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athletic, talented, and well coached defenses yet give up a decent amount of points due to the elite offenses are just so very productive. Even last night with Bama and GA, both teams very deep on both sides of the ball but lots of points scored on offense. ND in big games (i.e. playoffs when the stakes are raised) even with Book or anyone at QB has struggled to score 20 points against such elite teams. Common theme has been the QB position and WR. ND for whatever reason hasn’t landed the game changers. For as good as Book was, and he had a great ND career, he struggled throwing an accurate deep ball. I agree that ND has to be able to throw down field. While I know he says it’s been a work in progress, Denbrock’s offense in general hasn’t been what I think we were all hoping it would be. It’s predictable. Rarely any deep shots. Slow developing run handoffs. Riley constantly rolling to his right, which I’m not a fan of because you take away half the field on such plays. While ND brought in some portal WR’s that are supposed to be fast, but we never see a jet sweep or reverse or anything to mix it up or to create confusion and keep defenses honest. Good coached offensive teams will put their WR’s in motion a lot. This helps to negate double teams and also can confuse defenses in terms of the coverage. I guess my biggest frustration as a fan is that we all see the same things in terms of the eye test. But it’s like the coaches don’t as we keep seeing the same things every week. I still think that if Carr is the real deal, it would tremendously help ND for the next couple seasons to be playing him and developing him now. There’s a few schools playing freshman QB’s. Nebraska and K State come to mind. Those QB’s are good now and they will be so much better because of it. With stud experienced QB play, those teams will be difficult to beat next year and the year after.