If you think about it, spring football games are a strange occurrence. You want to play and show the progress being made on a football team, but you don’t want to show how much you really are progressing. You want to play hard, but no one better by God get hurt. You feel good after watching the offense run up and down the field, and then realize your defense sucks. A schizophrenic experience for sure.
For the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in 2017, the spring game Saturday did fall in this jungle gym of emotions. But I think we saw a few highlights and tendencies that give us an idea of what to look for in the fall.