ND's Defense

[Dwinstitles]

Everything in this game hinges on us controlling their running game.

We don’t they run clock and our offense sits.We do our offense has chances to score,their defense is on the field longer than normal and the heat and humidity does its job.

This game is all about stopping that running game.

Truth

 

[Dwinstitles]

Color me unimpressed after that Wake forest game where they were missing their Star player Dortch #89


Domers will say they got caught looking ahead to us but theyve been giving up yards and points to anyone with a pulse

Excuses. ND also played without Adams for the entire game , and without Wimbush For the last quarter. ND still ran for almost 400, and totaled over 700 yards of offense. If one player makes or breaks your team, there's an issue

That means one thing.....that OL is sick. It should be a good match up for ourDL

 

[Hurracanes]

Color me unimpressed after that Wake forest game where they were missing their Star player Dortch #89


Domers will say they got caught looking ahead to us but theyve been giving up yards and points to anyone with a pulse

Points? WF was the only team to score 20+ games on their D all season. UNC put 400+ yards on our Defense. What’s that say about us?

 

[brock]

Color me unimpressed after that Wake forest game where they were missing their Star player Dortch #89


Domers will say they got caught looking ahead to us but theyve been giving up yards and points to anyone with a pulse

Points? WF was the only team to score 20+ games on their D all season. UNC put 400+ yards on our Defense. What’s that say about us?

Va Tech was top 35 in the country on offense vs what do they do vs us? We gifted them a td due to a turnover on a short field

 

[TurnoverChain]

Herndon and Richards will both go off this game.

 

[miami_yak]

The game will be determined by our 3rd down offense versus their 3rd down Defense. It’s no coincidence that our most complete game of the season also had our best 3rd down conversion percentage (VT).

 

[HurikaneMarc]

Their defense ain’t that good...
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Vt defense who is top 10 in the country is much better

90th vs pass and 30th vs run. This game will come down to their run O vs our D.

Here's what's funny. Everyone and their mother knows what ND wants to do. NC State had the 6th ranked rush D. Hadn't allowed a single hundred yard rusher in two years or something crazy like that. Adams had that in the first quarter. He had 200 for the game, and Wimbush also went for 100.

Wake Forest led the country in TFL coming into the game. ND solves that. Wake knew ND wanted to run. Without Adams ND still ran for close to 400 yards.

You know you have a good team when the other team knows what you're going to do and they STILL can't stop it.

I real that ND hasn't faces and team like Miami. We heard that for USC and NC State. This is nothing new.

What you can certainly say though is that this will be the most physical team Miami plays. The best way to counter speed (which ND also has) if by punching the other team in the mouthm. I expect nothing less than a great game.

I expect a great game as well, but the teams you mentioned were all losers. You forgot to mention what the winner Georgia did. They too knew what you liked to do and do you know what they did? Held you to 55 yards rushing as a team. Pounded your qb into 3 to's and a 19% qbr.

We are not Wake or USC we would beat both of them at their place or ours. Granted you guys controlled Frohm pretty well they ran on you pretty well and were able to complete some long passes on you.

Just sayin don't look for NcSt or Wake Saturday night. It'll be the canes and we're better than all those teams, maybe not Georgia(yet) but we're improving weekly.

 

[Duval904]

we need to make plays in the passing game. that is the path to victory

 

[Hurracanes]

Color me unimpressed after that Wake forest game where they were missing their Star player Dortch #89


Domers will say they got caught looking ahead to us but theyve been giving up yards and points to anyone with a pulse

Points? WF was the only team to score 20+ games on their D all season. UNC put 400+ yards on our Defense. What’s that say about us?

Va Tech was top 35 in the country on offense vs what do they do vs us? We gifted them a td due to a turnover on a short field

You’re not getting my point. You use WF as an example as to why ND’s D isn’t good. My point is WF is their UNC to us. We better come to play.

 

[NonCents]

Their defense ain’t that good...
[TWEET]928078132330090496[/TWEET]
Vt defense who is top 10 in the country is much better

90th vs pass and 30th vs run. This game will come down to their run O vs our D.

Here's what's funny. Everyone and their mother knows what ND wants to do. NC State had the 6th ranked rush D. Hadn't allowed a single hundred yard rusher in two years or something crazy like that. Adams had that in the first quarter. He had 200 for the game, and Wimbush also went for 100.

Wake Forest led the country in TFL coming into the game. ND solves that. Wake knew ND wanted to run. Without Adams ND still ran for close to 400 yards.

You know you have a good team when the other team knows what you're going to do and they STILL can't stop it.

I real that ND hasn't faces and team like Miami. We heard that for USC and NC State. This is nothing new.

What you can certainly say though is that this will be the most physical team Miami plays. The best way to counter speed (which ND also has) if by punching the other team in the mouthm. I expect nothing less than a great game.

I expect a great game as well, but the teams you mentioned were all losers. You forgot to mention what the winner Georgia did. They too knew what you liked to do and do you know what they did? Held you to 55 yards rushing as a team. Pounded your qb into 3 to's and a 19% qbr.

We are not Wake or USC we would beat both of them at their place or ours. Granted you guys controlled Frohm pretty well they ran on you pretty well and were able to complete some long passes on you.

Just sayin don't look for NcSt or Wake Saturday night. It'll be the canes and we're better than all those teams, maybe not Georgia(yet) but we're improving weekly.

I don't think ND really knew who they were yet. I think the game now would be higher scoring on both sides, not sure who would win.

Not expecting Wake Forrest, nor NC State.

