September 1, 2025 • 37 mins
Review of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish Football team game against the University of Miami Hurricanes. Talk about the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
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It's the moment you didn't know you're waiting for.
He is Carter. He's Chad.
And this is. The Irish 365 Podcast Welcome
into another exciting episode, right?
We're all excited still for The Irish 365 Podcast Week 1 Miami
postgame show. It went just like we all
thought, not at all. We saw some highs, we saw some
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lows. We got a little bit of
everything right. Yeah, a lot, lot more lows than
highs. So yeah, I I stand on it.
I I thought the game was going to separate in the second-half
and Notre Dame's favor. Yeah, I got the halftime score
wrong, wrong teams. Yeah, I got the halftime score
right, wrong team. But yeah, yeah, it just, it just
didn't get it. We just didn't have a rhythm.
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It was, it was an interesting, interesting game.
But at the same time I step backand I reflect on it here the
next day. Yeah, like we lost by three to
the number 10 team in the country.
On the road, on the with a new starting quarterback, Carson
Beck's got all the experience inthe world.
Yeah. There's so many pros, so many
cons for that, right? I mean, so many takeaways from
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yesterday's game. Yeah, and we said coming in like
we felt Miami was going to be good later in the year.
They just might need some time to get jailed early.
But if they jail early, Miami could be, Miami could be a home,
home, home team in the College Football playoffs, if not a
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first round my team. I mean, now the question from
Miami is they obviously got up for the Notre Dame game.
Will they stay up? Yeah.
So yeah, when I think about it, if I'm a Miami fan this morning,
I'm excited because the offensive line was as good as
advertised and they felt good about their offensive line
coming in. They felt good about the running
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game coming in. Their running game was
effective. They thought Carson Beck was the
guy. He wasn't Cam Ward, but he was
the guy. He looked good.
He looked comfortable. He had time in the pocket.
He picked us apart. If our secondary is as good as
we think it is, then he's really, really good.
So yeah, I mean, if if I'm Miami, I'm feeling great about
this game, but I'm not Miami. Yeah, Jordan, you, you.
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What's your initial thoughts on this one?
Yeah, I, I think that obviously they went out, they hit the
portal hard to get their defenseright.
They had some intensity back there.
And then I thought they're just their offensive coordinator
schemed up plays to get motion like, you know, and they just, I
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don't know, Notre Dame just couldn't get a rhythm on
defense, it seemed like. And that's it was just
frustrating. It was like, you can't pinpoint
what was going on, but there just was a guy open, you know,
and that was just the frustrating part that I kept
seeing so. Yeah, and it's one of those
things I saw everyone going after Chris Ash and I get Al
Golden was an incredible defensive coordinator.
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I was the coordinator of the year last year in all of college
football. It was one of those things where
it's it, it sucks for Chris Ash to have that opponent.
Like I think people forget Al Golden didn't necessarily start
off the highest in their name either.
Like he lost to Ohio State week 1.
He lost to Marshall Week 2 as the defensive coordinator left
too many points in both games clear.
Like, not saying the performance, whatever.
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I'm just saying like people got to take a step back.
It wasn't wasn't ideal. Everyone's still getting used to
everyone in my opinion. I mean, I'm not it's Week 1.
It's overreactions, right? That's what we're going to get.
Yeah, clearly overreaction time.So I guess The thing is when I
think about the defense, was thedefensive scheme the problem or
was it guys just not playing? Fast, fast.
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That's my take. I mean, yeah, we ran some, we
ran some zone, which we didn't normally do and that and that my
and Miami took advantage of that.
But there was 2 touchdowns that were passing where you're like
the safety could have made a play.
I mean the Don Schuler one. I mean, all he had to do was put
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a hit on the guy. I mean, it was a heck of a
catch, but but yeah, it just seemed like.
Just just get a just get a shoulder pad on him.
Yeah. And that guy's not bringing that
one handed catch. Yeah, he was laying back looking
for the interception. And it's like I get it.
But attack the ball. But yeah, go get, go see ball,
get ball. I mean, you just don't.
We haven't seen that from Notre Dame safety where he's sitting
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back. Oh, that guy's going to miss it
and I'm going to pick it, right.It's usually jumping in front of
the guys when the picks, Yeah, seem to.
And yeah, props to that receiverbecause that was Catch of the
Year nominee Week 1. I mean, it was an incredible
play, incredible catch. Beck, I think we're text about
this throughout the game. Jordan Beck has got really good
at throwing up that Yolo ball. I mean, just yeah.
And it worked. I mean, if it's working, it's
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working like that, that 9 out of10 times, I don't think it's a
completion, but receiver goes, makes a great playback.
Put it in a good enough spot, right?
It wasn't a great spot, wasn't bad enough.
I called it for a touchdown so. Yeah, when did Odell Beckham
Junior's son and Tyreek Hill's son join the Miami team?
Because that's what it looked like.
On the yeah, just speed, speed. Heck of a catch, yeah?
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Yeah, go ahead, Jordan. Finish that thought.
Yeah, I I agree with, you know, with the safeties, it was just,
you know, they could have made plays and we just had some bad,
bad luck on some of those, you know, other play.
So it, it just was an overall, you know, it's week one.
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I'm not going to overreact. So right, yeah, that's the
thing. Like, I mean, some people are
going to be calling for everyone's job at the end of
this game. And that's this is what is that
social media modern day. Everyone can overreact.
Everyone's got an opinion and that's not what we're going to
have here. We're not going to tell you
Notre Dame's the worst team ever.
We're going O in 12. We need to have Tyler Buckner as
a starting quarterback. Like we're going to try to look
at it as somewhat realistic. You play the top ten team on the
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road and what seemed like a pretty loud environment from
everything I heard. So yeah, definitely, definitely
just was I guess the breakdown is my I want everyone's opinion.
Like was it scheme or do you think it was not playing fat?
Like what was what was the the thing 'cause I I looked at and I
was like, it doesn't seem like we're playing fast.
I don't think like are our guys in the wrong spots at times, but
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also just be the second behind. Well, Ash was supposed to
simplify the defense from what Golden ran.
Yeah, but they understood what Golden's at least the team's
last couple years understood Golden's assignment, what was
needed, you know, and and you goback to the Ohio State game, we
talked about that cover 0. Like, what was that?
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But was the was the team not playing fast because they just
weren't comfortable with like what they're supposed to do?
Were they thinking instead of reacting?
And and that's kind of what I kind of wonder on the whole
thing. But then I go back to that Don
Schuler, like that wasn't a thinking reacting that I mean,
that like, go make a play. Go make a play the the ball's 5
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foot in front of you. Go get it.
You know, he's back here hands down to catch it.
I'd like to see him go attack that ball in the air.
But so I don't know. But maybe it was just a little
bit of they felt felt full of themselves.
There's a reason they put the SAS on the T-shirts, right?
I mean, and you can you can say all these things you want, but
are the players really. Yeah.
Are they hearing you? But you know, they're listening,
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but are they hearing you? And that's that's kind of the
question I had in that side. So I don't think the scheme was
perfect. By any means.
And I'm not surprised. I expected our defensive tackles
to not not get a lot of pressurefor us.
A lot of people were high on them.
I wasn't wasn't comfortable there.
I thought the defensive ends would be better.
Yeah, there was Priori looked good and and Bryce Young had
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one, you know, I think he was credited.
I think I saw his credited with like 333.
Tackles. Yeah, I don't know how many
hurts. It just didn't seem like you
heard his name though. Yeah, and, you know, Bowen just
didn't stand out. KVA looked good, Yeah.
You know, they look pretty solidin my opinion.
Yeah, I mean, I don't think we look terrible, but I just, I
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expect this to look better defensively.
If you'd have told me CJ Carr was going to have a really solid
night and not make any stupid mistakes, and you could say the
one reception, it's not his fault, but you could also say
it's his fault because that was an RPO.
All he had to do was hand that ball to freaking Love and he
doesn't have to throw that ball in the double coverage.
So car goes 19 for 32 touchdownsand an interception and a
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rushing touchdown. Yeah, CJ Riley.
Yeah, I was going to say, if youlisten to this podcast last
year, what did we talk about Riley Leonard's touchdown
poacher there in the end zone? And it's like, are we seriously
going to do that with CJ now too?
Like, what the heck? I was not like, if we're like
we've been talking C JS more mobile than people give him
credit for, but I still wasn't like, go give CJ the ball down
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by the goal line. I don't think he's as durable as
Riley Leonard. Yeah, I mean, he took some big
hits last night. Yeah, he's got to learn to slide
or something. So, so let's let's yeah,
Defensively, I, I'm not disappointed.
I mean you, you gave up 27 points.
To the highest scoring offense at all caught football last
year. With with a, with arguably the
best quarterback in the transfer, Portland Beck.
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Yeah, a lot of people would makethat argument.
I mean. And one thing that we talked
about in the pregame show that'sgoing to bring back up, they
seem to have their chemistry right off the bat.
Whatever the heck they did. Because I know they talked about
in the game last night, Beck notthrowing much in the spring, but
just hanging out and do whatever.
