- Saturday’s practice will be open to the media and Weis said he wouldn’t be holding anything back and that it would be a normal practice. Something tells me what is seen Saturday won’t necessarily be a “normal” practice though.
- On the installation of the defense – “Each day we’re adding another facet. The first day was more of your base defenses – the 3 or 4 main coverages that go in. The second day we went to multiple wide receivers and therefore put in nickel as well.” “Today we’re putting in multiple tight end groupings so therefore your defense is more load up front as you’re trying to stop the run.”
- To recap the installation of the offense – Tuesday was multiple receiver sets, today was multiple tight end groupings, Thursday will be 3rd down offense, and Friday will be red-zone offense.
- Pat Kuntz weighed in at 287 this morning despite being listed at 272 on the official roster.
- Scott Smith is playing inside and outside linebacker positions. “He’s strong enough and physical enough to play on the point on the edge, but he also shows enough awareness in pass coverage where you can play him inside and not get exposed there.”
- “Potentially, we have the chance to do a lot of good things here.”
- On the size of the potential middle linebackers. “At the MIKE linebacker, the one where there almost always is an uncovered guard, you have to be stout. You look at all those teams that play 3-4 defenses in the NFL, and almost all of them have a middle linebacker that is one of those run right through you type of guys. I think we have a few candidates who do that pretty well.”
- On eliminating the big plays in the secondary: “I think the players that we’re playing with now are very, very competitive. There’s a lot of competition to get on the field right now and sometimes inherently that takes care of the problem because if guys get beat, you put someone else in. The problem is when you don’t have another alternative – when you just have a couple guys and you’re living and dying with what they d – but right now we have a lot of competition out there and I think that that sometimes answers that question.”
- On the depth in the secondary: “We have depth at the position where at one time we were very shy.” “We haven’t had it since we’ve been here. We have depth which, it just hasn’t existed.”
- On the improvement of David Brution from the end of last season to the spring and into fall camp: “David’s gotten a lot bigger and has not lost any of his speed and I think that that’s allowed him to play the game even more aggressively.”
- Weis approached Darrin Bragg about coming back to the team for fall camp after he was off of the team for the spring. “I didn’t want him to go into his senior year leaving Notre Dame with a bad taste in his mouth and me with a bad taste in my mouth about what’s happened here. I wanted to give him a chance to be a part of this program.”
- Weis also wanted Bragg back on the team in order to help with the depth at the quarterback position with the departure of Zach Frazer.
- Weis still intends on giving out scholarships to some walk-ons this year despite Notre Dame getting close to the 85 scholarship limit.
- Charlie was on the phone with Brady Quinn when Quinn got the call that a deal had been reached. “We were on the phone when his agent called him up to tell him the deal was done. So he cut me off. Then he called and I didn’t answer so he texted me to tell me it was done and I then called him back.”
- John Sullivan is in charge of making the MIKE calls at the line until further notice to take some of the burden off of the quarterbacks for now.
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