Comments on: Irish Dominate Navy

By: CH

CH — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 03:55:26 +0000

It’s all a big tease. They will choke – and choke hard – before you know it.

By: SubwayAlum_2012

SubwayAlum_2012 — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:16:18 +0000

Pertaining to Martin’s play calling: I doubt we will see much more variance all season than what happened Saturday. I played college linebacker against Grand Valley State when they were coached by Chuck, and film study was ALWAYS a half hour shorter for the fact that he doesn’t run complex offense: under center, multiple TEs inside/outside zone, or shotgun empty, verticals with a RB or TE in the flat. Against Navy, I was calling 85% of ND’s plays pre-snap, but it didn’t matter as the O-line looked solid, and the RB’s went crazy. I also played college ball against the double wing, triple option in Northwood University, and I will say the best defense against the option is a simple one that allows LBs and Safetys to fly and make plays. I could care less about the 75 yard drive to start the 3rd; it broke EVERY Navy tendency since Roger Staubach, and notice how they didn’t score again the rest of the game. The CBs are young, yes, but I believe they’ll get more help in subsequent weeks from ND going back to their base 3-4 (ran a 4-3 against Navy) and the Dick LeBeau style blizes that come with said defense. Overall, I’m happy ND won big, regardless of opponent. Navy is always tough. PERIOD. Now lets go 1-0 this week agasint the Boilermakers!

By: JM

JM — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:15:51 +0000

In reply to O'Malley. I think the difference in what we saw from Golson and Hendrix was that Hendrix was sent in to run the more traditional ND offense than what was drawn up specifically for Golson to run against Navy, meaning that I do think the sets we saw Hendrix run, and we will see a lot more with Golson as we play more traditional style opponents.

By: mpsND'72

mpsND'72 — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 03:19:46 +0000

In reply to Scott B. Just an alum with a real sense of history and reality. Have “fun” with your vision of Notre Dame football.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:08:30 +0000

Honestly, that was the best I’ve seen the Irish play in a while. I was going to say the 2010 Sun Bowl where we spanked Miami but this game was better than that. Even when we played our bench we were dominating. It was four quarters of quality football, something that ND has struggled to do even in big wins. Go Irish.

By: Scott B

Scott B — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 22:36:49 +0000

In reply to mpsND’72.

Old Notre Dame Football Fans: A Tradition of Complaining about Things that Haven’t Even Happened yet.

I’m not actually sure that’s called a fan, sounds more like a grouch.

By: irishhawk50

irishhawk50 — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 22:35:37 +0000

Hard to say what to make of this game as Navy really looked like one of the I-AA creampuffs that the SEC tunes up on, Having said that it would be nice to have them on the schedule to open every year, but Temple will do for next year.

Like all the other posters here I was crying for Gary Gray after watching watching Navy (!!) pass its way into the end zone in three plays.

The running game looked really good but with the holes the O line was blasting into an undersized Navy D again hard to say.

Golson was OK and no one here wants to hear it but TR would have done just as well.

Lou Holtz always said the biggest jump a team makes is between game one and game two, let’s hope so.

After watching Alabama crush Michigan and Michigan State just get by a weakened Boise State and reading about Stanford just getting by San Jose State, the schedule looks more manageable.

I will be much more interested in watching the Purdue game next week than the Navy game this week and it will be at a decent hour. Go Irish!

By: Vairish84

Vairish84 — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 21:44:26 +0000

Not sure secondary as bad as people think. Nobody was open on the pick. Sacked the qb three times and they were coverage sacks. They are still the biggest concern coming out of this game, but I wouldn’t take us to 7-5 for that reason.

By: joe

joe — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 21:29:04 +0000

Motta is WAY too stiff and slow.

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 20:25:59 +0000

A great dubya! Impressive fun to watch!
A lot more impressive than that S.Florida disaster I witnessed in S.Bend last year. Finally,I say finally I think this team is on the right track. Just beat Michigan this year!!!