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Irish Illustrated Insider: The Notre Dame Defense Didn’t Rest

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🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Irish Illustrated Insider discusses Notre Dame’s offensive inconsistencies, its best hope for more offensive balance in the near future, and where the Irish should rank nationally after four games.

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0:00.0

You're listening to Irish Illustrated Insider.

0:06.0

It is Monday, October 19th, Tim Priestley and Pete Sampson from the Athletic.

0:12.0

And Norden with a 12 to 7 victory over Louisville, it was convincing defensively, but not so much offensively.

0:19.0

And realistically, guys, you know, I mean,

0:21.5

her name wasn't bad offensively. They were bad in the red zone. They moved the ball.

0:26.1

They only had the seven possessions. Uh, and, and they maximize those pretty well in terms of

0:31.5

yardage, but just didn't get in the end zone. And that's the name of the game. And that's why it

0:35.2

was a 12 to 7 victory.

0:40.2

It was a reminder of something that we've been talking about for a long time.

0:45.3

The Notre Dame is really average at the receiver position and I thought that they were below average.

0:51.3

You're just not going to be able to win a lot of high stakes games with Javon McKinley right now.

0:56.3

That's a personnel move that I think Notre Dame has to make.

0:58.3

I had them down for seven targets.

1:00.4

If you include some plays that got wiped out by penalty,

1:01.8

and you had one catch for seven yards. So you've got to have more out of your receiver

1:06.6

that leads all offensive skill position players in snaps played.

1:11.3

There's an issue, and I wrote about in my column of, Tim, you mentioned the offense played well

1:15.9

until the red zone or had very good moments until the red zone on seven or eight drives.

1:19.9

They are going to be in the red zone.

1:21.6

It sounds funny, but if you think about it, they're going to be in the red zone all year

1:24.3

because they don't have that strike.

1:26.4

Sure. Sure. So their long drives are going to get to the 25-yard line all the time, every game, and they're

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