It turns out the fake band has a name, 300 Likes, which I discovered because their fake song, “Summertime Lover” released as a full-blown song last Friday.

I’ve been wanting to write about the most hated/loved commercial of this football season for some time now. However, I don’t want to talk about the band, the song, or the fact that the dude squatting in the lower-right corner doesn’t even bother moving his mouth. No, this Roundup is dedicated to my hero, my spirit animal, the clueless dad:

Clueless dad makes this commercial for me. Every. Damn. Time.

My kids are still incredibly young, but my oldest has already put me in some clueless dad situations. For instance, he will excitedly detail some random show I’ve never heard of, and I will desperately stumble around the conversation trying to remain interested, but more importantly, not called out on my bullshit that I don’t have a damn clue what he’s talking about.

Every parent ends up running into this at some level, which makes clueless dad the damn best. He’s put down his hard-earned American currency so his daughter be front-row for one of her favorite bands. He’s even wearing a freaking button featuring one of the guys to support his kid’s interests. In short, he’s ready to do everything he can to make sure this night ends up a favorite memory for his daughter.

But as soon as the show starts, disaster strikes. The band isn’t dancing, the screams turned into shocked silence, and clueless dad sees his poor daughter’s face flash a look of pure horror. So clueless dad does what any dad tries to do when shit 100% out of our control goes awry: attempts to fix it.

The success rate for all dads attempting to pull of this maneuver is 0.00%, rounded up. Clueless dad is no different. If the guys aren’t dancing, clearly it’s the job of the audience to get down, and by God, he’s going to make sure this party gets going and save the day.

Of course, he’s the only poor sap trying to salvage the disaster he’s walked into. Mere seconds after trying to get the dance party started, he’s greeted with the new horror that he’s made a fool of himself. The only saving grace is that his own kid is still too dumbstruck with disappointment to notice because, honestly, that’s the only opinion he cares about–to hell with everyone else.

The hard-earned American currency might as well have been lit on fire. The concert is an epic disaster. Regardless of what happens from here on out, the night is likely ruined for his kid, which is worse than the hit to the bank account.

But dammit, like fans of a certain football team that keeps breaking our hearts, we can’t help but to keep trying to salvage joy of a terrible situation. In a way, we’re all clueless dad.

You’re my hero, clueless dad. Never give up. Keep dancing.

The Roundup

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Here’s an unexpected use of the new four-game redshirt rule. Houston’s star QB, D’Erik King, will sit out the rest of the season, along with senior WR, Keith Corbin. King’s father says it’s the first step of a transfer, but Houston’s official announcement has both King and Corbin stating they will remain in Houston.

NCAA says something dumb: part one million. Mark Emmert has called potential new image & likeness laws, aka allowing the Olympic model into college sports, an “existential threat”–which is a hell of a thing to say considering North Carolina literally tried to undermine the entire academic side of student-athlete and sexual abuse ran rampant at Penn State and Michigan State. But no, this is the bad thing. Got it.

Maybe don’t ask about internet rumors during a conference call. I mean sure, Gundy blew his stack a bit, but this was just a terrible idea.

Kinght’s Watch + Murder Smurfs. Coming in 2021 and 2023. Let’s. Get. Weird.

I think The Athletic owes us some #snacktalk royalties. This week, the CFB section of The Athletic was full of articles about the intersection of college football and food. My two favorites, a top 25 food ranking by Andy Staples ($) as well as a look on how the NCAA deregulation on food budget (hey they do so some good things on occasion!) has had a positive impact on programs and athletes ($).

Time for a daily dose of #sportsmath. The stop rate rankings ($) are back, which can be a fun read if you feel like you are feeling too confident about Notre Dame’s defense.

Look, Skycam wasn’t a failure. NBC wants to make sure you know that it’s sticking around and they will do better. Promise!

With Virginia coming into town, it’s a good time to remember Malik Zaire. After an injury that derailed his CFB career, Zaire is finding his stride over at CBS ($).

Opponent Watch

Remember the sad Virginia fan? Of course you do. Go catch up on what he’s up to.

How do you build a school like Virginia into a competitor? Well, hiring the right athletic director is a good start, especially one that knows her way around schools that know how to compete in football ($).

So Virginia has a bit of a streak going. Four weeks, four players named as ACC Players of the Week.