It worked, it worked whatever the heck they did like that was
is seen Riley Leonard last year not throw a touchdown, just not
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look In Sync with wide receiversthe first four weeks last year
off that transport. I was just like seems like that.
I mean, I understand that's going to be a hard thing, but
whatever Miami did with six new receivers in the program, what
that like, holy smokes. Like they weren't.
They weren't on different pages very often.
But is that just an example of just Beck being a better
thriller than Rough? Yeah, I mean it that it's, I
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mean, I don't know that's the credit up to, but yeah, they
they definitely had chemistry. There's no lack in that.
Yeah, and we talked about it in the Priest.
He's either going to, he's either going to play terrible
this year and he's going to be afifth round pick, or he's going
to work himself into a top, top ten pick and I think top.
Probably second round pick, but yeah.
I think he could be a top ten pick if he keeps playing well.
I mean, Campbell Ward probably wasn't the number one overall
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pick going in the last year, so.Yeah, I, I just, he, I don't
think he'll be overall number one, but I think he can play
himself into that position, intoa top top ten pick for sure.
So offensively for us, I just, I, I, I'm not sure I like the
play call. And I think we talked about
that. We we weren't going to tweet and
then all of a sudden we're texting back and forth with each
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other in the game. Yeah, it it's one of those
things where you're like, we're not going to text during the
game. We're we're just going to watch
and we'll break it down after. And it's kind of thing where
we're all just like, what the heck, Like what's going on?
You can't not like, it's not like, oh, nice play.
It's like, what are we doing? Yeah.
So, yeah, Jordan, what's your thoughts?
I'll let you run this first on you'll take point.
You can be quarterback on this one.
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So yeah, I guess to start off the game, you know, Notre Dame
gets the ball and we, we I didn't know what to expect.
I was like, OK, we're going to see some runs.
I knew we were going to have some some plays to ECJNII had I
would not have bet to see the 1st 6 plays be passes.
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And on top of that, they were very, very safe passes.
But CJ still didn't look as comfortable as I I would have
liked. And then after that, I was kind
of like, OK, well, you know, maybe we're going to start
running the ball using love. And I think that didn't
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materialize like I kind of thought I would.
And then on the opposite side, Miami, you know, they were doing
this bunch, three wide receiversand have the other one on the
other side and they were doing motion.
And that seemed to throw Notre Dame's, you know, secondary off
a little bit. You know, it was a guy coming
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across the middle or a guy coming in and then out and, or
the running back sneaking out the side because, you know, they
had motioned a guy over and he was kind of alone out there.
And the, the, the opening seriesjust didn't, we didn't look
crisp. We didn't look ready on either
side of the ball. I didn't know what you guys
thought about kind of the opening first quarter.
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My opinion on the first year is like, obviously we didn't go
down and score on offense, but Ithought it was a decent first
series. We got two or three first downs,
we moved it and we pinned Miami.Like I for the first time
starting quarterback. I wasn't expecting to go down
and throw 80 yards. Definitely disappoint.
We didn't hit the run game a little earlier, but the screens
worked early. And yeah, I mean, my, I called a
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successful drive because like wegot a couple first downs.
We didn't go 3 and out got CJ couple completions.
He didn't look perfect. But yeah, that was my like mid
game thought. Like, hey, that first drive
could have went a lot worse, could have went a lot.
Like obviously don't score. You're not like that was the
greatest thing ever. But hey, we got some first
downs. We showed some positive thought.
Let's keep it moving. Let's keep the momentum.
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Yeah, and I think we were laughing about this before the
game 'cause they were talking about CJ Carr being Tom Cool.
Literally on. TV and they got him on TV.
He doesn't have his helmet on. It's you know, he's like, OK,
this is a guy that's trying to like just calm down.
Like you could you could just see he was trying to calm
himself down. So I think like the first drive
was good and that's they got himinto a rhythm with some easy
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throws. And big take away for me, like I
didn't think about it the time, but as I got later in the game
and I think we text about this alittle bit, I thought it was
really interesting. His first throw was bake the
hand off to the right and then turn around, throw clear to the
left. Like complete like just not a
lot of quarterbacks want that throw.
They want to throw to the right.I mean, so and what we saw
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throughout the game was CJ really likes rolling left and
throwing left. Not common.
Not common. Right-handed.
Yeah, for right-handed quarterback especially.
And then the other side of it was we do a lot of screens now.
Is that because we didn't think that our offensive line was
going to hold up against the front of Miami and we felt like
the opportunity for big plays was going to come on the
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outside. You know, those, those 3 yard
passes that go for 40 and 50. I kind of felt like that's what
we thought the game plan was, which goes back into our
offensive line isn't isn't what we hoped it would be coming into
week one. We know they're going to be
better week two, week three-week4, but Miami's offensive line
looked good enough Week 1 and ours didn't.
I need no sacks or one sack on Beck and not as many pressures
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as Miami had. I mean, CJ, that when it
mattered, second-half especiallywas just under pressure, under
pressure, but they made plays. There were sometimes where just
like the one played nose, nose guard unblocked right up the
middle like. How?
How I get a defensive end you block from the inside out, I get
a defensive in making making that.
Like Garden Center going the opposite way.
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Nose tackle right up the middle.Like what?
That's not. Never had an easier play in his
life. Yeah, that's not the guy you
leave unblocked in that situation.
I don't, I don't see that being schemed up.
So the concern for me from the offensive side more anything
else was not receiver. I thought some the receivers
looked all right. Yeah, it didn't seem like we're
running screens, so we didn't think our receivers could get
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not get separation. And I want to make like Miami's
defense last year on downfield throws was God awful.
Like they were one of the worst defenses, just guys wide open.
And we saw that a couple of times.
Eli Raritan wide open, CJ about missed him, then came back and
hit him. It's a shame he's not a little
bit faster. We, I mean, we end up score on
the drive, but just like, yeah, it's just like we could have got
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some protection. I don't Miami's corners, they
were better than they were last year.
I think they were still just it'll be interesting to watch in
the coming weeks. So they have those or they just
leave a guy open by 40 yards because it's it's going to be a
hindsight 2020. It's like maybe we should get a
couple more shots because CJ Carr was 2 for two on throws
longer than 20 yards yesterday. Well, the one ball he missed
Raritan on, he was throwing it and actually hit the back of the
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offensive lineman and like deflected and so and there was a
couple of tip balls from Miami like he was using, I don't know,
a start sidearm kind of emotion and just didn't get the ball up
and over. But he threw some great balls,
you know, high and downfield as well.
So my take away from the CJ Carrplay was he is going to be good
and he he looked as good as any and maybe better than some
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first, first time starters. Yes.
Oh yeah, and he was definitely not the worst first time
starting quarterback out that heBates in good plays he.
He looked, he looked better thanArch Manning on day one.
Now, I don't know if he looked better than Arch Manning by game
10, but he looked better than Arch Manning, you know, in his
game. So a lot of good things there.
And really what I was nervous about was the old, do you have
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two quarterbacks? Do you have none?
And you know, with the whole Kenny, you know, pushing car and
that thing, like, I was like, OK, what we got, I feel like,
OK, Kenny elevated his game. And Kenny must have played
really well because CJ played very well.
Yeah, I was impressed. Yeah, and if like, yeah.
And there's people calling for Kenny Minchi, you know, into.
The I saw why I say it was like we need Kenny in here not
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because C JS playing bad but just need to change it up.
It's like. No.
Unless you're going to call different plays, it wasn't going
to matter. And I don't know if you brought
Kenny and you'd have called anything differently.
I mean, there was a reason we were running the screens.
And I think Denbrock either regressed in his play calling,
which I can't accept right now, or he knew there was a weakness
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on the offensive line that had to be covered up against Miami
like it. And I think he said, OK, I know
that I'm going to have trouble with the defensive front of
Miami. I need to get the ball out out
fast. And, you know, because if you're
getting the ball out quick, which CJS got a quick release,
it's hard to get a sack. And you know, Miami didn't take
long. They caught on to it.
But I think you got to talk about the touchdown.
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Throw it to Michael Gilbert. Oh, the first, Yeah, His first
passing touchdown. I mean, no look.
Broke. Two guys off.
I mean, yeah, he he throws the safeties with his eyes and he
had two guys open. He could have hit Raritan and he
could have hit Gilbert. I'm glad he threw it to Gilbert
because I'm not sure if Raritan would have caught it.
Yeah, I mean, he was literally our leading receiver last night
and had how 97 yards and had howmany drops?
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Yeah. Like, yeah, 3 or 4 drops.
It's like, Oh my goodness, can'tbe doing that.
So what I wanted to add one thatwas on that drive, really what
kind of got him a little boost was when Price came in and Price
had that nice run. You know, it was like that was
kind of the first. It's like they finally snapped
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out of this, you know, cycle of just, you know, 3rd and long or,
you know, struggling to move theball a little bit so.
