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Dale

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60% of Hartman’s passes were not Play Action. Meaning less than 40% of his passes at minimum were not slow mesh.
 

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You take Hartman and you don’t look back. Just as you take Card or Pratt and you don’t look back. Every QB in the portal comes with flaws.

A QB room of Hartman/Buchner/Angeli/Minchey is solid.

Agree - but more than solid. That's got to be a top 5 QB room in the country no? High end talent, depth, a variety of skillsets, and developmental potential.
 

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Wake Forest reporter confirmed Hartman is going to enter the portal and ND is likely the landing spot.

Loy really wants folks to stop talking about it though so NOBODY MOVE!

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Mertz to Florida timing makes more sense

Was Rees willing to hold the line and wait others out?
 

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Take, Take, Take.

Name anyone who is a better, more realistic option that faced the same competition? I've admired his approach to playing likely knowing his side was on the short end from a talent perspective, plus he's had excellent coaching under Clawson.

Give the kid an actual running game for the first time in his career and see what he can do with several NFL caliber linemen protecting him.

Coupled that with some of the talent we acquired at WR, I'm not as pessimistic if we have to get into a shootout with teams, which is the way equally matched playoff games have trended.
 

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Btw it's a dick move of the WF reporter to leak this before his bowl game........

Yeah, clearly.

He gave WF five years and is playing his last game.

Why confirm the speculation before the final game of his career. Easily could have just waited until after the game or tomorrow.
 

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Straight talk -- actually go get someone who knows their offense and bring them in as an analyst. Their offense is fire. If you took the Wake offense + ND defense the past couple seasons ND is tippy top team in the country. They were 10th in offense in 2021 and 18th this year per advanced stats. With like zero freaking NFL talent anywhere on that roster.

Notre Dame was 20th and 42nd, by comparison, with NFL caliber players at multiple positions.
 

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Watching his 2021 highlights. Most of his throws are falling back off his back foot because his Oline looks like Swiss cheese. He's still impressively accurate.

He's gonna be something else with a good protective Oline
 

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Straight talk -- actually go get someone who knows their offense and bring them in as an analyst. Their offense is fire. If you took the Wake offense + ND defense the past couple seasons ND is tippy top team in the country. They were 10th in offense in 2021 and 18th this year per advanced stats. With like zero freaking NFL talent anywhere on that roster.

Notre Dame was 20th and 42nd, by comparison, with NFL caliber players at multiple positions.
That would be great. I've heard that schools like Bama and UGA have 30-ish analysts. While that number might be unrealistic for ND, I'm hoping Freeman can bump up the number of analysts from the BK era.
 

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100% agree, I think having that in the playbook for occasional use should keep the opposing defenses off balance.

If you watch some of the video breakdown of the Wake Offense it is pretty cool. The WR's run passing routes on the slow mesh plays, they don't go into blocking mode right away. That clears out DB's and a LB or two. If they don't bite, you can take the top off. I DO NOT think it is an every down type of play, but a wrinkle if standard RPO isn't taking eyes away. It has to be super frustrating for defenses. In a way it's like a draw play right?
 

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Any insight on why wake started 6-1 to finish 7-5 and in a pre Christmas bowl? Injuries, back loaded schedule maybe?
Wasn't much Hartman's fault. Wake's offense was still averaging over 30 ppg in their 5 losses. Defense giving up almost 40 ppg. Hartman had 2 bad games vs Louisville and NCST where he threw 6 picks, but I watched both and he was running for his life all game and trying to make plays to keep them in it.
 
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