Film Room: The Run & Shoot and a (Chip) Long Trap
Notre Dame recently hired Chip Long, the first-time playcaller from Memphis, to be the offensive coordinator for Notre Dame. Most speculated that the only reason that Notre Dame would force out Mike Denbrock is if [...]
Defensive Line Review
There was a time during the 2016 pre-season where I was sure this unit was going to do good things. Many were down on the defensive line overall, and particularly at certain spots. I thought [...]
Film Room: Elko Brings a New Twist to a Familiar Scheme
Over the holiday season, I took on a little project. I decided I would take a look at the scheme incoming Notre Dame defensive coordinator Mike Elko employs. I charted 111 defensive plays from games [...]
30 Seconds of Defense with Rex Pflueger
Mike Brey's Notre Dame program has always hung its hat on highly efficient offenses. This year appears to be no different. The Irish are currently the 8th most efficient offense in the nation per KenPom. [...]
Film Room: Iso Cam – Kizer Throwing Motion
DeShone Kizer has been a bit of an enigma this year. At times, he has looked like a sure fire first round NFL draft pick, big, strong, athletic, confident, decisive, accurate. Other times he has [...]
Film Room: Army Triple Option Preview
Game one of the service academy doubleheader is in the books and it wasn’t pretty. The Irish will look for redemption on Saturday in the Shamrock Series game against Army. Last week we went through [...]
Film Room: The Navy Post-Mortem
I’ll cut right to the chase – the defense was bad on Saturday. Really bad. The substitution penalty and the decision to kick the field goal probably cost Notre Dame the game against Navy, but [...]
Film Room: Notre Dame Gets a Bingo
For large portions of the year the offensive play calling for Notre Dame has been inconsistent and at times downright puzzling. It’s difficult to pick out a unifying concept or a core philosophy in the [...]
Film Room: Triple Option Preview
It’s that time of the year – Notre Dame is gearing up for its annual game against Navy. This year it’s a service academy doubleheader with the Shamrock Series game against Army next week. And [...]
Film Room: The Jet Sweep
Brian Kelly this season has ran more of a "smash mouth" spread (regarding the running game), preferring to run downhill as much as possible through use of inside zone and power plays. This is likely [...]
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