Football Notre Dame defeats Penn State 27-24 in CFP Semifinals
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Like seriously? Run the ball and go to OT. Franklin handed them the game. What an idiot.
Well, PSU didn’t win, but it was still a fun football game to watch. Great way to spend the evening.
Sun was always going to rise in the morning, win or lose, at my house. (Probably behind the typical gray clouds.)
Hope everyone here can avoid calling each other names and hurling criticism at kids who were playing a game and giving it their best imperfect efforts.
Great season. Good night to all.
Sun was always going to rise in the morning, win or lose, at my house. (Probably behind the typical gray clouds.)
Hope everyone here can avoid calling each other names and hurling criticism at kids who were playing a game and giving it their best imperfect efforts.
Great season. Good night to all.
Absolutely. We could’ve done power rushing from the 25 yard line in overtime and won the game. The game versus Georgia last week was the same thing trying to score at the end of a half. It flipped the game last week and it flipped the game this week.
That's correct.
Yeah our WRs suck, but Allar threw the ball behind, over and under the guys who were open.
The guy just didn't have it tonight.
We win the game, if he makes the simplest, easiest throw for a TD, but nope, so we settle for 3. Those lost 4 points lost us the game.
Allar was 12 of 23 and many of those 12 were short or behind the LOS.
Guy just didn't have it.
Sorry but this one is on Allar - one too many inaccurate passes / bad decisions. That had nothing to do with CJF. Allar did the one thing that a QB absolutely cannot do in that situation - he gift wrapped the game with a horrendous decision (throwing over the middle late) combined with another inaccurate throw (5 yards in front of receiver). Threw a great pass if he was trying to put it the only place the ND Defender could even touch it). Who knows, we might have lost in OT, but that was just brutal by Allar.
Oh yeah, our pass defense managed to make another sub-par passing game look unstoppable including giving up a critical 10 yard game-clinching pass to Greathouse??? On 3rd-&-3 with only 38 seconds left (Jayden Greathouse, whoever that is, caught 7 passes for 105 yards and a 54 yard TD).
Just unf'ing believable. Hate to say it, but Allar cost us all day long - multiple bad overthrows on wide open wheel routes.... just inaccurate all game long with his last brutal throw literally gift-wrapping the game for ND.
I think when you open up your pocket books., you can go deep with players and pay what you need.. we are still underserved with facilities etc versus certainly any school in these playoffs right now..
I agree with your premise. They stopped being kids when they started getting paid millions of dollars to play and the money is coming from our wallets. (At least some is coming from mine)
There's no "but" to this. The wide receivers are horrible and damn right it's coaching.
Shut up dipshit .. any chance you go away.?Drew needs another year, comes back stronger. Not ready for prime time yet, but it could be worse. Lots of bad passes, worst was last.
QB having a terrible night but let's put it all on his shoulders when down in our territory and game on the line.
Horrible playcalling there on that last series.
Horrible playcalling there on that last series.
Franklin and Drew need to read Football for Dummies. Maybe they'll learn something.
Of course.. that is a long term issue.. Allar’s terrible game… the fact we came out so soft in 2 nd half.. our DB falling down., we lost this game no doubt vs ND beating us..
There wasn’t anything wrong with seeing if we could get into FG position at the end of the game …. It was just a really, really bad decision by Allar. A throw back across to the middle of the field is really risky, so you need to be completely sure it’s open … and he just turned and fired in a moment. When it first happened, it was so quick that I thought he must have seen a completely uncovered guy. But he panicked. And forced exactly when and where you don’t want to force.
Yeah, I wouldn’t have had an issue with running the clock out and playing for OT, but giving it a go there wasn’t a wrong call, either.
Allar’s got the talent. I’m glad he’s back next year. He can be special. He needs to learn to calm down and focus.
Yeah, I wouldn’t have had an issue with running the clock out and playing for OT, but giving it a go there wasn’t a wrong call, either.
Allar’s got the talent. I’m glad he’s back next year. He can be special. He needs to learn to calm down and focus.
I'm talking about missing a wide open Singleton on a wheel route for a probable TD. I'm talking about missing a fuking throw a 12 year old could've made that cost us 4 points.
One play never decides a game. We had the leaf after that. We had our chances. He played poorly so did King Tracy Miller all the receivers etc
I hate it when Ohio State kicks our a**, but they’re better than us. What’s more aggravating is losing to what I think is a very mediocre, clearly inferior ND team. It blows.
Well, it was an excellent season and a fun ride to be still in it in mid January. It’s now on to wrestling and fantasy baseball prep. Night all.
Well, it was an excellent season and a fun ride to be still in it in mid January. It’s now on to wrestling and fantasy baseball prep. Night all.
I disagree. I think it was the wrong call.
This was a QB having his worst game of the season. Also a QB that his been prone to panic at times. We ran the ball good tonight. You don't need to risk that play. Short passes and run. Be safe. The worst thing that should happen is OT. Once we get to midfield then you can air it out.
He's thinking "I'm the best NFL QB prospect in college. I'll wow the scouts with this throw late across the middle for a completion," or something similar.
Same non-sense we saw against Oregon. Don't leave things up to chance when time is getting short.
True, but I also feel the word of the game is gift. Gifting them by missing on a sure fire TD early, falling down on a 54 yard TD pass and then gift wrapping them a turnover to end the game.
There was a report Cleveland was directly in his ear, trying to convince him to come out in this draft. He forced it because he believed the hype. Franklin has fault in this because he should have brought him down to earth and calmed him down before the game and throughout the game. That is the difference between Franklin and Freeman. Freeman kept it cool and guided his team despite getting clobbered on both lines of scrimmage in the first half. Franklin does not have the composure for these games. And I’m not sure he’ll ever have it if he doesn’t have it at the age of 52. I guess we should be happy to win double digits every season but goddamn, I wanna win a natty.
But in OT we would have thrown end zone fade passes to 44 with extreme level of difficulty.
You are 3 for 11 because you have no wide receivers. Jesus Christ what does it take to just accept it and fix it.
Fire Hagans and get a real coach.
Hope Drew goes. And Cleveland names Franklin their new head coach
Good run. We wanted in the playoff. We won twice and took an L late in the semis.
Let's watch again tomorrow night.
Defense didn't make the stops in did in the first half. It wasn't just Allar. Lots of missed tackles in the 4th Win as a team, lose as a team.