If you want a good primer on Virginia’s season so far, I would suggest this read. My two cents: sounds like a lot of ND teams that created constant heart attacks in every game, yet somehow put winning records together.

A Special Look at Michigan

It’s not just Notre Dame fans trying to dance on Skunkbear graves. The natives are starting to willingly dig them.

Any Michigan loss, brings out a good ‘ol Mike Valenti rant. His opening segment on Monday was art, calling them a regional program. He drove the dagger in even further on Wednesday wondering why in the world Michigan bothers to expect titles when they’ve never won them to begin with.

So who had “Urban Meyer has to address Michigan coaching rumors” on their bingo card? Yes, he actually had to say there is no way he’d come out of retirement to coach Michigan. How did this happen, oh just some beautiful degeneracy:

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During our Hot Dog Bye Week podcast, this Loyal Reader revealed that he would spend his bye week Ubering around Ann Arbor during Army/Michigan weekend. Here’s his playlist:

For those keeping score at home, that’s Army’s Fight Song, The Irish Tenors, “Here Come the Irish”, and the Rudy soundtrack. There’s trolling Michigan and then there’s this next-level, real-man-of-genius moment.

I can only imagine the stream of reactions from Michigan fans as they climb into his car and slowly realize the personal hell they have entered. May his Uber rating rest in peace.

As someone who steers this entire site straight into not just the silliness of college football, but also the pettiness and trolling opportunities it offers, I respect the hell out of this effort. Further, I hope his final Uber ride is given to a group of Army fans still buzzing over an upset over the damned Skunkbears.

The Roundup

The misery index is always a fun read, but typically you don’t see “how is this school a festering corpse?!” in week 2, but I guess Tennessee was just willing to jump on that grenade.

Another fun weekly read is the “top whatever” column. However, I think we can keep the absurdity of Hugh Freeze coaching from a hospital bed at #1 forever. It’s all downhill from here–UPDATE: maybe this dumb ride will keep going.

The silly season of the coaching carousel is always a wild ride. But Tom Herman/Coach O saga a couple of years ago at LSU was a damn rollercoaster.

Ian Book is a unicorn. Maybe not the thing you expected to hear from anyone after his performance against Louisville, but he’s a part of a ever-shrinking percentage of college QBs that actually bide their time before they win the starting job.

Notre Dame did take a hit in one poll. Anxiously awaiting a certain subset of fans that trash #sportsmath to now point to the SP+ as the one true poll that actually reflected ND on the eye test.

Bill C had some other non-stat stuff that you should read. This piece is basically a national primer to some of the biggest storylines for various teams around college football and how week 1 affected them.

I think I have a Beaver correspondent now. Had another line dropped about Oregon State’s next game against Hawaii. It will be aired on Facebook Live; however, no one is quite sure exactly where on Facebook it will be. Regardless, my bet is the answer is “in more homes than the Pac 12 network.”

Offer this kid a scholarship immediately. The all-name champion is here and I don’t know how you top this.

Get me back in school. Notre Dame is offering a course discussing The Good Place. Can I take this online? Please?!

#snacktalk has reached epic proportions. Little did I realize our silly podcast would set off a seismic event of a Rudy parody done by KFC, featuring both actual Rudy (meh) and Sean Astin (YAY!). Not only does this fever dream exist, IT’S AMAZING.

Opponent Watch

Number of former ND coaches to roam the opposing sideline: still zero.

If you’ve ever wondered how Southern Cal has ended up in their current state, you should absolutely read this fascinating piece about the booster that is likely responsible.

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For those unfamiliar with this little feature, it’s a time in which we move our focus from Notre Dame and look outward to the rest of college football. While Shane and I do this in the HLS Podcast, we can only cover so many stories before we lose everyone with a two-plus hour episode. The Roundup will house those stories, plus those that really don’t need more than a quick link and mention.

As is tradition, the Roundup will also have a cold open of sorts. It may or may not have anything to do with college football (teaser for next week: it’s a recent drink trend). Bucking tradition, I am going to retire The Beer/The Booze section.

Let’s face it, maybe about 80% of my suggests were half-assed, nor overly interesting. That got worse when I had kids.

