I certainly don't disagree with his points especially about the lack of pressure because we all see

Author: jray (3490 Posts - Original UHND Member)
Posted at 4:45 pm on Sep 24, 2025

that, and no doubt is the biggest reason ND lost their first two games by giving up so many points (though offense game plan against Miami was horrible) as the QB's had all day to throw, but it kind of goes back to the why? The reason I say that, yes we would probably agree that ND currently does not have two interior defensive lineman like Saban had at Bama or some of the guys Kirby once had at Georgia, but the guys we have aren't slouches either and the recruiting has been very good. ND returned basically all the edge rushers from last year, yet the pressure and production has fallen off. Maybe Golden was just better at scheming ways to get pressure on the QB's. I can remember many a times last year when the pressure got home like instantaneously. All I know is that the defense has given up a lot of points through three games that we haven't seen happen in a while, and if things aren't corrected, USC will light us up. The biggest change to the defense has been Ash, and for whatever reason, the defense from the eye test looks much different than what we saw a few months ago during the playoffs. Let's hope it gets corrected because ND has no margin for error now.

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