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Link: Notre Dame Football: In Defense of Tommy Rees
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Fuck handing off to the back from shotgun, who's standing beside the QB. Marshall's safety was crashing in over and over again and tackling the back before he even reached the line (which was routinely moving backwards). The scheme is more lateral than vertical in general, which makes for some slow, soft football. It only works when you have above average pieces (ala Kyren), with an o-line with a pulse.
Tommy can't adjust on the fly either, so when his scripted plan blows up, he's lost.
ND can and must do better.
in the playoffs, I saw a video with Tim Brown and some other guys where he said once Bama took away our TE's on offense, ND didn't know what to do. The run game has always baffled me for years. Our guys once in a blue moon get lucky and bust one for a TD, but think about how many run plays go for zero to two yards or the RB is getting hit as soon as he gets the handoff. I can see that happening occasionally as defenses will guess and get lucky once in while, but this happens frequently with ND run game. I've always been impressed with teams in which their identity is the run game and other teams can't stop it even though they know it's coming. I still feel ND's offensive woes is scheme and questionable play calling.
our line alive the entire game. They should be freakin embarrassed like Patterson obviously was. That plus slow developing runs from the pistol equals what we saw.
That's all BEFORE you get to execution. He had a phenomenal game plan for the first half of OK St. Everything since has been a complete and utter disaster. It's Brian Kelly's offense without Brian selecting the plays. Their spread (glorified west coast) doesn't work in college or anymore. If someone thinks that it does, then it's obviously too complex which means it needs to go either way.