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Shekarcane

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First of all.... Great canes turnout. All my ND fans were shocked with all the people repping the "U"

But..... To start...... The drops were horrible. It did change momentum! I'm just not sure what happened to Dorsett and hurns! Did hurns even catch a pass?

Second..... Why play. 15-20 yes back against receivers that don't have downfield threat speed! Even the ND fans were laughing how far back we play. Made no sense..... Press. Jam. I get that we cannot generate a pass rush but the mode of sitting back 15-20 was crap

Worst rush defense I have seen and I've watched Miami since 83; graduated 92......no gap discipline and they CANNOT get off blocks!! This is just reiteration of others but I saw it first hand

Finally.... I'm listening to 4 ND fans bash us driving back to Indy.... They r not great; we just can't play with physical teams. Sad..... K state repeated without the turnovers
 
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I worked all night. Only highlight I saw was Dorsett dropping a TD early. I agree that the momentum could've been huge. Especially since it seems like we had it 13-3 still in the 3rd and then the leveee broke I guess.
 
Within the first 5 mins:

-two dropped TD passes

-dropped interception on the opponent's side of the field

-roughing the kicker to extend drive which resulted in a TD
 
I'll be watching ND games from here on out only waiting to see them get dismantled. Hoped it would be us - with our O setting the pace and throwing them off their game playing to catch up and make their own mistakes. Wasn't to be......

Either way, they are not as good as advertised. They benefitted from our mistakes and atrocious D. I still believe that K State would maul them......I am now a Stanford, BYU, Oklahoma, And USC fan.
 
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Worst DL in the country results in terrible defense!!! It really is disappointing. Our LB's are pretty **** good, and I think our secondary is VERY exposed due to the Line! I just don't know how we get that turned around next year? JUCO's?? Are there any great ones out there??
 
DeadPoets said:
Feast or famine

Is what it is with D'Onofrio
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It was the O that failed with their three and outs with dropping passes and special teams for that bad call of have the rusher being pushed into the kicker penalty that gave ND new life. Our D came to play but in the first half they were on the field 20 minutes of and still had it 13-3. If special team had done their jobs the score would have been 6-6 at the half.

The D played till they ran out of gas against a much bigger team and with out O going 3 and out way to much.
 
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OMG618 said:
Within the first 5 mins:

-two dropped TD passes

-dropped interception on the opponent's side of the field

-roughing the kicker to extend drive which resulted in a TD
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I knew we were in trouble after the first TD drop.
 
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Francis,
DOrsett did drop 2 TD passes on the first drive. He also came back and dropped another in either the 2nd or 3rd drive on almost the same spot. Another receiver dropped another in one of those series as well.
 
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I was there and the drops were absolute killers, who knows how the game turns out if we put a couple scores on the board in the first half. I don't think we win, because our D couldn't stop me and 10 of my buddies, but it might have been a fight to the end. It was cold, but it wasn't that cold, no excuse to drop that many passes, complete choke job.

Watching the team week after week, it is just shocking to me how passive we are on defense. We put absolutely no pressure on opposbing offenses, it is just painful to watch, is there not one kid on the D who can make a ******* play.
 
The roughing the punter call was bull**** too - he was blocked into the kicker

Refs were home cooking for ND all night, until the levee broke
 
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ScubaCane said:
I was there and the drops were absolute killers, who knows how the game turns out if we put a couple scores on the board in the first half. I don't think we win, because our D couldn't stop me and 10 of my buddies, but it might have been a fight to the end. It was cold, but it wasn't that cold, no excuse to drop that many passes, complete choke job.

Watching the team week after week, it is just shocking to me how passive we are on defense. We put absolutely no pressure on opposbing offenses, it is just painful to watch, is there not one kid on the D who can make a ******* play.
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Agree, the defense let's the play come to them, instead of attacking. Very painful to watch.
 
NorthFlaCane said:
The roughing the punter call was bull**** too - he was blocked into the kicker

Refs were home cooking for ND all night, until the levee broke
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I was there and totally agree with the refs statement. The calls on Miami (roughing thepunter, Smith's personal foul that took a 4th and 1 from the 3 into a 1st and goal, etc) and the non ND call, (blantent push from behind at the goal line of one of the long runs, a non PI call on #55 against Duke on an under thrown pass from Morris) had me steamed the entire night.
 
OMG618 said:
Within the first 5 mins:

-two dropped TD passes

-dropped interception on the opponent's side of the field

-roughing the kicker to extend drive which resulted in a TD
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that penalty was bull****, our guy got pushed into the kicker.
 
We simply are not a good enough team to overcome dropped TD's and penalties against a top 10 team. Maybe against a mediocre ACC team, not against a legit top 10 team filled with juniors and seniors.

The passive defensive philosophy doesn't help either as it allowed ND to completely wear down our defense in the 2nd half.
 
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