We all know how good Hartman was. His ability to get us into the right protections and plays then execute was masterful, I can’t remember the last time a qb had that control at nd.
The oline was awesome and completely smothered the navy dline.
Thomas and greathouse were fantastic. Tobias was open a lot in the game, he has to make something happen with opportunities this week
Staes I thought blocked the best out of our tes
Estime was estime, almost all amazing and so powerful with great hands/feet, but he fumbled
Love has “it”, price is explosive but has to run harder when there’s not much there. Payne looked like a solid power 5 running back, didn’t see anything special or concerning
Dline dominated and clogged the entire middle making navy go outside a ton then it was on the lbs and safeties to make the plays. The lbs were late and slow a lot especially jd, but Marist and Kiser made plays. For non starters I thought 2nd team dline really flashed other than junior. Hope baptiste gets first team reps and burnham gets second team behind botelho. Botelho made two plays that junior was just not athletic enough to make the same ones.
Marist and Kiser played well , jd so so. Sneed flew around but lost his person some and really didn’t make anything happen.
Watts had a slow start but then ended up flying around making plays. I thought he was the only safety that played good. Henderson looked lost, and brown just doesn’t make plays but seems to be in the spot to do it.
Corners helped in run support well but bit when they shouldn’t have a few times on obvious pass plays.
Hopefully we can make some fourth quarter fgs next week when up 40 to build condos e into nc state.
Payne isn’t fast enough for kick returner, need someone better back there to compliment ford.
Kudos to staff for a great plan and having the players ready. Part of the plan is for this week, let’s hope they come out blazing Saturday. There wasn’t a ton of plays vs navy.
