Aug. 11--Chris Brown is indifferent toward the difference, which he described as negligible.
"I guess there's a different spin (on the ball), but we don't really realize that," the Notre Dame senior receiver said. "I just catch it."
The difference makes no difference to left tackle Ronnie Stanley.
"I don't care which side I play," he said. "But I don't think I'm going anywhere."
That their quarterback, Malik Zaire, is a lefty is all right by Brown and Stanley. They said it hasn't caused any difficult adjustments. In fact, they hardly notice that Zaire is the first left-handed quarterback to start for Notre Dame.
Zaire, like any smart quarterback, deferred to his praise and trust to his line as he takes over for the departed Everett Golson.
"If we put it in car terms, the offensive line is the engine," Zaire said. "I'm just the nice, shiny paint on it. We don't move without them."
Which way his linemen move has little to do with which hand Zaire releases the ball.
And while coaches have talked about moving Stanley, a projected top-10 pick in the 2016 NFL draft, to right tackle to offer Zaire more protection on his blind side, coach Brian Kelly doesn't think it will be necessary given Zaire's read-option ability and the offense the Irish plan to run.
"If we were strictly going to be a drop-back team, we gave it some thought," Kelly said. "But we're going to be doing a lot of things with Malik with our play-action game and boots and pocket, that it doesn't put the onus on the right tackle because of what we're going to be doing in the passing game, moving the launch point."
The lefty is all right with that too.
