Notre Dame Offensive Line Fuels The Rest Of The Offense

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00:00 Navy did that, USC did that.

00:05 USC didn't do that against the Nerdy this past week.

00:08 And there's a lot of reasons why.

00:10 Number one is I think they were, they still had, you've got to be careful that

00:13 Sam Hartman's not going to beat you.

00:15 And the other part is breaking down their name's film,

00:18 there's not the same intimidation of the Nerdy offensive line that they had

00:20 the year before.

00:22 And I think that factored into it as well.

00:23 You need to change that.

00:25 You need to change that these last four games.

00:27 So consistency of effort, consistency of execution, and consistent finishing

00:32 are going to be the keys that I'm going to be looking for when I'm evaluating

00:35 this Notre Dame offense in the final four games of the season.

00:38 Because if that unit can play that way, then it feeds off of everybody else.

00:42 You want to get the running backs going again,

00:44 have the offensive line play better.

00:46 You have Sam Hartman doing a better job of staying in the pocket,

00:49 getting the ball down the field, like he did to Chris Tyree,

00:51 going through his read, get where he needs to go.

00:53 Have the line play like that.

00:55 And if they can do that, then it fuels everything else.

00:58 And that to me is what it means to be an O-line driven team.

01:00 You dominate the point of attack, and you play at a high level from an effort

01:04 standpoint, from a physicality standpoint, from an execution standpoint,

01:07 and then allow your skill players to handle business.

01:10 If they can do that, this offense is going to finish very, very strong

01:13 in the last four games, even if they don't make some of the other changes

01:16 that I'm going to talk about.

01:17 That's how important that part of the game is.

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