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Let’s Talk (Again) About Play Calling For Notre Dame Football

There was a lot of discussion last week about the job offensive coordinator Chip Long was doing as a play-caller. I wrote a whole thing about it, although the conclusion was it was more likely execution errors than it was poor calls from Long. I also noted it’s challenging to identify a poor call just based on the result of the play; there are so many different variables, without knowing most of them it is hard to say.

This week though, offered a few examples of strong play-calling and at the very least strong play design, and as to not just pick out obvious plays, I chose one that ended in an interception.