[81alum]

Thank you for that analysis, which I generally agree with.

I agree with you that the final punt was the right call given that inept play calling had left us at extreme field goal range.

And the three runs in a row for 0 yards does strike me as inept, given the situation.  Shaw went conservative just a little too early.  Those plays are what he should have called after we had one more first down, were in field goal range, and had killed a little extra clock.  Wiping out Notre Dame's time outs was not helpful given the amount of clock we left for them, and the lack of time outs did not seem to play any role at all in our defense's ability to stop them.  It did, however, means that once we got the stop we could do the victory formation rather than having to make a first down, so there is that.

On the luck factor:  yes, we got lucky on a couple of calls, but we got unlucky on one massive non-call.  The fourth down short yardage pass in which the Notre Dame defender grabbed our receiver's jersey and dragged him to the ground cost us a possession and the refs missed it completely.  Was that Yurosek?

Karty is tremendous.

How many injuries, in addition to Wilson, did we suffer?

Here is what I want to know: why was the defense so much better?  We can't just say "execution."  What specifically were we doing that worked so much better than in prior games?

[81alum]

Thank you for that analysis, which I generally agree with.

I agree with you that the final punt was the right call given that inept play calling had left us at extreme field goal range.

And the three runs in a row for 0 yards does strike me as inept, given the situation.  Shaw went conservative just a little too early.  Those plays are what he should have called after we had one more first down, were in field goal range, and had killed a little extra clock.  Wiping out Notre Dame's time outs was not helpful given the amount of clock we left for them, and the lack of time outs did not seem to play any role at all in our defense's ability to stop them.  It did, however, means that once we got the stop we could do the victory formation rather than having to make a first down, so there is that.

On the luck factor:  yes, we got lucky on a couple of calls, but we got unlucky on one massive non-call.  The fourth down short yardage pass in which the Notre Dame defender grabbed our receiver's jersey and dragged him to the ground cost us a possession and the refs missed it completely.  Was that Yurosek?

Karty is tremendous.

How many injuries, in addition to Wilson, did we suffer?

Here is what I want to know: why was the defense so much better?  We can't just say "execution."  What specifically were we doing that worked so much better than in prior games?