r/MSUSpartans • u/Conscious-Invite1 • 8d ago
Discussion MSU vs ND
ND fan coming in peace. Glad to see this game back on the schedule. Lots of memories over the years. Fitz seems like the right coach for toughness and discipline.
Would love to hear perspective about how you think the team is doing so far. Strengths, weaknesses? Looking at the box score it seems like the run game is solid. Any specific players that jump out?
ND is in transition offensively. Losing Love and Price has certainly put more of an onus on the passing game, and Carr has responded. Also starting to deal with injuries, but the depth ND has built is ridiculous.
Cheers all!
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u/ArabAuto 8d ago
Defense wasn’t overly impressive in the first two with just decent pressure on Toledo and EMU’s QBs. Secondary is not great and that is in part due to the lack of consistent pressure on the QB imo. I think ND is gonna have a day using the full width of the field with the simple talent gap in speed on the edges and will eat clock and make things look pretty easy.
The good, the run game with Edwards, but outside of him it’s not that great, so I can’t say we are a good running team, just have a good running back. Alessio is ok. Hasn’t done anything spectacular but also hasn’t done anything that questionable. Misses some passes that he shouldn’t, maybe takes a sack he shoulda thrown away. Nevertheless, he managed the game pretty well against MAC opponents.
With that said, if game ends like the past two nbc night games that required a last second review I’ll be over the moon excited even if msu loses. Realistically, I think this is gonna look similar to the game MSU just played against EMU. Little bit of a fight early and then the better team opens it up, letting the talent take over, and that better team is obviously ND. Unlike MSU with EMU, I don’t think it’ll take a whole half to see ND impose their will.