Is Tommy Rees a bad play caller? Part of the time I find myself questioning his decisions in a huge way with a perfect example of this being Chris Tyree getting just five touches against Marshall despite being Notre Dame’s biggest threat to be a home run hitter offensively.
Then I look back to 2021 where the offensive line was border-line putrid and yet Rees was able to make salad out of you-know-what and do enough offensively to sport an 11-1 record by the end of November.
We’re two games into the 2022 season and what I know right now is that the Notre Dame football team is not a good one. Not presently, anyway, and the offense has been brutal.
Is that all on Tommy Rees as a play caller? Does the blame fall on the players for not performing? Or does it go back to Rees for not developing?
I won’t go as far now to be overly upset at him beyond a few issues (specifically stated above), but I think any Notre Dame fan that says they’ve been inspired by his play-calling would be lying if they made the claim today.
There are compelling cases to be made for each but whatever the grand cause is, and whoever is most responsible, it’s not good.
What Notre Dame and Rees need is this offense to grow up and do so quickly, even with a backup quarterback now heading to the starter’s role. It won’t be easy but it’s one of the major questions, and there are a lot of them, we already find ourselves asking just two games into 2022.
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