Notre Dame beat Rice 52 to 0 on Saturday, and the defense scored before the offense ever touched the football. Boubacar Traore returned a fumble 14 seconds into the game, CJ Carr went 16 of 20 for 253 yards and 4 touchdowns before halftime, and the whole thing was over by the second quarter.
That is the box score everybody saw. Then the week 2 NFL grades came out, and 2 guys who used to play here did something that never shows up that way.
Joe Alt graded out as the best tackle in the NFL last week and held Jadeveon Clowney to the lowest grade of his 11-year career. Quenton Nelson is 1 of only 9 offensive linemen in the entire league who has not allowed a single pressure through 2 weeks.
Think about that for a minute because it is strange when you really look at it. The best available statistic for the position is the absence of something. No pressure, no hit, no sack, no highlight, and no reason for anybody watching at home to ever learn his name.
Where I think this lands squarely in our world is how we evaluate ERP people.
The architect who got it right the first time has nothing dramatic to put on a resume. There was no 3-month rework, no emergency weekend, no last minute heroics at midnight, etc. Meanwhile, the person who created the mess and then heroically cleaned it up has a fantastic story, and I hear that story in interviews constantly.
I have watched clients choose the second person over the first one more times than I would like to admit, and it is almost always because the first one had “nothing to point to.”
This is why I keep saying you have to interview for what did NOT go wrong.
Ask what the program avoided, not only what it survived. The best architects in our network are quiet for the exact same reason Quenton Nelson is quiet!
Go Irish, and let’s go handle Michigan State on Saturday night!
Who on your team has quietly kept something from breaking this year, and when is the last time anybody actually told them so?
Sources: Sports Illustrated Notre Dame, Irish in the NFL week 2; fightingirish.com game recap
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