LOVEMYIRISH
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Lots for him to learn from with this game. He's been the key to our success. Hopefully, Lincoln Riley saw things Golden didnt...and he will now patch those up.
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T-Boone
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So he is effing good. That will do.
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exactly it right here, they were exposed a bit, humbled ( Those players were not happy after letting USC walk down the field for the last garbage TD- you could see it in their expressions) and now have 20 days to get it cleaned up and hopefully a bit of a chip on shoulder for the playoff game.
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Goolsby says a lot of things, many of which are not true or just opinion based on nothing objective.
FDNYIrish1
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He blitzes a lot so his corners have to play a lot of man. Not a horrible take considering.
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At the same time, he blitzes a lot because he knows he has good corners I'm sure. The defense has been wiped out with injuries. Put Morrison on the field and we win this by 28+. Just one of those things.
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There was times he needed not blitz and take the coverage but Watts int doesn’t happen without the blitz.
Everyone knows it wasn’t a great performance by the defense and whoever we play in the playoffs will watch this game.
Al with watch this game too. He has proven to fix things. I see this no differently.
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Having Botelho/Traore and Cross out there would’ve helped a lot too. Their QB was very good at getting the ball out under pressure but with our best pass rushers that would’ve been harder.
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I honestly think this is a bigger deal than not having Morrison. Right now we're missing them more. Our 3 best natural pass rushers weren't even on the field SMH
I honestly think this is a bigger deal than not having Morrison. Right now we're missing them more. Our 3 best natural pass rushers weren't even on the field SMH
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Our pass rush is horrible and will be the worst among playoff teams. Not nearly enough talent up front. Corners don't have a fair shake against a legit team.
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Good thing there isn't a good quarterback in college football at least.
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Texas and Oregon will carve us to high heaven.
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Everyone shitting their panties in here needs to chill. At the end of the day ND did what it needed to do. There are no juggernaut’s this year and every team has warts. I like ND’s chances against any of them.
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Have you watched Texas? They're not that great lol
They would not be much better than USC
USC actually has a lot of incompletions but they made some huge timely first down conversions (often times for chunk yards).
And people need to understand the east cost to west coast noon local time game and fatigue factor (especially for guys like Hinish and Rubio)
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Yesterday, full game. They have a complete team unless yesterday was an anomaly. Dangerous at every level, rushing, passing, defense gets after QB and is constantly in backfired. And DBs are everywhere.
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Lincoln Riley didn’t sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night and wake up calling plays for USC.
A lot of people here and in the press predicted this would be “The LR game”, and it certainly was.
Defense could have done more, but sometimes you just gotta win a shoot out. It happens to everyone.
Georgia has given up 40+ twice this season.
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A lot of people here and in the press predicted this would be “The LR game”, and it certainly was.
Defense could have done more, but sometimes you just gotta win a shoot out. It happens to everyone.
Georgia has given up 40+ twice this season.
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Lincoln Riley got embarrassed last October in South Bend. I have no doubt he spent massive amount of time watching that game tape and getting ready for Al Golden.
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Yeah, LR was thoroughly embarrassed by Al last season. I am sure he had some extra motivation going into this season’s game to try and redeem himself. Say what you want to about him, he is a good play caller.
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Goolsby also swears the Earth is flat, so...
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Luckily we won't have to worry about either at least until the semis.
EDIT: Brain fart. Forgot we can't do better than 5 seed
IrishSteelhead
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I fully expect the narrative to be “LR displayed the road map to cracking ND’s vaunted defense.”
Golden is the anti-Diaco, he isn’t unbendable, and can’t be put into a neat little box.
Golden is Rowdy Roddy Piper’s famous quote, “Right when you think you have all the answers, I change the questions.”
Good luck solving the riddle OCs
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As been said.
D would have been better with Cross.
It’s a rivalry game. While I expected the Irish to roll, USC saw this as a rivalry game and a chance for a little redemption on the season. They played arguably their best game of the season.
When it came down to crunch time the D delivered.
The D took that last series off. Glad to see MF get in their faces.
They’ve now faced a pretty good offense with good receivers. A good learning experience heading into the playoffs. Gives everyone some focus.
D would have been better with Cross.
It’s a rivalry game. While I expected the Irish to roll, USC saw this as a rivalry game and a chance for a little redemption on the season. They played arguably their best game of the season.
When it came down to crunch time the D delivered.
The D took that last series off. Glad to see MF get in their faces.
They’ve now faced a pretty good offense with good receivers. A good learning experience heading into the playoffs. Gives everyone some focus.
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Well yeah because he leaves them 1v1 on the outside… USC is the first team to be like “you know, I think our WRs are good enough to come down with at least half of these jump balls.” And Golden kept blitzing and not getting home.
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The height of the USC receivers was evident on all the jump balls and the QB did a nice job with ball placement. When he was under pressure, then he certainly made mistakes but indeed the rush was not getting home consistently.
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These are games we would frequently lose in the past.
It was refreshing to see the issue never really in doubt and the team keep an opponent within striking distance at bay.
*it’s of course easier to do this when you have two amazing RBs that gain 3 yards on a bad play.
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Huge Golden fan...and it's been an absolutely amazing year for the D, especially with all of these injuries...I will say, I would have liked to see a few different looks yesterday...Mix in some 3/3 stack, some 3/4 triangle with less blitzing. They still had a young qb who's trying to figure things out. They obviously got the job done though, so LES GO!