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In the lions' den

It's time to look forward to Saturday's game at Penn State, but first Charlie Weis freely admitted that his reaction to the Georgia Tech outing was the same as a lot of fans: "I wanted to vomit." A few other tidbits to take from last week:

- In answer to everyone's question of whether he didn't expect that Georgia Tech would bring blitzes throughout the game, this unsettling response: "But all of the blitz zones and the Michaels and the Sam Mikes, they were, unfortunately, they were what we practiced every day unfortunately. And the reason why I say unfortunately is because when you know what they are doing and you don't handle it, that's even a bigger problem than when you don't know what they were doing, because at least you can say, hey, we weren't expecting that. That's where I feel we had our biggest failure. So rather than sit there and blame the players for not getting it done, I blame me for not practicing enough to get it done."

- On whether there were any positives to take from the game on defense: "[Y]ou lose 33-3, there's no good stat. But that would be the one stat looking back and reviewing, you know, you would say, hey, like in the first half, they had shut them down on third down. He's 0 for 6 on third down and you look at that and you look at the red zone stops, and you're encouraged in certain aspects by what we did on defense."

Jimmy Clausen is going to start on Saturday. Looking back at his plays from last week, he seemed by far to be the most in command, moving out of the pocket when needed, with a quick release and accurate throws. He's still a true freshman playing behind an offensive line that apparently has trouble with blitz defense even when they're expecting blitzes, so I don't expect Clausen to necessarily be a superstar right away, but I'd be surprised if he can't move the offense a lot better this weekend than last. Given BGS's latest post on how even our spread offense last week wasn't as bad as it looked at first, my optimism is definitely up again. (Only to be crushed again?) No, I really do expect to see a lot of progress and a competitive game this weekend, maybe even a surprising win. Go Irish.

Full post as published by Irish Law on September 05, 2007 (boomark / email).