Notre Dame Wide Receivers Must Play With Urgency

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00:03 >> John A1, what's up, John says, if you're coach Stucky,

00:06 what's the biggest thing you're keeping on with your room?

00:11 Keying on, my apologies.

00:13 >> Well, I think the biggest thing for me is just playing with greater urgency.

00:17 And the reason I say that, and I keep saying that over and over again,

00:20 because that phrase impacts so many different things.

00:22 Urgency comes down to how you come off the line,

00:26 urgency gets down to how you stem a guy.

00:30 It comes down to the knowing I need to get in and out of this break as quickly and

00:35 efficiently as possible because I've got to get into the second level.

00:39 I've got to fight for the football, that's an urgency thing.

00:42 Like when I talk about playing with urgency, it really encapsulates the entire

00:47 dynamic of playing the wide receiver position.

00:49 You got to compete your butt off in the run game, which actually that's been

00:53 an area where they've been consistently pretty good this season is blocking in

00:57 the run, although I'd still like to see them do more RPOs.

00:59 But just overall, if you're gonna tell me one thing, what's the biggest thing?

01:04 It's urgency, because sometimes, Ryan,

01:08 when you're talking about an opponent or a position group,

01:13 sometimes you can kind of say, well, I need to really focus on this one thing.

01:17 But sometimes it needs to be bigger picture than that,

01:20 because it's not just one thing.

01:22 There's a common theme kind of going throughout all the different things

01:25 plaguing you.

01:27 And with this particular group, like with the O-line,

01:29 you can really simplify it down to, you've got to play with more consistent,

01:34 better feet.

01:35 When this O-line gets in trouble, Marcus Freeman talked about it today,

01:38 their footwork gets them in trouble, which leads to bad angles and

01:42 different, not finishing.

01:43 And but receiving, it's not just that one, your top ends are the problem.

01:48 No, that's a problem.

01:51 You know what I mean?

01:51 It's overall the urgency, because that bleeds into so

01:54 many different aspects of playing the position.

01:56 So that for me.

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