Notre Dame Must Find Its Identity On Offense

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00:03 Can they find a level of steadiness?

00:06 And I honestly think this team is still searching a little bit for

00:10 an identity offensively.

00:12 Because and why I say that, yeah, they wanna run the ball, but

00:16 running the ball is not an identity.

00:18 That's not what makes an identity to me.

00:21 Identity is how you play the game.

00:23 What is your overall philosophy and how you go into games and

00:27 how you wanna build your game plan?

00:28 Yeah, they wanna run the ball, but there's a lot of other things that we've seen

00:30 from this team that make me say, I don't think they know who they are yet.

00:35 And that's kind of, I mean, six games in, you need to kind of figure it out by now.

00:41 And I understand that some of the receiver injuries have made that a little bit

00:44 tougher, at least this past week.

00:45 But some games you're gonna come in and you're gonna be aggressive and

00:48 you're throwing the ball down the field and you're spreading the ball around and

00:51 you're doing all that.

00:51 You're running with a little bit of tempo at times.

00:54 You're getting your backs involved in the pass game.

00:57 And it looks great.

00:58 And then other weeks, it's just this really conservative,

01:01 don't throw the ball down the field.

01:03 Dink and dunk, throwing a million passes to your tight ends and

01:08 looking like you were last year.

01:10 And it's like, okay, so is this what we're gonna be?

01:11 When you play teams that aren't very good, you're gonna light the world on fire and

01:14 throw the ball downfield and throw a bunch of 70-yard touchdown passes.

01:18 But when you play someone good, you're just gonna get super conservative.

01:20 That means you have no identity.

01:22 That you need to figure out what your identity is and

01:25 you need to build to that.

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