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Start of something new for Notre Dame defense?

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🗓️ 3 October 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Irish Illustrated Insider returns to recap the Syracuse win and how Notre Dame got better on defense. Did we see sustainable gains and how close did DeShone Kizer come to maxing out on Saturday?

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Irish Illustrated Insider brought to you by Irish Illustrated.com.

0:11.6

I'm Pete Samson.

0:12.4

It's a pre-searcher and MoMALE.

0:14.4

A couple days after Syracuse, we saw a lot of changes, some schematic, but mostly I just thought it was a personnel. I mean,

0:24.4

and they really put a lot of faith in guys who had either barely played or never played,

0:31.2

especially on the defensive side of the ball. And I think you sort of come out of that trip

0:36.4

to New York thinking, okay, there's some things to build on for the future.

0:40.9

Are there things to build on for the present?

0:43.5

Maybe, maybe not.

0:44.6

But the future, I think, definitely for sure.

0:46.4

You're going to have to be more aggressive with your young defensive backs as the season progresses.

0:51.3

But I thought that there was a lot of scheme, quality scheme,

0:56.0

in terms of protecting your young defensive backs and putting them in a keep the ball in front

1:00.9

situation. And then over the course of 60 minutes, they did a variety of things with, you know,

1:06.0

a lot of three-man front. They used more four-man front. They brought more off the edges as the game went on.

1:12.8

I thought they had a really, really good game plan for Syracuse. I don't know how that

1:17.3

necessarily applies to a lot of your future opponents, but the game plan for what Syracuse did

1:23.0

was really, really good. I would continue. I think that is to be the game plan.

1:27.9

I think Nornheim's going to score 40 points most weeks, so keep everything in front of you and tackle people.

1:33.7

Are you saying that you're saying the game plan in terms of rotating guys,

1:37.5

the game plan in terms of playing 335 all the time?

1:40.8

What game plan are you looking at?

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