Well, Even Love, and I think we got to talk about the run game
in general. Even Love had good runs, just we
didn't give him the ball a lot. And the one where he jumped the
guy and got down to the two and they called the holding on rare.
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And it's like not sure that should have been called.
But there was there was some calls that went Notre Dame's
favor and there were some calls that went against Notre Dame and
I either team could make an argument and that was a weak
call. I mean, there was a couple of
different calls that were I thought, OK, didn't they were
for me and I didn't love them. They were against me and I
didn't love them, obviously so, but yeah.
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So I think it was interesting tosee the whole I.
Was going to say what I didn't love from the refs just over on
this is it what one penalty called in that first half and
then it seemed like flag cap in the second-half, I mean.
Yeah, it was like someone. You know what I mean?
It's just like one of those things where if you're going to
call a game the game, like call the flags the whole game or keep
them like the whole game in my opinion, which I get, maybe
there wasn't anything to call itin the first half, but it just
seems. I, I could say from watching the
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first half, they could have called a half dozen more holds
on Miami and probably 3 or 4 on Notre Dame.
Like they, they just, I think there was probably Miami on TV
cut. I mean, if you watch the full,
you know, game film 22, you might see it differently.
But it felt like there was probably 6 different times as
like they could have called a hold on Miami and there was at
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least three different times. They could have maybe 4, they
could have called a hold on Notre Dame.
So I think they kind of were letting them play, keeping the
flag in their pocket. And the second-half it kind of
like seemed like they were a little more ticky tack on some
of those goals. But yeah, I don't think it, I
don't think it changed the outcome of the game.
I mean, it's a it's a game NotreDame could have won.
And we're all so disappointed onhow that game went.
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We lost by three points on the road in a top 10 matchup.
And we're saying like, Oh my gosh, we did not play well.
Like I don't think any of us any, any of those events at
home, like, man, we played so well.
How we how we let that one go. It's like then we played
terrible. And you know, like 2724, like,
OK, that could have been a lot worse, right?
And it feels like Miami played. Miami played well.
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I thought played solid. I mean, I'm not.
Maybe they don't feel the same way, but I'm like, I feel like
Miami made some plays. I don't think anybody is Miami
fans complaining about Miami play today.
No, I, I and of course every Notre Dame follower.
But if we. Won that game.
I think we'd all have the same complaints if it if we got to
stop and miss that field goal and we go down and hit a field
goal at the end. We went 2724.
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I don't think any of us are like, oh, but this is this is
the year we're running the table.
A&M, we're beating them by 50. I'm not planning my return trip
to Miami at this point if we winthat game.
Yeah, exactly. Like, yeah.
January 20th national championship, Yeah, Still
getting past eight. No, again, we got to we got to
think about A&M in a couple weeks.
Yeah, but everything Notre Dame wants to accomplish is ahead of
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us. Yeah, I was going to say this is
what we said a couple weeks ago.This bye week's going to be the
greatest bye week or one of the worst bye weeks.
And we're at that worst. Like it's going to feel this
this week is going to feel longer than the offseason like
though, like not this next Saturday, a Saturday after like
it's it sucks having the bye right here.
You definitely wish you had a not a cupcake, but somewhere
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you'll get some momentum going in A&M.
So we saw some reactions on the old X and So what are some of
the highlights we saw? Because I love the reaction.
Overreaction under reaction. Yeah, so this morning I put out
a little post. Let me just read it off to you
on the old X account. We said, all right, you've had
some time now to digest the game.
Let's hear your thoughts. Best ones make the post.
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Game pod now drop today. So yeah, we're going to run
through some of these. Let's hear your reaction to some
of these. There's some good ones.
There's some bad ones, I mean, but hey, it's overreactions,
right? That's what we like.
Here we go From Mike Acosta, Jeremiah Love went from the best
running back in the country to the best decoy in the country.
It's not a bad take. It's not a bad take.
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I mean, we're going to hype him up all offseason.
Yeah. And then?
He did. He got especially the first
half, like he was not getting much.
Towards the end of the game, we started to find him in the
passing game and Huh started coming back.
And yeah, they tried to work himin.
You know, we saw that wheel wereout.
We saw them try to just do different things to get them
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involved more in the second-halfso.
And and I think Miami was keyingon him.
They're like, he's not going to beat us.
And that didn't help. And I think that's why Price
maybe had a little bit, but Price is such a good back.
People don't realize how good ofa back he is.
But I mean, Jeremiah Love had a couple couple leaps, couple
shoulder look, you know, in the guy, I mean, he had small
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snippets. He just didn't have enough.
I'd like to see him get the 20 touches.
And I don't think he got 20 touches in that game.
He had 5-6 carries. Carter, do you remember?
Bryce. Or no love.
Bryce had 6 I don't know how many love ended up with.
He had more touches. I was thinking he was.
Probably 10 or 11. Yeah, I was going to say he had
more than. I was thinking like 6 carries
and like. But Price is our leading rusher
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with 45. Yeah, Jeremiah Love had 10
carries for 33. CJ had 11 carries for 16.
OK, how many receptions did lovehave?
How many receptions Love had? He had four for 26.
OK, so he got 14 touches. Yep.
Which is more than I thought he had.
It didn't feel like he got 14 touches in that game.
All right, you guys ready for the next one?
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Yeah, let's go to the next. This is at Jimmy under score.
Dean 59. Hand the ball to your running
back. It's cars.
First start. Everyone on the planet who knows
football knows that the running game opens up the passing game.
Use the best running back in thecountry and throw the ball.
Or, my bad, use the best runningback in the country and not
throw the ball 30 times in a kid's first start.
Our genius OST apparently doesn't know that.
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No, I, I think it's a fair criticism unless you take a step
back and say how bad was the offensive line?
Yeah. And if you if you realize coming
into the game the offensive lineis going to be a liability, not
a strength, then the screen passmakes all the sense in the
world. However, as someone who's played
offensive line at least once in my life, yeah, I know that run
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blocking is a whole heck of a lot easier than pass blocking.
I mean it. So if you were run blocking and
you could fire off and just pop the guy across from you and
start shoving, it's a whole heckof a lot easier.
And that and that usually gets offensive lineman going.
So I kind of wonder if we'd havetried to run more in the
beginning if we'd had more success with the run as opposed
to, you know, trying to pass block and getting our guys on
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their heels and not having that success.
Yeah, I mean it's easier attack than come back and.
Yeah, it's it's it's going afterthe guy or sitting back and
waiting for the guy to come after you is really the.
Difference of those. Right.
And it's, it's a totally different dynamic.
And I, I would, I'd much rather get a running start, you know,
Yeah. Then have to sit there and wait
for the guy to come after me. Especially when you got athletes
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like Miami, Scott. I mean, they got they got some
good defensive fronts. So what's your thought on that,
Jordan? You like that?
You like that tweet? Yeah, I mean, yeah, den Brock
was catching some heat for sure.And what I give him credit for
though, even last year and so far in game one, is he he sticks
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with the game plan. You know, I think last year I
was very critical of me like youneed to try this, you need to do
this. And you know what, he's just a
slow and steady wins the race type of OC.
And that's what I got to give him credit for.
So, and if you rewind the clock to maybe a month, two months
ago, all Notre Dame fans, we want a passing offense, We want
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all of this. We want the ball in the air.
We don't want to run the ball 40* a game.
Yeah. What happens week one, we throw
the ball 30 times. Love and Price, he'll get as
many touches. We got this passing quarterback
everyone's always wanted and yeah, now it's we should have
run the ball more. Well, there's a million plus
Notre Dame fans. Oh yeah, I know.
And. You're going to find the happy
fans and and again, if you're happy with yesterday's
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performance, there's things to be happy about.
You're not going to be nearly asvocal and nearly as loud.
And, you know, saying that is the people who are angry and
miserable and unhappy and, you know, and there's just a
contingent. Notre Dame fans are going to
complain about anything no matter what.
It's like there's never. I mean, we could.
We could score 99 maybe. People saying TJ car was the
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worst thing ever so yeah. You know, I mean, there's people
one of. Mostly on our page were pretty
solid, but yeah, I did see on other people's pages were going
after him. So that's what I do appreciate.
And there were people that wanted Marcus Freeman fired
after NIU last. Year that, you know, I haven't
seen that yet, but I haven't. Seen over his head yet, But
yeah, wait, wait till if we don't beat A&M, wait, yeah, that
that drum will get really loud all of a sudden.
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All right, so the next one comesfrom game gap.
Detroit, CJ, bullet points here.CJ Carr got his first game out
of the way and did a really goodjob play calling what's around
us both off at the defense. It's early, but the bye week is
crucial. Get things figured out.
J Love needs to be fed the ball more.
And the last one is 11 and one. I like that mindset.
Yeah, got a lot of more guaranteed opportunities, I'm
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sure, is what Marcus Freeman saying.
All right. Any comments on that?
You want me to roll to the next one?
I think that's pretty. That's pretty succinct.
I I don't think there's much to comment there.
I like this one a lot from parmesan cheese one O line and D
line look rough. I like the handle.
I know O line, D line look rough.
