Jaden Greathouse

Jordan Faison, he started off the game hot where they were able to drive right down the field, disappeared and trying to get him to football.

And even in the best play, instead of running a play that allows Faison to have a shot at getting open, allowing your quarterback to read it out and get it to your best receiver, you You throw to Jaden Greathouse, who had a good second half, and he's made some big plays for Notre Dame before, but on a sprint out, and you have a route combination that Faison's running short of the goal line, which doesn't help you, and allows the corner to slough off and make a play on the ball.

So even in that moment, that's your best play to go win the game? And that's not even talking about the defense.

who was so woefully prepared for a team that didn't have its leading rusher in LJ Martin, that if you have you watched BYU the entire season, or watched BYU in the past, knew that Aaron Roderick, their offensive coordinator, is gonna throw the kitchen sink at you.

I saw multiple people's accounts on social media of that final play.

When it comes to the pass interference, are we just going to ignore that Jaden Greathouse decides to grab onto Evan Johnson's wrist to ensure that he can't get two hands on him and also try to almost flop backwards with a ball that's clearly beyond him? Okay, you're trying to bait the referee into a pass interference call.

Guess what? Everybody does it.

And earlier on in the game, there were some pass interference calls that were...

Um, And I think the big reason for it is I just thought that this team was going to be different with the mantras, with the now veteran quarterback, with all of the stars returning on defense, with stars, I mean, maybe not stars, but very talented wide receivers.

Jaden Greathouse had a great game, and Jordan Faison's been so reliable, and Stars on the offensive line, right? You have a few returning starters there.

It just felt like this was going to be the team that was going to run the table this regular season and go undefeated.

And... end the drought of those top 10 road losses, or end the drought of 14 years of not a single top 10 road win.

You get the ball back on the next series.

You have a great job by Jaden Greathouse to help spark that drive.

But then you get down near the goal line or in the red zone in first down, incomplete pass, second down, incomplete pass.

Now you're in third and 10th.

And, you know, so again, they converted it and got out of it.

And then you come into the second half, first play of the drive, you get a 10-yard completion to Jaden Greathouse, and then first down, one yard, second down, no yards, and now you're in third and nine and you're punting.

Next drive, first down, two yards, second down, two yards, third and six, you're not able to convert, and now you're punting again.

And, you know, it was kind of that type of deal all night, Vince.

Because I actually think the out-coaching that I thought happened last night was even worse when I watched the film.

And then you just realize they just couldn't cover Jaden Greathouse.

They just couldn't move the interior de-tackles of Notre Dame.

They just had no answers for Luke Talich.

Other than just...

Our dudes are better than your dudes.

Jaden Greathouse is better than the dudes trying to cover him.

I mean, that's really what it came down to.

They threw everything but the kitchen sink on both sides of the ball, and Notre Dame was ill-prepared to take that on as a coaching staff, which, of course, we'll get into.

I think that the other thing that's kind of a prevailing storyline that I'm just going to nip in the butt right now is the one second left in the pass interference that was missed on Jaden Greathouse on that final play for Notre Dame.

All true, all valid, absolutely.

But this goes into really the primary point that I'm going to be trying to drive home today is the mantra going into this season was what? Leave no doubt.

That was an insane catch with Jordan Faison, the toe tap.

There's not much separation going on here.

And my thing is like, listen, and Jaden Greathouse as well.

Again, we talk about this all season long.

There's not much separation going on here.

And my thing is like, listen, and Jaden Greathouse as well.

Again, we talk about this all season long.

We hear it every offseason.

So...

Also, there was contact between Jaden Greathouse and BYU's defender in the end zone.

But no P.I. was called.

And the play isn't reviewable for some reason.