Never a Dull Moment!

Well, Navy gave us everything we could handle once again.  Those guys just will not go away, and the Irish had to play full speed all 60 minutes.  

We played an awful lot of youngsters on defense last night which is great for developing those players but you saw some of the mistakes that causes.  This defense is going to be spectacular next year, something to behold I think.  But in the meantime, we have no depth and the injury to Joe Schmidt could be a real problem if it is serious.  With good teams ahead we have our work cut out for us; expect shootouts the rest of the way.

On the other hand, the offense is clicking and Golson set another record with 6 touchdowns.  Thee diversity on offense is fun to watch.  The turnover before the half was a big swinger, the difference between burying the middies and giving them hope.  They came out with spirit in the second half and the game was on.  I lost another year of my life watching the second half.

Cold night in Maryland and the stadium was maybe half full, lots of people left early; I actually cut out after our late interception of Navy thinking that would finally do it.  But then we missed two field goals and let them hang around to the bitter end.  Wow.  

I am beginning to think this may not be our year.  Seemed like the stars were aligning until the first playoff rankings came out this week.  Actually I think the committee has it about right and the real test will be to see how they adjust going forward.  There should be some major moves each week if they do it right and avoid the "just shuffle around the SEC" style of the historical polls.  Unfortunately we did not get a lot of help with losses ahead of us yesterday, in particular the TCU win hurt.  Our SOS keeps taking a hit with Stanford and other opponents losing.  ASU and USC looked good which helps our case but we have not beaten either one of them yet.  Both those games worry me greatly as I look ahead.  Northwestern and Louisville bit the dust again.  Winning out will definitely put us in the mix but I think we may be on the outside looking in and maybe that will be okay if we get a solid bowl game we can win and start the 2015 season with a New Year's statement game.  I think our defense may be just a little too shaky to beat the top teams in the end.

But there are a lot of games yet to play and one thing we know is that college football always throws us a lot of curves in November.  Here's hoping the ball bounces our way while we win out convincingly.  

GO IRISH!  Beat Sun Devils!

The Godfather