Notre Dame Vs Navy

How many teams get screwed back to back in 2 weeks? Just one… Notre Dame.

First having the winning TD called back on a completely fraudulent partisan call to the number 1 or 2 team in the country. Second the playoff committee completely disses ND ranking them #10 which virtually puts them out of playoff contention. Too many miracles needed now. Committee should just pick 3 SEC teams and FSU, after all that’s what they want anyhow.

Be that as it may, ND has to win ALL of their remaining games and do it by big margins. Now is the time to start playing like a very good or great
team and it starts with Navy.

I know all about the Navy history with ND but at this point I don’t really care. Navy plays dirty football using cut and chop blocks. We lost 3 DL in last years game due to this blocking technique.

Louis Nix refused to play, trying to protect his knees as well as place in the NFL draft. On top of that I suspect that Navy HC Ken Niumatalolo doesn’t really respect ND all that much.

It will be interesting to see how VanGorder attacks the triple option. I believe he will be very aggressive, with the DL attacking Navy rather than read and react which worked so well with Diaco… Not.

Notre Dame should jump all over Navy early and often. They just have to score TD’s on every possession, make the middies pass and in the meantime hit Navy QB hard on every play. The defense has the players to beat the crap out of Navy – no mercy.

ND offense must overwhelm Navy both in the run game and pass game. Starting with this game ND must get the uptempo game going, jack up the running game and somehow get Greg Bryant going. We are going to need him to step up now so that we go into our final games with 2 reliable RB’s.

This game has to be a rout and Kelly knows it – team plays with chip on it’s shoulder.

Notre Dame 49 Navy 24