'24 GA OL Anthonie Knapp (Notre Dame Signee)

[Dale]

Knapp Wildcat when

Talich had a similar quote. Something about not mattering what position it’s just football you stop the other team.

 

[irishff1014]

Knapp Wildcat when

Talich had a similar quote. Something about not mattering what position it’s just football you stop the other team.

He did. We have some unselfish players. Great to have.

 

[RudyVerse]

Be shocked if he’s not a captain this year.

 

[SWirishfan]

Just watched the Landon Tengwell ND OL review.
His breakdown of makes Knapp sound like Zach Martin with Bruce Banner anger issues in the most complimentary way possible.

 

[Old Man Mike]

More Q than Zach

 

[SWirishfan]

More Q than Zach

To me either is high praise. First ballot HF'er or still playing HF'er.
I just think the OG body playing LT (paraphrase of Tengwell's words) sounds more like Zach than Q though.

 

[NorthDakota]

True. One of the more generally annoying features of modern college football is not knowing what time a game is gonna be until less than a week out.

I know the networks want big games at night but i"d like for once my trip to South Bend for a big game to be an afternoon kickoff

 

[Old Man Mike]

Zach was Big Balanced Punch and Reset; Q is Big Blast and drive and maul. Two different very successful methods.

Knapp does not (yet anyway) "dance" like ZMart.

 

[Irish#1]

And for his first two years, we had a lot of people wanting to put Knapp on the bench. I think many were unfairly comparing him to Alt and expecting the same results since both were playing as freshmen.

 

[Domina Nostra]

And for his first two years, we had a lot of people wanting to put Knapp on the bench. I think many were unfairly comparing him to Alt and expecting the same results since both were playing as freshmen.

True, but people weren't asking for 2026 OG Anthony Knapp to be benched. People were not happy that 2024 true freshman IOL Knapp was our best option at LT. He was certainly better than most people hoped/thought he would be.

 

[Old Man Mike]

NOTHING AGAINST KNAPP, but no need to rewrite history. Our Big Boy had lots of difficulty at first with the LT job requirements, especially vs speed rushes and the footwork needed to reset on the reverse spin move. I refused to be overly critical of him, though IEers consistently bitch about everything, but Knapp DID need improvement. In his latter season games and his second year, he got more and more consistent. The real tell however is that the staff KNEW he wasn't in the correct position.

 

[GoIrish41]

NOTHING AGAINST KNAPP, but no need to rewrite history. Our Big Boy had lots of difficulty at first with the LT job requirements, especially vs speed rushes and the footwork needed to reset on the reverse spin move. I refused to be overly critical of him, though IEers consistently bitch about everything, but Knapp DID need improvement. In his latter season games and his second year, he got more and more consistent. The real tell however is that the staff KNEW he wasn't in the correct position.

I found it curious that Guerby wasn’t playing tackle last year next to Knapp at guard.

 

[Old Man Mike]

My opinion again so ... I believe that the staff is still not sold on Lambert at tackle --- as Tengwall pointed out, Lambert does not (yet) have ideal foot talent for the position. What he apparently does have is superior length for recovery purposes. Tengwall illustrated that Lambert gets his feet wrongly placed a lot, then gets his arms way too wide (like he's "flying"), and in the end is stumbling to the ground too often. ND MIGHT have had a line-up with the best three or four GUARDS in the nation, but not any of the best tackles. Now comes this year. Rudolph seems to believe that Black has true tackle feet, and hopes that Lambert can get there. Frankly, if Jagusah was healthy, Rudolph could experiment all he wanted knowing that the most powerful guard in the country was SO powerful and flexible that he could move to tackle if needed.

 

[Domina Nostra]

My opinion again so ... I believe that the staff is still not sold on Lambert at tackle --- as Tengwall pointed out, Lambert does not (yet) have ideal foot talent for the position. What he apparently does have is superior length for recovery purposes. Tengwall illustrated that Lambert gets his feet wrongly placed a lot, then gets his arms way too wide (like he's "flying"), and in the end is stumbling to the ground too often. ND MIGHT have had a line-up with the best three or four GUARDS in the nation, but not any of the best tackles. Now comes this year. Rudolph seems to believe that Black has true tackle feet, and hopes that Lambert can get there. Frankly, if Jagusah was healthy, Rudolph could experiment all he wanted knowing that the most powerful guard in the country was SO powerful and flexible that he could move to tackle if needed.

That would be one way of explaining why Maty Augustine is staying in the mix...