Added in its place will be an opponent watch of sorts. While Irish Elvis will hold down the fort on the strength of schedule side, I’ll drop in some relevant news about our future opponent for your perusal.

Oh, and because so many awesome stories are in The Athletic these days, those links will be denoted with ($). If you don’t have a sub, and would like support HLS, we can get your 40% off your first year.

So that’s the 411 on this little feature. Let’s get to the news so I can close some tabs on my browser…

The Roundup

Oh hey, here’s a shocker, Jim Harbaugh might be a dick. Remember when Harubaugh went on the radio and said, because of current transfer rules, kids might make up a mental health disorder? Well, it turns out he may have just had a specific athlete in mind ($) when he said that and the picture isn’t a pretty one. None too pleased with his portrayal in this tale, Harbaugh decided to fire back at Cincinnati head coach Luke Fickell, who then fired back at Harbaugh once again.

Secretly in the bad guy category: Dabo Swinney. It seems that Kelly Bryant not getting a ring triggered this post, but there is no better collection and details of Dabo’s troublesome takes an actions. Dabo “aw shucks” it and isn’t robotic like Saban so too often he gets a free pass. So if you ever wonder why folks like me are sour on him, here ya go.

THE dumbest trademark application ever. If this goes through, I’m going to put up merch with “THE” on it in our store, just to see what Ohio State’s cease and desist looks like.

Mike Leach, forever weird. Stories about Wyoming, having a freshmen make him a specific kind of coffee, dipping, getting his players to dip, and demanding one of his players write “fuck” on a whiteboard because he left out the word in his notes while quoting Leach: all just a part of a perfectly normal QB meeting with the pirate ($).

I still want the sponsor to be Popeyes. But I’m happy the Bahamas Bowl has brought in some solid ROI for a *checks notes* Chicago suburb.

Stupid academic eligibility rulings, not just for the NCAA. The Michigan High School Athletic Association saw a Northwestern commit took too many classes before he entered high school so they took away his final year of eligibility. Seriously.

In case you haven’t noticed, college football is celebrating 150 years. This past week, that’s brought out loads of “all time” rankings and retrospectives. Both Sports Illustrated and ESPN named their top programs of all time. SI also ranked the best CFB games of all time. Finally, new ESPN employee, Bill Connelly, listed his rankings based on 150 years of #sportsmath. Spoiler alert, here’s your #1:

Excited about that new QB that transferred to your favorite team? Don’t be ($).

Opponent News

So was Bobby Petrino trying to light Louisville on fire? Because it sure seems that way based on what their new head coach had to say. Also, I would highly recommend hearing that post read aloud by Rakes on his recent podcast who joined up with Notre Dame Our Blogger to break down the entire schedule.

It seems like Virginia Tech has some issues as well. Attrition certainly is a word you could use to describe Justin Fuente’s struggles with the Hokies last season. One of the things that healed the wounds: turkey bacon. *blinks repeatedly*

A look a where Notre Dame stands in the world of college football. Pro Football focus ranked all 130 FBS QBs and The Athletic took a special focus on the top draft-eligible offensive tackles coming into the season ($).

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And they’re running into a buzz saw.

For those of you who lived through, and still remember, that frightful night in January when Alabama overwhelmed the Irish, you will recall the biggest difference between the teams was depth. Down the line and across the board, Alabama was deeper. While Notre Dame may have had a better player at a given position, Alabama was simply deeper than Notre Dame. Deeper in talent. Alabama had more stars.

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To compare Temple to Notre Dame, I took the projected two-deep rosters for both teams and went through the process of tallying up the Rivals rankings for each player. While there are some differences between the two schemes, I think the similarities make the comparison fair across the position groups. In gross terms, each team has three receivers positions, five offensive linemen, a tight end, a quarterback, a running back, four defensive linemen, three linebackers, two cornerbacks, two safeties, a punter, and a placekicker.

