But tommorow we'll go back to
being a good football team and ND will still blow. (well, maybe not 'tommorow')
I can't summon enough words for a diary post, so here's how I feel about that game:
We won't have that many turnovers again. Our offense is getting better. Our defense played fine except for some crappy coverage that is correctable. Our coach is actually making the team better as the season goes on, your coach is still fat and now injured.
So we were flucking terrible for one game. Sometimes Jon Stewart is unfunny. But it's okay. It passes.
http://www.spike.com/video/jon-stewart-spins/2653047
and the original in case you missed it
September 17th, 2008 at 5:11 AM ^
September 17th, 2008 at 7:32 PM ^
Sometimes Jon Stewart is unfunny. But it's okay. It passes.
Yeah, like how the most noxious, sulfurous gas from your bowls passes.
i'd argue that most the time jon stewart isn't funny.
Disagree. In the few times I've watched him (and it has been a while), the word most would be very generous.
September 17th, 2008 at 9:13 AM ^
take away all the turnovers and they looked pretty good last saturday, but remember they were playing a really bad football team
September 17th, 2008 at 9:18 AM ^
September 17th, 2008 at 9:38 AM ^
September 17th, 2008 at 9:44 AM ^
I don't think we know they have a good passing game. Jimmy Claussen completed fewer than half his passes, and threw for 147 yards.
-45 came on a one man pattern that our 4 man secondary failed to cover.
-60 came on a 9 yard slant that Donovan Warren, Stevie Brown, and John Thompson failed to tackle.
September 17th, 2008 at 10:46 AM ^
September 17th, 2008 at 10:56 AM ^
No.
Aside from one play where we absurdly botched the coverage (I contend that 4 db's should be able to cover a 1 man route) and another where we missed 3 tackles, they threw for 42 yards. 42 yards =/= "a lot of mileage".
September 17th, 2008 at 11:39 AM ^
September 17th, 2008 at 3:40 PM ^
Well if you take away May of 1940, the French Army didn't do such a bad job of fighting WW2 either.
Notre Shame only had 42 more yards because they didn't need anymore. But they did colllect at least three pass interference penalties that I can remember, only one which was borderline. Those don't show up in the offensive stats, but they might as well. Notre Shame scored four TDs in their first five posessions. The turnovers skew the statistics because the Irish only needed 22 yards to score their first 14 points. I guess we'll never know whether they could have gone 80 yards, but I can say that outside of one essentially meaningless interception, there was nothing in those posessions that suggested that Michigan could stop them in dry weather when the game was actually in doubt.
Clausen at least looks competent and somewhat accurate. Their passing game is at least solid.
September 17th, 2008 at 3:50 PM ^
1.) One play with totally blown coverage
2.) One play with totally shitty tackling
3.) A couple plays with totally shitty coverage techniques
4.) Almost nothing else
Constitue a "solid passing attack." I'm not saying it won't be. Just that I saw no evidence of that whatsoever on Saturday. Could Clausen have done better with longer drives and without a hurricane? Maybe, but we'll never know.
September 17th, 2008 at 11:45 AM ^
September 17th, 2008 at 11:47 AM ^
September 17th, 2008 at 11:48 AM ^
FINE.
I was a history major. You're lucky I can type.