This 3 day old article has Jabbie held back at DB due to an injury (green jersey) not lack of ability. When and where did you read he was moving to RB?
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Ryan O'Leary BlueandGold.com Staff Writer
While Notre Dame was allowing a school-worst 281.25 yards per game through the air last year, three freshman cornerbacks -- Junior Jabbie, Terrail Lambert and Leo Ferrine -- stood by and watched it all.
With most of the Irish secondary lost to graduation, the task of reversing that fortune in 2005 falls on that same triumverate.
Take away senior cornerback Mike Richardson, and the only actual game experience that Notre Dame's corners have is the six minutes and 52 seconds logged by junior Ambrose Wooden. Ferrine, Jabbie and Lambert could possibly see more than that before Labor Day.
The only question remaining is which one will get the bulk of those minutes. Richardson is penciled in as one of the starters on the outside, likely leaving one of the three sophs in the other slot. Jabbie was considered by many to be the front-runner for that position, but he has been sidelined for much of the preseason with an injury. On Friday Aug. 12, the first day in pads, Jabbie was on the field but still wearing a jersey signifying no contact work.
As a result, Ferrine has slid in to take most of the reps with the first team -- for now. You see, on that same day, Ferrine also was in a green jersey and riding a stationary bike during practice.
"It's competitive all the time," he said. "You've just got to do your best individually...one guy has to come out as the best at the end of the day."
Though each of the three would like to be the first one on the field each Saturday, they aren't going to let the push for playing time interfere with the friendship they established early on as freshmen.
"We're competing," Lambert said, "but we're pushing each other...we're making each other better regardless of who's out there."
With so many high-powered passing offenses on the schedule, Notre Dame will likely use its fair share of nickel and dime packages, which means that all three could end up on the field simultaneously -- especially since Lambert and Ferrine usually work out on different sides of the field anyway.
There is that little ego boost that comes with being a starter -- but much like the New England Patriots team that sent head coach Charlie Weis back to his alma mater, this Notre Dame team casts all of that individualism aside. There's no real battle for bragging rights among the three corners.
"There's not really anything like that," Lambert said of any off-the-field trash-talking. "If anything, it's just encouragement."
"From top to bottom out there, every corner's good," Ferrine added.
They'll need to be if the Irish are going to undo a 2004 campaign that saw the secondary go the final eight games without an interception and surrender a pair of five-touchdown passing performances.
The lineup of teams on the Notre Dame schedule is tough, but these guys figure it like this -- if they can handle a Charlie Weis offense in practice every day (and a smiling Ferrine calls that matchup in favor of the defense so far), then nothing is impossible.
"To have a guy like (Weis) on the other side of the ball," said Lambert, "it's not going to get much better than that in terms of play selection."
Whether Lambert is right remains to be seen, but he and his two classmates intend to do whatever they can to prove the legions of doubters wrong this season.
And it doesn't matter which of them is out on the field doing it
