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[ChicagoIrish]

50-43

Not impressed, at all.

Golson continues to turn the ball over. If he does this next week, we will be blown off the map.

Kelly's play-calling continues to give me headaches. Our running backs need to get more touches, which will prevent Golson from handling the ball so much.

UNC gets 21 points off of 3 Golson turnovers today. Which includes UNC jumping out to a 14-0 lead to start the game.

Bryant and McDaniel both found the endzone once.

Folston with the best day. 18 carries for 98 yards and 2 TD's, 5 catches for 71 yards and 1 TD

 

[ChicagoIrish]

Also, Golson has terrible pocket awareness, and his football IQ isn't much better.

I think Notre Dame is showing we are a good all-around team, by overcoming all of Golson mistakes. But, if his mistakes keep up at this rate, we won't keep winning these games, that's for sure.

 

[poewelch84]

They need to run the ball more like you said, not putting as much pressure on Golson. The O-Line needs to do a better job as well and they are starting to show some signs of that in the running game where they were particularly bad early in the season but how could you not expect it when they had a different line every week.

 

[jjc2009]

Kelly's system doesn't allow the QB to mess up like this. We are going to rise and fall with Golson, just as we rose and fell with Rees. Great call on his bad pocket awareness. He lingers too long. He wants to hold out just a little longer for the home run instead of taking off to keep defenses honest or doing his progressions. He has all the physical tools, but the unconscious competence that coaches talk about isn't there.

 

[ChicagoIrish]

Offensive linemen are like any other athlete, you have to get them into a rhythm, let them build their confidence. The way Kelly calls games, it's very difficult for our OLine to get into any kind of rhythm.

Our running backs have to get more touches, it's really that simple. Golson is not good enough to handle all of these responsibilities.

 

[bksballer89]

going to get killed

 

[ChicagoIrish]

We won't get killed

We can win this game, but only if we stop giving the ball away.

 

[bksballer89]

We won't get killed

We can win this game, but only if we stop giving the ball away.

We need to seriously cut out the turnovers. If we play like we did in the first 3 games (in terms of turnovers) we will have a good chance but we have plan on turning the ball over 3 times like we been doing the last 3 games, we probably lose by 3 tds

 

[jjc2009]

Said it during the game and I'll say it again here. About the only thing I hate more than turnovers is piss poor tackling. The team overall has been pretty sound in tackling but today it just seemed like they all were whiffing all over the place. Joe Schmidt had some big plays, but he had more whiffs than I can remember. So did Farley. Even pretty sure handed tacklers like Shumate and Redfield struggled. That last drive was entirely the result of crap tackling.

 

[purguy12]

Yeah not looking good. D looked really bad. THere were no positives from this game besides the win

 

[purguy12]

Golson, Oline and D was really bad. Golson needs to stop fumbling the ball. Int I can live with but fumbling no.

 

[craigk217]

Yeah not looking good. D looked really bad. THere were no positives from this game besides the win

I'll try here ... injuries?

I think the only 'injury' we had was to Cody Riggs ... and he eventually made it back. Anybody hear anything more? And I'm still unsure of what's up with Colly ...

It's good to know that we're travelling to a 'hostile' environment at least healthy. That's gotta count for something ... right?

 

[poewelch84]

I think the youth of this team showed when UNC was playing at a high tempo. Hopefully they can fix some of that and they did a poor job tackling which they don't usually do. The only hope is that the guys were over looking UNC and looking ahead to FSU.

 

[craigk217]

Yeah not looking good. D looked really bad. THere were no positives from this game besides the win

Oh ... and I'll add great turnout on our GDT yesterday! I do believe we were in the Top 3 in that category getting beat out only by the RRSO (no surprise) and FL/LSU threads. We were #2 until getting edged out by the Gators game.

 

[jjc2009]

I'll try here ... injuries?

I think the only 'injury' we had was to Cody Riggs ... and he eventually made it back. Anybody hear anything more? And I'm still unsure of what's up with Colly ...

It's good to know that we're travelling to a 'hostile' environment at least healthy. That's gotta count for something ... right?

Collinsworth dislocated his shoulder. MRI ordered to see extent of damage. I'm guessing he's out at least next week. Kelly dismissed any problems with Riggs' ankle. That's a blessing. I'd say without him we have zero chance next week and going forward, depth becomes a major issue.

 

[craigk217]

Collinsworth dislocated his shoulder. MRI ordered to see extent of damage. I'm guessing he's out at least next week. Kelly dismissed any problems with Riggs' ankle. That's a blessing. I'd say without him we have zero chance next week and going forward, depth becomes a major issue.

... man, this poor guy just cannot get/stay 'healthy'. Kinda like Torii Hunter ...

 

[purguy12]

Oh ... and I'll add great turnout on our GDT yesterday! I do believe we were in the Top 3 in that category getting beat out only by the RRSO (no surprise) and FL/LSU threads. We were #2 until getting edged out by the Gators game.

Well thats good news

 

[purguy12]

NEXT week we get #1. ND vs FSU GDT should be loaded with people posting

 

[craigk217]

Oh ... and I'll add great turnout on our GDT yesterday! I do believe we were in the Top 3 in that category getting beat out only by the RRSO (no surprise) and FL/LSU threads. We were #2 until getting edged out by the Gators game.

FWIW ... For those of you who know Swamphumpy, he had a pretty fng good meltdown on the LSU/FL GDT ... check it out on the last page.

I'm still

 

[jjc2009]

... man, this poor guy just cannot get/stay 'healthy'. Kinda like Torii Hunter ...

I was gonna say like Carlisle. He's had his injury issues as well.