Chris Ash - Loves Man Coverage?

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Q. Obviously, you mentioned the defensive execution in the second half. Was there any change in the scheme in how you guys approached their attack?

FREEMAN: “There’s always a little bit of adjustments in terms of what alignments, a couple maybe movements and calls, but we couldn’t panic. That’s what I kept saying, ‘stop panicking.’ Don’t come up with some magical calls that our guys don’t know how to execute.

“It’s not a call. What are they doing? How do we make sure we get adjusted? Where are the issues where our guys know what they should do and didn’t execute? Versus where are the issues that we gotta make sure we help them know how to get lined up and how we wanna fit?


“And I think there was mostly that. There’s a couple different formations and plays that we gotta, ‘OK, here’s how you get lined up. Here’s how we want you to fit it.’ But there was a couple plays where our guys should have known, ‘This is what your job is, and you didn’t do it.’

“And so I think the ability to get them to calm down and just see what they’re getting attacked with helped them in the second half.”
 
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Ash, BJM, Partridge, Henry, Biagi and the analysts have entirely way too much experience for Freeman to talk about the staffs ability to adjust like they are 4 year olds. Do we have anyone in the booth doing a single thing?
 
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Yes, it's Halloween, I've been drinking and its pushing midnight, but Freeman's ass should be called to the carpet for this. He's on the verge of squandering Notre Dame's most talented rosters because of coordinators - in particular, Chris Ass - that he's hired. Why doesn't he have the stones to make corrections?
 
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Dale said:
Q. Obviously, you mentioned the defensive execution in the second half. Was there any change in the scheme in how you guys approached their attack?

FREEMAN: “There’s always a little bit of adjustments in terms of what alignments, a couple maybe movements and calls, but we couldn’t panic. That’s what I kept saying, ‘stop panicking.’ Don’t come up with some magical calls that our guys don’t know how to execute.

“It’s not a call. What are they doing? How do we make sure we get adjusted? Where are the issues where our guys know what they should do and didn’t execute? Versus where are the issues that we gotta make sure we help them know how to get lined up and how we wanna fit?


“And I think there was mostly that. There’s a couple different formations and plays that we gotta, ‘OK, here’s how you get lined up. Here’s how we want you to fit it.’ But there was a couple plays where our guys should have known, ‘This is what your job is, and you didn’t do it.’

“And so I think the ability to get them to calm down and just see what they’re getting attacked with helped them in the second half.”
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It's unbelievable. The amount of talent we're squandering and withering away. We're hitting November tomorrow and these guys still don't eve know where to line up. Just an absolute failure at all levels.
 
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I'm not one to pump the brakes on the train headed for Ash, but I see a lot of reactions that don't make sense.

Each week there's a new game plan. That is especially true when you have Navy. You might as well have a base defense for 11 games and a Navy defense for this week. To say it's an indictment on Ash that kids don't know the alignment at week 7 is a little misleading. They will likely never play this kind of defense ever again until next year.

That being said, whatever adjustments were made worked. That sounds like more of an indictment on Ash
 
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Irish8248 said:
I'm not one to pump the brakes on the train headed for Ash, but I see a lot of reactions that don't make sense.

Each week there's a new game plan. That is especially true when you have Navy. You might as well have a base defense for 11 games and a Navy defense for this week. To say it's an indictment on Ash that kids don't know the alignment at week 7 is a little misleading. They will likely never play this kind of defense ever again until next year.

That being said, whatever adjustments were made worked. That sounds like more of an indictment on Ash
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Yes Navy is weird but it's Football 101 to hold outside contain. Especially against a run-oriented team, you emphasize not letting anyone get outside you. No matter what eye candy they throw at you, it's fairly simple.
But how many times (in the first half) did our DEs get sucked too far inside, or the corners were nowhere to be found, and they broke a good run around the end. That's alignment and coaching.
 
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Yes Navy is weird but it's Football 101 to hold outside contain. Especially against a run-oriented team, you emphasize not letting anyone get outside you. No matter what eye candy they throw at you, it's fairly simple.
But how many times (in the first half) did our DEs get sucked too far inside, or the corners were nowhere to be found, and they broke a good run around the end. That's alignment and coaching.
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Those are examples of a blown assignment. We can shit on Ash but I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt that he didn't tell his DEs to crash during the two weeks of prep.
 
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Irish8248 said:
I'm not one to pump the brakes on the train headed for Ash, but I see a lot of reactions that don't make sense.

Each week there's a new game plan. That is especially true when you have Navy. You might as well have a base defense for 11 games and a Navy defense for this week. To say it's an indictment on Ash that kids don't know the alignment at week 7 is a little misleading. They will likely never play this kind of defense ever again until next year.

That being said, whatever adjustments were made worked. That sounds like more of an indictment on Ash
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I am not pleased that that many guys on that many plays apparently do not know where they are supposed to be, where they are supposed to go, and what they are supposed to do when they get there. It happens every week.
 
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Irish8248 said:
Those are examples of a blown assignment. We can shit on Ash but I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt that he didn't tell his DEs to crash during the two weeks of prep.
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Once or twice it's a blown assignment. It happened a bunch of times.
 
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Traore, Brewu, Keeley, and Gray

All DL that got their first taste of Navy football. Sleeping on it, the first half makes sense now.
 
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Tend to look slow when confused or lack or lack confidence in what you’re doing.
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With all the reads, Navy’s O is designed to make you look slower than you are.

Yet, you can beat this O by attacking and disrupting which is what happened in the second half.

This isn’t the first time Ash has faced Navy which makes everyone wonder what was going on.
 
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pumpdog20 said:
Traore, Brewu, Keeley, and Gray

All DL that got their first taste of Navy football. Sleeping on it, the first half makes sense now.
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Fair point, but it doesn't justify why our most experienced players vs Navy played so bad in the first half. Ausberry, Bowen, Shuler. All of a sudden "something" changes in the second half with the scheme, bowen out, Faraimo and Ausberry play much better. Not blaming bowen, putting a lot more on ash and whatever he did to prepare/scheme and call plays as freeman put it, "the players didn't know how to execute".

It was the same thing vs BYU. The players didn't play aggressive, didn't know how to get lined up, and just were "catching and reacting" all first half.
 
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The story arc of this thread is like a movie. A villain turned hero back to being the villain. Now is your chance to once again get your redemption story.
 
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I'd love an older top notch DC with zero aspirations of being a head coach. That could ensure he sticks around for awhile and builds up some continuity.

Is Phil Parker ready for the big time?
 
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ND just surrendered one TD and 13 total points against a notoriously tricky/unconventional scheme and morons want heads to roll. Al Golden fared worse in two out of three attempts, including surrending 32 points in one game.
 
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