I would not want to be in that film room.
I've seen a lot of chatter aboutDen Brock's play calling.
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I'm not sure if there isn't something else going on there.
Car was announced as QB One lessthan two weeks ago.
Plenty of time to get ready for A&M.
Now what I do like about this iscalling out, Yeah, but not want
to be watching film for this one.
I'm sure there's definitely somewords in different rooms and but
yes, also I know Freeman, he's apretty level headed guy.
So I don't know that's I I thinkoffense line, defensive line
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room, probably not. It's not a fun game to go back
and watch. You you can't think of yourself
as O line you and be happy with that performance.
I mean, you just, you just can't.
And the defensive, the again, the defensive front, I, I wished
it was better, but I'm not surprised by that.
I figured that Miami be able to get a push 2-3 yards.
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But even then, there was a lot of plays where we were in the
backfield, but the Miami runningback turned what looked like
going to be a loss for a yard into a 2-3 yard gain.
I mean, how many times that happened yesterday yards after?
Congress tackles. Yeah, that's what I was going to
say. I think, you know, everyone
says, you know, they're online, really in that third quarter
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opening drive for them that took7 1/2 minutes.
So it felt like an hour off of the clock.
They were just leaning on us andwe were tired.
We couldn't get pressure. And I was like, we got to get
off the field, got to get off the field.
And we'd make a player to, like you said, Chad, and then they
turn around and they get anotherfirst down.
And it was like it was very demoralizing.
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I think that that was probably expose that exposed us a little
bit to say, OK, like we can makea player too.
But you know, they we couldn't just sustain it and get off the
field. And that happened a couple
different times. Yeah, and it's one of those
things where CJ Carr probably makes his best play of the night
on his first touchdown pass, right?
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He beats beats a guy out. Why beats that makes that
defensive lineman run circles, throws that touchdown.
His next play is a QB kneel going in the half and then Miami
goes it's halftime. Then Miami goes on that and
Miami scored before that. So it was a long drive and kneel
halftime and another long Miami drive and then the three and
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out. It was just like all that
offensive momentum we may have started to have right there was
gone. Like it was probably an I didn't
see an actual time but I'm assuming an hour between.
Like if you take out that QB kneel from his touchdown pass to
his. Yeah, it had to be.
Yeah, you had to. And his first three boxes were
he short armed, one, they got pressure in his face and then he
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overthrew the guy. But then the.
And that, yeah, but then the offense got back going a little
bit and we saw some momentum andwe saw some progress like.
Well, I thought absolutely. I felt like that momentum came
when we start trying to throw the ball down field a little bit
more and run a little bit more. Instead of the screen stuff, we
got away from the screen stuff, that adjustment and it and it
seemed like our offense was starting to click.
But also, one of our keys to thegame was that middle 8 and Miami
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dominated it. They owned it, they just owned
the middle 8 and I would have loved.
I know it's easy to say in hindsight, but at the time I'm
like, why are we taking a knee here in the half?
Just take the shot. 15 seconds, I mean, first, yeah, take.
The shot, you know, just send everybody on the fly route and
tell CJ, hey. Can we get some are offensive
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line to block three guys? Yeah, yeah, even if they're in
three vent, they might, they might sack him with one guy
coming. But you can.
Nose tackle up the middle, unguarded.
Rolling to the right, rolling tothe left and let him rolling let
him heave it. But I got in hindsight's 2020.
Yeah, I got one last. I think it's a good one to wrap
it up on the fan tweet. So we got from Carlton under
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score Butler. New era of college football
allows for every team to grow throughout the season.
Everything we saw last night wasfixable.
And let's not forget Miami is good this year.
I mean, I think that sums it up pretty solid.
Everything. Yeah, it's week 1.
I mean, we we watched a lot of football this weekend.
No team was perfect. There's going to be teams that
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Alabama could win the national championship nerd and go win the
national championship. Texas to win the national
championship after being told that the worst thing ever after
one game, right? Yeah.
I mean, that's college football for you.
They're 18 to I'd say 22, but 25year old kids now, right?
But let's just be honest here, Lee Corso.
Perfect, perfect. I had friends texted me that
Sunday and I'm like, I'm going to love this.
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Yeah, I don't love it. Where?
And he always picks Notre Dame. Every team he coached or played
for one. One and every pick he got right.
And he always picks Notre Dame. He usually does he.
And literally Kurt was like, youalways pick the Irish.
She's like, not today. And I was like, gosh darn, don't
love that. He was on.
He was on his game. He was on his game one last
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time. Yeah.
You guys got any final comments you want me to get into how our
contest results went? Well, I yeah, a lot to be said,
but nothing good at this point. It's just don't overreact, don't
underreact. I think we just got to stay calm
and get ready and get ready to prepare.
I mean, we're going to go to A&M.
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That's that's going to be a nervous feel.
It's not just you're not going to feel good about going into A
and MI wouldn't feel good about going to A&M.
But now going O and two, you cango on a 1010 game run and maybe
get yourself as a conversation. You're you're not controlling
your destiny. But it doesn't feel good.
Yeah, if we if we win the A&M game, I'm going to feel a lot
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better. Yeah.
But I don't, you know, I mean, A&M is going to present its own
set of challenges and how much is fixable?
What can we fix? And I really think it comes down
to this. I think we were like one or two
key offensive lineman, like reserves away from having a
solid game. If Shane Gills wasn't out for
tailgating, I think we'd had something, yeah.
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That's true, yeah. Shane don't party so.
Hard this week. That's right, Shane.
Yeah. Actually, he's he's performing
this weekend at at Notre Dame Stadium, right?
Yeah, he's performing this. Weekend.
Oh, shoot. Tell.
Him to stay out of the backer next weekend, we need to.
Call him in. No, kid Jordan, you got
anything? So I just have a couple things
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to close out that I've kind of made notes of, not that it was a
there's a factor for both teams,but I think the weather early it
was, it was raining a lot harderthan I thought you.
Had a friend of the game, it waspouring pregame.
Yeah. And I didn't know how that would
affect cramping. I think Notre Dame, you know, I
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get we had a few guys I think early, but it looked like Miami
was cramping worse in the second-half.
And you know, like I said, both teams are dealing with the the
weather. So that's not really a a factor.
But the the one handed catch andthe pick that the guy jumped in,
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it bounced and bounced and kicked it in there like those
were those are fluke like just bad luck place.
But also Nord Ames. Defense, they were a huge place.
Nord Ames defense in it created any turnovers, which is just
really disappointing. And that's the other thing, you
go -2 in the turnover battle andyou lose by three on the road.
Yeah, it's like, didn't play well, lost a turnover battle and
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still only lost by three on the road to a #10 And I'll say this,
Miami sounded loud. You had friends at the game.
Yeah, it was loud. Great atmosphere, they said.
But did the crowd? I don't not one false start, not
one time out because you couldn't get the play call I
mean. Yeah, I think we stopped one
delay game. Yeah, it.
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Was great, but Miami had more delayed games than we did.
Yeah. And it was, I mean, so it was a
great atmosphere, it was a greatcrowd, but it didn't, it didn't
affect the game. Which maybe Matt, if I'm a fan,
taking a time out right out of half time off for a delay of
game that always just gets a guylike, Oh my gosh, like that was
yeah, I was like, what are you doing?
7 1/2 minute drive later, I forgive you.
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No kidding. You, you forget that one real
quick. But yeah, it's the little
things. Well, yeah, I mean, obviously
disappointing. Probably 6 rushes, 45 yards.
Wish we'd still have a little bit more in the second-half,
which we saw a little bit more love early get those guys going.
Faizon, I thought played pretty solid.
Definitely disappointed on the captain's front.
Didn't seem like any of the captains step up.
You know all this great things about Will Paulding, He comes to
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captain, didn't even hear his name.
Bowen, Bowen and jeweler. Wagner on the line?
Yeah. Yeah, I think that's that's my
big call out. We're going to do a call out.
You know, we did that a little bit last year right after the
Games call out the captains. The the Tommy Reese, do your
job, Yeah. Goes to anybody who was a
captain on the. You got AC on your jersey on the
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front side of it and step it up for A&M.
But all right, I know everyone'sbeen waiting for the results for
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There's a lot of great 20 threesand a lot of great sports.
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Yeah, Dean, the Dream 20. Was it just unlucky?
How many, Dean, the dreams are there.
Hey, we'll do some research at the show.
All right, Coach Freeman, I guess we did run out of time
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today. Maybe next time, right, Jordan?
That's right. We'll see what we try.
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It's the moment you didn't know you're waiting for.
He is Carter. He's Chad.
And this is. The Irish 365 Podcast Welcome
into another exciting episode, right?
We're all excited still for The Irish 365 Podcast Week 1 Miami
postgame show. It went just like we all
thought, not at all. We saw some highs, we saw some
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lows. We got a little bit of
everything right. Yeah, a lot, lot more lows than
highs. So yeah, I I stand on it.
