Notre Dame Beats USC - Josh Pate Rapid Reaction (Late Kick Cut) 

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If DC Al Golden can focus on fundamentals during the offseason, they can go from a solid defense to a great defense.

They have been AWESOME all year minus Louisville 👍

Southern Cal finally played a team with a defense

As a Texas fan....I can say...BIG TRUE here. F Riley...his grin...and his brisket.

His ego told him that we can just outscore every school. Some schools actually scout and come up with a game plan to play lol

​@rodneyginokc had Riley stayed Texas would of turned the Tide on him since y'all got your shit together now

They're the worst best team this year. Just like people say that Colorado only wins because of Shedeur, SC only wins because of Caleb!

USC alum - right there with ya. I think we were way overdue for a loss and I desperately wanted to see us lose a rivalry game. Any good championship caliber team has a strong defense + O-line and we currently have one QB trying to do way too much. Gonna have to rebuild the entire team from the ground up like Hackett/Carroll.

Right when I said he was bringing Grinch with him my joy was turned to sadness lol.

Notre dame fan we have been trying to warn lsu fans but we’re told the same 😂

That’s not what happened. They played 4 straight ranked opponents. It’s tough to win 2 out of 4 of those matchups. No team can get up for every one of those games back to back to back to back lol.

They really should have had their bye week between Duke and Louisville

What annoys me is that Louisville and ND both have byes this week, which means they could have moved the game back 2 weeks.

I don't think that is it. Pate nailed it. Listen again.

@@victoriatrainer6309 Duke and Louisville were supposed to be easier wins. No one expected them to be undefeated and on the uprise when they made the schedule years ago lol

Well he can still get great recruits but it's an issue that he doesn't coach the defense at all. Doesn't know scheme or how to teach fundamentals or have an eye for talent. Kinda like Sean Payton in Denver

it’s schematics at the end of the day, he recruits at a high level and no matter what always has the best qb in the country and at the very least his qb is top 3 every season

I think you mean Stoops's players. Lincoln can recruit decently well. But Bob's players were tough and disciplined. Lincoln only made the playoffs while some of those players of Bob's were on the roster. As they left, he got statistically worse and worse. He had Strength coaches literally quitting mid season due to Lincoln's culture of leniency, which is something Bob never allowed.

Do any of you guys watch football?

@@dietadam2295 Lincoln recruits well, but his highly rated recruits are on the offense side. He's more OC than HC.

BINGO ! Richt even did his own grocery shopping ,but could never learn to COOK . Kelly is an arrogant lazy Irish man .

THIS

Yep. Bob created a cavalier acceptance of “let’s focus on winning the conference” among fans. After all, just getting to the playoff is amazing. Problem was, die-hard OU fans had already come to expect actually winning in playoff games; he had reinforced that expectation in his second year. Switzer coached OU for 16 years, and won three national titles; Bob coached longer, and managed just one. Bob’s post-season win record was 0.500. Mediocrity was the standard. Yes, we won conference titles, but OU once was a dominating power house. With Bob’s retirement, Lincoln took over and continued the “conference champion” target. Even Stoops, a defensive coach, failed to strengthen the defense; air raid competition (we will simply outscore everyone) became the formula, and defense was allowed to slip. Nepotism pushed Venables into leaving and the Stoops brain trust couldn’t field a decent defense. OU ultimately faced mutiny among its on-field defense, who clearly understood they knew more about running defense than the coaches. OU fans understood Venables’ return would bring defensive dominance to OU again. Switzer taught us that DEFENSE wins games; if the opposition cannot score, they cannot win. Looking forward to the return of the days of “hang half a hundred on ‘em, and go home with a win.”

There are not enough positive words in the english language to properly label this statement.

There is not enough money in college football to pay for Stoops, Riley, and Venables as coaches at the same time on 1 team. But that would be a national championship package.

@@jimdennis5832 you are absolutely correct! I grew up watching the Selmon brothers, Scotty Hill, and Zac Henderson. And Stoops championship team? No TDs during the championship game. A two point safety.

yup, most of it was masked with Seibert and Brkic

Bad special teams? That squib kick was an illogical decision made by the coach. Quit giving Riley a pass on that, and trying to blame his loss on the special teams when that was clearly his decision.

