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You are abosolutley right. I'm not saying Nix is a bad player, but he got single blocked by Jones alot that night. That freed up the guards to climb to backers. Bama wasnt very worried about nix, they did not combo him very much all night. Jones had a great game, used he feet and hand placement to reach block and cut off nix pretty much all game.

Made my day also. I coached against this kid for 2 years, he is a fantastic player. So glad we don't have to face him at usc.

My son was born the day before the oklahoma game. He has not seen the irish lose and he wont tonight. ND-21 Bama-13 GO IRISH!

Russell is not nearly as bad as you are making him out to be Irish 33. We play 2 high safeties but alot of times we are in quarters coverage alot and Russell is playing basically off man, and he does a really good job sometimes. He has quick trigger break and he tackles very well. Granted we play alot of cover 2 with direct safety help but the thing he does best is compete. He needs work in man with his hands and footwoork, but I would not call him a bad player

Very well put phony. The zone scheme can also be very helpful when teams are switching fronts and lbs are moving all over the place. The timing of the double team can be very difficult and the the backs can help by being patient and seeing cut back lanes. It takes a ton of work but can be very effective. I wouldn't mind also seeing a little less zone with double teams and more of the "old school" zone where the online is trying to step one direction and reach the defensive linemen in the gap and allow the uncoverd olineman climb to the lbs quicker.

I can tell you don't know much about coaching a game. The same guy that is such a danger carrying the ball, was the exact same guy we called qb zone sweep for the td when we absolutely needed a play. But when the game is on the line you want to take the ball out of his hand bc "he is small, and not used to carrying the ball". He handles the ball on every single play. I understand the play did not work and your mad but it simply was not a bad call. If you played football I would expect you to give me some info on why you didn't like the call, such as the dline was slanting away from our back, or the safety walked down into the box and was spying the qb. Instead you just give vague stuff like qb is small. Lastly I do not any OC that figures in fumbling into play calling, you expect the players to hang on the ball no matter who it is. Not fumbling is basics, maybe a lack of fundamentals on the coaching staff but not a scheme or play calling problem.

I agree Wave, tommy was the right call to get the W, thats all that matters.

I understand very well play calling and all that goes into it. I have been both the oc and the dc at the high school I coach at, as well as coaching d1 football at the university of memphis. In all my years, I have never come across an oc that takes into account that a player can not hang onto the ball. If the player fumbles alot he is simply not in the game. At some point it is on the players, they must execute things like not fumbling. If we did not run the zone read and read the backside end on the play then we would have been outnumbered and it would have been a "dead" play. As far as the purdue player quote, he should have been trying to create a turnover regardless of who was running it. Bottom line is if golson keeps the ball, makes the safety miss and goes 80 yards to the house, you would be talking about what a great call it was and have no idea why the play even works or doesn't work.

Nothing wrong with call, it is called all over america, a hundred times on saturday. Golson must hang on to the ball, coach can't do it for him. QB must be able to do basic things like protect the ball while running, or he is wrong guy for the the job. What is the alternative? Never call a play where he has the option to pull the ball? Isn't that the point of having a more mobile qb? What play would you have called ....kneel 3 times and punt?

It was just the old inside zone read play, which should be a great play for golson, I didn't mind the call because we were not blocking very well and this gave us a chance to put the ball in one of our better players hands, and at the same time it is a safe call. Golson just has to secure the ball

I didn't mind the read too much, the man lined up on the te was in a 9 technique and crossed our te's face which is technically a pull (thats what I teach my qbs) but he has to come tight off the te and get vertical, not take it so wide

The play he fumbled on was inside zone with a read on the backside. Backside end crashed golson kept it. Are you one of the guys who just watches the ball, or do you watch the blocking schemes up front?

He fumble on zone read....that is a run up the middle

All defenses dictate to a certain degree how the offense plays. Purdue played cover 1 and loaded the box with 7 and 8, we had no choice but the throw the ball.

What was wrong with the call?

