Notre Dame Defensive Line Had A Big Impact vs Pitt

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00:03 >> The Notre Dame defensive tackles made an impact today without doing anything.

00:08 I mean, that's the first thing that stood out to me, Vince.

00:11 There's two things that stood out to me.

00:12 Number one is, the Notre Dame D tackles did almost nothing statistically today.

00:16 Howard Cross, I mean, just D line, period.

00:19 Howard Cross had two tackles, one hurry according to Notre Dame.

00:23 Riley Mills had one tackle, one tackle for loss.

00:26 Jason O'Neill had a tackle.

00:28 I'm looking at Gabriel Rubio to see if I can find him.

00:30 I don't see any statistics for him in this game.

00:34 But here's the deal.

00:36 Do you know why?

00:37 Cuz Pitt basically gave up between the tackles.

00:41 They gave up on doing anything between the tackles before the game even started.

00:45 Everything they did running the ball that even had a modicum of success,

00:49 were those little outside zones, those little quick pitches,

00:52 where they were trying to get the ball outside, couple times they got leverage.

00:56 >> Yeah, and just the defensive line, the defensive tackles, but

01:00 the defensive line as a whole basically punked Pitt before this game even started.

01:07 >> Yeah. >> They didn't try to run.

01:09 I can't remember them running downhill until the third quarter,

01:13 second, third quarter.

01:15 I mean, they were, and then the other thing is the quick game, the pass game.

01:19 They took no shots down the field early.

01:21 Well, they took one against Jaden Mickey in the second quarter, but

01:24 just hardly any deep shots until Xavier picks them.

01:28 I mean, early in the game, they were quick game and running outside, and

01:31 their name was- >> Cuz it was three yard.

01:32 >> Played easily, yeah.

01:33 >> Cuz a bunch of three yard passes.

01:34 >> Yeah. >> It's like, okay, go for it.

01:36 You can have your three yard passes.

01:38 It's not even gonna get you a first down if you're gonna do that.

01:40 And they were doing that repeatedly, right?

01:43 And so those are wins.

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