 

[allenm5333]

My opinion again so ... I believe that the staff is still not sold on Lambert at tackle --- as Tengwall pointed out, Lambert does not (yet) have ideal foot talent for the position. What he apparently does have is superior length for recovery purposes. Tengwall illustrated that Lambert gets his feet wrongly placed a lot, then gets his arms way too wide (like he's "flying"), and in the end is stumbling to the ground too often. ND MIGHT have had a line-up with the best three or four GUARDS in the nation, but not any of the best tackles. Now comes this year. Rudolph seems to believe that Black has true tackle feet, and hopes that Lambert can get there. Frankly, if Jagusah was healthy, Rudolph could experiment all he wanted knowing that the most powerful guard in the country was SO powerful and flexible that he could move to tackle if needed.

Lambert was a redshirt freshman playing a position he was not accustomed to. He is better suited long term to be a tackle imo and will progress with another year of playing college fb

 

[Old Man Mike]

Everybody hopes so.

 

[Irish#1]

True, but people weren't asking for 2026 OG Anthony Knapp to be benched. People were not happy that 2024 true freshman IOL Knapp was our best option at LT. He was certainly better than most people hoped/thought he would be.

Yeah, I get that, but it wasn't Knapp's decision to be put at LT. It just seemed to me that the criticism should have been directed to the staff and not at Knapp.

 

[SWirishfan]

Lambert was a redshirt freshman playing a position he was not accustomed to. He is better suited long term to be a tackle imo and will progress with another year of playing college fb

08's sources say Lambert to fullback

 

[Old Man Mike]

Always stuns me here at IE that so many commentators take the extremist view of making criticism of anything some kind of nasty personal condemnation of whomever that critique was/is about. You can like and even really admire a person and still point out something that could be better about the "job" that we're talking about. "Not being perfect" is The Human Condition. I'll bet Coach Rudolph didn't mince words when Knapp screwed up a play/technique; but I'll bet that he continued supporting him and liking him.

 

[CoachB]

Super excited to watch him play this year. What a weapon. He is nasty! That football drive is special.

 

[IrishLax]

I feel like tackle will be fine and they wouldn't have made the roster moves that they did if they didn't believe in Black/Lambert.

The question is really going to be what happens at RG with Augustine being a natural tackle and there are scenarios where you would probably be best off playing him at RT and sliding Lambert back to RG in lieu of playing Lambert at RT and Augustine at RG.

Knapp is a security blanket for the left side because if you pick up an injury at LT you can seamlessly slide him back out there.

 

[Domina Nostra]

I feel like tackle will be fine and they wouldn't have made the roster moves that they did if they didn't believe in Black/Lambert.

The question is really going to be what happens at RG with Augustine being a natural tackle and there are scenarios where you would probably be best off playing him at RT and sliding Lambert back to RG in lieu of playing Lambert at RT and Augustine at RG.

Knapp is a security blanket for the left side because if you pick up an injury at LT you can seamlessly slide him back out there.

This is kind of how I see it. I think this year has a much higher floor than some previous years.

Unlike past years, none of the line combinations would scare me very much at all:

Black--Knapp--Craig--Lambert--Augustine
Knapp--Absher--Craig--Lambert--Black
Black--Lambert--Craig--Knapp--Augustine
Black--Absher--Craig--Lambert--Knapp'
Black-Absher--Craig--Knapp--Lambert

And Jagusah could emerge later season too...

 

[CoachB]

And honestly, Otting showed he was more than capable at Center also.

 

[ND87]

This is kind of how I see it. I think this year has a much higher floor than some previous years.

Unlike past years, none of the line combinations would scare me very much at all:

Black--Knapp--Craig--Lambert--Augustine
Knapp--Absher--Craig--Lambert--Black
Black--Lambert--Craig--Knapp--Augustine
Black--Absher--Craig--Lambert--Knapp'
Black-Absher--Craig--Knapp--Lambert

And Jagusah could emerge later season too...

But which lineup(s) scares our opponents

 

[Irish#1]

Always stuns me here at IE that so many commentators take the extremist view of making criticism of anything some kind of nasty personal condemnation of whomever that critique was/is about. You can like and even really admire a person and still point out something that could be better about the "job" that we're talking about. "Not being perfect" is The Human Condition. I'll bet Coach Rudolph didn't mince words when Knapp screwed up a play/technique; but I'll bet that he continued supporting him and liking him.

Agree, never miss an opportunity to teach.

 

[Old Man Mike]

Which line-up scares our opponents? They all do.