Notre Dame Is Looking To Get Its Run Game Back On Track

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00:00 Let me give you some numbers, Ryan.

00:05 >> Yep.

00:06 >> I talked about the pass game, right?

00:08 Gave you those 6.9 yards per pass attempt the last four games,

00:12 only 11.6 yards per catch.

00:14 Both are bottom of the national rankings numbers if they were over the course of

00:18 a season.

00:19 Ground attack the last four games, 126 yards per game, last four games.

00:25 Even if you take out the Louisville game, which was the anomaly, which was 44 yards.

00:30 Even if you take that out, they're only averaging 153 yards per play, per carry.

00:35 And they're under five yards per attempt, or excuse me,

00:39 they're 153 yards per game, and they're about 4.6 yards per carry.

00:44 Even if you take the Louisville game out, if you add the Louisville game,

00:47 which happened, you're at 3.9 yards per attempt.

00:51 And to your point, there's issues within the run game,

00:56 which we'll kinda transition into next, that need to get addressed.

01:00 But a big part of it is, your run game has no protection.

01:03 You're back to where you were a year ago.

01:05 But unlike a year ago, when Notre Dame could still go out and

01:09 find ways to run the football in some weeks, they were very up and

01:13 down, this year, in the last four games especially, there have been no ups.

01:17 It's just downs.

01:19 You could argue the Ohio State game was pretty good.

01:20 And I think, I mean, 176 yards against Ohio State.

01:23 >> Second half especially, yeah.

01:25 >> Yeah, I mean, Nate, that was like 123 or something like that in the second half.

01:29 You got it going.

01:30 But the last three games, you just haven't been able to find your way.

01:33 There's issues, the O-line's gotta play better in the run game.

01:35 That's the biggest thing for me, O-line's gotta play better.

01:38 You gotta get back to being a little bit more diverse with your run game, but

01:41 also being willing to be more aggressive attacking downhill.

01:45 Just everything got slow with the run game the last three, four games.

01:50 Being able to get back to some quick hitters, figure out who your dudes are,

01:55 get them the football.

01:56 The run game's gotta get going in the last four games, Ryan.

01:59 But

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