Loose Cannon
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While I agree with this on principle....the QB completed 9 passes against USC. This is a Bob Griese type stat. Limit ND in the run game, they will not beat you passing.
True but they were demolishing usc and running it down the throat. Just bc they didn’t throw it much doesn’t mean they couldn’t.
Just looked up the numbers for ND...the QB's have passed 192 times with 97 completions....for 1100 yards...a 50.5% completion rate...at 5.7 yards per attempt...9 TD's to 4 INT's...this is an average over 7 games 27 passes with 13 completions.
Not saying they can't but they'd rather run it down your throat.
Exactly. Syracuse can run the football, but they weren't going to beat us running the football. We took away what they do best. Same thing against GaTech. All they do is run, but their entire offense is predicate on the dive and we took that away. They found a little success on the toss, but we took that away as well. Somebody ran the numbers and from 10 minutes remaining in the 2nd quarter to the end of the game, GaTech ran 43 plays for 56 yards. That's shutting down the run.
What is ND's best play? Remove that..
The whole left side of the o-line might go in the first round. They're going to try to run behind those two road graders all day if we don't prove that we can stop it early.