and/or player(s) are not getting along. It has nothing to do with execution. It has everything to do with division somewhere. Either between the schemes of the D, DL, and DB, Coaches, or players involved. Until you fix that, you can't execute.
IMO, if you call a D play and then the DL calls their own play inside of that and the LBs call their own play inside of the D and the DBs call their own play. That is a recipe for disaster. Unnecessary complexity if that's how it goes. Because you have to expect the entire D to work together and expect what is happening at three different levels to be happening in unison. That is way too difficult.
Call a play, line up, and run it. Remove all the cute stuff.
Replies to: "This is what I said below. The keyword, of several, is "buy-in". He tipped his cap that coach(es)"
- No Change in the Calls: Freeman Backs Ash Despite Notre Dame Defensive Woes [NT]
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- UHND - 8:14am 9/23/25
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- None of this makes any sense. All of a sudden the players don't know how to play defense? [NT]
- MarkHarman - 9:02am 9/23/25
- It was the Men in Black flashy thing probably. [NT] - DiscoRick - 1:44pm 9/23/25
- As has been repeated ad nauseam why not just run what we ran last year? - sweetbobbyg - 11:36am 9/23/25
- It makes sense if they are adapting to a new system just as they did w Golden. But……. - BaronVonZemo - 11:10am 9/23/25
- It makes total sense, some players are not following direction. - PaND - 9:40am 9/23/25
- The decision to make wholesale change rather than incremental seems to have been a bad one - LanceManion - 9:22am 9/23/25
- 👆well said! Succinct & spot on. If they haven’t fixed it by now, what makes you think they can? - sweetbobbyg - 11:41am 9/23/25
- Except it's not a new system. From what I've read Ash is running the same base - Clem - 9:43am 9/23/25
- At first u blame the new guy but if it continues then u blame the HC. [NT] - ndphysics - 11:41am 9/23/25
- There seems to be a lot of confusion at both the line and secondary level. - LanceManion - 9:46am 9/23/25
- Truth. [NT] - Clem - 9:47am 9/23/25
- Anytime you implement a new system, there is a learning curve - NDWisconsin - 9:32am 9/23/25
- This is what I said below. The keyword, of several, is "buy-in". He tipped his cap that coach(es) - oldirish - 5:06pm 9/23/25
- Your framing makes some sense, especially as he references lack of execution. - LanceManion - 9:43am 9/23/25
- Don't buy Mickens sabotage. He's the secondary coach - biggest statistical dropoff has been there - Turkish - 11:29am 9/24/25
- And to your point, incremental changes make it easier to observe success or lack of - NDWisconsin - 11:05am 9/23/25
- None of this makes any sense. All of a sudden the players don't know how to play defense? [NT]
- MarkHarman - 9:02am 9/23/25