I I thought the game was going to separate in the second-half
and Notre Dame's favor. Yeah, I got the halftime score
wrong, wrong teams. Yeah, I got the halftime score
right, wrong team. But yeah, yeah, it just, it just
didn't get it. We just didn't have a rhythm.
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It was, it was an interesting, interesting game.
But at the same time I step backand I reflect on it here the
next day. Yeah, like we lost by three to
the number 10 team in the country.
On the road, on the with a new starting quarterback, Carson
Beck's got all the experience inthe world.
Yeah. There's so many pros, so many
cons for that, right? I mean, so many takeaways from
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yesterday's game. Yeah, and we said coming in like
we felt Miami was going to be good later in the year.
They just might need some time to get jailed early.
But if they jail early, Miami could be, Miami could be a home,
home, home team in the College Football playoffs, if not a
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first round my team. I mean, now the question from
Miami is they obviously got up for the Notre Dame game.
Will they stay up? Yeah.
So yeah, when I think about it, if I'm a Miami fan this morning,
I'm excited because the offensive line was as good as
advertised and they felt good about their offensive line
coming in. They felt good about the running
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game coming in. Their running game was
effective. They thought Carson Beck was the
guy. He wasn't Cam Ward, but he was
the guy. He looked good.
He looked comfortable. He had time in the pocket.
He picked us apart. If our secondary is as good as
we think it is, then he's really, really good.
So yeah, I mean, if if I'm Miami, I'm feeling great about
this game, but I'm not Miami. Yeah, Jordan, you, you.
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What's your initial thoughts on this one?
Yeah, I, I think that obviously they went out, they hit the
portal hard to get their defenseright.
They had some intensity back there.
And then I thought they're just their offensive coordinator
schemed up plays to get motion like, you know, and they just, I
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don't know, Notre Dame just couldn't get a rhythm on
defense, it seemed like. And that's it was just
frustrating. It was like, you can't pinpoint
what was going on, but there just was a guy open, you know,
and that was just the frustrating part that I kept
seeing so. Yeah, and it's one of those
things I saw everyone going after Chris Ash and I get Al
Golden was an incredible defensive coordinator.
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I was the coordinator of the year last year in all of college
football. It was one of those things where
it's it, it sucks for Chris Ash to have that opponent.
Like I think people forget Al Golden didn't necessarily start
off the highest in their name either.
Like he lost to Ohio State week 1.
He lost to Marshall Week 2 as the defensive coordinator left
too many points in both games clear.
Like, not saying the performance, whatever.
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I'm just saying like people got to take a step back.
It wasn't wasn't ideal. Everyone's still getting used to
everyone in my opinion. I mean, I'm not it's Week 1.
It's overreactions, right? That's what we're going to get.
Yeah, clearly overreaction time.So I guess The thing is when I
think about the defense, was thedefensive scheme the problem or
was it guys just not playing? Fast, fast.
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That's my take. I mean, yeah, we ran some, we
ran some zone, which we didn't normally do and that and that my
and Miami took advantage of that.
But there was 2 touchdowns that were passing where you're like
the safety could have made a play.
I mean the Don Schuler one. I mean, all he had to do was put
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a hit on the guy. I mean, it was a heck of a
catch, but but yeah, it just seemed like.
Just just get a just get a shoulder pad on him.
Yeah. And that guy's not bringing that
one handed catch. Yeah, he was laying back looking
for the interception. And it's like I get it.
But attack the ball. But yeah, go get, go see ball,
get ball. I mean, you just don't.
We haven't seen that from Notre Dame safety where he's sitting
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back. Oh, that guy's going to miss it
and I'm going to pick it, right.It's usually jumping in front of
the guys when the picks, Yeah, seem to.
And yeah, props to that receiverbecause that was Catch of the
Year nominee Week 1. I mean, it was an incredible
play, incredible catch. Beck, I think we're text about
this throughout the game. Jordan Beck has got really good
at throwing up that Yolo ball. I mean, just yeah.
And it worked. I mean, if it's working, it's
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working like that, that 9 out of10 times, I don't think it's a
completion, but receiver goes, makes a great playback.
Put it in a good enough spot, right?
It wasn't a great spot, wasn't bad enough.
I called it for a touchdown so. Yeah, when did Odell Beckham
Junior's son and Tyreek Hill's son join the Miami team?
Because that's what it looked like.
On the yeah, just speed, speed. Heck of a catch, yeah?
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Yeah, go ahead, Jordan. Finish that thought.
Yeah, I I agree with, you know, with the safeties, it was just,
you know, they could have made plays and we just had some bad,
bad luck on some of those, you know, other play.
So it, it just was an overall, you know, it's week one.
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I'm not going to overreact. So right, yeah, that's the
thing. Like, I mean, some people are
going to be calling for everyone's job at the end of
this game. And that's this is what is that
social media modern day. Everyone can overreact.
Everyone's got an opinion and that's not what we're going to
have here. We're not going to tell you
Notre Dame's the worst team ever.
We're going O in 12. We need to have Tyler Buckner as
a starting quarterback. Like we're going to try to look
at it as somewhat realistic. You play the top ten team on the
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road and what seemed like a pretty loud environment from
everything I heard. So yeah, definitely, definitely
just was I guess the breakdown is my I want everyone's opinion.
Like was it scheme or do you think it was not playing fat?
Like what was what was the the thing 'cause I I looked at and I
was like, it doesn't seem like we're playing fast.
I don't think like are our guys in the wrong spots at times, but
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also just be the second behind. Well, Ash was supposed to
simplify the defense from what Golden ran.
Yeah, but they understood what Golden's at least the team's
last couple years understood Golden's assignment, what was
needed, you know, and and you goback to the Ohio State game, we
talked about that cover 0. Like, what was that?
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But was the was the team not playing fast because they just
weren't comfortable with like what they're supposed to do?
Were they thinking instead of reacting?
And and that's kind of what I kind of wonder on the whole
thing. But then I go back to that Don
Schuler, like that wasn't a thinking reacting that I mean,
that like, go make a play. Go make a play the the ball's 5
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foot in front of you. Go get it.
You know, he's back here hands down to catch it.
I'd like to see him go attack that ball in the air.
But so I don't know. But maybe it was just a little
bit of they felt felt full of themselves.
There's a reason they put the SAS on the T-shirts, right?
I mean, and you can you can say all these things you want, but
are the players really. Yeah.
Are they hearing you? But you know, they're listening,
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but are they hearing you? And that's that's kind of the
question I had in that side. So I don't think the scheme was
perfect. By any means.
And I'm not surprised. I expected our defensive tackles
to not not get a lot of pressurefor us.
A lot of people were high on them.
I wasn't wasn't comfortable there.
I thought the defensive ends would be better.
Yeah, there was Priori looked good and and Bryce Young had
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one, you know, I think he was credited.
I think I saw his credited with like 333.
Tackles. Yeah, I don't know how many
hurts. It just didn't seem like you
heard his name though. Yeah, and, you know, Bowen just
didn't stand out. KVA looked good, Yeah.
You know, they look pretty solidin my opinion.
Yeah, I mean, I don't think we look terrible, but I just, I
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expect this to look better defensively.
If you'd have told me CJ Carr was going to have a really solid
night and not make any stupid mistakes, and you could say the
one reception, it's not his fault, but you could also say
it's his fault because that was an RPO.
All he had to do was hand that ball to freaking Love and he
doesn't have to throw that ball in the double coverage.
So car goes 19 for 32 touchdownsand an interception and a
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rushing touchdown. Yeah, CJ Riley.
Yeah, I was going to say, if youlisten to this podcast last
year, what did we talk about Riley Leonard's touchdown
poacher there in the end zone? And it's like, are we seriously
going to do that with CJ now too?
Like, what the heck? I was not like, if we're like
we've been talking C JS more mobile than people give him
credit for, but I still wasn't like, go give CJ the ball down
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by the goal line. I don't think he's as durable as
Riley Leonard. Yeah, I mean, he took some big
hits last night. Yeah, he's got to learn to slide
or something. So, so let's let's yeah,
Defensively, I, I'm not disappointed.
I mean you, you gave up 27 points.
To the highest scoring offense at all caught football last
year. With with a, with arguably the
best quarterback in the transfer, Portland Beck.
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Yeah, a lot of people would makethat argument.
I mean. And one thing that we talked
about in the pregame show that'sgoing to bring back up, they
seem to have their chemistry right off the bat.
Whatever the heck they did. Because I know they talked about
in the game last night, Beck notthrowing much in the spring, but
just hanging out and do whatever.
It worked, it worked whatever the heck they did like that was
is seen Riley Leonard last year not throw a touchdown, just not
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look In Sync with wide receiversthe first four weeks last year
off that transport. I was just like seems like that.
I mean, I understand that's going to be a hard thing, but
whatever Miami did with six new receivers in the program, what
that like, holy smokes. Like they weren't.
They weren't on different pages very often.
But is that just an example of just Beck being a better
thriller than Rough? Yeah, I mean it that it's, I
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mean, I don't know that's the credit up to, but yeah, they
they definitely had chemistry. There's no lack in that.
