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Ohh!! I know!!! He is a person created by Lovecraft that is the ultimate destroyer of the world!!!
 
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I was talking to a buddy of mine last night (huge ND fan), who probably knows more about football than anybody I know. We were talking about the ND game (first one we didn't watch together), and he started raving about Tenuta. I'm like, WTF, did you watch the same game?

His point was that he LOVED the fact that the defense is always attempting to put pressure on the QB, but that it was completely obvious that our linebackers are SLLLLLLOOOOOOOOWWWWW. Very slow.

So I watched the game again, and he's absolutely right. We all know that T. Smith is a hard-worker, but he is too slow. B. Smith is not overly quick, and even worse, he has no clue how to blitz, and a very smart football coach on the Power Hour Tonight ripped B. Smith for his lack of blitzing prowess. The reason the blitzes seem like they take so long to get there is because the LBs aren't fast. At all. Te'o has the quicks, but he's not playing as much right now, and he's still a freshman.

So, it's on Tenuta to change the scheme to fit his personnel, or put more athletic LB's like Te'o and Filer in there (Fleming plays DE, but also lines up at LB, but that gives us a hole at DE). Last year, Harrison Smith saw the field out of position because Tenuta said the best 11 need to be on the field. Well, then let's get the top 11 players on the field, because what we're doing right now just ain't working. And Washington and USC will be licking their chops if we continue to play D the way we are.

And please, can I get me some Sergio Brown that I saw in the Hawaii Bowl? He's been horrible when he blitzes as well. I haven't seen the playmaker that I saw last year.

Having said that...thank God we won Saturday!!! Let's get a big win vs. Purdue and get some momentum going into UW...
 
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NDinL.A. said:
I was talking to a buddy of mine last night (huge ND fan), who probably knows more about football than anybody I know. We were talking about the ND game (first one we didn't watch together), and he started raving about Tenuta. I'm like, WTF, did you watch the same game?

His point was that he LOVED the fact that the defense is always attempting to put pressure on the QB, but that it was completely obvious that our linebackers are SLLLLLLOOOOOOOOWWWWW. Very slow.

So I watched the game again, and he's absolutely right. We all know that T. Smith is a hard-worker, but he is too slow. B. Smith is not overly quick, and even worse, he has no clue how to blitz, and a very smart football coach on the Power Hour Tonight ripped B. Smith for his lack of blitzing prowess. The reason the blitzes seem like they take so long to get there is because the LBs aren't fast. At all. Te'o has the quicks, but he's not playing as much right now, and he's still a freshman.

So, it's on Tenuta to change the scheme to fit his personnel, or put more athletic LB's like Te'o and Filer in there (Fleming plays DE, but also lines up at LB, but that gives us a hole at DE). Last year, Harrison Smith saw the field out of position because Tenuta said the best 11 need to be on the field. Well, then let's get the top 11 players on the field, because what we're doing right now just ain't working. And Washington and USC will be licking their chops if we continue to play D the way we are.

And please, can I get me some Sergio Brown that I saw in the Hawaii Bowl? He's been horrible when he blitzes as well. I haven't seen the playmaker that I saw last year.

Having said that...thank God we won Saturday!!! Let's get a big win vs. Purdue and get some momentum going into UW...
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A simple cross blitz with the MLB and NG works wonders. A simple cross with the OLB and 5 technique can work wonders.
 
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Our D-Line has not shown up yet. The D is still not getting production from the front 4. Has anyone from our D-Line gotten a sack? Without this group dominating the line of scrimmage our D is going to continue to be average.
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BillyIrish, so true...

When our DB's are leading the team in tackles there's an issue...

Tenuta is probably a decent Defensive coordinator for FBS aka Div.1 football but he's an ACC coach completely different level of talent (note his alma mater VA and Duke here) and granted he's only been at ND for 2 years...it sucks to say were rebuilding but F*sake we have be rebuilding for far too long...there was a time when ND football reloaded and not rebuild its football program. At some point ND football offensively and defensively has to stop being mediocre

WHERE IS OUR DLINE...

ANSWER TO BILLYIRISH question:
Fleming sometimes lines up on the line as a rush end but he's not a DL he's a LB!!! and Ryan a true DE is the only DL to have a sack in 3 games....1 sack in 3 games from your Defensive Line?????? that's POOR, no matter what level of ball you play. Our only pressure comes from blitzing linebackers.

Tenuta needs to get ALL of his Defensive coaches on the same page, because Coach Randy Hart is slacking and it shows. But the defense is tenuta's responsibility and right now his defensive line is like swiss cheese. huh...yeah I said it swiss cheese...holes...and stinks.

COACH the FUNDAMENTALS! and we should be fine on both sides of the ball.
 
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What I think I noticed in this last game was that DLine seemed to do what it was told to. (I have watched no film or replays, just a single view of each play as it happened). Seems to me to be a coaching thing. And ND is 2-1 vs. 5 opponents in 3 games.
 
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NDinL.A. said:
I was talking to a buddy of mine last night (huge ND fan), who probably knows more about football than anybody I know. We were talking about the ND game (first one we didn't watch together), and he started raving about Tenuta. I'm like, WTF, did you watch the same game?

His point was that he LOVED the fact that the defense is always attempting to put pressure on the QB, but that it was completely obvious that our linebackers are SLLLLLLOOOOOOOOWWWWW. Very slow.

So I watched the game again, and he's absolutely right. We all know that T. Smith is a hard-worker, but he is too slow. B. Smith is not overly quick, and even worse, he has no clue how to blitz, and a very smart football coach on the Power Hour Tonight ripped B. Smith for his lack of blitzing prowess. The reason the blitzes seem like they take so long to get there is because the LBs aren't fast. At all. Te'o has the quicks, but he's not playing as much right now, and he's still a freshman.

So, it's on Tenuta to change the scheme to fit his personnel, or put more athletic LB's like Te'o and Filer in there (Fleming plays DE, but also lines up at LB, but that gives us a hole at DE). Last year, Harrison Smith saw the field out of position because Tenuta said the best 11 need to be on the field. Well, then let's get the top 11 players on the field, because what we're doing right now just ain't working. And Washington and USC will be licking their chops if we continue to play D the way we are.

And please, can I get me some Sergio Brown that I saw in the Hawaii Bowl? He's been horrible when he blitzes as well. I haven't seen the playmaker that I saw last year.

Having said that...thank God we won Saturday!!! Let's get a big win vs. Purdue and get some momentum going into UW...
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Alot of it is fundamentals. Watching the Michigan and MSU game there were missed tackles at the line before some of those long runs. I LOOOVE Brian Smith, he does have speed but he can not get off blocks when he is blitzing. Toryan is our best option at MLB right now because he knows the defense. It would be great to see Filer, Te'o, or A-Mac get on the field because they are better athletes but they just are not ready.

I said this in another post but alot of people jump on Tenuta because he has betterathletes at Notre Dame and does not get results. At Georgia Tech he had 2-3 years to develop players in the system and technique before they saw the field. The defense is about 2 years behind the offense in talent. Alot of the guys we need to step up are only in their second year and are gonna have growing pains.
 
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Im not a fan of this defensive scheme at all. Its hanging our DBs out to dry. Sure if we were getting pressure on the QB then it would be different but were not. Drop the linebackers back into coverage to stop the underneath. It would also stop us from getting gashed up the middle by the run because our linebackers wouldnt be coming off the corners on the blitz. The defensive line also needs more coaching on how to pass rush. Do they not coach the swim move to the ends?
 
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