Rice Postgame

Jimmy3Putt · Sunday at 9:18 AM

The team plays with violence and it's beautiful.

greyhammer90 · Sunday at 9:28 AM

Dale said:
Through 2 games:

Williams: 0.82 Yards Before Contact per Rush
James: 1.08 Yards Before Contact per Rush

Last year:

Love: 2.40 Yards Before Contact per Rush
Price: 2.08 Yards Before Contact per Rush

YBC is often presented as an OL stat. I think it’s as much a RB stat especially when you have two backs with relatively the same usage. Theoretically one back is not getting a different OL (over a larger sample size to be fair) than the other. It therefore can be used to reflect the vision of the RB.

How do our current year averages compare to other contenders?

Jimmy3Putt · Sunday at 9:42 AM

greyhammer90 said:
How do our current year averages compare to other contenders?

Tough to compare that this early in the season considering who everyone has been playing.

Dale · Sunday at 10:30 AM

greyhammer90 said:
How do our current year averages compare to other contenders?

Probably not that telling but 1.5 is where I would generally draw the line as fine/average

Williams being measurably lower than James was my main takeaway.

notredomer23 · Sunday at 10:32 AM

Dale said:
Probably not that telling but 1.5 is where I would generally draw the line as fine/average

Do you have Walton’s number?

Sea Turtle · Sunday at 10:47 AM

Williams seems like a good utility back. Pretty good at everything. Not great at anything.

NDFAN2008 · Sunday at 10:59 AM

arrowryan said:
It was nice to see Greathouse get more involved and Gilbert catch a touchdown. Keep working on the running game. Very solid performance overall.

On Shuler’s forced fumble, why is that head coach immediately asking for a targeting call? He’s a massive bitch for that. Freeman should’ve dropped 100.

I’d like to see Burress get more time with the 1’s. He showed a bunch of wiggle and YAC ability.

Agree on Burress having him and Faison out there at the same time would cause problems for defenses

RudyVerse · Sunday at 11:00 AM

Sea Turtle said:
Williams seems like a good utility back. Pretty good at everything. Not great at anything.

I can’t believe him comp was Kyren Williams. Not even close.

IRISHDODGER · Sunday at 11:11 AM

arrowryan said:
It was nice to see Greathouse get more involved and Gilbert catch a touchdown. Keep working on the running game. Very solid performance overall.

On Shuler’s forced fumble, why is that head coach immediately asking for a targeting call? He’s a massive bitch for that. Freeman should’ve dropped 100.

I’d like to see Burress get more time with the 1’s. He showed a bunch of wiggle and YAC ability.

Purely speculating, but I think it was b/c the ball carrier (#5) was visibly shaken up after that hit so the HC instinctively assumed he took a head shot from Shuler. Replay looked pretty clear that Adon lead w/ his shoulder. Credit the refs for not delaying the game to review it b/c the HC of Rice was lobbying hard for a targeting call & there was plenty of time to halt play between the Traore scoop & score and the XP.

stlnd01 · Sunday at 11:19 AM

Was there any postgame update on Lambert? (or any other injuries).

Late second quarter the broadcast said he was helped off the field and I doubt he was going back in either way. But if he got hurt that’d be a big loss.

RudyVerse · Sunday at 11:22 AM

stlnd01 said:
Was there any postgame update on Lambert? (or any other injuries).

Late second quarter the broadcast said he was helped off the field and I doubt he was going back in either way. But if he got hurt that’d be a big loss.

It’s being downplayed by everything I’ve seen/heard/read. I think he’s fine and if he tweaked his ankle it was just at a good point in the game to get Styles reoriented at his natural position.

SWirishfan · Sunday at 12:14 PM

T-Boone said:
Has anyone seen a targeting get called yet this season?

There was one in the UW - WASU game with 4 min left in the 4th.

NDFAN2008 · Sunday at 12:26 PM

Young and Keeley both played great yesterday you can tell Patridge is making a difference

FOTY977 · Sunday at 12:27 PM

GATTACA! said:
Does Bin Laden know ball?

Ran a gimmicky offense, notorious for going turtle against better teams. Game passed him by ~2011.

ACamp1900 · Sunday at 12:29 PM

There was targeting in the ou game early on too, although I believe it was overturned off memory

KPENN · Sunday at 12:32 PM

pumpdog20 · Sunday at 12:50 PM

Damnit Sampson...you're the king of the jinx

Katzenboyer · Sunday at 1:55 PM

Chino Cherokee said:
How many snaps did Mylan Graham get today?