Receivers: of the six receivers on Notre Dame’s two-deep, five (Fuller, St. Brown, Carlisle, Hunter, Jr., Robinson) were four star recruits. One (Brown) was three. Of the six Temple receivers, only one (Adonis Jennings) was a four star recruit. He is a transfer from Pitt. One (Romond Deloatch) was three stars and three (Robby Anderson, Samuel Benjamin, Brodrick Yancy) were two star recruits. To his credit, starter John Christopher was unranked. Notre Dame: 23, Temple: 13

Running Back: for the Irish, both Prosise and Adams were three star recruits. For Temple, the starter, Jahad Thomas was a two star recruit and backup Ryquell Armstead was a three star. Notre Dame: 6, Temple: 5

Quarterback: Notre Dame’s quarterbacks, Kizer and Wimbush were both four star recruits. Temple’s starter, P.J. Walker, was two stars. His backup, Frank Nutile, was three. Notre Dame: 8, Temple: 5

O-Line: the Irish have one five star (Nelson), six (Stanley, Bivin, Bars, Mustipher, Elmer, McGlinchey) four star, and two (Martin, McGovern) three star recruits. Temple have one (James McHale) three star on the line. For what it’s worth, he’s the backup left tackle. The rest, nine players (Dion Dawkins, Shahbaz Ahmed, Jovahn Fair, Kyle Friend, Brendan McGowan, Brian Carter, Semaj Reed, Eric Lofton, Leon Johnson) were two star recruits. Notre Dame: 35, Temple: 21

Tight End: Notre Dame’s starter (Luatua) is three stars and backup (Weishar) is four. Temple’s are a four (Colin Thompson) and a two (Kip Patton). Notre Dame: 7, Temple: 6

D-Line: Notre Dame has four (Day, Hayes, Tillery, Rochell) four stars and three (Okwara, Trumbetti, Cage) three stars. Temple has one (Freddie Booth-Lloyd) three star, six (Nate Smith, Sharif Finch, Matt Ioannidis, Averee Robinson, Hershey Walton, Jacob Martin) two star, and one (Haason Reddick) no star. Notre Dame: 25, Temple: 15

LB: Notre Dame has one (Smith) five star, three (Onwualu, Morgtan, Coney) four star, one (Martini) three star, and one (Schmidt) no stars. Temple has two (Chapelle Russell, Jarred Alwan) three star, three (Tyler Matakevich, Avery Williams, Stephaun Marshall) two star and one (Nick Sharga) no star. Notre Dame: 21, Temple: 6

CB: the Irish have two (Russell, Luke) four star, one (Butler) three star and one (Coleman) two star recruits. Temple have one (Jean Chandler) three star and three (Artel Foster, Tavon Young, Nate Hairston) two star recruits. Notre Dame: 13, Temple: 9

S: Notre Dame has one (Redfield) five star, one (Shumate) four star, and two (Baratti, Farley) three star recruits. Temple have two (Adeboye Aromire, Alex Wells) three star, one (Nate L. Smith) two star, and one (Will Hayes) no star recruits. Notre Dame: 15, Temple: 8

P: Notre Dame has one (Newsome) three star and one (Riney) no star at punter. Temple has two (Alex Starzyk, Tyler Mayes) no star punters. Notre Dame: 3, Temple: 0

PK: the Irish have one (Yoon) three star and one (Cheveson) no star placekicker. Temple have two (Austin Jones, Tyler Mayes) no star placekickers. Notre Dame 3: Temple: 0

If you’re counting, that’s 159 stars to the Irish versus 88 to the Owls. That’s an enormous gap between the two programs. Is it a perfect comparison? Not at all. For starters, no weight is given to experience: a five star pure freshman rates higher than a fifth-year, no star phenom. It doesn’t measure performance versus potential: Ishaaq Williams, anyone? And Jerry Tillery’s stars came as an offensive lineman. So it’s flawed. But, as a measure of talent across the board, it’s fair and objective. It helps explain the Vegas line as of the date of my research (Sunday): ND -10.5. Interestingly, ‘bama was a 9.5 favorite over Notre Dame in 2013.

Looking at wins, as another comparison, Temple’s 7-0 is more an argument that they’re better than some really bad teams than anything else. In wins over Penn State (5-2), Cincinnati (4-3), UMass (1-6), Charlotte (2-5), Tulane (2-5), UCF (0-8) and East Carolina (4-4), Temple has only impressed against Penn State. They squeaked by UMass 25-23 while the Irish beat them 62-27. Terry, no doubt, will argue in the comments that Temple’s defense must be better than ours.

So, despite the hype, I’m not too worried about Saturday night. Temple doesn’t have the talent to go four quarters against the Irish.

