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How’s this for a picture of ACC football: ND drummed North Carolina, who probably is gonna make the ACC Championship, and this line basically says Vegas thinks we’d be favored or a coin flip on a neutral field versus anyone in the ACC beside Clemson.
 
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Dale said:
How’s this for a picture of AcC football: ND drummed North Carolina, who probably makes the ACC Championship and this line basically says Vegas thinks we’d be favored on a neutral field versus anyone in the ACC beside Clemson.
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The ACC is bad at football and Vegas thinks we actually are better than we play.
 
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Dale said:
Syracuse D is not good. Almost 300 yards rushing to Clemson and over 400 yards passing to Purdue in their only real tests.

There is a formula to winning. They’d have to have a dominating run game performance and get at minimum an average performance from Pyne. Like give us at least the mean of UNC/BYU game and the last two weeks. On defense the floodgates would have to open TO and RZ D wise. Absolutely have to see a 2 turnovers by Cuse, 0 by ND type game.

Syracuse has gotten “lucky” according to the numbers to even keep the Clemson game close and win the Purdue game while facing a non existent NC St without Leary. Usually some of what the computers call “luck” is good coaching though and it certainly feels at the moment that leans heavily towards Cuse.
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Purdue gave that game away right at the end with a couple of unsportsmanlike penalties.

Building that lead and then losing against the backup QB may create a letdown for Syracuse.
 
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Honestly, if this game were in South Bend I'd be far more pessimistic. UNLV was easily the best home performance of the season, but Syracuse is a far better team than they are.

I assume The Carrier Dome is going to be rocking because its Notre Dame and it's a relevant thing, you know?
 
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Jiggafini19Deux said:
Honestly, if this game were in South Bend I'd be far more pessimistic. UNLV was easily the best home performance of the season, but Syracuse is a far better team than they are.

I assume The Carrier Dome is going to be rocking because its Notre Dame and it's a relevant thing, you know?
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Fans have acted as though it has been an incredibly hard atmosphere this year as is.
 
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Actually think we will play better if the Carrier dome is rocking. What a weird team.
 
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NDPhilly said:
Actually think we will play better if the Carrier dome is rocking. What a weird team.
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Dale said:
QB line from Clemson Saturday:

15/26 157 yards 2 INTs, 1 Fumble (returned for TD)

If Pyne just takes care of the ball and hits wide open WRs, Syracuse is extremely gettable on D. Clemson basically won a game with the passing attack representing negative value to the team. If they just lined up an ran every single time it’s a 2 score win. Pretty relevant to ND.

Pyne for better or worse probably does take care of the ball. Needs to just not **** the easy stuff. Tall task the last two weeks.
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Pyne has actually done a nice job of taking care of the football in regards to his decision making, but the batted passes have caused multiple INTs (one against BYU and one against UNLV that I can remember off the top of my head) so even he can't really control it.

I hope Tommy is a little more willing to move the pocket on third downs for Drew in obvious passing situations. The opposing DL are either getting home or if they don't get a good initial push, they are timing his passes. Doesn't help that Drew pats the ball every time before pulling the trigger, which is a timing hint for the DLinemen.

Been really frustrating seeing those drive killing swatted passes.
 
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Every time I see a TD about to happen and Pyne sails it over their head. Crossing my fingers and toes that he starts connecting.
 
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Some Irish Bloke said:
Pyne has actually done a nice job of taking care of the football in regards to his decision making, but the batted passes have caused multiple INTs (one against BYU and one against UNLV that I can remember off the top of my head) so even he can't really control it.

I hope Tommy is a little more willing to move the pocket on third downs for Drew in obvious passing situations. The opposing DL are either getting home or if they don't get a good initial push, they are timing his passes. Doesn't help that Drew pats the ball every time before pulling the trigger, which is a timing hint for the DLinemen.

Been really frustrating seeing those drive killing swatted passes.
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Jamie or Greg at ISD charted every pass play and reported that Pyne had a “clean pocket” on every one of them. Kudos to the OL on their pass blocking if that’s the case. He’s shown signs of stepping up in a pocket or scrambling at times but most plays seem to consist of him rushing the pass like he thinks he doesn’t have time…yet he does. Who knows but if the opposing rush can’t get home, they will try to time the pass to hopefully bat it down like we saw in the UNLV game.
 
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Jamie or Greg at ISD charted every pass play and reported that Pyne had a “clean pocket” on every one of them. Kudos to the OL on their pass blocking if that’s the case. He’s shown signs of stepping up in a pocket or scrambling at times but most plays seem to consist of him rushing the pass like he thinks he doesn’t have time…yet he does. Who knows but if the opposing rush can’t get home, they will try to time the pass to hopefully bat it down like we saw in the UNLV game.
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The OL pass blocking has been stellar for a month now. As many expected, adding Patterson back to the lineup solved a lot of issues.

Obviously Pyne doesn't do himself any favors by sailing deep passes and passing too many open guys, but the WRs haven't done him any favors with the drops (Styles) and Rees isn't doing him many favors with the play designs.

I want someone who knows more football than me (which isn't a lot, I just coached HS) to answer me this. ND runs a lot of 12 personnel, because they want to run the ball and use motion to keep the defense horizontally honest. Made up a term there but you get what I mean. But this means there are plenty of times with one wide out who is probably being pressed often enough because defenses don't respect ND. Why, for the love of God, can't Rees call one slant route all season and just have the WR put his foot in the ground and cut. UNC bozos notwithstanding, they see so much man coverage that a WR winning that move is an easy 8 yards. I just want to see it one god damn time all season so I know Rees even knows the most elementary play for man coverage exists.
 
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I'm not sure about Syracuse yet but I'm not sure about us either. I think Clemson would have thumped Syracuse had they not turned it over 5 times.
 
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This is a perfect game to build some momentum. On the road against a ranked team and away from all of the distractions at home. Syracuse should have three losses right now.
 
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Jiggafini19Deux said:
What makes you say that?
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I'm curious as well, I read his press conference transcript on 247 (Loy's piece) and it sounds like he genuinely respects/admires ND. He's coached in quite a few games against us during his career going all the way back to his time at TA&M and UCLA in the 2000s and now his third meeting as the Orange HC.
 
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