Yes, it was sweet to see USC bite the dust last night as I was flicking around the TV stations. What a shame!
Did anyone else feel shocked by how far BC seems to have fallen? This is the team that manhandled us on the line of scrimmage for many years in recent history but last night it felt like we were playing a high school team a couple times. No decent QBs, no skill position talent, an uninspired line, and no speed on defense. Their recruiting must have really gone down the toilet for a few years. Certainly the Irish and our quick start had something to do with the play, but still. Almost felt a little bad for the eagles. But not really.
Colonel is right again, not exactly a stellar performance by the Irish. We were very inconsistent on offense. Here is a scary question, what would have happened if our backup QBs had played instead of Crist? Four great drives but the question is will that be enough against a better team. Should we ever go 3 and out with our talent? We have to cut down on the turnovers as well. Defense continues to improve and only allowed really one big play.
My favorite moment of the TV coverage was the "Kelly yelling" highlight reel. The man is really into the game for sure. Hope his fire in the belly passes along to the troops.
So good stuff included a dynamic offense that looks like a super bowl team when all the cylinders are hitting. We dominated the line of scrimmage for much of the game, particularly on defense. Mixed in some nice blitz packages also. Very few penalties was nice. We looked good on those 3rd and 1 situations with our power dive and Riddick looked good again in the pass game.
Concerns. Rudolph is clearly not 100%, did he have more than 1-2 catches? Inconsistent offense needs to smooth out the highs and lows. Crist missed many, many throws that could have put this game away in the first half.
Pitt is next and appears to be in disarray but that was the same story 2 years ago when they beat us at home. I think we will have our work cut out for us.
Go Irish! Beat Panthers!
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Godfather, as usual, is spot on with the comments. If I hadn't fallen asleep in front of the tv, I might be able to add to the conversation. Just one thing - when we were on the way home from the show, we listened to the game on XM and my 15 year old son was afraid that ND would end up losing the game. We came in after ND was up 21-0 and started letting the game go. Naturally, after the past couple years, I could do nothing but agree with his analysis of the situation.
Pitt will be tough. They always are! But the Syracuse paper today had a big story on how bad the Big East is this year - the Big Least they called it - and said there's a great deal of doubt that the league will have anything to boast about this year. We'll see.
I too liked the Brian Kelly yelling montage. Pretty good stuff. Now if the players take some of his words to heart, they just might get somewhere this year.
BTW, any day USC loses is a good footbal day!
Football, I mean.
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