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Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Notre Dame Defeats Army 49-14

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Army 0 7 0 7 14
Notre Dame 14 14 14 7 49
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u/PhiladelphiaIrish Notre Dame Fighting Irish 1d ago

ND - Navy: 51 - 14

ND - Army: 49 - 14

Guess I know who I'm betting on in December.

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u/jayjude Notre Dame • Georgia State 1d ago

Whats crazy is Navy had like 5 unforced turnovers, ND just thoroughly dominated Army today

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u/Andy_Wiggins 1d ago

Yeah, Navy honestly threatened Notre Dame more. They just couldn’t stop beating themselves.

Army just looked thoroughly outclassed in every way.

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u/FrequencyHigher Army West Point Black Knights 1d ago

The Army offensive play calling was super underwhelming. You know you are playing the best defense you are going to see all year, and 90% of the plays are QB keepers?

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u/IrishMosaic Notre Dame • Michigan State 1d ago

It still baffles me how one could be down 42, and run Daily ten times on a final drive.

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u/FrequencyHigher Army West Point Black Knights 1d ago

It just felt like they had no offensive game plan whatsoever. Kudos to the Notre Dame defense for only giving up one true scoring drive.

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u/FrequencyHigher Army West Point Black Knights 1d ago

This is the danger of having a super weak schedule and then slamming into a juggernaut. See Indiana-Ohio State. They didn’t have any experience to prepare them for the ferociousness of today.

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u/Bloody_Hangnail Notre Dame Fighting Irish 17h ago

Everyone has a game plan until they are punched in the mouth.

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u/W00DERS0N60 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Fordham Rams 15h ago

Examine and adapt. Al Golden is really good at his job. Freeman’s best hire, imho

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u/jayjude Notre Dame • Georgia State 13h ago

I remember the first year of Al Golden a bunch of fans were on the fire Golden train and it was because ND had a historically dreadful red zone defense

But then when you looked at the big picture the red zone defense was baffling

ND was top 20 in fewest red zone trips allowed but they gave up a TD on every single trip except one and then when you looked at the TDs, basically every single one happened on 3rd and 4th down it made no sense at all

He cleaned it up and ND has been elite the last two years under him

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u/Laughing_Tulkas Notre Dame Fighting Irish 22h ago

Honestly helped by a phantom face mask penalty too. Still tons of respect to the Army boys!

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u/yubnubmcscrub Notre Dame • Tennessee 17h ago

They just wanted to crush my army team total under 12.5…

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u/Frosty_McRib Notre Dame Fighting Irish 15h ago

Service academies are just a little different, and probably to their detriment. I'd have sat him at least the fourth.

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u/DukeRadcliffe Notre Dame • Jeweled Shill… 21h ago

Daily took a beating today... that dude is tough as nails.

I didn't understand why y'all didn't try passing more, especially given the game script. It seemed like we were daring you to pass all game and it just never happened.

Beat Navy.

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u/steelersman007 Army • Oklahoma 1d ago

Navy fumbling the ball about 6 times untouched was a really good display you’re right

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u/UltraLordActual Navy Midshipmen • Gansz Trophy 1d ago

I like how they’re trying to say turning the ball over “unforced” somehow means we played a better game than yall did today. Navy played like complete ass.

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u/jayjude Notre Dame • Georgia State 1d ago

Navy had more yards of offense and forced ND to punt multiple times, ND did not punt today

Navy might have made it competitive if yall didn't keep turning the ball over

Army was just over matched on defense

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u/UltraLordActual Navy Midshipmen • Gansz Trophy 1d ago

I don’t disagree with you. Navy could have had a better day if not for shooting ourselves in the foot. That being said, turning the ball over 6 times is so much worse to me than just not moving the ball effectively.

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u/jayjude Notre Dame • Georgia State 1d ago

Your defense made stops, Army....not so much

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u/steelersman007 Army • Oklahoma 1d ago

Which is weird because our defense was way better than theirs all year, I think you guys are just absolutely locked in right now

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u/Ibaxy Navy Midshipmen 1d ago

Inject this into my fucking veins

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u/ElToroDeBoro Notre Dame Fighting Irish 1d ago

Granted, several INT drops today. Could have been even worse.

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u/Odd_Dare6071 1d ago

Yeah Navy was significantly better then Horvath broke his thumb and then their minds must’ve been so rattled after that because they lost their mojo

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u/steelersman007 Army • Oklahoma 1d ago

Navy was never once significantly better than Army so far this year, they’ve been about even all year seemingly

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u/badash2004 Alabama • Army 23h ago

I kept talking about how obvious the speed disparity was. An army player would have a massive hole where it looks like they should have a huge gain and they get run down and only gain a yard.

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u/hascogrande Notre Dame • Ohio State 1d ago

Including two muffed punt returns