3 Observations
The fade pass has become the most dangerous play in Notre Dame’s practices.
Football in recent years has been dramatically scaling back, if not banning, once standard high-contact work in practice such as the “Oklahoma drill” or “the bull in the ring.”
Yet in today’s far more pass-happy and spread offenses, the new most perilous practice sessions have become the one-on-one (or even 7-on-7 or 11-on-11) fade or jump-ball routes, especially to the back shoulder..
First starting tight end Cole Kmet (Aug. 8) and then starting X receiver Michael Young yesterday (Aug. 17) had awkward landings after making high leaps, along with the defender, in an effort to come down with the football in what were jump-ball passes in extremely tight coverage.
