Comments on: Orange Is the New Victim

By: LaughingTulkas

LaughingTulkas — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 16:24:20 +0000

In reply to Mugs (1982). The thing is though, that the whistle blew, more than once. The play was dead. There was no reason to fall on the ball at all. The refs completely blew this one.

By: michael vanelli

michael vanelli — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 23:34:20 +0000

In reply to Scott. Avon and Scott, We were unable to run until Kelly started throwing short swing passes and screens which I gave him credit in my post. A lot of the yards gains were in Q4 after ND had a comfortable margin and was running out the clock. Stanford will provide a stiffer test.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:03:11 +0000

In reply to michael vanelli. At 4+ yards per carry and 162 yards on the ground, I think they may have solved the running game problem.

By: Avon Domer

Avon Domer — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 13:26:02 +0000

In reply to michael vanelli. Michael: To your point on the ground game, ND's offensive line was revamped since the Purdue game and produced a four yards per carry average and 162 yards on the ground against Syracuse. That's not running the ball well? I'd take that every game if we could get it.

By: michael vanelli

michael vanelli — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 02:22:06 +0000

Nowhere is there any blame placed on Harry Heistand for the O-line. This is the man fired by Derek Dooley from a miserable Tennessee team. Why Kelly picked him up is beyond me. We have way too much talent to not be dominating these weak teams on the ground.
Kudos to Kelly for throwing the short ball against teams determined to stack the box against the clueless zone blocking schemes of Heistand. This may work against Rice, Michigan, Purdue and Syracuse but get ready for Stanford and Fla State. Something better change quick if Irish figure to be in the discussion in January.
VanGorder is coaching the hell out of the D and the reason we are 4-0.

By: canuck75

canuck75 — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 23:29:53 +0000

As Coach Kelly said, EG will learn from this. The next time he will consciously get down or ob once he has picked up 10 yds. He will also be careful on the spike play. That is two errors corrected.
And I agree with the sentiment of some that Syracuse was actually pretty solid. The long passes they completed were excellent throws. The qb was a big strong kid with good numbers, yet we crushed him.
I have not seen the D this impressive for a long time.
I am very pleased and feeling good about the next few weeks.Go Irish.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 22:14:35 +0000

We have got to be able to run the ball. Do not understand why the O line is so weak.

By: flirish

flirish — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 22:06:09 +0000

despite the erratic play by Goldson at the end of the night he was fantastic. last year it would have been a loss with 7 to 10 sacks and same number of turnovers. Goldson is a difference maker. the problems I saw last night was again the inability to really run the ball effectively and the special teams again. Although we had one good punt return the rest of the punt returns were fair catches and kick off returns are terrible. our punt coverage gave up a huge run on a fake. why after five years can’t Kelly produce even average special teams. He really stinks at this. this is a huge part of the game. There is no way you can beat good teams with that kind of mediocre special teams play. also after five years why can’t we run a two minute drill. Kelly is pathetic at this as well.The drive before the half ended was pathetic in terms of time management and sense of hurry.
I am thrilled we can win with 5 turnovers but we need to be better in these other areas

By: ND Chicago

ND Chicago — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 20:01:45 +0000

Amazing how ND has consistently played down to the level of competition under Kelly. Offense looked sloppy and unprepared. Lots to correct before Stanford or they will get beat. On the bright side D was aggressive and Farley looks like a new man.

By: GOND88

GOND88 — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:42:54 +0000

Everett Golson sometimes looks like a Heisman worthy candidate, then other times looks like a bewildered, out of his element freshman. This was a good win against probably the best team ND has faced so far, but it gets much tougher starting with Stanford and Golson can’t become lackadaisical on some plays and turn the ball over.

I don’t feel sorry for Michigan since they didn’t feel sorry for us during the Willingham and Weis eras. It’s nice to see that Michigan finally found their own Willingham/Weis combo rolled up in to one in Brady Hoke.