But I think ND has been exposed to teams similar to Miami in USC and Georgia in terms of speed. I'm just not sure that Miami has been exposed to a team with ND's physicality. It should be an interesting game.

If ND can weather the initial surge from Miami, and go into the second half with a small deficit to overcome, or a small lead, it could bode well for ND. They tend to wear teams down as the game goes along, and it doesn't matter if the opponent has the ability to rotate players or not.

 

[NonCents]

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[NonCents]

Nm

 

[NonCents]

Check out @ChaseClaypool’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/ChaseClaypool/status/924808611687264256?s=09

 

[brock]

Check out @ChaseClaypool’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/ChaseClaypool/status/924808611687264256?s=09

So? Lol, our true freshman nickel back who is 5’9 180 just destroyed a va tech lineman who was 130 pounds heavier than him

 

[CaneandAbel]

Everything in this game hinges on us controlling their running game.

We don’t they run clock and our offense sits.We do our offense has chances to score,their defense is on the field longer than normal and the heat and humidity does its job.

This game is all about stopping that running game.

As much as it makes sense to assume that because of how good they run the ball that they should be great at TOP but actually they lose TOP on average more times than they win it. In fact they've only won it 3 times all year. Of course we've only won it once but it shows Notre Dame is as much of a big play dependent team as us on offense.

 

[gruntking]

They will come at us on the ground because that's what they do. Our D has to have a plan to counter misdirection and deceptive offensive schemes and force more third downs. My crystal ball says the D will rise to the occasion, and all that the offense needs to do is BALL CONTROL. We are going to kick ND's *** tomorrow night! No headless chickens needed.

 

[Duval904]

well for one thing Diaz needs to stop with all the slanting and stunting. they're going to eat us alive if he doesnt

 

[NonCents]

I'd expect aggressive play from the corners and an attempt to create pressure with just the dline, using the LBs to clean up as needed. If that doesn't work, then Diaz might try getting aggressive. Honestly, I'd just go with what got you here because you know what ND is going to do.

The better team on Saturday will win. Should be interesting

 

[Ghandi]

-Their defense was trash last year, then they fire their defensive coordinator a couple weeks before playing us.

-Meanwhile, Wake Forest had one of the worst offenses in the FBS, but one of the best defenses, led by DC Mike Elko. In 2016, Wake Forest's defense ranked in the top 20 for FBS in defensive touchdowns scored, turnovers, red zone defense, sacks, and scoring defense. Only 3 other teams did that last year, all playoff teams (Washington, Clemson, and Bama). He had a playoff caliber defense at wake forest....

-During the off season ND hired Mike Elko and his LB coach. So he pretty much brought a playoff caliber ACC defense to ND and ofcourse, they have much better talent than Wake Forest. This explains why ND defense is much better than last year, and also explains why ironically...Wake Forest put up the most points on them. They know his defense better than any other team.

Thank you.

That'd be brutal if WF exposed all of the wholes in this guys scheme during the stretch run of a playoff season.

If that's what happened, then they wouldn't have enough time to plug all of the holes prior to the game this Saturday.

The more likely scenario is that the DC's got counters to whatever Wake exposed last week.

 

[HurikaneMarc]

Their defense ain’t that good...
[TWEET]928078132330090496[/TWEET]
Vt defense who is top 10 in the country is much better

90th vs pass and 30th vs run. This game will come down to their run O vs our D.

Here's what's funny. Everyone and their mother knows what ND wants to do. NC State had the 6th ranked rush D. Hadn't allowed a single hundred yard rusher in two years or something crazy like that. Adams had that in the first quarter. He had 200 for the game, and Wimbush also went for 100.

Wake Forest led the country in TFL coming into the game. ND solves that. Wake knew ND wanted to run. Without Adams ND still ran for close to 400 yards.

You know you have a good team when the other team knows what you're going to do and they STILL can't stop it.

I real that ND hasn't faces and team like Miami. We heard that for USC and NC State. This is nothing new.

What you can certainly say though is that this will be the most physical team Miami plays. The best way to counter speed (which ND also has) if by punching the other team in the mouthm. I expect nothing less than a great game.

I expect a great game as well, but the teams you mentioned were all losers. You forgot to mention what the winner Georgia did. They too knew what you liked to do and do you know what they did? Held you to 55 yards rushing as a team. Pounded your qb into 3 to's and a 19% qbr.

We are not Wake or USC we would beat both of them at their place or ours. Granted you guys controlled Frohm pretty well they ran on you pretty well and were able to complete some long passes on you.

Just sayin don't look for NcSt or Wake Saturday night. It'll be the canes and we're better than all those teams, maybe not Georgia(yet) but we're improving weekly.

I don't think ND really knew who they were yet. I think the game now would be higher scoring on both sides, not sure who would win.

Not expecting Wake Forrest, nor NC State.

But I think ND has been exposed to teams similar to Miami in USC and Georgia in terms of speed. I'm just not sure that Miami has been exposed to a team with ND's physicality. It should be an interesting game.

If ND can weather the initial surge from Miami, and go into the second half with a small deficit to overcome, or a small lead, it could bode well for ND. They tend to wear teams down as the game goes along, and it doesn't matter if the opponent has the ability to rotate players or not.

We're not going to get mauled all night. There is too much team pride for that. VT is a legit team that you're discrediting for no good reason. The only reason they are ranked #17 is because they just lost last week. Prior to that they were rated higher than USC who just now got back into the top 15 and prior to that were not in the top 20.

You'll see on Saturday that USC is not a good team to compare us to.

Can't wish you good luck, but peace.