Yeah, and we talked about it in the Priest.
He's either going to, he's either going to play terrible
this year and he's going to be afifth round pick, or he's going
to work himself into a top, top ten pick and I think top.
Probably second round pick, but yeah.
I think he could be a top ten pick if he keeps playing well.
I mean, Campbell Ward probably wasn't the number one overall
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pick going in the last year, so.Yeah, I, I just, he, I don't
think he'll be overall number one, but I think he can play
himself into that position, intoa top top ten pick for sure.
So offensively for us, I just, I, I, I'm not sure I like the
play call. And I think we talked about
that. We we weren't going to tweet and
then all of a sudden we're texting back and forth with each
(10:28):
other in the game. Yeah, it it's one of those
things where you're like, we're not going to text during the
game. We're we're just going to watch
and we'll break it down after. And it's kind of thing where
we're all just like, what the heck, Like what's going on?
You can't not like, it's not like, oh, nice play.
It's like, what are we doing? Yeah.
So, yeah, Jordan, what's your thoughts?
I'll let you run this first on you'll take point.
You can be quarterback on this one.
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So yeah, I guess to start off the game, you know, Notre Dame
gets the ball and we, we I didn't know what to expect.
I was like, OK, we're going to see some runs.
I knew we were going to have some some plays to ECJNII had I
would not have bet to see the 1st 6 plays be passes.
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And on top of that, they were very, very safe passes.
But CJ still didn't look as comfortable as I I would have
liked. And then after that, I was kind
of like, OK, well, you know, maybe we're going to start
running the ball using love. And I think that didn't
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materialize like I kind of thought I would.
And then on the opposite side, Miami, you know, they were doing
this bunch, three wide receiversand have the other one on the
other side and they were doing motion.
And that seemed to throw Notre Dame's, you know, secondary off
a little bit. You know, it was a guy coming
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across the middle or a guy coming in and then out and, or
the running back sneaking out the side because, you know, they
had motioned a guy over and he was kind of alone out there.
And the, the, the opening seriesjust didn't, we didn't look
crisp. We didn't look ready on either
side of the ball. I didn't know what you guys
thought about kind of the opening first quarter.
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My opinion on the first year is like, obviously we didn't go
down and score on offense, but Ithought it was a decent first
series. We got two or three first downs,
we moved it and we pinned Miami.Like I for the first time
starting quarterback. I wasn't expecting to go down
and throw 80 yards. Definitely disappoint.
We didn't hit the run game a little earlier, but the screens
worked early. And yeah, I mean, my, I called a
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successful drive because like wegot a couple first downs.
We didn't go 3 and out got CJ couple completions.
He didn't look perfect. But yeah, that was my like mid
game thought. Like, hey, that first drive
could have went a lot worse, could have went a lot.
Like obviously don't score. You're not like that was the
greatest thing ever. But hey, we got some first
downs. We showed some positive thought.
Let's keep it moving. Let's keep the momentum.
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Yeah, and I think we were laughing about this before the
game 'cause they were talking about CJ Carr being Tom Cool.
Literally on. TV and they got him on TV.
He doesn't have his helmet on. It's you know, he's like, OK,
this is a guy that's trying to like just calm down.
Like you could you could just see he was trying to calm
himself down. So I think like the first drive
was good and that's they got himinto a rhythm with some easy
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throws. And big take away for me, like I
didn't think about it the time, but as I got later in the game
and I think we text about this alittle bit, I thought it was
really interesting. His first throw was bake the
hand off to the right and then turn around, throw clear to the
left. Like complete like just not a
lot of quarterbacks want that throw.
They want to throw to the right.I mean, so and what we saw
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throughout the game was CJ really likes rolling left and
throwing left. Not common.
Not common. Right-handed.
Yeah, for right-handed quarterback especially.
And then the other side of it was we do a lot of screens now.
Is that because we didn't think that our offensive line was
going to hold up against the front of Miami and we felt like
the opportunity for big plays was going to come on the
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outside. You know, those, those 3 yard
passes that go for 40 and 50. I kind of felt like that's what
we thought the game plan was, which goes back into our
offensive line isn't isn't what we hoped it would be coming into
week one. We know they're going to be
better week two, week three-week4, but Miami's offensive line
looked good enough Week 1 and ours didn't.
I need no sacks or one sack on Beck and not as many pressures
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as Miami had. I mean, CJ, that when it
mattered, second-half especiallywas just under pressure, under
pressure, but they made plays. There were sometimes where just
like the one played nose, nose guard unblocked right up the
middle like. How?
How I get a defensive end you block from the inside out, I get
a defensive in making making that.
Like Garden Center going the opposite way.
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Nose tackle right up the middle.Like what?
That's not. Never had an easier play in his
life. Yeah, that's not the guy you
leave unblocked in that situation.
I don't, I don't see that being schemed up.
So the concern for me from the offensive side more anything
else was not receiver. I thought some the receivers
looked all right. Yeah, it didn't seem like we're
running screens, so we didn't think our receivers could get
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not get separation. And I want to make like Miami's
defense last year on downfield throws was God awful.
Like they were one of the worst defenses, just guys wide open.
And we saw that a couple of times.
Eli Raritan wide open, CJ about missed him, then came back and
hit him. It's a shame he's not a little
bit faster. We, I mean, we end up score on
the drive, but just like, yeah, it's just like we could have got
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some protection. I don't Miami's corners, they
were better than they were last year.
I think they were still just it'll be interesting to watch in
the coming weeks. So they have those or they just
leave a guy open by 40 yards because it's it's going to be a
hindsight 2020. It's like maybe we should get a
couple more shots because CJ Carr was 2 for two on throws
longer than 20 yards yesterday. Well, the one ball he missed
Raritan on, he was throwing it and actually hit the back of the
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offensive lineman and like deflected and so and there was a
couple of tip balls from Miami like he was using, I don't know,
a start sidearm kind of emotion and just didn't get the ball up
and over. But he threw some great balls,
you know, high and downfield as well.
So my take away from the CJ Carrplay was he is going to be good
and he he looked as good as any and maybe better than some
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first, first time starters. Yes.
Oh yeah, and he was definitely not the worst first time
starting quarterback out that heBates in good plays he.
He looked, he looked better thanArch Manning on day one.
Now, I don't know if he looked better than Arch Manning by game
10, but he looked better than Arch Manning, you know, in his
game. So a lot of good things there.
And really what I was nervous about was the old, do you have
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two quarterbacks? Do you have none?
And you know, with the whole Kenny, you know, pushing car and
that thing, like, I was like, OK, what we got, I feel like,
OK, Kenny elevated his game. And Kenny must have played
really well because CJ played very well.
Yeah, I was impressed. Yeah, and if like, yeah.
And there's people calling for Kenny Minchi, you know, into.
The I saw why I say it was like we need Kenny in here not
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because C JS playing bad but just need to change it up.
It's like. No.
Unless you're going to call different plays, it wasn't going
to matter. And I don't know if you brought
Kenny and you'd have called anything differently.
I mean, there was a reason we were running the screens.
And I think Denbrock either regressed in his play calling,
which I can't accept right now, or he knew there was a weakness
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on the offensive line that had to be covered up against Miami
like it. And I think he said, OK, I know
that I'm going to have trouble with the defensive front of
Miami. I need to get the ball out out
fast. And, you know, because if you're
getting the ball out quick, which CJS got a quick release,
it's hard to get a sack. And you know, Miami didn't take
long. They caught on to it.
But I think you got to talk about the touchdown.
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Throw it to Michael Gilbert. Oh, the first, Yeah, His first
passing touchdown. I mean, no look.
Broke. Two guys off.
I mean, yeah, he he throws the safeties with his eyes and he
had two guys open. He could have hit Raritan and he
could have hit Gilbert. I'm glad he threw it to Gilbert
because I'm not sure if Raritan would have caught it.
Yeah, I mean, he was literally our leading receiver last night
and had how 97 yards and had howmany drops?
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Yeah. Like, yeah, 3 or 4 drops.
It's like, Oh my goodness, can'tbe doing that.
So what I wanted to add one thatwas on that drive, really what
kind of got him a little boost was when Price came in and Price
had that nice run. You know, it was like that was
kind of the first. It's like they finally snapped
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out of this, you know, cycle of just, you know, 3rd and long or,
you know, struggling to move theball a little bit so.
Well, Even Love, and I think we got to talk about the run game
in general. Even Love had good runs, just we
didn't give him the ball a lot. And the one where he jumped the
guy and got down to the two and they called the holding on rare.
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And it's like not sure that should have been called.
But there was there was some calls that went Notre Dame's
favor and there were some calls that went against Notre Dame and
I either team could make an argument and that was a weak
call. I mean, there was a couple of
different calls that were I thought, OK, didn't they were
for me and I didn't love them. They were against me and I
didn't love them, obviously so, but yeah.
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So I think it was interesting tosee the whole I.
Was going to say what I didn't love from the refs just over on
this is it what one penalty called in that first half and
then it seemed like flag cap in the second-half, I mean.
