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As I talked about earlier in the week, the Irish defense has some problems. While most of the videos we’ve done have been rainbows, lollypops, and smiles, we decided to take a look at some of the defensive issues that have ailed the Irish. Here’s a closer look at the tackling “challenges” the Irish had…
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Charlie Weis met with the media yesterday without an opponent to talk about. While he acknowledged USC was on the horizon, this wasn’t a Trojan-heavy Q&A session. Here are a few interesting tidbits that came out of yesterday’s session: * Manti Te’o impressed Weis in his first outing, yet he was quick to acknowledge that…
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Much has already been said about Golden Tate’s miraculous game against Washington. Tate’s 244 receiving yards were the most of any receiver in college football this season, and he added 31 yards on a reverse handoff from Armando Allen to boot. Tate’s rise to lead the football team in the absence of Michael Floyd has…
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Reading Bruce Feldman and Andy Staples yesterday, two of my favorite college football writers, I noticed just how similar their comments were about Notre Dame and their exclusion from the Top 25 polls. Both reacted to Charlie Weis’ comments about the Irish’s exclusion from the polls after rising to 4-1 on the season. “If you…
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For all those people who are worried that Jimmy Clausen isn’t getting the national respect that he deserves, fear not: It’s coming. Clausen’s weekly heroics during this Saturday’s game against Washington earned Jimmy the Davey O’Brien Foundation’s Quarterback of the Week award. His 422 yards passing and almost 75 percent accuracy pushed Clausen’s passer rating…
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The Irish enter their bye week with four wins in their first five games. But after a convincing shutout victory in the season opener against Nevada, the Irish defense — a unit many believed to be ready to take a major step forward — has gone backwards. What’s wrong with this Irish defense? I won’t…
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It wasn’t just an instant classic for four quarters and overtime, but for 8 glorious edited minutes, the Washington Husky and Notre Dame Fighting Irish bands battled on the rain soaked field. The Irish spelled out Styx while blasting “Come Sail Away,” clearing channeling their inner-hair band, and even formed a sailboat before breaking into…
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For much of the season, Notre Dame and their fans must have felt like a secret vendetta was being carried out against the Irish by the officials. You could continue to say the same thing after the Washington game on Saturday, with a bizarre roughing the snapper call giving the Huskies four extra shots at…
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Just looking at the two coaches, you can see how emotionally drained they are. Here are the post-game comments of both Charlie Weis and Steve Sarkisian. Say this for Sark, he’s an incredibly classy guy. There has been quite a bit of rumbling on the internet and amongst Washington fans that feel like the referees…
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Maybe I’m one of the only people who isn’t that worked up about Notre Dame’s exclusion from the Top 25 polls. Do I think the Irish deserve to be ranked? Absolutely. Do I think people should be worked up about it? Absolutely not. While it’s not in my agenda to question pollsters, it should be…
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Just to put a bow on the instant classic, here’s a quick look at the highlights, courtesy of the video guys at NBCSports.com.
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Upon further review, the Irish still won the football game against the Huskies on a rain-soaked Saturday in South Bend. While Husky fans might want a review of a few plays around the goal-line, and Irish fans want an explanation for the bizarre roughing the snapper penalty that gave UW four free plays at the…
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The stirring conclusion of another game of the year candidate. Here’s to earning your bye week.
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Fast forward to the 3:15 mark and watch one of the most epic goal-line stands in Irish history…
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A little Nick Tausch, a little Jake Locker, and a fairly low scoring quarter. The rain was really pouring here…
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Here’s the second quarter cut-down. Highlights (or lowlights) include Clausen’s lateral/failed screenpass, some Nick Tausch field goals, and an incredible scramble, throw, catch, and run by JC and Golden Tate. An hour of your life condensed to 11 minutes and 48 seconds.
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Take a look at the first quarter cut-down by the fine gentlemen in the video department. The opening salvo of another epic game.
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“I think that the entire game, the ebb and flow of the game, probably the whole game came down to that double goal-line stand. Not the goal-line stand, the double goal-line stand.”
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“You know, the bottom line is this game came down to we had two opportunities to score touchdowns from the one yard line, two separate occasions, and we came away with three total points. That’s the bottom line.”
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It’s bordering on ridiculous and closing quickly on beyond description. The Irish once again pull out a miracle football game and win one for the ages. Maybe it’s not for the ages, but merely for the season, as the Irish are making a case for reserving their own ESPN Classic channel. As Jake Locker’s fourth…
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<a href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&amp;task=viewaltcast&amp;altcast_code=a0aa1a7e1f” >Notre Dame vs. Washington</a>
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It’s cloudy and cool in South Bend right now, and we’re just about two-and-a-half hours away from kickoff. Just a reminder that, as always, we’ll be live-blogging the action, so bring your questions, comments, doomsday optimism, and anything else you want to share as I give myself carpal-tunnel trying to break my own record for…
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Notre Dame faces an important test today with the Washington Huskies. Empirically, the Irish are the better team. They have a more explosive offense, a defense with less question marks (believe it or not), and the advantage of playing in front of 80,000 of their own fans. Yet there is a general sense of uneasiness…
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I’ve got a collection of links I’ve been storing this week, trying to find a place to fit them in or write them up, but they just never came together. Consider this force-feeding: * A few days ago, Mike Baldwin of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote a post comparing the paths of Jake Locker and Jimmy…
