Notre Dame Has Plenty Of Areas That Remain A Work In Progress

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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There are still plenty of question marks on offense as Notre Dame nears the end of spring.

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0:00.0	So Treb, the second part of the show is, these are the position groups that I think last season were,
0:26.9	to varying degrees, areas where you need to make a lot more improvement this season.
0:35.0	And part of that need is not just to be better than you were last year,
0:38.8	but part of that need is because if they don't get better,
0:42.3	then the quarterback does need to carry the team more,
0:45.6	and that's where I think this team could get into trouble.
0:48.4	If the three position groups we're going to talk about,
0:51.0	which is a tight end offensive line and receiver in that
0:54.3	order. If they don't play better than they did a year ago and more consistently, more effectively
1:00.9	on a consistent basis than they did a year ago, now you are going to need your quarterback
1:07.0	to go out there and carry your team more and more and more as runners and
1:12.8	throwers. That's how this team could get into some problems, is your quarterback has to play
1:18.4	the way Riley Leonard did last year. And so these are the areas where if you want to talk about
1:24.0	what's going to ultimately determine how good the Nurname offense is in 2025, it's not the quarterback.
1:30.2	To me, the play, the quarterback is going to be a byproduct of what's around him.
1:34.4	Because I know the quarterback has talent, but if the past pros is bad as it was last year, these young quarterbacks are going to struggle.
1:41.1	And Steve Angelly is also going to struggle.
1:43.8	He's not a young quarterback. He'll also
1:45.2	struggle because he's not real good at, you know, avoiding sacks, as we have seen throughout
1:50.9	his career. And so you need to protect the quarterback. You've got to be more consistent with
1:56.3	run blocking. You know, Jason Smith, one of my, one of our favorite posters in the chat, made a comment how, you know, the running backs need to be more productive than they were in the playoffs. And they padded stats against a lot of inferior teams. Well, they obviously had good numbers against Indiana, but he's not wrong. I attribute that more to the offensive line than I do the running backs.
2:17.9	You can't hit holes that aren't there.
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