I don't remember seeing him at all.

??

Really? I thought he flashed, and am really excited to see how he develops the rest of this year.

irishandy · Sunday at 2:21 PM

Postgame Thoughts:
1. This was damn near a perfect game.
2. The offense did what they were supposed to do like Miami's did vs FAMU and what IU's did vs Howard.
3. So many great things you could say about the defense; only allowed 128 total yards.
4. After this game 100% no concerns with the running game from me; were we supposed to show it all vs. Rice??
5. Most important stat for me is that usually in these games, late in the game our 2nd/3rd string defense gives up a touchdown and they didn't.

Go Irish!!

OrlaNDomer · Sunday at 3:35 PM

Loved how much time we got the second and third string guys. Am I crazy or do our backup RBs and WRs look better than the starters? Burress, Bettis, Walton, and James in particular.

Chino Cherokee · Sunday at 4:23 PM

Katzenboyer said:
Really? I thought he flashed, and am really excited to see how he develops the rest of this year.

Mylan Graham recorded 2 receptions for 24 yards

Flashed?

Te'o4Heisman · Sunday at 5:19 PM

Chino Cherokee said:
Mylan Graham recorded 2 receptions for 24 yards

Flashed?

He looked good when in. Almost also made an incredible catch going up high over the middle, and luckily didnt end up with a broken rib or two instead.

ulukinatme · Sunday at 9:55 PM

NDFAN2008 said:
If we are gonna want to be a 50/50 team running and throwing then we need Walton to be RB1. There just isnt any juice with Williams. Also it was nice to see Greathouse have a solid day and the young WR’s get touches.

No, we need a complete consistent back that's RB1, not necessarily the most talented runner. Also, Walton was in mop up duty.

ulukinatme · Sunday at 9:57 PM

pumpdog20 said:
Damnit Sampson...you're the king of the jinx

Right? I get that it's MSU, but it's also one of our big longtime rivals, and Fitz is their coach now. He doesn't like ND, and he's played the spoiler role before. Not saying they're winning, but I think they're going to come out and give us 2-3 quarters of physical football till our depth and talent take over.

Jiggafini19Deux · Monday at 12:46 PM

The running game was ok. Everything else was otherwise graded out near perfect.

Just keep playing fast, violent and protect the ball offensively.

dublinirish · Monday at 1:12 PM

NorthDakota · Monday at 1:13 PM

Jiggafini19Deux said:
The running game was ok. Everything else was otherwise graded out near perfect.

Just keep playing fast, violent and protect the ball offensively.

Need to be able to run the ball on these teams

IrishLax · Monday at 1:27 PM

Chino Cherokee said:
Mylan Graham recorded 2 receptions for 24 yards

Flashed?

I don't really get what people are expecting in terms of stat lines. CJ Carr had 16 total completions on Saturday. There are four primary WRs... not counting passes to RBs/TEs you wouldn't expect anyone to really have more than 2-4 catches. Same thing with Gilbert Week 1, who I also thought looked really good in his limited opportunities, Graham looked fast and had a really good catch on the sideline, and he was getting open consistently whenever he was on the field.

NDFAN2008 · Monday at 1:30 PM

IrishLax said:
I don't really get what people are expecting in terms of stat lines. CJ Carr had 16 total completions on Saturday. There are four primary WRs... not counting passes to RBs/TEs you wouldn't expect anyone to really have more than 2-4 catches. Same thing with Gilbert Week 1, who I also thought looked really good in his limited opportunities, Graham looked fast and had a really good catch on the sideline, and he was getting open consistently whenever he was on the field.

Agree I think Graham will have 2-3 games where he gets over 100 yards this year but hopefully by the last 3rd of the season he's putting up 50-60 yards a game we should be happy with that. I think right now he's probally the 4th option out of guys .

allenm5333 · Monday at 1:36 PM

IrishLax said:
I don't really get what people are expecting in terms of stat lines. CJ Carr had 16 total completions on Saturday. There are four primary WRs... not counting passes to RBs/TEs you wouldn't expect anyone to really have more than 2-4 catches. Same thing with Gilbert Week 1, who I also thought looked really good in his limited opportunities, Graham looked fast and had a really good catch on the sideline, and he was getting open consistently whenever he was on the field.

I think Faison will be consistent. What I expect to happen as the season progresses is there being a different WR who steps up every week based on matchups

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