Hartman call his own plays with help from the QB coach, who, BTW, is pretty damned impressive.

Here's the postgame transcript from quarterback Sam Hartman. Questions are paraphrased.

SAM HARTMAN

What was Clemson doing up front in the second half? Were they confusing you up front to create pressure?

“Not even to answer your question, more of a statement. If you guys want to blame, put anything on anyone, put it on me. I played very poor today. Didn’t play well enough to be a winning quarterback, to be a winning football team. All the different situations, scenarios that we were in today is partly my doing and really all my doing. I just didn’t execute well enough. So if you want to mention people on Twitter, you want to blame OCs, you want to blame Coach Freeman, no — blame me. I’m big enough and man enough to admit that I didn’t play up to the standard that this team deserves, this fan base, this university deserves. That's the way it goes. That’s the Saturdays of college football. I’m going to stick my head up at the fact that happened. We’re going to bounce back. The only thing I can give back to this program is the last two games, give everything I have and just play better. We had ample opportunities to score. We had ample opportunities to make plays and, frankly, I just didn’t make them. The guys around me were busting their butts. Guys stepped up. People got hurt. It wasn’t good enough for me and for myself to go out there and play like I played. That ended up in a loss.”

How did you read out the pick-6 in the first half? How did Clemson play it?

“The guy got underneath the play and underneath the pass. I shouldn’t have thrown it. I just tried to force one in there. Especially backed up, you can’t do it, and I did it. It goes back to not playing well enough, not executing the calls that needed to be called. Kid made a good play and got underneath the route. He took it the other way.”

How big of a factor was it that your early drives were held to field goals rather than touchdowns?

“It was huge. That goes down to execution. A one-score game at the end of the day is all about execution. I didn’t do it personally well enough. We were down there. Rico was wide open on one of the rollouts and I didn’t throw it. It was a little late to it, I guess. I didn’t make plays when they needed to be made. Even later in that play, JG’s open in the end zone and I just overthrew him. Just unacceptable, honestly. If you want to blame somebody, you want to tweet at somebody, tweet at me. I deserve it.”

What kind of effect did it have on the offense to be starting so many drives deep in your own territory?

“The field’s the same length. You’re going to have to drive those drives. Our defense kept them out of the end zone, kept them out of scoring position. We didn’t give them any help all game. We haven’t given them all help really in the past couple games. It comes back to bite us when we don’t execute as an offense and I don’t execute as a quarterback.”

How did Ashton Craig handle playing center in a tough spot?

“Incredible. That goes back to what I said. Guys stepped up, people got hurt and didn’t flinch. I was really proud of the effort and the intensity that guys played with. It falls back on the quarterback when you don’t score in the red zone, when you have turnovers. Point at me when you want to blame somebody, you want to rant about somebody.”

Here's the postgame transcript from linebacker Jack Kiser. Questions are paraphrased.

JACK KISER

Q: What was Clemson able to do to establish the run game and keep it going throughout?

A: “I mean, they were just physical up front. You know, doing simple run schemes but able to do it well and execute well and we just felt like we couldn't get our cleats in the ground early on. One of the keys to the game was to start fast and certainly, we didn't do that. Towards the end of the game, we felt pretty positive [on] what we we’re able to do but obviously a little too late.”

Q: In the second half, when the offense is struggling, what kind of pressure does that put on the defense?

A: “You can’t really focus on what’s going on on the other side of the ball. When you're a veteran-led group like we are, we’re very fortunate to have a lot of leaders … we’re not focused on that, we’re internally motivated, right? We don’t care what the circumstances [are] going out on the field, we know that we gotta go out there and do our job, day in and day out, every snap. You know, at the end of the day, like most times you’re not even watching that much because you're on the sideline, getting coaching points, talking to each other and so when it's our time to go on the field, we gotta perform. That’s what we're most concerned about.

Q: With their starting running back out and their offensive line playing well, how tough was it to go against the offense when they were moving the ball like they were?

A: “No. 7’s a big dude, he runs hard. We knew that we we’re gonna have to run our feet and have to tackle him and bring our weight behind ourselves. And so the first couple [of] times, we didn’t quite do that and his runs were able to bleed. He was just running hard so we gotta make sure that we can wrap up and get him down.”

Q: Heading into the bye week, how do you keep this team together as leaders?

A: “Coach Freeman used the word anti-fragile. So it means you get stronger through adversity. It really challenges the leaders through this … essentially, we’re going two weeks where we gotta deal with this loss. He challenged the leaders to lead this program [and] make sure we’re pushing each other in every phase whether that’s finding one thing to do better on the field, off the field, in the film room, whatever it may be. So really just challenging the leaders to be anti-fragile and push this program forward.

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What are the chances of him returning for his senior year

Here is one of her comments about the game.

Notre Dame’s head coach, Steve Sarkisian, is a maestro when it comes to crafting run-heavy game plans. His penchant for keeping the ball on the ground isn’t just about playing it safe; it’s about asserting dominance, yard by hard-fought yard. Will Sarkisian’s ground game stratagem pay dividends once more?

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Here is the link.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/notre-dame-over-clemson-saturday/ar-AA1jkNhi