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Instead, today seems like a good moment to pause and consider an aspect of last year’s defense that went wrong – the team’s inability to sack the opposing quarterback. If we’re being honest, it’s now been a problem in back to back years after the defense was fairly successful during the National Title Game run in 2012. It seems like an eternity ago that Stephon Tuitt, Ishaq Williams, and Aaron Lynch committed in one class to Notre Dame. At least part of the issue is that it seems like virtually no names have emerged along the defensive line since then.

That sentence is not intended to diminish the quality careers of players like Sheldon Day and Jarron Jones, but let’s be clear about something else: Those two combined for a total of 2 sacks last season. Romeo Okwara led the team with 4.0 sacks. Consider this: Utah’s Nate Orchard had 4.0 sacks just versus UCLA on October 4^th. Tuitt’s 2012 season when he notched 12.5 was the last Irish player to reach double digits in sacks during a single season. At the present, it’s difficult to be optimistic that 2015 will put an end to the sack drought. The issue is if Notre Dame wants to take a leap forward, the sack rate’s got to improve. Significantly.

I’m burying the lede here, and perhaps it’s intentional given that my general position is simple and straightforward: sacks, and more specifically sack rate is a strong component indicator of defensive health. The last two years, Notre Dame just hasn’t stacked up. But, I wanted to provide some insight into just what sack rate can mean as an indicator of defensive health.

First, let me quickly define “sack rate.” While some analysts and sites like to focus on “sacks per game,” the issue I have with this statistic is it’s fundamentally context and opponent dependent. Notre Dame’s 2015 schedule includes match-ups with Navy, Georgia Tech, Boston College, and Pitt. Those 4 teams ranked 117 or lower (of 128 top tier teams) in pass play percentage. The opportunities to sack a quarterback, in terms of the sheer volume of passing snaps, is not likely to be high for the Irish defense next season.

What sack rate does is helps quantify how good a defense was at sacking the opposing quarterback when a passing play actually occurred. In a given season, the very best defenses will sack the opposing quarterback somewhere between 10-12% of pass drop backs. The very worst will do so in the 1-2% range.

Last season, Notre Dame finished 69^th (putting them slightly below average) at 5.92%. 2013 was even worse when the Irish finished 85^th nationally at 4.90%. This comes as no shock to all Notre Dame fans that quarterback pressure and sacks has been an area of serious concern for several years running now. I wanted to know whether sack pressure did in fact correlate to good defense. Yes, yes, I’m with all of you who are already yelling at your computer screen MOONS, OF COURSE IT DOES YOU IDIOT. That’s fine. There’s no need to yell. But saying “of course” and knowing the “of course” are two different things. Let’s consider the Top 20 and Bottom 10 teams by sack percentage last year:

Points Per Game Allowed: As a general rule, the twenty best at sack percentage were also among the best at suppressing opponent points. 60% of the top twenty (that’s 12 teams for the percentage disinclined) also found their way into the Top 35 teams in the country in fewest points allowed per game. Interestingly though, 2 of the 8 teams from the Top 20 not among the 35 best in points allowed was the number one team in sack percentage, Utah, and the number three team Louisiana-Monroe. The teams that were least successful at converting sack percentage to points per game allowed success came from the non-Power 5 conferences. Arizona State was the only Power 5 team with an elite sack percentage rate who did not finish in the Top 50 in points per game allowed.

Among the ten teams with the worst sack rate, there was one major outlier – Notre Dame’s bowl opponent LSU. LSU, shockingly enough, was just 119^th nationally in sack percentage yet finished 6^th nationally in points per game allowed. LSU’s pass defense overall was still spectacular which goes a long way to explaining this discrepancy. Of the other 9 cellar dwelling teams in sack percentage, the best points per game against rank belonged to known ball hog Navy…at 72^nd nationally.

How did Notre Dame do at converting their 69^th best sack percentage into opposing team points? ND finished 78^th nationally in PPG allowed.