@@Gutslinger I told my wife in real time ...that dumba$$ kick decision is going to come back and haunt OU.

the special teams blunders may have been the dagger, but that dagger would have never been in that position if their defense wasn't so god awful

hehehe ya reap what u sow. Ou is better off without his self centered attitude. Just look how he carries himself when he loses, bro runs to the locker room without shaking hands 😭 bro a bitch just like his coach

the defense didn't play that bad. Offense turned the ball over

Yesss and I bet my browns would win just for fun too

I agree with you, but that's not how they get ranked! It's the 4 and 5 star recruits that give them that ranking! They give Deion Sanders shit for the same thing that Lincoln did last season! Your assessment is correct because they were in the same position last season! Everyone swore that they'd be in the playoffs, but then came Utah! Even tho it's wasn't a blowout... they lost to Tulane in a bowl game period!

They should take away votes from that female who last week still voted Texas ahead of OU, because as she put it, she still thinks Texas is a better team and OU didn't beat them convincingly by more than 3 points... OU beat them by 4. Also the voters whom made it to where OU moved up to 5 after beating 3rd ranked Texas, but when 8 ranked Washington narrowly beats 7th ranked Oregon, they leapfrog OU and become ranked 5th and move OU down to 6th. There's no logical consistency in that.

The playoff committee will never let USC in the playoff after that type of loss. Plus the way they have been playing all year. Best they will do if they run the table is 5th. Sorry

They will do EXACTLY what they did last season! They aren't as good as they looked playing lessor teams, Notre Dame proved that! They won't beat Oregon or Washington! They might lose to UCLA, and Utah has had their number!

Delusional

I mean, I"m a Sooner and I hate Riley with a burning passion but if they win out beating Washington, Oregon, and Utah, and then win the championship game, they will have proven themselves to be pretty good. Depends what happens in other conferences but I could see them slipping in if that happens. The good news is that the odds of that happening are very very low.

I'm a sooner fan i don't hate him I'm just thankful he left ou his teams continued to get worse every year he was here I didn't like the way he left just glad he did and I hate for usc fans cause they didn't deserve it but that speed d they tout ha

Exactly

Riley's teams are extremely QB reliant. One bad game or one dud player at the QB position and Riley's teams fail. OU would have lost a lot more games had it not been for the "hero ball" played by Baker, Kyler, Hurts, and Williams. Riley relies on this style of play too much. And once that QB gets remotely slowed down, they lose. He gets away with it against inferior opponents, but he has always struggled against good competition because of it.

And he had one of the best veteran o lines in the nation last year. Totally different and still-unsettled lineup there. Continuity and chemistry there are critical. OL recruiting has been strong. Development will take time.

That and half of the players and coaches had the flu. They sure looked slow and sluggish all night in that Louisville game.

There is going to be some crazy fluke games with the travel distances. They'll prolly win some games just off virtue of being at home

They will be in the middle of the pack when they get to the B1G next season. I'm not talking about the weather either!

@@C_71 😂😂😂 yeah you have no clue what you’re talking about. We’ll see tho. Can’t wait for you to get back to me on this

They really don't...what good is it to be a QB "Guru" when you don't understand the fundamentals of "Defense"???

the defense played way better than the offense. you should watch the game actually.

@@chrichri6793 yeah giving up 40 points and getting blown out is definitely the defense playing better. You must be new to football

@@Swampdonkey796 Notre Dame scored 40 because of field position on USC turnovers & special teams. USC's defense did not play bad, it was the offense that played like dogsh*t. I don't look at the box scores of games like you do. I watch the actual game. Anyone with a brain that watched the actual game would tell you that it was USC's offense was the problem. So what it is, are you dumb or did you just not watch the game???? 🤣🤣

@@chrichri6793 I’m not deleting my comment cause I can take an L like a man but yeah you’re right about this game. Defense was actually pretty good for once

@@Swampdonkey796 I definitely respect that. I was probably a little harsh in my comment lol. I am just a disappointed USC fan that is coming to terms with the fact that we aren't the National contender we thought we would be. USC fans are just tired of soft football & we wasted a generational talent at QB. So I apologize for being a d*ck lol

I'm so glad he's SC's problem now and no longer OU's. So glad to have BV in Norman .