Yeah, it was like someone. You know what I mean?
It's just like one of those things where if you're going to
call a game the game, like call the flags the whole game or keep
them like the whole game in my opinion, which I get, maybe
there wasn't anything to call itin the first half, but it just
seems. I, I could say from watching the
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first half, they could have called a half dozen more holds
on Miami and probably 3 or 4 on Notre Dame.
Like they, they just, I think there was probably Miami on TV
cut. I mean, if you watch the full,
you know, game film 22, you might see it differently.
But it felt like there was probably 6 different times as
like they could have called a hold on Miami and there was at
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least three different times. They could have maybe 4, they
could have called a hold on Notre Dame.
So I think they kind of were letting them play, keeping the
flag in their pocket. And the second-half it kind of
like seemed like they were a little more ticky tack on some
of those goals. But yeah, I don't think it, I
don't think it changed the outcome of the game.
I mean, it's a it's a game NotreDame could have won.
And we're all so disappointed onhow that game went.
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We lost by three points on the road in a top 10 matchup.
And we're saying like, Oh my gosh, we did not play well.
Like I don't think any of us any, any of those events at
home, like, man, we played so well.
How we how we let that one go. It's like then we played
terrible. And you know, like 2724, like,
OK, that could have been a lot worse, right?
And it feels like Miami played. Miami played well.
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I thought played solid. I mean, I'm not.
Maybe they don't feel the same way, but I'm like, I feel like
Miami made some plays. I don't think anybody is Miami
fans complaining about Miami play today.
No, I, I and of course every Notre Dame follower.
But if we. Won that game.
I think we'd all have the same complaints if it if we got to
stop and miss that field goal and we go down and hit a field
goal at the end. We went 2724.
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I don't think any of us are like, oh, but this is this is
the year we're running the table.
A&M, we're beating them by 50. I'm not planning my return trip
to Miami at this point if we winthat game.
Yeah, exactly. Like, yeah.
January 20th national championship, Yeah, Still
getting past eight. No, again, we got to we got to
think about A&M in a couple weeks.
Yeah, but everything Notre Dame wants to accomplish is ahead of
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us. Yeah, I was going to say this is
what we said a couple weeks ago.This bye week's going to be the
greatest bye week or one of the worst bye weeks.
And we're at that worst. Like it's going to feel this
this week is going to feel longer than the offseason like
though, like not this next Saturday, a Saturday after like
it's it sucks having the bye right here.
You definitely wish you had a not a cupcake, but somewhere
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you'll get some momentum going in A&M.
So we saw some reactions on the old X and So what are some of
the highlights we saw? Because I love the reaction.
Overreaction under reaction. Yeah, so this morning I put out
a little post. Let me just read it off to you
on the old X account. We said, all right, you've had
some time now to digest the game.
Let's hear your thoughts. Best ones make the post.
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Game pod now drop today. So yeah, we're going to run
through some of these. Let's hear your reaction to some
of these. There's some good ones.
There's some bad ones, I mean, but hey, it's overreactions,
right? That's what we like.
Here we go From Mike Acosta, Jeremiah Love went from the best
running back in the country to the best decoy in the country.
It's not a bad take. It's not a bad take.
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I mean, we're going to hype him up all offseason.
Yeah. And then?
He did. He got especially the first
half, like he was not getting much.
Towards the end of the game, we started to find him in the
passing game and Huh started coming back.
And yeah, they tried to work himin.
You know, we saw that wheel wereout.
We saw them try to just do different things to get them
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involved more in the second-halfso.
And and I think Miami was keyingon him.
They're like, he's not going to beat us.
And that didn't help. And I think that's why Price
maybe had a little bit, but Price is such a good back.
People don't realize how good ofa back he is.
But I mean, Jeremiah Love had a couple couple leaps, couple
shoulder look, you know, in the guy, I mean, he had small
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snippets. He just didn't have enough.
I'd like to see him get the 20 touches.
And I don't think he got 20 touches in that game.
He had 5-6 carries. Carter, do you remember?
Bryce. Or no love.
Bryce had 6 I don't know how many love ended up with.
He had more touches. I was thinking he was.
Probably 10 or 11. Yeah, I was going to say he had
more than. I was thinking like 6 carries
and like. But Price is our leading rusher
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with 45. Yeah, Jeremiah Love had 10
carries for 33. CJ had 11 carries for 16.
OK, how many receptions did lovehave?
How many receptions Love had? He had four for 26.
OK, so he got 14 touches. Yep.
Which is more than I thought he had.
It didn't feel like he got 14 touches in that game.
All right, you guys ready for the next one?
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Yeah, let's go to the next. This is at Jimmy under score.
Dean 59. Hand the ball to your running
back. It's cars.
First start. Everyone on the planet who knows
football knows that the running game opens up the passing game.
Use the best running back in thecountry and throw the ball.
Or, my bad, use the best runningback in the country and not
throw the ball 30 times in a kid's first start.
Our genius OST apparently doesn't know that.
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No, I, I think it's a fair criticism unless you take a step
back and say how bad was the offensive line?
Yeah. And if you if you realize coming
into the game the offensive lineis going to be a liability, not
a strength, then the screen passmakes all the sense in the
world. However, as someone who's played
offensive line at least once in my life, yeah, I know that run
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blocking is a whole heck of a lot easier than pass blocking.
I mean it. So if you were run blocking and
you could fire off and just pop the guy across from you and
start shoving, it's a whole heckof a lot easier.
And that and that usually gets offensive lineman going.
So I kind of wonder if we'd havetried to run more in the
beginning if we'd had more success with the run as opposed
to, you know, trying to pass block and getting our guys on
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their heels and not having that success.
Yeah, I mean it's easier attack than come back and.
Yeah, it's it's it's going afterthe guy or sitting back and
waiting for the guy to come after you is really the.
Difference of those. Right.
And it's, it's a totally different dynamic.
And I, I would, I'd much rather get a running start, you know,
Yeah. Then have to sit there and wait
for the guy to come after me. Especially when you got athletes
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like Miami, Scott. I mean, they got they got some
good defensive fronts. So what's your thought on that,
Jordan? You like that?
You like that tweet? Yeah, I mean, yeah, den Brock
was catching some heat for sure.And what I give him credit for
though, even last year and so far in game one, is he he sticks
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with the game plan. You know, I think last year I
was very critical of me like youneed to try this, you need to do
this. And you know what, he's just a
slow and steady wins the race type of OC.
And that's what I got to give him credit for.
So, and if you rewind the clock to maybe a month, two months
ago, all Notre Dame fans, we want a passing offense, We want
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all of this. We want the ball in the air.
We don't want to run the ball 40* a game.
Yeah. What happens week one, we throw
the ball 30 times. Love and Price, he'll get as
many touches. We got this passing quarterback
everyone's always wanted and yeah, now it's we should have
run the ball more. Well, there's a million plus
Notre Dame fans. Oh yeah, I know.
And. You're going to find the happy
fans and and again, if you're happy with yesterday's
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performance, there's things to be happy about.
You're not going to be nearly asvocal and nearly as loud.
And, you know, saying that is the people who are angry and
miserable and unhappy and, you know, and there's just a
contingent. Notre Dame fans are going to
complain about anything no matter what.
It's like there's never. I mean, we could.
We could score 99 maybe. People saying TJ car was the
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worst thing ever so yeah. You know, I mean, there's people
one of. Mostly on our page were pretty
solid, but yeah, I did see on other people's pages were going
after him. So that's what I do appreciate.
And there were people that wanted Marcus Freeman fired
after NIU last. Year that, you know, I haven't
seen that yet, but I haven't. Seen over his head yet, But
yeah, wait, wait till if we don't beat A&M, wait, yeah, that
that drum will get really loud all of a sudden.
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All right, so the next one comesfrom game gap.
Detroit, CJ, bullet points here.CJ Carr got his first game out
of the way and did a really goodjob play calling what's around
us both off at the defense. It's early, but the bye week is
crucial. Get things figured out.
J Love needs to be fed the ball more.
And the last one is 11 and one. I like that mindset.
Yeah, got a lot of more guaranteed opportunities, I'm
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sure, is what Marcus Freeman saying.
All right. Any comments on that?
You want me to roll to the next one?
I think that's pretty. That's pretty succinct.
I I don't think there's much to comment there.
I like this one a lot from parmesan cheese one O line and D
line look rough. I like the handle.
I know O line, D line look rough.
I would not want to be in that film room.
I've seen a lot of chatter aboutDen Brock's play calling.
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I'm not sure if there isn't something else going on there.
Car was announced as QB One lessthan two weeks ago.
Plenty of time to get ready for A&M.
Now what I do like about this iscalling out, Yeah, but not want
to be watching film for this one.
I'm sure there's definitely somewords in different rooms and but
yes, also I know Freeman, he's apretty level headed guy.
So I don't know that's I I thinkoffense line, defensive line
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room, probably not. It's not a fun game to go back
and watch. You you can't think of yourself
as O line you and be happy with that performance.
I mean, you just, you just can't.