I too would also like to see some film of him at db. I would like to see him flip his hips, break on balls, and play the ball the air. He looks like a good athlete, probably has a great understanding of coverages from playing qb. I'm sure the staff at nd knows alot more about him than me, but its hard for me to get too excited about him at cb until I see some more film.

Good find davis. I agree numbers are nice to have but do not define a ball player. You have to watch his film, and not just highlights, but his game film to really see if he can play. And yes Wave is fat now, but once upon a time he was decent cornerback but couldn't cover the post corner route.

I'm with you wave, but I also understand the frustration. Right now I hate football also. This pisses me off, I really liked tee

I love our front 7, they should be as good as we have had in years. The ablility to rush 4 and get pressure is a HUGE weapon, because we can play quarters coverage and hide some of our youth in the secondary. If our safeties can handle it and we can sit back in Cover 2, thats even better becaue now our cbs can play the flat. This puts a ton of pressure on the safeties to cover alot of area. We need someone next to teo who can make a play in space and take on blocks and turn the ball back into him. Down the road as our secondary becomes more comfortable it would be nice to play man to man cover 1, but it looks like we are a ways off from that, and that is ok as long as we can get pressrue with 3 and 4 rushers. We dont necessarily have to just line up and straight rush 4, with the athleticism of our outside backers and ends we seem to be built for some zone pressures (similar to pittsburg) where it you never know who is coming and who is dropping. If we can find some corners who can tackle in space, play the deep ball, and break on short routes, I believe our front 7 can make up for some of our youth. We don't necessarily need a "lock down" man guy, but it is sure nice to have.

Kelly is an awful play caller? Are you serious? Did he not become the head coach of Notre Dame by being a good play caller?

I agree phony. I am not not so much dissapointed that the kid didn't choose ND, he has every right to pick where he wants to go to school, but he should not be committed for months and at the last second pick someone else, this is a selfish and very unethical move. At the school I coach at we have had many players through the years committ to a program, and we stress to them the importance of what a commitment means. Greenberry is not the type of kid I want to coach, I want somone I can trust to do his job when things are tough in the 4th quarter. This last second flip tells me alot about this kid.

What does the speed of our inside lbs have to do with playing a 3-4 or 4-3, they cover the exact same gaps. Doesn't matter what defense we play they will cover A or B gap. Your theory is exactly backwards, if we switch to 4-3 one of our slow lbs will have to walk out and cover in space vs a spread offense. 3-4 is a great defense, very flexible and allows for mutiple fronts including a 4 man front. We slide to a 4 man front all the time, fleming walks up and plays on the tight end all the time. I also don't understand why you want to move tuitt inside to a 3 technique where he will get double by a tackle and guard every play. I would much rather have him play head up on a tackle where he can strike and slide and make plays in either b or c gap. I think tuitt and lynch are perfect fits at tackle in the 3-4 because they can play 2 gaps which helps out our "slow" lbs.

You are dead on rocket, it wasn't that we just stopped blitzing for the sake of it. FSU did some things to take us out of blitzes, such as go 5 wide, if we send 5 rushers, then we have to play cover 1 and that means a lb is matched up on a wr (not good). If we send 6 then we are for sure getting there, but now we have to play cover 0, no safety help, straigtht man, and a lb is matched up on a wr. FSU also screened us, ran the option, both of which slow down blitzing teams. Diaco did a great job last night, this loss was on the off

Our defense played great tonight, they played hard, had couple of plays go against them, but fsu started 2 drives inside the 20 and our defense scored HALF OUR POINTS!

For someone so average in coverage, we never get abused over the middle. Our perimiter pass game is where teams work us to death. You would think as bad as he is (in your opinion) teams would throw for 200 yards a game against us in his zone. Are opposing oc's so stupid they can not take advantage of possibly the worst coverage linebacker in america? Or is our dc so smart he is able to hide him in every single pass coverage. You do realize that vs trips he is asked to walk out and cover the #3 wr, and does a good job at it.