'10 IL QB Tommy Rees (Notre Dame Man)

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Pretty funny. Lot of filler (is taking a knee against Michigan and BYU really a Tommy Rees highlight?) Also I went in thinking how you found over 4 minutes of highlights and then saw that the last few are blank. good job anyways.
 

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I'm hoping Tommy proves the nay-sayers wrong. He's got grit and determination, two qualities found in good leaders, so it's no wonder he has the respect and support of his teammates. He's come through adversity, some of which was caused by his own actions. He's not blaming anyone else for his demotion last year and, as far as I know, never considered leaving ND for an opportunity elsewhere. He may or may not have a successful season on the field, but he has already proven that he has the will to overcome adversity. I would love to see him lead this team to a BCS bowl.
 

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Pretty funny. Lot of filler (is taking a knee against Michigan and BYU really a Tommy Rees highlight?) Also I went in thinking how you found over 4 minutes of highlights and then saw that the last few are blank. good job anyways.

Lol thanks. I dont know what happened with that extra minute of black? But before i started pairing down the final clips i did have over 4 mins of just Tommy stuff. I added him taking knees because I think it kinda personified his role last year as the closer.
 

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Man, that TD pass to TJ against Stanford was ugly.

Can you imagine how dangerous Rees would be if he could throw a good fade?
 

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Man, that TD pass to TJ against Stanford was ugly.

Can you imagine how dangerous Rees would be if he could throw a good fade?

You don't think he throws like that intentionally to keep the defense from anticipating and jumping the route?
 
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Nice Job, Gattica!

1) When I watched the Michigan highlights, into Stanford, I thought to myself, an offense could be designed like this around Tommy;
a) with decent running and blocking it could do well.
b) with the number of receivers that can highpoint the ball, even better.

2) Tommy didn't look nearly as slow or weak last year as the year before. Part of Tommy's problem USC, Stanford and FSU (all '11) could have been the offensive line. The whole line was weaker, simply. And that little extra time they provided last year had to help. Hopefully they will be seven pillars this year!

3) From front to back, oldest to newest, Tommy's release looks faster to me.

Two questions:

A) In the BYU game especially how come on every reception (over ten yards) has the receiver with his back turned to the end zone, facing Tommy? Does this explain some of our red zone problems? How does one correct this? It cannot all be weak Tommy-arm, can it?

B) As I stated earlier, I think Tommy's release may be faster (what do I know?). Is that a function of knowing the offense better? Being able to read the defenses better? Or the fact that teams didn't plan a disguised defense to dismember Tommy as he was not the projected starter?

I am also confused when I hear statements like "Tommy has an exceptional knowledge of the offense", and "Tommy gets confused by reading defensive coverages." I don't see a problem with both being true, is that correct?
 
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You don't think he throws like that intentionally to keep the defense from anticipating and jumping the route?

Only Denard Robinson can intentionally throw bad passes to such great effect.
 

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Grantland's Holly Robinson recommends the following E-Z listening album for ND fans anxious about the 2013 QB situation:

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I have to admit, I keep seeing the OT pass to Riddick... Pitt was it?? where he basically threw a duck just asking for a tunrover... yet Riddick somehow caught it... and the throw to Eifert against Wake that easily should have been picked if not for TE...

can't make throws like that.

Really hoping we don't see that this year.
 
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And here I was thinking GITF's bump was a report that TR was expected to be reporting to Camp Longo at a rippling 210lbs of solid muscle...silly me!
 

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Tommy Rees has won football games for Notre Dame. He’s handled himself well on the field and been a positive influence on the team. Heck, he;’s even helped Notre Dame win games since losing his starting job. And, at the end of the day, his winning percentage and his stats – a common point of contention – actually compare quite favorably to those of Brady Quinn And Jimmy Clausen threw their first two seasons as a starting quarterbacks.

dshans!!
 

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Article makes some good sense. But the most sensible thing about the quarterback conversation is, with the choices available saying not having Golson this year will cost three wins is unwarranted and unsupportable.

