Notre Dame Defensive Line Needs To Be Turned Loose

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00:03 When you can go into a game on the road against a ranked opponent, and

00:08 your interior defensive line rotation can give me 13 run stops and

00:13 seven quarterback pressures.

00:16 There's not a lot of teams are gonna put a lot of points on the board against that.

00:19 There just isn't.

00:21 And that's exactly what they did against Duke this past week, Ryan,

00:25 is that's the production that they had.

00:27 The week before, you're starting, this is against Ohio State.

00:32 Your defensive tackle rotation in that game gave me 12 pressures and

00:38 seven run stops against Ohio State.

00:40 That is a excellent production in back to back games against

00:45 ranked opponents for your interior guys.

00:48 And what we saw against Duke was when you really turn them loose.

00:51 So remember how many times we had this question, Ryan?

00:55 What do you guys mean by turning them loose?

00:58 Now I just wanna say that.

01:00 [LAUGH] That, that's what it means to turn them loose.

01:04 Use them as weapons, not as use them to be stout and

01:09 physical and let other people make plays, but use them as weapons.

01:12 And that's what we did.

01:13 Well, who was the primary weapon that they used to shut down Riley Leonard's

01:19 run game, like quarterback reads and the read zones and the power reads?

01:23 It's Riley Mills.

01:25 He was the guy that you trusted him to wrap around and

01:27 be right there to blow that stuff up.

01:30 And so when you allowed those guys to attack, they were really, really good.

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