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Disclaimer: It's early. Coan is not a blue chipper. Coan was an 87 rated 3 star. Coan has weak spots in his game. Coan will likely have bad games ahead of him. And most importantly, I'm not saying Coan is the second coming. 

But.... taking time to recognize an elite road outing in opening week for our new QB......

I'll try to post his weekly ranks going forward as time permits to track his progress.

  1. One of only two QBs in the last 25 years to have 350+ yards, 4 TDs, and less than 10 incompletions, in a road opener (per several tweets)
  2. Broke road opener record for ND (held by Book per tweet) in a few stat categories.
  3. Last time a ND QB had stats like that vs a P5 team was Jimmy Clausen vs Stanford in 2009
  4. Week one QB stats/ranks (national, all stats from ESPN and SR)
    1. Total Passing Yards (week 1 only) - ranked 5th among all QBs, 3rd among P5 QBs
    2. Passer Rating (week 0 and 1) - ranked 13th among all QBs, 6th among P5 QBs
    3. QBR (week 1) - ranked 26th among all, 11th among P5 QBs
    4. Completion % (week 0 and 1) - ranked 17th among all, 8th among P5 QBs
    5. AVG (week 0 and 1) - ranked 19th among all, 10th among P5
    6. Note... the fact that Mayer's 2 drops and the hail mary INTs drag down the above stats, means he was even better than those ranks... 
  5. Basic Game Stats
    1. Total Passing Yards: 366
    2. TDs: 4 
    3. INTs: 1 (hail mary)
    4. Sacks: 4
    5. Drops: 2 (Mayer both)
    6. Attempts-Completions/Completions %:  26-35 / 74.3%
    7. True Completion % (drops as catches): 80%
    8. AVG: 10.5
    9. Passer Rating: 194.1
    10. QBR: 76.9
    11. Rushing attempts / Total Rushing Yards: 9 for -3

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comment_729078

Great Post @OKelleyIrish!

 Its funny, I saw the success of the 4 verticals passing concept that Kelly Made is career on at Cincinnati. We all thought Freeman the newest Bearcat would steal the show and he did for 2 drives. But Kelly's passing game through Rees won the day for one of the first times I can remember. 

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6 minutes ago, FaithInIrishForever said:

Great Post @OKelleyIrish!

 Its funny, I saw the success of the 4 verticals passing concept that Kelly Made is career on at Cincinnati. We all thought Freeman the newest Bearcat would steal the show and he did for 2 drives. But Kelly's passing game through Rees won the day for one of the first times I can remember. 

Thanks Faith!

It's too early to be honest for me to think I know anything lol. 

Freeman needs patience from fans. Anyone that didn't expect pain points early when totally switching schemes is just not realistic. And while I didn't like some of the play calling (going 3 up front in some situations), the players did make a ton of execution type errors. I rewatched the 1st half this AM and it was full of bad tackling and bad angles.

On O, just not sure how much of BK's Cinci O has survived over the years. Tommy has definitely changed things, and I think BK is giving him more and more of a leash to do what he wants. There are some calls I didn't like (mostly the QB draws), but overall I thought he called a pretty smart game and had a lot of success even though the OL was pretty awful. Starting out tossing it 5+ times in a row was gutsy, and it paid off. You could tell he had to adjust with the running game and OL situation, and did a great job IMO. We did put up a lot of points after all.

The only thing I'm truly disappointed in is the OL play... I expected more even with 4 new starters. We have the talent, so it should have been a reload situation. Not perfect by any means, but not as bad as we saw. 

I also need to tip the hat to FSU a bit on both sides of the ball. They were one of the better running teams last year, and had very similar stats and ranks to ND's running game. I really underestimated them and thought we'd have more luck. And on D, their young DC brought an aggressive game plan. Jermaine Johnson (DE transfer from UGA) looks like the real deal (he had 2 sacks on Coan). It'll be interesting to see if he does that against other teams.

comment_729101

Social media was all over him lol.

I’d give him a solid A but we don’t get to see coach’s tape to see if there was anything he missed and only get the espn telecast. 

If there were any mistakes I bet they pale in comparison to the defense.

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2 minutes ago, JTennant said:

Social media was all over him lol.

I’d give him a solid A but we don’t get to see coach’s tape to see if there was anything he missed and only get the espn telecast. 

If there were any mistakes I bet they pale in comparison to the defense.

He definitely wasn't perfect. But nobody is. The bounce pass was bad, probably his worst moment. I actually wonder if the guy was covered up and he just wanted to throw it away. He had 2 other underthrown or just bad tosses. But he also had two drops that should have been catches. 

His high completion % makes it pretty clear the mistakes were limited. He'll get credit for the INT on the stats page, but we all know hail marys don't really count.

We've got 3 weeks / two games to tune things up before our 5 game "gautlet" begins. I'm not so worried about Wiscy now, but our Offense has to be on point vs Cinci and VT. Those are two tough Ds that will make you pay if sloppy on O... Not sure Cinci's O is legit, and I'm not sure we'll face a tough and well rounded offensive team until USC/UNC weeks. Regardless, we need to get our run D in order before Wiscy.

 

comment_729105
4 hours ago, OKelleyIrish said:

 

 

this is the the one that reminds me of this so much,

Isolate the W then attack down the sideline.

 

The formation ideas have changed not 4 by 1 or anything that was popular in 2009 but still occupy the free safety on the field side and get 1 on 1 to the boundary

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55 minutes ago, FaithInIrishForever said:

this is the the one that reminds me of this so much,

Isolate the W then attack down the sideline.

 

The formation ideas have changed not 4 by 1 or anything that was popular in 2009 but still occupy the free safety on the field side and get 1 on 1 to the boundary

yup. would like to see both Austin and Wilkins running go routes down each sideline in the weeks to come.

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comment_729411

I'll update once stats shake out across the team.

I did want to say that while Coan came back down to earth a bit, he looked like Superman the last drive when the chips were down. And did it with a dislocated finger.

Kelly confirmed he needed a "pull the finger" thingy lol

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