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DillonHall

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They scored 48 last year against USC.

I can almost guarantee you that the offense won’t look like what we’re used to seeing. Less 12 personnel, less hitting our head against a brick wall on 3rd and 1. For the first time since Chip Long, I have confidence in our OC.
This is accurate, but you know what I mean.

In these tough big road/neutral site games against good defenses, our defense has played well for the most part. It's been the offense that's kept us from pulling off the win. I'm cautiously optimistic but wouldn't be surprised if the offense looks shellshocked (at least at the start of the game)
 

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Wimbush was a little different.
Zaire clearly lost some speed after the injury. Wimbush was never injured and he was the starter day 1.
Wimbush struggled with his accuracy, which is why he got benched. Prior to injury Zaire ran in a more run heavy offense that utilized Read Option, after Kizer took over we tailored the offense to him and aired it out to Fuller more to stretch defenses and keep them honest. Zaire wasn't as equipped to run that style of offense.
He is/was also a bitch
 

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The Louisville and Clemson games last year are the ones I’m still scratching my head about and the 30+ they put on us. Some of that was the fault of the offense though. Otherwise I have a lot of confidence in our defense.
Louisville was a situation where the defense was running on fumes. They had to carry the team through 2 consecutive prime-time games against undefeated opponents with little to no help from the offense. You can only get by with 1 side pulling their weight for so long.

The Clemson game was another example where the offense put the defense in way too many bad situations. They were basically losing the field position battle all game, and the defense had to fend off Clemson with consistently short fields to work with, while the offense spent much of the day either going three-and-out or turning the ball over.
 

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Louisville was a situation where the defense was running on fumes. They had to carry the team through 2 consecutive prime-time games against undefeated opponents with little to no help from the offense. You can only get by with 1 side pulling their weight for so long.

The Clemson game was another example where the offense put the defense in way too many bad situations. They were basically losing the field position battle all game, and the defense had to fend off Clemson with consistently short fields to work with, while the offense spent much of the day either going three-and-out or turning the ball over.
Yep, clemson for about 6 series in a row got the ball at about the 50 yd line, and ND defense did NOT give up a single point. The problem was ND's offense during those 6 drives did not score a point, and had maybe 2 first downs. 23-31 with 8 minutes to go in the 3rd, and that was the final score. Awful on our O, especially parker.
 

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Yep, clemson for about 6 series in a row got the ball at about the 50 yd line, and ND defense did NOT give up a single point. The problem was ND's offense during those 6 drives did not score a point, and had maybe 2 first downs. 23-31 with 8 minutes to go in the 3rd, and that was the final score. Awful on our O, especially parker.
And ND went away from running Estime who chewed the Clemson offense up early on. Just horrible game planning that allowed a lesser opponent to steal a win.
 

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I had a strange dream about this game last night. Like from the second play of the game TAM kicked a rugby style field goal (a drop kick) from a crazy angle and it was worth 4 points. When the dream went fuzzy ND were up.
 

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At the risk of repeating myself, I think A&M’s D will be better, but this being the first year under Elko, there’s going to be some missed assignments similar to when Golden took over. I think the O will hit big on one or two of those.
 

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Disagree. I know he's made some controversial comments in the past, but he still heavily reps ND whenever he gets a chance and he played his ass off when he could.

Idk, he plays “Good Cop Bad Cop” all on his own when he talks ND. He’s no better than any other volatile football fan on the internet.

He’s 100% pro-Irish, part of the brotherhood when they’re looking up…

But he turns toxic without much sound reasoning when they lose and he tries to “analyze” the program on X or whatever other platform.
 

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TXAg, thanks for coming and contributing to our board. I appreciate your insight. Most ND fans are super cool. Sorry you got dragged into a dumb argument.

The past matters little to me. 2012 was great, but it was 12 years ago. To me, this year is what matters. I have all the respect in the world for Elko and crew, I think your QB is incredibly talented, and D line is ferocious. And if all your starters on that O line are 330, that's insane.

We have a lot of respect for your team. Also respect your traditions and your passionate fan base. Thanks for being a cool poster in enemy country. We have had some bad ones.

Good luck tomorrow. We are pretty confident in our chances also. Definitely a lot of unknowns that won't be seen until kickoff. Appreciate the discourse and good luck with the season...starting week 2 of course 😎
The 2012 remark was only in response to the ND poster saying how they beat OU in 2012. I didn't bring it up.

Good luck tomorrow- should be a great one!
 

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Wimbush was a little different.
Zaire clearly lost some speed after the injury. Wimbush was never injured and he was the starter day 1.
Wimbush struggled with his accuracy, which is why he got benched. Prior to injury Zaire ran in a more run heavy offense that utilized Read Option, after Kizer took over we tailored the offense to him and aired it out to Fuller more to stretch defenses and keep them honest. Zaire wasn't as equipped to run that style of offense.
Zaire sucked at throwing too. Hence the Wimbush comparison. Zaire would have been an all time great at Navy in the triple option.
 

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Then ND really must suck in your eyes because they play a pretty weak schedule and to lose 2 with that schedule would mean they must be pretty bad. Personally I think they roll.

They don't suck but they do tend to suck in the bright lights.
 

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Zaire sucked at throwing too. Hence the Wimbush comparison. Zaire would have been an all time great at Navy in the triple option.
Fun fact: Wimbush started about 16 games in his ND career and never eclipsed 300 yards in a game. Zaire did, although he only started in 3 games and split one of those with Golson. Zaire wasn't Jimmy Clausen, but when he was healthy he had a decent arm. There were a couple bad throws, but go back and watch the Music City Bowl and the 2015 Texas game.
 

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Fun fact: Wimbush started about 16 games in his ND career and never eclipsed 300 yards in a game. Zaire did, although he only started in 3 games and split one of those with Golson. Zaire wasn't Jimmy Clausen, but when he was healthy he had a decent arm. There were a couple bad throws, but go back and watch the Music City Bowl and the 2015 Texas game.
Or watch what he did after he transferred.
 

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Or watch what he did after he transferred.
Which one? Like I said, Zaire was never the same after the injury. He lost a step, which was part of what made him so dangerous. He was never going to be successful in that Florida offense. They had ol' Doug Nussmeier at OC running a Multiple. Zaire needed a Zone Read run heavy type offense that threw off the Play Action. Florida didn't have any big weapons, they had two receivers each hit the 400 yard mark, and two RBs that had 500 yards each. It was pretty bad.
 

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Word around the web is tons of Irish fans there
False unless they didnt leave their hotels tonight. Obannons Irish oub was predictably Irish, but not a whole lot of green, good, or blue on the streets otherwise. Campus in general is pretty active though.
 
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