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Notre Dame vs Army Preview - A Look At The Black Knight Defense

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Sports, Nfl Draft, Football, Ncaa Team, Big Ten, Notre Dame

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Bryan and Trevor preview the Army defense, which ranks as one of the nation’s best scoring units and one of the best rushing defense groups. Shop for Irish Breakdown gear at our online store: https://ibstore.irishbreakdown.com/  Join the Irish Breakdown premium message board: https://boards.irishbreakdown.com  Stay locked into Irish Breakdown for all the latest news and analysis about Notre Dame: https://www.irishbreakdown.com​ Subscribe to the Irish Breakdown podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/irish-breakdown/id1485286986 Like and follow Irish Breakdown on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/irishbreakdown Sign up for the FREE Irish Breakdown daily newsletter: https://www.subscribepage.com/irish-breakdown-newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And here's the interesting thing, too, Tram, about them is they're not.

0:19.8

We just spent a lot of time about their offense, but that's not the best part of this football team.

0:24.8

The best part of this football team is their defense.

0:27.9

They have a very good defense.

0:30.4

I mean, let's look at the numbers, Trev.

0:33.1

You had it in your preview here at Irish Breakdown.

0:37.3

Navy is the number one scoring defense in the country.

0:40.1

Although someone pointed out to me today that if Notre Dame did not give up those two garbage touchdowns,

0:46.8

Bill Trochey actually said this to me.

0:48.2

I have to go back and look at it.

0:49.7

But Bill Trochey said if Notre Dame didn't give up the two touchdowns in the final 30 seconds against Georgia Tech and Virginia,

0:58.1

that they would have the number one scoring defense in college football. I thought that was interesting.

1:03.1

But they rank number one in scoring defense. They're number five in total defense, number 13 and 13 in yards per play.

1:10.2

They're the number three rushing defense in the country. They're 15th in yards per play. They're the number three rushing defense in the country.

1:13.0

They're 15th in yards per rush.

1:14.8

They are 32nd in passing yards allowed.

1:17.5

12th in yards allowed per attempt.

1:19.4

Second in yards allowed per completion.

1:21.7

They have the number one red zone defense in the country.

1:25.4

So even though statistically their offense is more impressive because of

1:29.8

the nature of a triple option team. So you're going to be first in rushing yards or second in rushing

1:36.3

yards every year even when you're not good. You know, you're going to be super high in yards

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