ND secondary seemed lost yesterday

[IrishBlooded]

Cole Luke had multiple misses and some for big yards. Looks like they spent the majority of the day worrying about the run, and not the man coverage on a couple of decent receivers. I don't get how you get them so far out of alignment on basic coverage packages. I understand it is a secondary and sometimes you just get beat. But they just didn't look up to the task yesterday. Don't know if it started with the LB's playing shallow most of the day to hold against the run and screens or if it was a miscue by BVG. But man did I expect more from that secondary yesterday.

 

[NewHampshireIrish]

Shumate and Russell both bit on the gimmick play and got torched deep. Redfield can't catch at all, or tackle all that well with the cast. Luke did get beat a few times.

The worst part was Severin was the only one doing any damage and ND still couldn't stop him. For all that talk about ND having two "shut down" corners, they sure as hell didn't look the part yesterday.

 

[IrishBlooded]

That's my point. Everyone talked about an improved Shumate and Redfield all the way through camp. And with the addition of Russell (which I really expect big things out of this year) I expected more at this point. I get losing Avery, and Crawford hurts. But for the majority of the day, you knew where the ball was going.

Virginia had 8 different receivers on 26 total receptions. Severin accounted for 11 by himself. Just block number 9. How hard should that scheme be?

 

[floridairish]

This I actually agree with, but as usual anyone with an opinion can tell you things went badly for the secondary. A coach can tell you why it went badly and the rare few can actually fix what went wrong.

BVG needs to fix this. Or the next DC will have to try and fix it.

 

[Granite45]

Cole Luke had multiple misses and some for big yards. Looks like they spent the majority of the day worrying about the run, and not the man coverage on a couple of decent receivers. I don't get how you get them so far out of alignment on basic coverage packages. I understand it is a secondary and sometimes you just get beat. But they just didn't look up to the task yesterday. Don't know if it started with the LB's playing shallow most of the day to hold against the run and screens or if it was a miscue by BVG. But man did I expect more from that secondary yesterday.

I have read other places that Virginia completely changed their approach from the UCLA game. One factor may have been the DBs were reading what they expected to see and got caught up looking for those tendencies from the film. Certainly the CBs gave too much room on routes. I doubt they were coached to give such spacing.

 

[Pennick4]

That's my point. Everyone talked about an improved Shumate and Redfield all the way through camp. And with the addition of Russell (which I really expect big things out of this year) I expected more at this point. I get losing Avery, and Crawford hurts. But for the majority of the day, you knew where the ball was going.

Virginia had 8 different receivers on 26 total receptions. Severin accounted for 11 by himself. Just block number 9. How hard should that scheme be?

How do you block a receiver?

 

[justacollegefan]

Funny I commented on this topic before the season started http://notredame.forums.rivals.com/...already-out-for-the-season-wow-deja-vu.20736/

Unfortunately like I mentioned in a recent post, people claimed I had no clue what I was talking about when all I was doing was pointing out an obvious issue that has plagued Notre Dame football for decades.
There are some knowledgeable football fans on this board, I hope they show up more often to discuss the true state of the team instead of living off of unrealistic BS.

 

[BGI User 1596]

I thought Todd Lyght was suppose to get this thing fixed.

 

[Pennick4]

I thought Todd Lyght was suppose to get this thing fixed.

I thought you were suppose to post something that makes sense.

 

[BGI User 1596]

I thought you were suppose to post something that makes sense.

Hurt your tiny feelings!

 

[nook91]

Agree, totally lost