Notre Dame Offensive Line Is Key To Success

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00:03 >> Why is it important?

00:04 Number one, obviously talked about the offensive, the run games gotta get going

00:08 and all that.

00:09 And that's been probably the even more disappointing for

00:11 me the last four games.

00:12 We're all obsessed with the past game and they're not throwing the ball and

00:14 the receivers this and receivers that.

00:16 The reality is Ryan in the last four games are averaging about 126 yards a game.

00:21 And if you take out the Ohio State game and just make the last three games,

00:25 they're averaging barely 100 rushing yards a game, the last three games.

00:29 And it's not, well, they just haven't run it much,

00:31 cuz they're not throwing the ball either.

00:33 And you say, well, they had shorter fields, that's fine.

00:35 But USC got ripped up against Arizona on the ground,

00:38 they got ripped up by Utah on the ground.

00:40 Right in the middle of an earning game where they were just kind of okay

00:42 running the football, right?

00:43 And say, well, you only ran for 129 yards because of the short fields.

00:47 I'm not worried about the yards,

00:48 I'm worried about the fact you only went for about 5.1 yards per carry.

00:52 If you take out the take in the knee, you're about 5.4,

00:55 5.5 against a team that everybody else is going for like six and six plus.

00:59 The good teams that you play are at least five and a half to six against them.

01:04 So you've got to play well, but the big thing too is this is a team that wants to

01:07 pressure the quarterback.

01:09 And this is a team that wants to get after the quarterback.

01:11 And the third key, Ryan, that ties in with this is the,

01:16 you've got to get the ball down the field.

01:18 We've talked about it, you've got to get the ball down the field.

01:21 Well, Pitt's whole thing is we're gonna play a style of defense that is gonna

01:26 leave us exposed to teams that can throw the ball down the field.

01:29 But we don't think you're gonna have the time to get the ball down the field.

01:33 Because

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