Sept 27 | Arkansas

[MacIrish75]

If Washington is being schematically told by Ash to have his line play a certain way, it isn’t on him.

 

[Jimmy3Putt]

New drinking game: do a shot when Arkansas punts.


I'm promoting sober life!

 

[UPMich_NDfan]

soooo what’s our opinion on Ash? lol

 

[RocketIsmail25]

Our offense is good enough that we will still win a lot of games, but 9-4 looks like our ceiling with this sad bastard defense.

 

[dang227]

For those of you that understand some of this shit from a defensive standpoint—how plausible is it that they’re being taught to STAY engaged in order to free up the linebackers to “make plays.” We used to coach our tackles, especially, to do this at times in a three-front defense.

It’s a possibility but haven’t seen that taught in a long time

 

[MacIrish75]

New drinking game: do a shot when Arkansas punts.


I'm promoting sober life!

Well you took one shot.

 

[FDNYIrish1]

Irish defense is a defeated unit. They clearly don’t believe in what they are doing. Not energy, horrible technique, sloppy as fuck.

lol don’t forget the piss poor tackling brother!

 

[T Town Tommy]

You can’t let a dangerous team playing at home hang around. Arky’s defense sucks but that offense can hurt you.

 

[Irish2155]

Come on Clausen, I mean Carr. Outscore your defense.

 

[mrmcgrail]

It's bad scheme ends are so concerned with QB run they are doubling play side dt and the end isn't coming down to fill center is getting to the second level taking on backer

 

[ColoradoIrish]

For those of you that understand some of this shit from a defensive standpoint—how plausible is it that they’re being taught to STAY engaged in order to free up the linebackers to “make plays.” We used to coach our tackles, especially, to do this at times in a three-front defense.

I believe its more of an issue if no one being comfortable with what they're asked to do and they don't really understand their jobs/roles, causing them to play slow and indecisive

 

[irishnd31]

Oh FFS, I have the same shirt as Ash on.

Change shirts or you will be dubbed RocketAss

 

[FU BK]

Too fucking bad Ass' mom didn't swallow him

 

[Blazers46]

I’m sticking with my 101-99 prediction.

 

[NDPhilly]

They had over 500 yards on the road at Ole Miss. They are going to score.

 

[LifelongFan]

Every defensive lineman should be processed this spring

 

[Jeffwantpoppers]

I hate having our offense have so much pressure on them

 

[vicknd1982]

Keep Scoring and pray for a turnover.. Defense is the worst I think the Irish ever had

 

[MacIrish75]

It’s a possibility but haven’t seen that taught in a long time

That’s what I’m saying, especially with “defensive holding” being a penalty in modern CFB. I’m just trying to reconcile what I’m watching with what they might even be trying to accomplish.

 

[Jimmy3Putt]

If Washington is being schematically told by Ash to have his line play a certain way, it isn’t on him.

They just rush straight ahead trying to play react defense instead of stunting and crashing the pocket like last year.
They ruled by controlled chaos and are now passive as heck.

 

[dang227]

Keep Scoring and pray for a turnover.. Defense is the worst I think the Irish ever had

You must be young. The Weis era was special.

 

[Jimmy3Putt]

Well you took one shot.

Yup, but I should be 7-8 deep by now!
Baby steps to sobriety!

 

[UPMich_NDfan]

i was told we needed to fear the passing game not the run game - shit

 

[ColoradoIrish]

Yup, but I should be 7-8 deep by now!
Baby steps to sobriety!

Quitting is for losers 😂

 

[DomeFieldAdvantage]

Here's a fun way to watch the game: put score alerts on your phone. Watch the game when the offense is on the field and switch the channel when the defense comes on. The alert from the defense allowing another score will let you know when to switch back to watch the offense.

 

[Padomer9]

This is what happens when you don’t hire outside your coaching tree. Freeman could have found someone that was a DC within the last decade. What happened to “challenge everything”?

 

[RocketIsmail25]

Carr is so good.

 

[MacIrish75]

Damn it CJ. I don’t know whether to cry tears of joy for you or pain for the D.

 

[ColoradoIrish]

How do we finally have a QB and a stable of skill players and our OL and defense is our weakness?

 

[IrishinSyria]

For those of you that understand some of this shit from a defensive standpoint—how plausible is it that they’re being taught to STAY engaged in order to free up the linebackers to “make plays.” We used to coach our tackles, especially, to do this at times in a three-front defense.

I haven’t been watching closely enough to have a sense of whether or not they’ve been succeeding at this but yeah, a lot of the time the job of a defensive lineman-especially if you’re worried about a mobile qb-is to control gaps rather than beat the o lineman and get pressure. That can involve staying engaged with the o linemen.

I guess the problem is if you’re trading pressure for LOS control you want to actually get the benefits of that control, and usually the other team running all over you is an indication you’re not getting that.