including two key defenders (a LB and a safety). IMO, this game will be a dogfight, and Book will have to play well for ND to win.
They think they're going to get blown out. They weren't even excited about Slovis returning.
“I told them to embrace the suck. It’s going to be cold. But it’ll be fun when we’re running up the score.”"
Pedestrian QB/RB's/WR's and a suspect OL/Scheme/coaching etc. make a ND rout of USC highly unlikely.
I would love to eat my words come Saturday nite.
Hope someone pops this post up after a 42-14 ND win.
If ND wins, it will be in a close one.
I've been to too many games between these two where our fans said it was going to be a cakewalk.
It's rarely a fucking cakewalk with SC.
My first ND/SC game was when Hornung was our QB against SC in 1956 in the Coliseum.
We lost that one, but what I took home on the long ride back home to Bakersfield as an 8 year old was a angry resolve that I was going to attend Notre Dame and stand behind any ND coach who never flinched.
When ND blew them out at home.
Quick google search shows that ND was a 9 point favorite prior to the 2011 game at ND, but that wasn't as much of an upset in hindsight as it appeared at the time, and ND's season had already been tainted by an 0-2 start.
The last time in this series that a team's otherwise great season was spoiled by an inferior rival must have been 1998 when a 7-4 USC beat a 9-1 ND to block them from a major bowl game. That was the 10-0 game following Jarious Jackson's infamous unsafe safety.
We did a number on them in 1995 when we ruined Keyshawn & Co's undefeated season.
on running plays numerous times.
I could see Lea going after him.The kid might have a future but the future aint Sat.
The Good Lord must shed miraculous blessings on SoCal for the good clean moral lifestyle that the school promotes and embraces
Save for a few snaps vs Utah.
So it is up to ND to expose his rustiness and his inexperience.
He gets the ball out quick though. It will be up to ND to force him(via better coverage) into holding the ball longer so the DL isn't neutralized.
Helton mentioned that Slovis has lost a little arm strength in the month layoff--whereas Slovis stated his legs are not in the shape they were pre- injury. Regardless, ND needs to knock him around and see if he can take a hit.
As for Tony Jones-he is a good soldier. But it was very telling that he had trouble running away from terrible defenders on a bottom-feeder MAC team.
Some of those runs should have been 70+ TD runs by a back that ND should have at their disposal.
They wouldn't play a down for Alabama/Clemson/OSU....
Finke's not at that level, but it would be wrong to say its impossible
they would be excited if they get 20 snaps out of Armstrong.
He's probably back a little early.
Not.
I doubt he'll get ten snaps.
Just continuing to shit on the same Notre Dame student-athlete over and over again.
dick-ish post this time. No reference to female genitalia is a step in the right direction.
we really need Jafar to make some big plays. We need his speed at that position.
Even assuming you have good insider information that you don't want to share (which, of course, turned out not to apply at all in the context of his recent injury), that you want to keep going after him--for what, exactly?--is very odd.
At worst, according to you, he is a student-athlete who came to Notre Dame and isn't physically or mentally "tough." Again, this alleged flaw has nothing to do with his recent injury, which no amount of "toughness" would have prevented. In any event, it's not like he's trying to hurt the team to throw games or doesn't care or something. At worst, he's fragile. At best, of course, he's someone who loves Notre Dame and his teammates but has had a bit of bad luck. And you keep on pointing to his "flaw" (which you apparently have sources for) and minimizing his contributions and showing us how little you respect or appreciate him.
It's kind of weird. Honestly, what do you hope to gain by continuing to badmouth him? Seems like the kind of thing that isn't worth continuing to bring up in threads about him, particularly when he's trying to return quickly from a serious injury to help his teammates. Did he do something to you personally? Someone close to you?
Why continue to shit on his "toughness"? Either give some context to your "inside info" or let it be.
"Trevor Lawrence is playing poorly because he's dealing with an undisclosed injury" is intel.
"Miss Lippie's car is green" is intel.
Gunner Kiel "did not necessarily have the chest and the ability to lead a program" is an opinion.
"Jafar Armstrong lacks mental toughness" is an opinion.
That the opinion was shared by somebody inside the program doesn't make it less of an opinion, and should be taken with a grain of salt..... in my opinion.
He's not a home run threat, but he's a tough runner that gets what's there.
in short yardage and goal line packages.
He's being asked to carry a load far beyond what his best skills are. That he's being asked to do that (and doing well within his abilities) is not his fault. He runs hard, he blocks well. It's easy to see why the coaches like him.
At least early in the season. He got loose against Virginia and ran over BGSU but outside of that he's frustrated me. He seems like he's lost weight since last year. I'm not sure if that's the reason or if he just wasn't meant to be the workhorse.
I liked him better as a spell last year.
Jones is pretty consistent even if not at a high level. Armstrong, less consistent, higher ceiling.