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JBCanes-NC said:
Fck Notre dame
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Fa sho. I just had a vid pop up in my feed about a certain players highlights and seemed like they all came against sus comp.

So I checked the stat line and my suspicion seemed to be confirmed. If you can limit the big play, kid aint much of a grinder. Seemed to be held in check by any team with decent athletes.
 
Did you actually look at the bottom line, totals for last season, 163 carries, 1,125 yards and a 6.9 avg per carry. Those stats definitely scare me. Should scare every Miami fan until we prove we can stop the run. Love has been contained several times in his career while being a elite RB. Add Price's stats also, on his 750 rushing yards last season. They very well might also have the best group of WR's we face all season. When they get Carr rolling, which they will, they are going to be a problem. Unfortunately, for them, if he doesn't get it going in the first 2 games and they start 0-2, they probably miss the playoffs. Schedule weak like Miami's.
The good for us, Leonard's 900+ rushing yards are gone. That power QB run with the pulling G and the RB lead was brutal to stop. I expect a little different look to be thrown at us with Leonard gone. Everyone with eyes expects us to load the box. They might not expect man which I expect to at least try to start. Heatherman has the packages with these players to confuse Carr. We obviously have to contain the run.
 
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Martinez had 100 less yards and four less carries in three less games. Standing alone, these numbers are pedestrian. He got 30% of his yards in 3 of the 16 games, 20% of the total was in the 2 games against Army and Navy (they are included in the 30% number).
 
DC3 said:
He’s the #1 RB in next years draft and there isn’t a close 2nd. With Carr as the QB I’d be shocked if Love doesn’t go for 1500 this season
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It is close. Singleton is right there with Love, produced similar numbers last season against a MUCH tougher schedule. Isaac Brown is right there and will be bigger and faster this year. Love got shut down against good competition. Now that Leonard is gone teams will be able to focus on Love, we'll see if he has similar success this season.
 
Memnon said:
Different games
Different personnel
Different schemes
Different gameplans
Different circumstances

Produce different results.

Simply looking at Box score stats doesn't actually tell you what happened, or how, or why.
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I hear ya just thought it was interesting the teams that he shined against were the teams with lesser athletes on the edges.

I am pretty sure we have much better athletes on defense than Purdue, Army, Navy, and Indiana. We will see about scheme and execution and all that but I was encouraged to see Love struggled against higher caliber athletes.

I am also intrigued to see how ND is able to maintain drives without a battering ram at QB for those 3rd/4th and short plays. No more extra blocker and moose QB to lean on in those situations
 
theuksu said:
It is close. Singleton is right there with Love, produced similar numbers last season against a MUCH tougher schedule. Isaac Brown is right there and will be bigger and faster this year. Love got shut down against good competition. Now that Leonard is gone teams will be able to focus on Love, we'll see if he has similar success this season.
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Signleton is good, but hes a one cut and go type of back. Will limit the # of teams who pick him because of scheme.

Brown's only a sophomre and not eligible.
 
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SPAMM said:
Martinez had 100 less yards and four less carries in three less games. Standing alone, these numbers are pedestrian. He got 30% of his yards in 3 of the 16 games, 20% of the total was in the 2 games against Army and Navy (they are included in the 30% number).
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He had an injured hamstring most of the second half of the season.
That’s why he barely played in the 2nd half of most of those games.
He had 99 yards against USC at half, then on the first play of the 3rd Q, he aggravated his leg even worse, & left the game. He had the 98 yard run in the 1st 5 minutes of the Indiana playoff game & pretty much sat out the rest.
He tried to play the UGA, PSU & OSU games, but he was less than 50% so he really couldn’t go.
If you actually watched the games, & not just look at box scores, he was incredible when healthy.
Also, he had a lot of short yardage (goal to goal situations, 4th & 1, etc…) he converted, which dragged his ypc below 7.
Efficiency numbers easily had him as the best back.
Trying to say he’s not that good because of box scores just screams you don’t know football.
 
af97 said:
He had an injured hamstring most of the second half of the season.
That’s why he barely played in the 2nd half of most of those games.
He had 99 yards against USC at half, then on the first play of the 3rd Q, he aggravated his leg even worse, & left the game. He had the 98 yard run in the 1st 5 minutes of the Indiana playoff game & pretty much sat out the rest.
He tried to play the UGA, PSU & OSU games, but he was less than 50% so he really couldn’t go.
If you actually watched the games, & not just look at box scores, he was incredible when healthy.
Also, he had a lot of short yardage (goal to goal situations, 4th & 1, etc…) he converted, which dragged his ypc below 7.
Efficiency numbers easily had him as the best back.
Trying to say he’s not that good because of box scores just screams you don’t know football.
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Notre Dame fan outing himself.
 
theuksu said:
It is close. Singleton is right there with Love, produced similar numbers last season against a MUCH tougher schedule. Isaac Brown is right there and will be bigger and faster this year. Love got shut down against good competition. Now that Leonard is gone teams will be able to focus on Love, we'll see if he has similar success this season.
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Wait, you think PSU played a tough schedule?
They played 3 teams all year, & lost to all 3!
Then PSU got SMU & Boise in the CFP.

You know who had top 10 ranked defenses last? Indiana. Georgia. PSU. OSU. The 4 teams ND had to play in the CFP.
Both played USC at USC. PSU trailed the entire game & won by 3 in OT on a horrible PI call. ND led the entire game & won by 14.
PSU plays two games a year, loses both, goes 10-2 & they celebrate a 10 win season as of the accomplished something.
Here is PSU’s OOC:
Villanova
FIU
Nevada
 
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