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To your point, Leonard really struggles with down the field passing. While I think Denbrock is a decent OC, I’m wondering if the LSU offensive talent made him look way better than he is. If you think about it, he had a QB and two WR’s drafted in the first round this past year. Daniel’s definitely was an X Factor for LSU with being able to extend plays, incredible running ability and also being able to throw down field. While very happy with yesterday’s win, I’m always projecting ahead as to how a ND team can match up against any of the top teams and I think we all would agree is whether the ND offense can keep up and win a shoot out against an elite team? In big past season games where the stakes were raised such as playoffs, ND for whatever reason has struggled to score 20 points in such games. Looking at yesterday’s game, ND had defensive turnovers, GA Tech had many special teams blunders….give credit to ND, but the ND offense struggled to capitalize on those to put the game away earlier. So in conclusion, I’m wondering the same things. Is it Freeman dictating what he wants? Is it Denbrock’s scheme? Is it skill talent? Combination of all? Aside from the NIU fiasco, ND is winning the games they should be, but the slow offensive starts and just the struggle to score against average at best teams is concerning as we are all seeing the same thing so something isn’t passing the eye test and eventually it will bite them at some point.