Completion Percentage Allowed: It occurred to me that perhaps sack percentage also served as a shorthand method of diving which teams were better at applying pressure to the quarterback and thus inducing a lower percentage of pass completions. Again, the answer came out that 60% of the sack percentage top 20 finished in the top 35 for lowest completion percentages allowed. More notably, it also included 6 of the top 11 at restricting completion percentage. The PAC-12 teams struggled the most at converting elite sack percentage into lower completion rates. Stanford, Utah, Arizona State, and Washington composed 4 of the 8 elite teams that failed to make the top 35 in completion percentage against. Stanford was the only one of those 4 to even crack the top 50.

In some respects, this makes sense given the extreme pass happy nature of the PAC-12 as currently assembled, although again, we’re considering the teams that were best at sacking QB’s on a per attempt basis. The issue for these teams seems to be if they didn’t get home, they weren’t applying pressure to limit the passing game otherwise. Stanford did an exceptional job at limiting yards on a per attempt basis finishing second in that regard (and thus suggesting that teams dealt with Stanford’s pressure by simply throwing the ball a shorter distance), but the other PAC-12 teams struggled in this regard as well.

The worst at applying pressure were also predictably terrible at curtailing completion percentage. Once we take out LSU who much like Stanford appeared to have teams adjusting to their style of defense by altering routes, the remaining 9 were truly abysmal. 6 of those 9 were in the bottom 10 for completion percentage allowed as well. It’s not surprising but should be startling just how strong the correlation is towards the bottom. If you don’t apply good, consistent pressure, teams will complete their passes against you.

Notre Dame suffered the fate of a team struggling to make it to the opposing QB finishing 86^th in completion percentage allowed.

Third Down Conversions: Where sack percentage really showed was in third down conversion rate. 16 of the top 20 (80%) finished in the top 35 nationally for lowest third down conversion rate. 19 of the 20 (95%) finished in the top 40. Only Rice, once again a non-Power 5 team, did not convert an elite sack percentage into a top 40 third down defense. People love talking about the importance of getting off the field on the third down. Quite simply: there are few if any better indicators of third down defense than sack percentage.

LSU was the only team among the bottom 10 to crack the top 40 (33), but even LSU suffered by not applying the same pressure. For a team that finished 6^th in scoring defense, 3^rd in yards per pass attempt, 12^th in completion percentage against, and did not have a terrible rush defense, a 33^rd ranking, while still quite good, was harmed by the failure to get home.

The best rank any of the other bottom 9 could muster in third down conversion defense belonged to the Fighting Diaco’s of UCONN who finished 82^nd.

Notre Dame, in line with everything else, finished 65^th.

So What Does This Mean?

Well, for starters, that sacking the opposing QB remains probably the single most important skill for a defense to possess and the one that’s really been lacking from Notre Dame’s arsenal since 2012.

The other thing I think is worth considering is that sack percentage is a component statistic that you can watch early in the season to gauge the health of the defense. By the quarter mark or so, if the defense isn’t getting home for sacks, then regardless of what the scoring defense numbers might say to the contrary, there will be reason to worry.

The good new for ND and its fans is that sack percentage does not have a strong year over year carry over except at the very top and bottom. 12 of the top 20 in 2014 were in the top 35 in 2013, but several made huge leaps. Louisiana-Monroe went from 120^th to 3^rd. Wisconsin from 78^th to 6^th. Tennessee from 91^st to 14^th. At the other end of the spectrum, 6 of the worst 10 were ranked 104^th or worst in 2013 as well. Only two (LSU and Eastern Michigan) saw a drop from the top 64 all the way to the bottom 10.

For Notre Dame sitting in the 60’s, I looked at all teams that had a sack percentage rank in the 60’s between 2010 and 2013 and saw how they did the next year. It was very much a crap shoot. 18 teams improved their ranking, 21 teams got worse, and 1 team had the exact same ranking the next season. A team was just as likely to rocket up the rankings by 30 slots (9 teams did this) as it was to drop by 30 or more slots (another 9 did this). Were I to graph out the results, it would look almost exactly like an inverted bell curve.

The point being, teams in the middle do not see a strong causation between one year’s results and the next. The optimists can take this as grounds for drastic improvement. The pessimists can take this to mean the exact opposite, and quite frankly, you’d all be right.

What’s not in debate: Sacks and sack rate are every bit as important as we thought they were. (cue Dennis Green clip here). I’ll talk about expectations of some more defensive players in the weeks to come with a particular eye towards their potential impact on this important improvement need for the Irish in 2015.

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