First, let me start by saying- holy sh!t balls!
Let's get the ugly stuff out of the way first so we can enjoy the good stuff.
First play of the game--- I swear to christ that Notre Dame has a spy on this website. I warned you last year about deep routes down the right sideline. They burned us last year for a TD with that play. I warned you AGAIN that GDDH and the corner still hadn't worked that all out yet... even last week. So what does old Chipper do play one? Throws the damn deep ball up the right sideline BUT this time, we swatted it away. Finally! I warned you that our dline looked weak..... ND pretty much had their way with them. I will grant you, ND has a dang good Oline, but we must get better up front. No two ways about it, we MUST get better up front. Malik and our lbs played a dang good game but if you want to see what a depleted lb corps looks like in November, let the dline keep playing as poorly as they did last night. I counted at least a dozen times last night where one of our lbs went dick/butt on poona or the other tackles. You can't have your lbs putting their crotch in our dt's ass crack and fighting to make a tackle. Tackling is hard enough as it is-- having to dodge dlineman on roller skates AND tackle is damn near impossible.
Did I warn you about Chris Warren running high? The dude is a manchild BUT he's got to learn how to get his pad level down and run behind them. ND wasn't having it. He was stood up time and again at the line. If he'll lower those shoulders, jesus h christ he could become a human battering ram. Get behind your pads young man.
Special teams-- hijo de la chingada..... what came to mind when we were on special teams?? Pepto bismal.... nausea heartburn indigestion upset stomach diarrhea..... we looked like sh!t on a stick. Gunners.... wtf are you doing on punt coverage? It was like watching jim Carey and Jeff Bridges drive to aspen. Kick coverage wasn't worse than small pox, but it wasn't better than a yeast infection. We've got a pretty darn good punter it seems.... don't fvck it up for him. He can win you some games with field position. Help him out!
Oline: shack..... bro..... I know you're a fish. I know it was your first game. I know you were nervous as fvck man. If I were your coach, you'd spend the off week doing nothing but snaps. Over and over and over and over--- no practice for you except snapping the dang football.
The two practices I went to see looked identical to how we played from about the 9 minute mark in the 3rd until about the 6 minute mark in the 4th: Like absolute poppycock. We all gave aggy a hard time for having ucla down by 17 and not stepping on their neck. Well, we just did the same damn thing. We had a wounded beast by the throat and we didn't choke them out. You've got to be a stone cold, dyed in the wool, cold blooded assassin when you've got a team by the short and curlies. You have to make them stop breathing, see the light leave their eyes- put your forehead on their forehead and relish the last moments of their demise. It's cold, it's cruel, but that's how you finish a team. Brutality.
Dbs: if not for this win, I'd be ripping you to shreds like I want to do to the dline. You can't let a Qb treat you like Kizer did last night. When a Qb decides to run it, your eyes should light up like a pinball machine. You got to bust that mfer in the chops! When you get him down, crawl up to his face and TELL him you just busted his ass and every time he runs, you're going to keep busting his ass.
Now for the good stuff:
Helluva win. This team oozes talent. In my mind, this is the 2nd best win of Charlie strong's tenure. I say 2nd best because-- we don't know how good/bad ND is just yet. If they stink it up the rest of the year------- but the OU win last year was against a team that made it to the playoffs. See my reasoning?
SB-- you looked like a fish at times, but you looked like a steely eyed missile man at others. You showed poise, shook off being rattled after you drunk chunked that int in the 3rd. Continue to learn little man. Stay in the film room. You're going to get there, I promise.
TS- I've wanted to choke the life out of you several times in the past. You're arguably the worst qb to ever wear the burnt orange-- but my man, you showed up last night. You sacrificed life and limb and let your nuts swing.
Malik- slow the fvck down bro! Be quick, but don't hurry. You're hurrying son. You are so freaking fast that it hurts you at times. Let the game come to you. Let the play develop before you go afterburner. You are a freak of nature and playing on Sunday will come soon enough. You can't make every play. I know you want to, I get it. But you just can't do it all. You looked so damn good in the spring and then I noticed in the fall you seemed to be pressing. Stop pressing bro! You had what, 7 solos and a sack? Just let the game come to you and then wreck shop. Bull in China closet 24/7 is impossible to do. You'll kill yourself.
(now for some serious/funny talk)
Dear Deshawn Elliott,
It's more polite to knock than ring the doorbell.
Signed,
Torii Hunter jr's left frontal lobe
TH Jr, henceforth I dub the "sir jellylegs of South bend". Now rise and tell me what day it is...
THJr-- "DOLPHINS!"
No no no-- what DAY is it son?
THJr-- "chimmichanga!"
Take a seat son.
Elliott, that's going to get you tossed sooner or later. But I'm cool with it. I know you weren't trying to hurt THJr, but knocking people into the 4th dimension is always cool by me. Keep it up son!
THJr-- you seem ok. You shook it off. Props to you for that. By the way, did you hear the doorbell?
Most of all, I saw competition. I saw dudes swinging after the bell. I saw us show moxy, grit, toughness. Did we make some stooopid mental errors? Heck yes we did. Did we get sloppy when we went up by 17? For sure. Do we still have a looooooooooooooong way to go before we are where we expect to be? No doubt.
BUT, we seem to be getting there. Throw out the stupid mental errors and we win this game by 3 scores. Physically, we can play. Mentally, we've got work to do: but it's encouraging.
