Notre Dame Game Plan On Defense vs Duke Was Strong

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00:03 So there was a lot of stuff that I liked.

00:05 There was one blitz I didn't like, but that's not even the blitz.

00:08 It's just the way you play the nickel.

00:09 We talked about that last night.

00:11 We'll need to rehash that.

00:12 The other part of what I liked about what we saw from the defense, Vince,

00:15 was we saw Al Golden do what we've been begging him to do in two areas.

00:21 Number one- >> I know exactly what you're talking about.

00:22 >> He turned the D line loose.

00:24 And number two, he mixed up how he used his box.

00:28 We didn't see the linebackers just crashing all night.

00:31 We saw them crashing at times.

00:33 We saw them show blitz.

00:35 I mean, and not even just lining up and, I mean, but the whole,

00:38 I hear them coming, I'm trying to time up the snap.

00:40 I'm coming, snap the ball, and I'm dropping under coverage.

00:43 The whole body, I mean, they were, JD Burch ran and

00:47 Marius Leofau deserve Oscars for how they performed at times last night on their

00:51 blitzes, cuz you'll see teams that'll line up and the linebackers at the line

00:55 scrimmage, and dude, I know you're dropping.

00:58 Your whole body language is that you're about to plan on that front foot drop.

01:02 Right, and then there's the guys that are faking it, they're overdoing it.

01:05 Like, okay, I know you're not coming,

01:07 cuz you're trying to let me know too much that you're coming.

01:10 They would kind of do it like, I've tried to time the blitz and

01:12 I didn't time it perfectly and I gotta go back.

01:14 And then they would do it again and then boom, they drop.

01:17 Then other times they would come.

01:18 But then there was a lot of snaps last night, Vince,

01:20 where they just let the linebackers just read and react.

01:22 >> Yeah.

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