The defense outplayed the offense. Pate didn’t tell you that because he didn’t foresee it. No one did.

Hard to imagine Riley without a heisman trophy qb because that is what he’s known for. If it wasn’t Caleb it would have been someone else. Riley develops qb’s into superstars and based on Baker, Kyler, Jalen, and Caleb it should be expected that he’ll have someone else step up and be in the chase for a heisman. Caleb didn’t make Riley. He is a product of his system and was talent that he spotted and developed into the best QB in the draft class. Caleb still is generational. You can’t base all your beliefs about a coach and a QB on one game. You can’t win them all and they are human and allowed to have a bad day.

@@RedBullND Riley is 1 for 2 from a success standpoint on QBs he has recruited AND developed from start to finish (Rattler being the other one). Not a large sample size. Considering Riley has worked with the following QB rankings (as recruits), I'm not sure if the results are so surprising to suggest Riley is truly developing these guys or simply plugging them into schemes while surrounded by talent: Caleb Williams: 5 star, #1 QB and overall player (On3), as well as #1 rivals QB, #2 QB according to ESPN and 247 Spencer Rattler: 5 star, consensus #1 QB in all recruiting services Kyler Murray: 5 star, #1 QB (ESPN), #2 QB (247), #3 QB (ON3) Jalen Hurts: 4 star, #1 QB according to 247 and otherwise top 10 QB. He had 3 prolific seasons with Bama before the 1 with OU. His last season with OU was his best from an overall statistical standpoint, but just for fun, I'll point out that he had more completions his first season as a freshman at Bama and a better QB rating his junior season at Bama than he did his senior season at OU. My point: He was ready to be plugged into any system, anywhere, and would have produced. Baker is the outlier who we all know started as a walk-on at OU. Riley has not started another 3-star or walk-on since. Also, I didn't say it was one game that changed my mind on Caleb. I said "it's games like this." This is certainly his worst game, no doubt. Funny enough, Caleb's biggest win is still as a Sooner when they came back to beat Texas, and I don't see him having such a meaningful game this year. Caleb has a few bad habits as a QB that will come back to haunt him in the NFL, and my biggest concern for him is how he handles adversity. These bad habits are overcome by his natural abilities and surrounding talent that won't work in the NFL. And his body language and leadership go to the toilet when USC is struggling as a team. He is still young, so let's hope Riley finishes strong on his development, but that's where Riley's track record is deficient: instilling players with character and resiliency.

ND played 4 straight ranked opponents.. they’re not inconsistent lol it’s insanely tough to get up for 4 straight superbowls. Any team would be glad to go 2-4 in those matchups.

@@TechPanther7 SEC teams do that year in and year out. If you want to be a true contender, you need to be able to run through a gauntlet.

​@@lakengilbert3299as an SEC fan you know that's not actually true. Some SEC teams regularly have the toughest schedules like Auburn, Florida, South Carolina... Arkansas usually whereas Georgia or Bama usually don't. LSUs hasn't been too bad either. And the tough schedule for the other teams always results in them having multiple losses and never catching a break. Which SEC team has played 4 consecutive games against 4 undefeated top 20 teams?

@@exomake_mehorololo actually it is true. The idea that Bama has/had an easy schedule is a myth. They were just better than everyone else. While teams like Florida, SoCar, mizzou, and Arkansas were worse than everyone else. I mean it’s sorta convenient that you chose some of the worst teams in the SEC for your example. LSU played 7 top 10 teams in 2019. They beat all of them. SEC teams play 5 or 6 straight SEC games that are littered with ranked teams while an independent like ND might play OSU and USC spaced apart by a few weeks. Duke and Louisville would be a breath of fresh air for teams like Bama and LSU.

@@lakengilbert3299 SEC teams do not play 4 straight non conference ranked opponents.. they play FCS teams that are absolute cupcakes in between their big matchups lol

🤣😂🤣

Yes

Actually opposite of the USC we’ve seen all year, but sure.

No such thing as a football team not training hard in the off season. They just got beat.

Ok If that makes you feel better

😂😂😂😂😂😂 USC won't even go 500 in Big 10

Whose your dealer? Can I meet him?

Most definitely