Let's get the ugly stuff out of the way first so we can enjoy the good stuff.
First play of the game--- I swear to christ that Notre Dame has a spy on this website. I warned you last year about deep routes down the right sideline. They burned us last year for a TD with that play. I warned you AGAIN that GDDH and the corner still hadn't worked that all out yet... even last week. So what does old Chipper do play one? Throws the damn deep ball up the right sideline BUT this time, we swatted it away. Finally! I warned you that our dline looked weak..... ND pretty much had their way with them. I will grant you, ND has a dang good Oline, but we must get better up front. No two ways about it, we MUST get better up front. Malik and our lbs played a dang good game but if you want to see what a depleted lb corps looks like in November, let the dline keep playing as poorly as they did last night. I counted at least a dozen times last night where one of our lbs went dick/butt on poona or the other tackles. You can't have your lbs putting their crotch in our dt's ass crack and fighting to make a tackle. Tackling is hard enough as it is-- having to dodge dlineman on roller skates AND tackle is damn near impossible.
Did I warn you about Chris Warren running high? The dude is a manchild BUT he's got to learn how to get his pad level down and run behind them. ND wasn't having it. He was stood up time and again at the line. If he'll lower those shoulders, jesus h christ he could become a human battering ram. Get behind your pads young man.
Special teams-- hijo de la chingada..... what came to mind when we were on special teams?? Pepto bismal.... nausea heartburn indigestion upset stomach diarrhea..... we looked like sh!t on a stick. Gunners.... wtf are you doing on punt coverage? It was like watching jim Carey and Jeff Bridges drive to aspen. Kick coverage wasn't worse than small pox, but it wasn't better than a yeast infection. We've got a pretty darn good punter it seems.... don't fvck it up for him. He can win you some games with field position. Help him out!
Oline: shack..... bro..... I know you're a fish. I know it was your first game. I know you were nervous as fvck man. If I were your coach, you'd spend the off week doing nothing but snaps. Over and over and over and over--- no practice for you except snapping the dang football.
The two practices I went to see looked identical to how we played from about the 9 minute mark in the 3rd until about the 6 minute mark in the 4th: Like absolute poppycock. We all gave aggy a hard time for having ucla down by 17 and not stepping on their neck. Well, we just did the same damn thing. We had a wounded beast by the throat and we didn't choke them out. You've got to be a stone cold, dyed in the wool, cold blooded assassin when you've got a team by the short and curlies. You have to make them stop breathing, see the light leave their eyes- put your forehead on their forehead and relish the last moments of their demise. It's cold, it's cruel, but that's how you finish a team. Brutality.
Dbs: if not for this win, I'd be ripping you to shreds like I want to do to the dline. You can't let a Qb treat you like Kizer did last night. When a Qb decides to run it, your eyes should light up like a pinball machine. You got to bust that mfer in the chops! When you get him down, crawl up to his face and TELL him you just busted his ass and every time he runs, you're going to keep busting his ass.
Now for the good stuff:
Helluva win. This team oozes talent. In my mind, this is the 2nd best win of Charlie strong's tenure. I say 2nd best because-- we don't know how good/bad ND is just yet. If they stink it up the rest of the year------- but the OU win last year was against a team that made it to the playoffs. See my reasoning?
SB-- you looked like a fish at times, but you looked like a steely eyed missile man at others. You showed poise, shook off being rattled after you drunk chunked that int in the 3rd. Continue to learn little man. Stay in the film room. You're going to get there, I promise.
TS- I've wanted to choke the life out of you several times in the past. You're arguably the worst qb to ever wear the burnt orange-- but my man, you showed up last night. You sacrificed life and limb and let your nuts swing.
Malik- slow the fvck down bro! Be quick, but don't hurry. You're hurrying son. You are so freaking fast that it hurts you at times. Let the game come to you. Let the play develop before you go afterburner. You are a freak of nature and playing on Sunday will come soon enough. You can't make every play. I know you want to, I get it. But you just can't do it all. You looked so damn good in the spring and then I noticed in the fall you seemed to be pressing. Stop pressing bro! You had what, 7 solos and a sack? Just let the game come to you and then wreck shop. Bull in China closet 24/7 is impossible to do. You'll kill yourself.
(now for some serious/funny talk)
Dear Deshawn Elliott,
It's more polite to knock than ring the doorbell.
Signed,
Torii Hunter jr's left frontal lobe
TH Jr, henceforth I dub the "sir jellylegs of South bend". Now rise and tell me what day it is...
THJr-- "DOLPHINS!"
No no no-- what DAY is it son?
THJr-- "chimmichanga!"
Take a seat son.
Elliott, that's going to get you tossed sooner or later. But I'm cool with it. I know you weren't trying to hurt THJr, but knocking people into the 4th dimension is always cool by me. Keep it up son!
THJr-- you seem ok. You shook it off. Props to you for that. By the way, did you hear the doorbell?
Most of all, I saw competition. I saw dudes swinging after the bell. I saw us show moxy, grit, toughness. Did we make some stooopid mental errors? Heck yes we did. Did we get sloppy when we went up by 17? For sure. Do we still have a looooooooooooooong way to go before we are where we expect to be? No doubt.
BUT, we seem to be getting there. Throw out the stupid mental errors and we win this game by 3 scores. Physically, we can play. Mentally, we've got work to do: but it's encouraging.
