Irish tackle secondary woes

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Senior safety Zeke Motta makes one of his 61 tackles this season in a 21-6 win over Boston College.

A sure-tackling defensive backfield helped turn a weak link into one of Notre Dame's strengths this season.

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6 months ago

http://notredame.247sports.com/Article/Notre-Dames-pass-defense-survived-with-good-tackling-107580
A sure-tackling defensive backfield helped turn a weak link into one of Notre Dame's strengths this season.
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The secondary was amazing this year with how they played. I thought it would be a big weakness but i am thrilled to be wrong!
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It just goes to show the importance of getting your 22 best *football* players on the field, regardless of what position they were recruited to play.
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Although the loss of a much improved Motta is a blow to runstop support and hitting the begeezus out of receivers...this unit only gets stronger and deeper next year: Collinsworth, maybe Slaughter, Lo Wood. And add new acquisitions of Luke, Kinlaw, and Butler...likely Redfield. Wow.
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This unit has been the surprise of the season. I don't know of anyone who thought they would go the entire season w/o being exposed, including me. They played smart and hard all year and displayed the fundamentals week after week that showed they are being coached very well.
Each of those coaches and players deserves a ton of credit.
GO IRISH!!!

This post was edited by simm on 12/20/2012 at 6:40 AM
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marcusbking said...
Although the loss of a much improved Motta is a blow to runstop support and hitting the begeezus out of receivers...this unit only gets stronger and deeper next year: Collinsworth, maybe Slaughter, Lo Wood. And add new acquisitions of Luke, Kinlaw, and Butler...likely Redfield. Wow.

Don't forget Shumate and Hardy. Shumate made some great plays this season in the nickel package.
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rsharman said...
Don't forget Shumate and Hardy. Shumate made some great plays this season in the nickel package.

You're right r sharman!
I had assumed that he/they were mentioned in the story above but was not. I actually see Shumate developing into a phenomenalcover safety...Slaughter-esque with the ability to cover deep 1:1 if needed and support the run.
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