Harry Hiestand Named OL Coach

CanadalovesND

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Still averaging almost 5 YPC. Do we need to nit pick because we don't have 200 yards rushing by half time?
 

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Guess he took the week off along with the whole OL

I mean like 3 OL would have to effectively block 2 guys each with how Navy is attacking it. There’s a reason WRs are wide open.

Unless we run 7 OL out there, how is it on Hiestand?
 

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Excuses don’t work at ND

If it's a clear numbers disadvantage in the box that you can't see, I don't know what to tell you. One time Pyne was sacked from a twisting blist through the A-gap, that and that alone you can blame to a certain degree on the OL for not picking it up. The rest were from outside the box. OLs can't block that far outside without giving up the interior rushing lanes.
 

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It’s not an excuse, it’s math.

There were no tight ends blocking ? No backs blocking? It's not just the 6, 7, 8 on 5.

Or is Rees so bad that he can't handle it if freaking navy brings it?
 

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The guy's a moron.
Can't be watching the line-of-scrimmage real action.
Second half Navy blitzing was (as Dale said) almost entirely successful ONLY WIDE.
Sometimes the RB just missed these completely (eyes often inside where there was
no penetration --- cup almost always clean.) We were lining up 5 OLine plus one RB
against seven maniacal blitzers of whom the outside guy would rapidly get home.
 

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The guy's a moron.
Can't be watching the line-of-scrimmage real action.
Second half Navy blitzing was (as Dale said) almost entirely successful ONLY WIDE.
Sometimes the RB just missed these completely (eyes often inside where there was
no penetration --- cup almost always clean.) We were lining up 5 OLine plus one RB
against seven maniacal blitzers of whom the outside guy would rapidly get home.

Could be Rees not calling for another tight end to be on the field.

Diggs missed a huge block that ended up in a sack.
 

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There were no tight ends blocking ? No backs blocking? It's not just the 6, 7, 8 on 5.

Or is Rees so bad that he can't handle it if freaking navy brings it?

How does anything you just said make it on Hiestand?
 

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How does anything you just said make it on Hiestand?

You don't think they collaborate? Echo coach isn't in a vacuum. Having said that, this offensive staff stinks at adapting.
 

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You don't think they collaborate? Echo coach isn't in a vacuum. Having said that, this offensive staff stinks at adapting.

“OL sucked second half” in the Harry Hiestand thread.
 

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For Tommy's game plan to work the OL and the QB need to do their F'n jobs... they both clearly did not today.
 

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Yup, there literally were not enough blockers to account for all the Navy defenders. Pyne was getting hit fairly quick. We probably needed a screen or quick pitches to keep them honest.
 

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If we had left at least one TE in, then we'd have stoned them most of the time. Pyne would have had a rocking chair most of the time. Our remaining receivers would still have gotten open (against this team.) This is of course only my opinion, but my view is that this was a personnel choice problem, and a bit distressing that it wasn't well addressed.
 

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If we had left at least one TE in, then we'd have stoned them most of the time. Pyne would have had a rocking chair most of the time. Our remaining receivers would still have gotten open (against this team.) This is of course only my opinion, but my view is that this was a personnel choice problem, and a bit distressing that it wasn't well addressed.

We did on that last sack. Mitchell Evans was blocking but was beat.
 

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Some extra juice for the USC game. Their OL was named as finalists for the Joe Moore award but ND's was not...
 

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When commenting from the outside on the Joe Moore Award, I'm humble because I don't hear their criteria nor crosstalk, BUT it seems to me that we are being punished for auxiliary play (i.e. statistics that are not entirely the result of the five OLinemen.) For instance, almost all commentaries on the teams still in it are gushing about their low sack rates. After game two, almost no sacks are attributable to the 5 man line, but glaringly to either bad RB pick-ups or Drew holding the ball way too long. They also gush about consistency in rushing yards per game. We know all about the mixed bag that is here this season, and that the inconsistency almost never rests in the OLine itself, but rather the playcalling and the DC philosophy against us that day (Navy was the posterchild for this.) The only thing I'm sure of about the Joe Moore award is that there will be no anti-ND prejudice there --- three of the voters have big ND ties.
 

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Some extra juice for the USC game. Their OL was named as finalists for the Joe Moore award but ND's was not...
Yup. USC's OL is comprised of a bunch of 3 stars and not overly impressive against weak competition.

The people in charge of the Joe Moore are a bunch of chucklefucks

 
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