I think a lot of it has to do with lack of pass rush, but the DBs have not acquitted themselves well on multiple long TDs with missed tackles. That's not a playcall issue. The long TAMU TD (should have been 1st down) and the tossup Miami TD were pure execution issues.
Replies to: "Don't buy Mickens sabotage. He's the secondary coach - biggest statistical dropoff has been there"
- 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