Man. 2018 Notre Dame. We all thought we were getting Florida State and UNC Devito. Turns out the Irish Devito was the real Devito. Wish it didn’t take three years to figure that out.
The Irish gave the game plan for defenses against TD, and everyone followed it in 2019, 2020, and the first 3 games of 2021. Everyone wanted to blame the line coach, wide receivers, offensive line, but no one wanted to blame Tommy. Everyone was blinded because he threw a great ball. But the most important aspect of a QB is can he make plays under pressure.
You can’t say that we’d win if he didn’t get injured. Maybe it’s closer… but we couldn’t do anything with Eric on the drive before he keeled over.
I don't know that everybody wanted to place all the blame on others. There were a number of people on here that saw the poor handling of pressure and the tunnel vision and stated it was likely that those were things that wouldn't get better with practice.
Idk man. As is we were like two plays away from being tied at half as is, including a dropped TD
Or the refs do there’d job and blow the play dead that Dungey got stripped for a TD 10 seconds after forward motion was stopped.
Didn't say we would win, but we wouldn't have been blown out. Eric would have kept us in the game, and that wouldn't have hurt our ranking.
I think this is bunk. I spent a lot of time trying to to diagnosis the problems in 2019 and 2020 and always said the problem was a mix of things - including TD's deficiencies. A lot of people were blaming Tommy. All. The. Time.
We likely did. But we lost, and we were 10-3, so we didn't crack the top 10. Such is life.
