ODDS AND ENDS ARMY WEEK

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What I would like to see:

  • Defense–Calabrese(only if 100% healthy) at middle ILB with Teo.
  • Brian Smith–left OLB where he was a force as a Freshman.
  • DL-This is where we must overwhelm with pure physical power. Time for Ethan to finally put together a dominating presence.
  • PASS COVERAGE–can we have one game where we stop the easy long pass right down the center of the field.

OFFENSE–would like to see all 5 OL men blast Army off the LOS and the RB’s have their best game of the year. We will need to run the ball against USC so we might as well start with this game.

Interesting that opponents were picking up our play call signals–only took 10 games for this to dawn on the staff.

For the hell of it BEST PERFORMANCE outside of Floyd. I select Roby Toma.

ND 28 UTAH 3

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Robert Blanton ignited the entire ND team with a punt block for a touchdown. Prior to that it looked on offense as same old story. The defense played hard the entire game.

After the punt block ND seemed an entirely different team in all aspects of the game.

Brian Smith played his best game as did Kamara with 2 TD’s. Floyd was just Floyd. Wood and Jonas Gray ran well and the OL finally started hitting hard and opening holes. Pleased to see LG Chris Watt got significant playing time–looked good as he preps for 2011.

2 freshman Kona Schwenke and Prince Shembo played very well when in.

Rees was workmanlike–did well for his first start.

Coaching–best so far from entire staff. Team looked and played like a semi-decent team. Hats off to Kelly. Finally had a chance to enjoy a game. Just hope they bring same intensity for remaining 2 games.

Next up Army and the option. Hope the defense just attacks rather than trying to re-act.

Good win–trust Kelly keeps pressure on during this weeks practices.