I’m not even sure it’s a spread style offense. Like Lax said, IDK what the hell he’s trying to run. I think Pete has said multiple times they’ve been trying to be a ball control, run first offense because they assumed their OL would dominate.
That is definitely a good point. Also, let's never, ever try to be a ball control team ever again. Lol.
Are you saying there haven't been plays for Buchner to make? Here's the shitty part about his situation: if he had executed at a higher level, he might not even be in the game at the end against Marshall. Put up 30+ pts, hand it off to Pyne and go start recovering.
Of course Buchner could/should play better than he did, but you talk about who is and isn't suffering for it.
Sure. Buchner will still get a free education and have the opportunity to mend, return to football and develop in whatever way he is capable. And if he developed enough, he could be worth $100s of millions in the NFL. And if not, then he has a massive network of ND alumni to lean on after football.
I stand corrected. Pyne is an improvement and I’m happy to be wrong. 🍀Highest QBR in the two games he played in last year. Probably would have won that Cinci game if he played the entire time.
Also, for what it's worth, Pyne scored 1 TD against Marshall in 2 series while Buchner scored 2 TDs playing 11 series. Buchner also threw a pick 6 though, so he effectively took one of those TDs off the board. In the end TB played almost the entire game and put us up by the same number of points as Pyne.
Buchner may give the offense another "dimension" but he's certainly not shown any consistency yet either and Drew has been the better pocket passer. For all TB's wheels it hasn't produced a lot of points. Just 24 points this year, 17 failed drives with one being a pick 6. Pyne averages a score (Usually a TD) almost every 2nd possession between the Wisconsin, Cinci, and Marshall games.
But he played crummy in a Spring Game, so...he's garbage because Spring Games with their weird rules and mixed up rosters mean everything
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Yep. Pyne is doing everything he can to help this team win. Much respect for that. But also you see his ceiling pretty clearly.
Think part of it was sorta the reality that we all knew Kelly wasn't going to be at ND much longer after the 17-21 run. And once he figured out how to really start winning at ND everyone felt the clock ticking. And the quickest way to go from good to elite is with an elite QB. Feels like a different calculus at work with CMF, at least for now. And it also helps that we do have a 5 star QB committed.
We will probably hang 50 on them in the first half and let him play the entire second…
Uhhhh…mmmm…yeah…
I'd put Angeli in on the 2nd drive of 1st Quarter personally, see what he can do with first team offense
I’m hoping they score 50 points the second half of the season.
Couple reason IMO:
he didnt need to?
Reading between the lines they said, "we should have taken Drew Allar but we didn't lol, so we took this guy who basically didn't even throw the ball in high school, and we have no idea how to develop him anyways, so yeah he's not good either."
Well his own high school program wasn't big on him throwing the football either, so maybe they knew something Tommy couldn't figure out.
Ok but a game against UNLV is the perfect time to do things the situation does not require.
i agree. when ND was up 30-7 in the second half i don't get why you don't let angeli come in for a couple series.
