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ND is pretty healthy.  We have had a few injuries on the defensive side, mostly in 2nd/3rd string guys thankfully.  It hurts our depth a little, but nothing too bad.  Our biggest blow came the week before the michigan game to shaun crawford.  And that loss continues to be a blow to our rover position.  It has taken a rotation of guys to try and fill that spot and that weakens other areas.  Nothing significant on the offensive side.  We lost a TE for a couple weeks, but he should be back for this game.  So all in all, little freakout.

I've been following along in this thread all week, and I can't take anymore from you. Crawford was not the starting Rover, he was the Nickle. Rover was, is, and has been Bilal. 

Kraemer has a sprained ankle which led to Rhuland getting his first start last week at RG, and the two could split time there this week. 

You are clearly using some bad facts when you talk about the passing defense. Love is 5th in PBUs in the nation, and few teams are throwing his way. Overall, the secondary is much better this year than last as we have Safeties making INTs, strips, etc. and being very active across the board to make tackles. Yeah Wake scored 27 points, but 14 of those were in garbage time after ND was up 42-13... oh and that was with Wake running 92 plays. They scored 1.93 points per drive. That's a fantastic stat line. Ball St. ran 96 plays and only scored 16 points. TO say the defense has been a let down is false.

[NDFacts]

ND is pretty healthy.  We have had a few injuries on the defensive side, mostly in 2nd/3rd string guys thankfully.  It hurts our depth a little, but nothing too bad.  Our biggest blow came the week before the michigan game to shaun crawford.  And that loss continues to be a blow to our rover position.  It has taken a rotation of guys to try and fill that spot and that weakens other areas.  Nothing significant on the offensive side.  We lost a TE for a couple weeks, but he should be back for this game.  So all in all, little freakout.

I've been following along in this thread all week, and I can't take anymore from you. Crawford was not the starting Rover, he was the Nickle. Rover was, is, and has been Bilal. 

Kraemer has a sprained ankle which led to Rhuland getting his first start last week at RG, and the two could split time there this week. 

You are clearly using some bad facts when you talk about the passing defense. Love is 5th in PBUs in the nation, and few teams are throwing his way. Overall, the secondary is much better this year than last as we have Safeties making INTs, strips, etc. and being very active across the board to make tackles. Yeah Wake scored 27 points, but 14 of those were in garbage time after ND was up 42-13... oh and that was with Wake running 92 plays. They scored 1.93 points per drive. That's a fantastic stat line. Ball St. ran 96 plays and only scored 16 points. TO say the defense has been a let down is false.