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ND didn't have Golson in what, 4 games last year? If I recall correctly ND got the wins without him.

Apparently those 4 DCs never read this board and knew how easily the ND offense could be shut down without Golson.
 

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The first thing everybody, supporter or not, needs to go to the front of the page and look at Tommy's rating coming out of high school. Next be thankful that this kid has overachieved on the largest stage. Like it or not, we are lucky as hell to have him and I hope for a great finish to his career. If anything for the haters, you only have him for one more year. Be a glass is half full kind of guy for one season.
 
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I don't know peeps -- he's always had the Floyd or Eifert safety blanket before...(or Goodman)...He doesn't have any of those this year. I wish it were different but it could get ugly.
 

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I don't know peeps -- he's always had the Floyd or Eifert safety blanket before...(or Goodman)...He doesn't have any of those this year. I wish it were different but it could get ugly.

I agree with the first part, but I differ on the second. To me his mistakes came often as he was locked in on one person. This year he will be forced to scan his options more which I feel will allow him to make better decisions, meaning by not having that one guy to focus on he will see the field better and therefore make better decisions.
 

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I don't know peeps -- he's always had the Floyd or Eifert safety blanket before...(or Goodman)...He doesn't have any of those this year. I wish it were different but it could get ugly.

I agree with this. Our receiving core needs to step up and our O-line will need to push people around with our running game. We really haven't got anyone who has demonstrated that they can go up and get it in traffic...even if Tommy doesn't "lock-on" a receiver right from the snap of the ball. I'm still optimistic because people underestimated the man more than once last year. Fingers will be crossed.
 

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I agree with this. Our receiving core needs to step up and our O-line will need to push people around with our running game. We really haven't got anyone who has demonstrated that they can go up and get it in traffic...even if Tommy doesn't "lock-on" a receiver right from the snap of the ball. I'm still optimistic because people underestimated the man more than once last year. Fingers will be crossed.

You don't think Daniels and T.J. have proven they can go up and get it?
 

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You don't think Daniels and T.J. have proven they can go up and get it?

Not to the level that Rees was used to with Floyd and Eifert. To be fair, they really haven't had as many opportunities as BK switched to a more conservative game plan last year because he had a defense he could rely on. I'm a huge fan of TJ and I think he has the most potential to explode next season. You know Tommy is going to put it up there.
 

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Daniels has a 40+ inch vertical... he can "go up and get it."

Niklas has a Herculean body --- he doesn't have to; his mere presence walls off a car's parking space worth of "window".

TJJones is amazingly the most underrated player by all sorts of IE posters who absolutely refuse to notice that he is a superb receiver and increasingly tough competitor at the point of ball arrival.

Plus, Kelly's offense is SUPPOSED to be largely "darts" in gaps not fades in the corner. If Tommy can read it, we should see the darts to a big receiver walling off the defender like Eifert was the consummate genius at body-positioning last year. Everett was not so good at the darts-offense since he wasn't seeing it as well as Tommy theoretically should.

Let's see what our highly admirable gym rat can do in his greybeard year.
 

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I don't know peeps -- he's always had the Floyd or Eifert safety blanket before...(or Goodman)...He doesn't have any of those this year. I wish it were different but it could get ugly.

Yeah. Even in that video GATTACA created it was striking how many of the balls went to Eifert. I like TJ Jones and I agree that Daniels has size but if we have anyone with the skills of Eifert or Floyd on the roster this year I haven't seen it yet.

I think we can win 10 games with Rees (we should have two years ago w/out such a talented defense) but we're going to have to run a very efficient offense and stay healthy. Whoever mentioned our O Line in 2011 is right on - after Cave got hurt Rees' lack of mobility/playmaking ability was a major problem against Stanford and FSU. I think it was our first play of the Stanford game when they bulled up the middle and knocked Tommy on his ***. Game over right there.
 

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If the OL can block for him, he will be fine. He should have the all-around running game and a balanced receiving corps. He can't rely on Floyd/Eifert anymore which will force him to spread the field.
 
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