Notre Dame Offensive Line Must Be More Consistent

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00:00 Number one, O-line consistency.

00:08 This has probably been the most frustrating part that I have seen from this Notre Dame

00:12 offense in the last month.

00:16 How a unit that played as well as it did against Ohio State can look as bad as it did against

00:21 Duke and Louisville is beyond me.

00:24 One game, they were okay against USC, and then pass pro, which had been a mess against

00:32 Duke and especially Louisville, where Sam Hartman was just constantly getting pressured

00:38 over and over and over.

00:40 I remember doing the preview saying, "This could be the equalizer right here."

00:45 Notre Dame's got all these advantages against a not very good USC defense, but man, USC

00:50 ranks sixth nationally in tackles for loss per game.

00:52 They rank second nationally in sacks per game.

00:54 They've got all these highly ranked guys that everybody loves and talks about.

00:58 This could be the neutralizer, right?

01:00 And especially against an offensive line that's just been giving up pressure and pressure

01:03 and pressure and all those type of things the last two weeks, and USC just got ... They

01:07 just dominated USC in pass pro, dominated them.

01:10 No sacks, one tackle for loss, according to pro football focus, only five hurries the

01:15 entire game, and just handled their business.

01:19 And you're like, "How is this the same unit from the two weeks before?"

01:21 Now props to Coach Parker or Coach Rudolph to get that unit to play better against USC,

01:26 and that's great, but it just feeds into the lack of consistency, and that's kind of been

01:31 an issue the last couple years.

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