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Ugly statistic…

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.
 
Actually if Eric doesn't get injured against Notre Dame, we probably would have finished on the top 10.
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.
 
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.
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.
 
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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.
Idk man. As is we were like two plays away from being tied at half as is, including a dropped TD

With Dungey we probably could have pulled it out
 
Top 10 that year if the Pitt fg kicker doesn’t have the game of his life.
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.

Or that ineligible receiver call on 4th down against Clemson.
 
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.
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.
 
We were properly rated those years. It’s not like we didn’t have a chance. We got blown out by Miami and ND respectively.

It's arguable that we gave Clemson their toughest game that year. That forward progress kept us out of the top 10.
 
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.
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.

You're using "everyone" when it was a pretty robust discussion for two years.

The truth is all of this is true:
a.) The OL coach and OL for 2019 and 2020 was the worst in the P5.
b.) The WRs were ok but not great
c.) The QB got the yips from getting hit and doesn't make good decisions under pressure
d.) The old OC left because of performance and the new guy came in during a pandemic

This is the definitive and complete truth. No need to fight about it. lol.
 
It's arguable that we gave Clemson their toughest game that year. That forward progress kept us out of the top 10.
We likely did. But we lost, and we were 10-3, so we didn't crack the top 10. Such is life.
 

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