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So many things to rewatch, but I usually watch defense from the Safeties in, and I was truly impressed with our overall approach to Jeremiyah Love.

That kid has some elite attributes, and we put him in relative shackles. I’d be surprised if he had another game as statistically poor as this one. It took a whole bunch of sound defense to do it.

Props to Aguirre, who stopped at least two plays out in space that would have likely been 50+ yarders last season. Other LBs filled hard, too.

Props to the DL, who took that overhyped OL and moved them around as they wished.

And, to the DBs. After what we watched last year at Safety, tonight’s game was a breath of fresh air (with a few hiccups) against the run. This group went from running in the wrong direction to looking for contact and gang tackling.
 
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Fundamental football
No Chinese fire drill as ball is snapped
Alignment was sound - wish we would press
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Tackling was sound
Coverage was solid except on scramble drill and when 1 got lost
I think we have the horses if we stay healthy to make a run
 
YLCANE said:
Fundamental football
No Chinese fire drill as ball is snapped
Alignment was sound - wish we would press
More
Tackling was sound
Coverage was solid except on scramble drill and when 1 got lost
I think we have the horses if we stay healthy to make a run
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I’d like to see our CBs play bump more, but perhaps it’s not part of the new crew’s style. I think it’d match well with our DL.
 
Take away that Toure busted play and the defense was amazing tonight.

The refs decided to drag that ND offense down the field for a comeback but it was telling that the ND OC had zero clue what to do and went back to last years playbook with QB runs up the gut when they had a pre season all American RB
 
TexasCane90 said:
Take away that Toure busted play and the defense was amazing tonight.

The refs decided to drag that ND offense down the field for a comeback but it was telling that the ND OC had zero clue what to do and went back to last years playbook with QB runs up the gut when they had a pre season all American RB
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I’ve personally never seen such discussion on two incredibly obvious intentional grounding calls. On the second one, I almost lost my mind.
 
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LuCane said:
I’ve personally never seen such discussion on two incredibly obvious intentional grounding calls. On the second one, I almost lost my mind.
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For some reason, that has been the MO of officials in recent years regarding intentional grounding. There never seems to be an automatic flag thrown on the most egregious of intentional grounded passes. It's always let's have a confab of officials, discuss if the QB was inside the tackles, was the ball thrown to the LOS, etc. Then, and only then, does the flag makes its appearance. Really frustrating. Especially on that 2nd one where he was literally behind the Center and throwing the ball reverse sidearm.
 
smack99 said:
I thought the DL controlled the game for the most part. Definitely need to see more pressures and sacks but that’s definitely the best OL they’ll face all year.
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That ND gameplan was highly protective. Extreme reliance on WR screens and quick drops. I have no idea if we’ll have a top pass rush or not, but not a good game to evaluate it. ND mainly played within what I used to call the Patrick Nix rectangle (it has a max height of 12 yards). Even when they broke out of it, it was a quick drop fade route (50/50). Very, very protective of their young QB in the passing game.
 
LuCane said:
I’ve personally never seen such discussion on two incredibly obvious intentional grounding calls. On the second one, I almost lost my mind.
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How the ref looking directly at OL/DL didn’t see the ball ricochet off a ND OL in real time blew my mind in the second one.

The refs allowed so much hand grabbing by their DBs I expected the last PI to not be called.
 
LuCane said:
So many things to rewatch, but I usually watch defense from the Safeties in, and I was truly impressed with our overall approach to Jeremiyah Love.

That kid has some elite attributes, and we put him in relative shackles. I’d be surprised if he had another game as statistically poor as this one. It took a whole bunch of sound defense to do it.

Props to Aguirre, who stopped at least two plays out in space that would have likely been 50+ yarders last season. Other LBs filled hard, too.

Props to the DL, who took that overhyped OL and moved them around as they wished.

And, to the DBs. After what we watched last year at Safety, tonight’s game was a breath of fresh air (with a few hiccups) against the run. This group went from running in the wrong direction to looking for contact and gang tackling.
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I agree 100%

It was great to not be at a disadvantage before the ball is snapped, it’s still early but Heatherman and the new Def staff seemed to have fixed a lot of the problems from last year
 
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