It’s a little weird that the second game of the season
against unranked Nevada is basically a “must win” for the Irish. Not so much for a spot in the College
Football Playoffs (which it is) but more for the pride of the program, getting
on track for a successful season, perhaps Brian VanGorder’s job and to keep
Brian Kelly from having a coronary.
None of this will be rocket science and it will insult Captain
Obvious’s intelligence but I also thought everyone know when Swoops went into
the game they were going to run the ball so stop the run but that didn’t happen,
so I guess it does need to be said.
DeShone Kizer should be the starting quarterback. Initially I was OK with letting this QB
battle go on for a couple of games before meeting up with Michigan State but
that was before I knew we will need to put up 50+ to win a game.
Tackling
will have to improve. Texas may have had
a big back but Nevada has the quickness and misdirection to make very good
teams look very stupid. There were too
many broken tackles last week, due in part to arm tackles and not wrapping up.
Our defensive backs looked like Alan Bosley (Ryan Golsling)
in Remember the Titans.
I don’t know if Texas had super speedy receivers, if we are
slow or our DB’s didn’t know their coverage's.
To me it doesn’t matter, that’s for Todd Lyght,
Notre Dame’s defensive backs coach to figure out, and quick.
Offensively let’s use the run to set up the pass, run on 1st and 2nd down and pass on 3rd if we need to. I know this is boring and predictable but with our offensive line and proven backs; 1) It should work, 2) I don’t care how it looks.
Finally, win, just win.
A win won’t propel the Irish back into the National Championship
discussion but an 0-2 Notre Dame going into Michigan State will with very
little doubt be catastrophic to the program on many levels.
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