Good call. I really want to see how aggressive freeman is with the staff this off-season. can stay: rb Oline Wr Lb Safety Cb Don’t care: Dc pleas go: Dl Oc
I dunno that job and jobs like it are getting fucking murdered by the portal and nil. Likes whole class was getting poached after 2 of the best seasons in school history. Do you think that sauce Gardner or the qb would have stayed with bama etc offering millions
I like that, rees is still a toss up for me because I kind of like him but he is the same as he was as a qb. Once in a while he does something that nobody thought he could do because he lowers the bar all the fucking time. edit-ducking
I am just not getting my hopes up on Rees and also cognizant that defensive coaches suck at hiring ocs as a rule
that is really what scares me the most, if you tell me nd moves on from rees but hire a top oc that fits with the personnel it’s a no brainer but I am not sure I am comfortable with that yet under Freeman.
Yesterday was the epitome of a modern college football "field goals are failures" game. USC punted twice all game and they were both on 4th and shorts where Caleb drop-kick punted where Lincoln certainly would have gone for one of those if they needed more points. We couldn't get them off the field, so adding 3 points just to let them march down again wouldn't have done anything. I hear you on a game like Marshall and Stanford, but yesterday we needed to walk off the field with 7 or it was a failure so I liked the call. THAT SAID - come on, of course they went to the Evans sneak one too many times in the biggest moment of the season. Maybe it was because Estime was hurting, but how do they not tendency break there? Put Pyne under the center and get them nervous he's pulling out and then have him sneak the two feet, pile in Sherwood and hand off to him once the defense has already collapsed and sold out for the sneak, etc. Unreal that we just thought it would work every time until it didn't - offensive football is all about keeping the defense on its toes and we handed them what they sold out for
Pyne avoided the big WTF mistakes for the better part of the year, but that fumbled handoff to the start the second half really sent us packing early. 7 and a stop there and who knows what happens
The game was lost the second it turned into a track meet. You can’t expect 95% of QBs to keep up with Caleb Williams, yet alone Drew Pyne to. We can nitpick individual plays all we want and how our offense couldn’t keep up, but the reality is they would’ve needed to play perfect in that type of game to win. That’s not a winning equation for ND. The problem wasn’t the turnovers. It was getting behind in the first place and allowing USC to dictate how the game was played. They dominated us at the LOS early in the game and then forced us into a scenario where they feel totally comfortable and we feel totally uncomfortable. Rees’ early short yardage decisions and some of Al Golden’s game planning were the issue.
If I see 3 down lineman again while getting gashed for 8 years a carry I am going to scream. That is a freeman special not really al
Felt like an odd game to win the toss and defer on IMO Know we're nit picking but this team averaged nearly 5 points per possession last night (excluding the kneels), and that's not too far outside their season norm, so we essentially asked to get the ball down points
Me, none. A couple guys I know. I've never met the chick but she is rather annoying on Twitter and reeks of Granger. She was *allegedly* very fun before she got married.
On the subject of returns - Brandon Joseph can't be going pro, right? Unless he was really hurt, he just didn't show up much for most of the season but especially the back half Can someone please give me some hope Caleb Williams will be the first guy to go pro after sophomore year and sit out all of next season?
Such a chicken shit move. That’s the easy target because the kid is a transfer. Im not defending his play by any means, but this feels like an analyst doing everything he can to place blame on someone they don’t feel is as vital to the program because they’re only here for a year. It’s super lazy analysis. The issue yesterday was our coordinators.
Even that’s a bad one, he’d be the first guy to attack Rees or whoever if they didn’t try and he thought they should with a kid that was clearly destined for elsewhere. “You have to try!”.
LSU feels like a no win scenario, and I don’t want to face Rattler and South Carolina Give us Mississippi State
People weren’t bitching just to bitch, it was egregious. They used the old MSU dPI theory of “they won’t call it every time” and it worked.
The lack of holding calls was egregious. No argument there. But it’s that much more of an indictment on our inconsistent run game that we can’t create holes when the refs aren’t calling holds. You have to play with the situation given to you, and we didn’t.
This is the happiest I have been for a regular season to end since 2016. Depressing as hell when you listen to people say the offense is going to be trash without the right pieces and then have nothing addressed and have to watch it live out week after week.
No, not even close. Bk goes 10-2 and nd finishes with ny 6 bowl and loses and the recruiting class doesn’t have nearly the national prospects and we are sitting here unsure if anything gets them over the hump