Brian Kelly after the Bye

[NDdomer2]

From Eric Hansen, South Bend Tribune

Good byes vs. bad ones


Kelly will enter the Oct. 22 night game with USC at Notre Dame Stadium with a 12-1 record coming out of bye weeks. That includes a 28-3 thumping of 15th-ranked Utah last season.


His lone career regular-season loss with two weeks to prepare came against Connecticut in 2008 while Kelly was coaching at Cincinnati.


“I think the utilization of bye weeks is really two-fold,” Kelly said. “Mentally, you’ve got to get your players and coaches some rest. Everybody seems to think of the physical element. But these guys are in a pretty good place. It was 80-something degrees on Saturday, and you didn’t see very much fatigue.


“The second thing is doing a good job of self-scouting. In other words: What are you doing? What have you done the first six weeks? What are the areas that you can maybe break tendencies and maybe change some things up in terms of what you’re doing offensively, defensively and (with) special teams?”

I can appreciate the "self-scouting" aspect. My college offensive coordinator didn't EVER attempt to break out tendencies.

 

[Rhode Irish]

One tendency that cost them early that they have already started to correct is turning the ball over and generally shooting themselves in the foot with bad penalties, poorly timed defensive lapses, etc. The last two weeks, they have really done a much better job playing "smart" football. Now they need to carry that over against an opponent that is every bit as talented as they are - if not more so.

Also, I'd love to see Tommy's passer ratings on plays that are designed to keep him in the pocket and on designed roll outs. Especially on roll outs to the right, Tommy has made some bad decisions and bad throws, seemingly not seeing defenders that are running laterally through passing lanes. I think he sees the field much better from in the pocket, for whatever reason. Would love to see a statistical breakdown to find out if my impression is correct or not.

 

[Aerosmith777]

Yeah, I think they've mentionned that during the broadcasts a couple times. Which is odd to me, b/c QBs usually do better w/ designed bootlegs, providing the defense didn't have it sniffed out beforehand.

 

[NDdomer2]

I don't know if I am surprised by this as Tommy's options are limited to half the field. At the beginning of the year roll outs got Tommy in trouble by forcing some throws.

 

[IndyIrishFan1]

It is nice knowing I'm not the only one that starts to panic a little when he rolls out of the pocket.

 

[NDdomer2]

It is nice knowing I'm not the only one that starts to panic a little when he rolls out of the pocket.

Your most certainly not the only one. The downfall with roll outs for Tommy is that he doesn't have that added dimension of scrambling as a Hendrix or Golson would. If they call the bootleg they are living with the pass options or hoping Tommy throws it out of bounds.

 

[NDdomer2]

Bye weeks kind to Kelly, Irish | Inside the Irish

With today the final day of practice for the week, the extra time gives the Irish coaching staff a chance to hit the recruiting trail and add a few wrinkles into the game plan for the Trojans.

 

[irishtrinity]

Tommy don't need to scramble he throws it away like he should do... tommy had maybe three bad throws last week the kid is on his game...

i like the package idea throw in tommy then throw in hendrix great way to confuse a defense...
tommy
theo
tyler
t.j.
FLOYD
cierre
jonas
toma
wood
and then ad the option/pass with hendrix

thats balance..

 

[Old Man Mike]

My amateurish assessment of Rees-in-motion is that he doesn't come to an abrupt stop and square away. He is surprisingly "animal fluid" on these roll-outs or scrambles when it comes to unleashing the ball [often even jumping into the throw and bouncing with coordination on his feet]. Unfortunately, we'd rather see him plant, square, quick-see, and deliver in all those situations where it's possible.

His problem is similar to an otherwise great BBall shooter who won't square in the air but "drifts" [even "magnificently"] while moving east/west. Result: usually a miss. If our young hero can't get this slide/drift no-plant "animal delivery" out of his system, then we'll just have to hope he stays in the pocket, or that the planned rolling pocket is good enough that he deliberately moves to his spot and sets up there.

 

[NDdomer2]

My amateurish assessment of Rees-in-motion is that he doesn't come to an abrupt stop and square away. He is surprisingly "animal fluid" on these roll-outs or scrambles when it comes to unleashing the ball [often even jumping into the throw and bouncing with coordination on his feet]. Unfortunately, we'd rather see him plant, square, quick-see, and deliver in all those situations where it's possible.

His problem is similar to an otherwise great BBall shooter who won't square in the air but "drifts" [even "magnificently"] while moving east/west. Result: usually a miss. If our young hero can't get this slide/drift no-plant "animal delivery" out of his system, then we'll just have to hope he stays in the pocket, or that the planned rolling pocket is good enough that he deliberately moves to his spot and sets up there.

Well said. Few qb's/shooters can release the ball without planting their feet to square up. Those who can either don't need to be squared or can get squared without planting their feet. I will take Tommy in the pocket any day of the week though.