Mike Denbrock

The fact that he came out throwing when they needed to possess the football no more.

No, I know that it's, there was a huge and even Jack Freeman mentioned off camera, like obviously Notre Dame and Denbrock, they kind of fell for the dangling carrot of our past defense that we're facing sucks.

Let's go against Navy.

But boy, when you bring in Jonas Walton, you can start mixing things up and you need to possess the football.

Absolutely.

That's not Mike

Denbrock.

No, it's not, but I do think that Dan Brock has to shoulder some of the blame of the time of possession.

And I think it speaks to the larger anxieties about playing Navy in the first place because you've now got players getting hurt.

And Notre Dame, I know a lot of criticism about this game is going to go towards Mike Denbrock because the first half the offense wasn't as efficient as they could have been because they did have the three and out but the other two offensive drives I think were fine and that one three and out was just the worst timed three and out for anyone's mental health of the season and it was not indicative of like oh this offense is going to struggle throughout the rest of the day because Mike the thing about these Navy and Service Academy games for the last you know whatever 10 years since maybe since Marcus Freeman took over I guess you could say is that even if you're worried that the service academies are going to service Academy U. Notre Dame's offense is so good that it should not be a concern because they should be able to score points.

Getting one or two stops should be enough, even if they are going to possess the ball for large swaths of the game.

It was just a very ill-timed three and out that I think was mostly a player error thing and probably feels better if there's a run in there that chews up a little bit more clock because it's like three incompletions and then they're off the field.

And I think that When things go wrong for your football team, it is obviously very cliche to be like, this coordinator sucks, this coordinator sucks.

And I'm trying not to do that without it being warranted.

And I don't feel that way about Mike Denbrock, even though I think he is the subject of many fans' ire for the BYU game.

But I do feel like I would like to see Chris Ashe to do some stuff that would make me feel like, okay, you have a handle on things.

It wasn't a bad performance from the pass offense, but it certainly wasn't a great performance.

It was very clear that Mike Denbrock wanted to get the pass game going, and it was very clear that Marcus Freeman – told him basically to not do that in the second half because in the second half it was, I mean, most of the throws they had in the first couple of drives, second half were RPOs where CJ was pulling and throwing it.

Yeah.

And they weren't necessarily like designed runs, but, um, It's a minus.

I do not trust Mike Brown.

IK03, I'm convinced it's Deb Brock not trusting young guys.

He doesn't have a history of using them, and I think he's only gotten more stubborn about it.

I don't know that Deb Brock has control over that.

is the thing I don't, he's not in Denver.

Brock's not in charge of, um, who plays when now he couldn't, he could say, I want the guys in for like, I want my top three in for like a two minute drill or something.

Generally speaking, the, the rotation is in charge of the position coach.

Generally, I don't think Bettis playing or Burris playing or Graham playing has any reflection on Den Brock.

That's what I was about to talk about.

We talk about Shannon Dawson and that Mike Denbrock can do it too now.

This ain't his first year in the classroom.

He's teaching the damn class at this point.

He better be very involved and very demanding about what happens on the defensive side of the ball.

Leave Mike Denbrock the F alone from now until Saturday night or Sunday morning at like 1 o'clock in the morning.

Your focus needs to be on Chris Ashe and Chris Ashe only for the next seven days.

One thing I do think that we saw in this game that I got glossed over in a lot of the hoopla of what this postgame show was, a lot of fun hoopla.

Yep.

and that was a concern that I had after the BYU game.

It's like, okay, just the next time they face a top opponent, are they going to just knock their heads on the wall and just hope the defense gets all the stops and the offense plays ball control? I think Mike Denbrock was fully prepared today to go out and win this football game by any means necessary, and that is a very promising sign moving forward.

We'll need that next week as well.

It is 100% negligent, but it's being allowed to happen.

It's one thing if, like, okay, Mike Denbrock's doing a terrible job on offense and Marcus Freeman's not stepping in to fix it.

He's a defensive coach.

I don't know what answers he's going to find.