And the defensive, the again, the defensive front, I, I wished
it was better, but I'm not surprised by that.
I figured that Miami be able to get a push 2-3 yards.
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But even then, there was a lot of plays where we were in the
backfield, but the Miami runningback turned what looked like
going to be a loss for a yard into a 2-3 yard gain.
I mean, how many times that happened yesterday yards after?
Congress tackles. Yeah, that's what I was going to
say. I think, you know, everyone
says, you know, they're online, really in that third quarter
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opening drive for them that took7 1/2 minutes.
So it felt like an hour off of the clock.
They were just leaning on us andwe were tired.
We couldn't get pressure. And I was like, we got to get
off the field, got to get off the field.
And we'd make a player to, like you said, Chad, and then they
turn around and they get anotherfirst down.
And it was like it was very demoralizing.
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I think that that was probably expose that exposed us a little
bit to say, OK, like we can makea player too.
But you know, they we couldn't just sustain it and get off the
field. And that happened a couple
different times. Yeah, and it's one of those
things where CJ Carr probably makes his best play of the night
on his first touchdown pass, right?
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He beats beats a guy out. Why beats that makes that
defensive lineman run circles, throws that touchdown.
His next play is a QB kneel going in the half and then Miami
goes it's halftime. Then Miami goes on that and
Miami scored before that. So it was a long drive and kneel
halftime and another long Miami drive and then the three and
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out. It was just like all that
offensive momentum we may have started to have right there was
gone. Like it was probably an I didn't
see an actual time but I'm assuming an hour between.
Like if you take out that QB kneel from his touchdown pass to
his. Yeah, it had to be.
Yeah, you had to. And his first three boxes were
he short armed, one, they got pressure in his face and then he
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overthrew the guy. But then the.
And that, yeah, but then the offense got back going a little
bit and we saw some momentum andwe saw some progress like.
Well, I thought absolutely. I felt like that momentum came
when we start trying to throw the ball down field a little bit
more and run a little bit more. Instead of the screen stuff, we
got away from the screen stuff, that adjustment and it and it
seemed like our offense was starting to click.
But also, one of our keys to thegame was that middle 8 and Miami
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dominated it. They owned it, they just owned
the middle 8 and I would have loved.
I know it's easy to say in hindsight, but at the time I'm
like, why are we taking a knee here in the half?
Just take the shot. 15 seconds, I mean, first, yeah, take.
The shot, you know, just send everybody on the fly route and
tell CJ, hey. Can we get some are offensive
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line to block three guys? Yeah, yeah, even if they're in
three vent, they might, they might sack him with one guy
coming. But you can.
Nose tackle up the middle, unguarded.
Rolling to the right, rolling tothe left and let him rolling let
him heave it. But I got in hindsight's 2020.
Yeah, I got one last. I think it's a good one to wrap
it up on the fan tweet. So we got from Carlton under
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score Butler. New era of college football
allows for every team to grow throughout the season.
Everything we saw last night wasfixable.
And let's not forget Miami is good this year.
I mean, I think that sums it up pretty solid.
Everything. Yeah, it's week 1.
I mean, we we watched a lot of football this weekend.
No team was perfect. There's going to be teams that
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Alabama could win the national championship nerd and go win the
national championship. Texas to win the national
championship after being told that the worst thing ever after
one game, right? Yeah.
I mean, that's college football for you.
They're 18 to I'd say 22, but 25year old kids now, right?
But let's just be honest here, Lee Corso.
Perfect, perfect. I had friends texted me that
Sunday and I'm like, I'm going to love this.
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Yeah, I don't love it. Where?
And he always picks Notre Dame. Every team he coached or played
for one. One and every pick he got right.
And he always picks Notre Dame. He usually does he.
And literally Kurt was like, youalways pick the Irish.
She's like, not today. And I was like, gosh darn, don't
love that. He was on.
He was on his game. He was on his game one last
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time. Yeah.
You guys got any final comments you want me to get into how our
contest results went? Well, I yeah, a lot to be said,
but nothing good at this point. It's just don't overreact, don't
underreact. I think we just got to stay calm
and get ready and get ready to prepare.
I mean, we're going to go to A&M.
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That's that's going to be a nervous feel.
It's not just you're not going to feel good about going into A
and MI wouldn't feel good about going to A&M.
But now going O and two, you cango on a 1010 game run and maybe
get yourself as a conversation. You're you're not controlling
your destiny. But it doesn't feel good.
Yeah, if we if we win the A&M game, I'm going to feel a lot
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better. Yeah.
But I don't, you know, I mean, A&M is going to present its own
set of challenges and how much is fixable?
What can we fix? And I really think it comes down
to this. I think we were like one or two
key offensive lineman, like reserves away from having a
solid game. If Shane Gills wasn't out for
tailgating, I think we'd had something, yeah.
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That's true, yeah. Shane don't party so.
Hard this week. That's right, Shane.
Yeah. Actually, he's he's performing
this weekend at at Notre Dame Stadium, right?
Yeah, he's performing this. Weekend.
Oh, shoot. Tell.
Him to stay out of the backer next weekend, we need to.
Call him in. No, kid Jordan, you got
anything? So I just have a couple things
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to close out that I've kind of made notes of, not that it was a
there's a factor for both teams,but I think the weather early it
was, it was raining a lot harderthan I thought you.
Had a friend of the game, it waspouring pregame.
Yeah. And I didn't know how that would
affect cramping. I think Notre Dame, you know, I
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get we had a few guys I think early, but it looked like Miami
was cramping worse in the second-half.
And you know, like I said, both teams are dealing with the the
weather. So that's not really a a factor.
But the the one handed catch andthe pick that the guy jumped in,
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it bounced and bounced and kicked it in there like those
were those are fluke like just bad luck place.
But also Nord Ames. Defense, they were a huge place.
Nord Ames defense in it created any turnovers, which is just
really disappointing. And that's the other thing, you
go -2 in the turnover battle andyou lose by three on the road.
Yeah, it's like, didn't play well, lost a turnover battle and
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still only lost by three on the road to a #10 And I'll say this,
Miami sounded loud. You had friends at the game.
Yeah, it was loud. Great atmosphere, they said.
But did the crowd? I don't not one false start, not
one time out because you couldn't get the play call I
mean. Yeah, I think we stopped one
delay game. Yeah, it.
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Was great, but Miami had more delayed games than we did.
Yeah. And it was, I mean, so it was a
great atmosphere, it was a greatcrowd, but it didn't, it didn't
affect the game. Which maybe Matt, if I'm a fan,
taking a time out right out of half time off for a delay of
game that always just gets a guylike, Oh my gosh, like that was
yeah, I was like, what are you doing?
7 1/2 minute drive later, I forgive you.
(35:43):
No kidding. You, you forget that one real
quick. But yeah, it's the little
things. Well, yeah, I mean, obviously
disappointing. Probably 6 rushes, 45 yards.
Wish we'd still have a little bit more in the second-half,
which we saw a little bit more love early get those guys going.
Faizon, I thought played pretty solid.
Definitely disappointed on the captain's front.
Didn't seem like any of the captains step up.
You know all this great things about Will Paulding, He comes to
(36:04):
captain, didn't even hear his name.
Bowen, Bowen and jeweler. Wagner on the line?
Yeah. Yeah, I think that's that's my
big call out. We're going to do a call out.
You know, we did that a little bit last year right after the
Games call out the captains. The the Tommy Reese, do your
job, Yeah. Goes to anybody who was a
captain on the. You got AC on your jersey on the
(36:25):
front side of it and step it up for A&M.
But all right, I know everyone'sbeen waiting for the results for
two tickets to entry into our two tickets Week 1.
Who's it going to be? And gets a Suite Irish 65 shirt
right. They got Irish 365T coming.
So congratulations to at Dean the Dream 23.
(36:49):
All right, way to go, Dean the Dream, 2323.
That's a pretty sweet handle. We had some pretty sweet ones.
So yeah, you. Your name's officially going
into the hat. We'll be DM ING you on the old X
Get your T-shirt size. Get a shirt size and a place to
send it to. Yep.
So we'll be looking out for that.
And I need to know what's the inspiration for the 23?
There's a lot of great 20 threesand a lot of great sports.
(37:10):
I'd I'd like to know what is 23 comes from.
So Dean the Dream 23 Congratulations, you are one
step closer to winning Nerd and Syracuse tickets.
Absolutely. All right.
Zero through 22 was taken I think.
Yeah, Dean, the Dream 20. Was it just unlucky?
How many, Dean, the dreams are there.
Hey, we'll do some research at the show.
All right, Coach Freeman, I guess we did run out of time
(37:31):
today. Maybe next time, right, Jordan?
That's right. We'll see what we try.
Next time, all. Right, as always, go Irish.
We hope you enjoyed this episodeof the Irish 365 Podcast.
You can find us wherever you getyour podcast.
We are on YouTube X Instagram and Facebook.
Just search for Irish 365 pod. And you can always reach us at
(37:52):
our e-mail irish365.pod@gmail.com.
Goodnight and God bless.
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