Braxton Cave at center, Zack Martin and LT (finally got rid of that garbage ass Duncan) Theo Riddick as a slot man.....AHHHHHH!!
Listening to all this off season conditioning and strength training results is mind blowing. Guys increasing their squats from 375 lbs to almost 600 lbs. Increasing their pull-up reps from 7 to 25. It finally clicked in my head what the previous regime was missing, strength and nastiness.
I remember that Charlie Weiss said that he was going to have a physical nasty football team......really? That team was a team based on precision and finesse. There was no toughness or nasty steak in the players. That explains the poor tackling. Sure some of the individual players were nasty (Ndwukwe or Zbikowski) but other than that, just finesse players.
I'm excited to see some physical play. A 3 yard run on 3rd and 1. A hit that makes that makes them show the replay several times so that you can hear the sound of the pads crunching together.
And I have to wait a couple more days to see it! Ugghh
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Ok......what gives
So I go through my daily routines, you know, wake up and do the morning thing. Go in to work and then check NDNation.com to see the latest updated Notre Dame news. All I read about is how inexperienced the Purdue team is.
Ok, so I know not to look too deep into this, but c'mon, how do you expect me not too. All I can read about is how Notre Dame's hopes rides on the shoulders of Dayne Crist and he has to learn on the go quickly. Look at Purdue, new faces on the offensive line (their starting right tackle has only been an offensive tackle for three weeks!), new unproven QB (Marve sat out last year and had a miserable frosh year at Miami) new receiving core (except for Smith) and no experienced RB (Bolding not due back till second half of season). That is a lot to overcome. Sure they get most of their front 7 back, but against 3/4/5 wide sets, you can't have a front 7. And they have a new secondary that is inexperienced.
I hate to say this several days before the game but I'm feeling less and less worried about winning the game and more worried about not hurting anyone in a big big win. Playing an entire mentally strong game against a team that just isn't experienced enough to keep it close. That's what I'm nervous about: Sloppy play that results in someone getting injured.
'Nough said!
Ok, so I know not to look too deep into this, but c'mon, how do you expect me not too. All I can read about is how Notre Dame's hopes rides on the shoulders of Dayne Crist and he has to learn on the go quickly. Look at Purdue, new faces on the offensive line (their starting right tackle has only been an offensive tackle for three weeks!), new unproven QB (Marve sat out last year and had a miserable frosh year at Miami) new receiving core (except for Smith) and no experienced RB (Bolding not due back till second half of season). That is a lot to overcome. Sure they get most of their front 7 back, but against 3/4/5 wide sets, you can't have a front 7. And they have a new secondary that is inexperienced.
I hate to say this several days before the game but I'm feeling less and less worried about winning the game and more worried about not hurting anyone in a big big win. Playing an entire mentally strong game against a team that just isn't experienced enough to keep it close. That's what I'm nervous about: Sloppy play that results in someone getting injured.
'Nough said!
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