Offensesive mastermind

[absoluteirish59]

This offense is sick! I am so confident in brady quinn right now. Weis is a genius! He takes whatever they give him. If You look at all 4 games they excelled in pounding the ball, long passing, run-n-gun and tonight they threw about 25 short passes and let th Wr do the work. No game has been the same. Now weis gets 2 weeks to prepare for USC..."i say nothing, i say nothing". P.S. Brady is "sneakin around the chicken coop" in the heisman race.

 

[LuckoftheIrish86]

your so right, The gameplan is never the same....Teams can't prepare for us properly.

 

[Champion10]

"not so fast my friend" USC comes into ND over confident, ND knocks of USC in a stunner.

 

[jiggafini19]

I will be there and I can't wait.

Weis probably has more up his sleeve for this one that we can imagine.

You haven't seen anything yet.

 

[guff]

Can we borrow Romeo Crennel for the next two weeks? Actually I think Weis knows a lot more about defense than he is given credit for. I think the biggest problem will be USC's speed. Unlike the media, I realize that Leinart can't raise the dead, walk on water or feed the masses with bread and fish. I think Weis will find some weakness or other exploitable trait on film that no one else sees in Leinart. The issue will be the speed.

 

[irish9331]

Can we borrow Romeo Crennel for the next two weeks? Actually I think Weis knows a lot more about defense than he is given credit for. I think the biggest problem will be USC's speed. Unlike the media, I realize that Leinart can't raise the dead, walk on water or feed the masses with bread and fish. I think Weis will find some weakness or other exploitable trait on film that no one else sees in Leinart. The issue will be the speed.

Great point, but it would be sweet if he could talk with Belicheck and Crennel and get them to help game plan for this week.

 

[jiggafini19]

Great point, but it would be sweet if he could talk with Belicheck and Crennel and get them to help game plan for this week.

You know, I mentioned this the other day. I think it can't hurt. If they can shut down Peyton Manning and the Colts, they can scheme the Condoms for sure.

 

[Irish Envy]

You know, I mentioned this the other day. I think it can't hurt. If they can shut down Peyton Manning and the Colts, they can scheme the Condoms for sure.

LMAO

 

[WeisGuy05]

I will be there and I can't wait.

Weis probably has more up his sleeve for this one that we can imagine.

You haven't seen anything yet.

I have been thinking the samething. Weis has not showed all of his cards yet. I believe USC is watching tape of us right now and they will get something totally different on Oct. 15th. Have you guys noticed of many times we score in the 2nd quarter? I can also see Weis totally changing the style of play in the second half to keep USC guessing. Like setting up plays in the first half to do others in the second half.
I can see us jumping all over USC much like the Sun Devils did. However, Quinn will not make mistakes in the second half like Keller did. I think the key for us is when USC scores, we must score right back. They can not have unanswered points. They are killing people in the second half of games 70-7. I think it is going to be an exciting shoot out. I cannot wait!!!

 

[NOTREDAMECHIEF]

You all may think I am crazy with this one but are any of you concerned about the play of Daruis Walker? He just never seems to be able to get thru the big hole for a really long gain. Seems to me that Travis Thomas is a little quicker and less tentative. THOUGHTS??

 

[jiggafini19]

You all may think I am crazy with this one but are any of you concerned about the play of Daruis Walker? He just never seems to be able to get thru the big hole for a really long gain. Seems to me that Travis Thomas is a little quicker and less tentative. THOUGHTS??

I was having a discussion with a fellow Domer the other day about TT. If they want to grind it out and keep SC off the field, Thomas should get some carries. Charlie can spread the ball out enough to do it.

Walker is still young and has great vision. He's efficient. Corey Dillon couldn't break the big ones, but he grinded it out. Weis is in a similar game with similar chess pieces to play with.

But I would like to see TT get some time against first team D as opposed to mop up time. Give the mop up stuff to Jenkins.

 

[guff]

What I like about Thomas is that he is a 'north-south' runner. Darius seems to pass up 3 yard gains in hopes of 10+ yard gains and winds up losing two - It reminds me of Barry Sanders (Note: I don't believe Walker is now or will ever be even close to being as good as Barry)

 

[Vince Young]

What I like about Thomas is that he is a 'north-south' runner. Darius seems to pass up 3 yard gains in hopes of 10+ yard gains and winds up losing two

...but a lot of the time instead of losing two, he gains the 10 instead.

I like Walker. He may not be the flashiest runner, or the fastest, or the toughest. But he's consistent, he takes care of the ball, and he wears down the opposing defense with his crazy running style.

Travis Thomas looks good too, but most of his runs have come late in games. Is he really as good as he seems? We won't really know until he gets more carries earlier in the game.

Our running game seems to be working fine as is... Darius and RPN as the work-horses, with Thomas and Schwap ready to spell them when they get tired. No need for any big changes yet.

 

[BGIF]

The opening post in this thread noted, "... they excelled in pounding the ball...".

I'm not sure pounding is an apt description. ND is running the ball, about 46 times/game for about 174 yds/game, and 3.8 yds/att.

ND run the ball 229 times and has been Tackled For Loss 29. Of those 29 TFLs, 7 were sacks the other 22 was a rushing attempt. Which means about 1 in 10 rushing plays result in a loss.

ND is running the ball more this year 46 attempts/game as opposed to 38 in '04. This year's team is getting about 47 more yds/game rushing.

The yds/att have only increased from 3.3 to 3.8. And the TFLs doubled per game.

Somebody made a comment about Walker dancing about hoping for 10 and losing 4. That does appear to be the case. He's getting yds with some nice runs but appears to be getting tackled for bigger loses more frequently.

But I have a hunch CW will not stop calling those plays. As long Darius is a threat to stretch the field horizontaly the defense has to keep somebody up close to the line opening up the passing lanes.

TT is a different type of runner but perhaps one whose style of running doesn't lend itself to spreading the field the way CW plans to.

 

[jiggafini19]

Hitting the gap and falling forward are big keys to a successful and effective running back. I don't like the tiptoe b.s. because it usually leads to a bad day against good teams.

Walker is the guy, but Thomas should get some looks during "real time."

 

[Vince Young]

The yds/att have only increased from 3.3 to 3.8.

That's a bigger difference than it seems.

If you run 3 times in a row at 3.3 yards per carry, that's 9.9 yards. That's short of a first down.

If you run 3 times in a row at 3.8 yards per carry, that's 11.4 yards and a first down, which makes all the difference.

I'd like more, but I'll take 3.8 yards per carry, thank-you-very-much.