September 18, 2025 • 38 mins
Review of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish Football Game game against Texas A and M Aggies, and a preview of the upcoming game against the Purdue Boilermakers.
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It's the moment you didn't know you're waiting for.
He is Carter, he's chat and thisis the.
Irish 365 Podcast Welcome into the Irish 365 Podcast.
We're back here with the Purdue Pregame show.
Now let's just get right into it.
I've had a couple people reach out to me.
I'm sure you've had a couple people reach out to you.
Where? Where's the ANM post game show?
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Hey, it was a good one. It yeah, that's on me.
Technical difficulties. Carter was doing a remote.
I kind of forgot to turn his micon.
So we had a great conversation, but it was all one sided and and
it was long periods of pause where I'm just waiting on him to
finish talking and it so it wasn't very entertaining in that
respect to playback, but. And we've had quite the hectic
week where we haven't been able to reshoot it and it's just one
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of those things that we're goingto.
Get we'll just, let's wrap it up.
I mean, real quick. We'll take 5 minutes.
We'll hit the review of A&M. There's a lot on social media, a
lot's been said. I will say this pregame
atmosphere was really good. Yep, Crowd was hype.
The campus vibe was good. Notre Dame showed up for a night
game in all kinds of ways, shapes and forms.
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So I thought it was really good in that respect.
Get into the game couldn't have started much better.
First quarter we got a pump block, I mean scoop and score
things were going well. So felt good about that.
A and MI think was was solid in a lot of different ways that
they were as expected with they played well.
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So yeah, it was kind of kind of back and forth it longest game
ever, right? Yeah, almost 4 hours. 4 hours.
It was, it was a long game. And I think probably the biggest
thing we noticed about being a long game was it was the first
time alcohol sales were in the stadium.
Yeah. And something I've never seen
was long lines in the men's restroom the entire game.
Usually that's that's reserved for winter time when people are
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trying to warm up. Yeah, it was the entire game.
There was there was lines for for days.
Yeah, the men's bathroom lines are I've.
I've never waited 5 minutes, which I sound like a crybaby
right now waiting 5 minutes to go to the bathroom but just not
something you're used to doing. Yeah, not, not typical, that's
for sure. It was a little different.
So, So yeah, anyway, it was I I thought game wise, Notre Dame
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played well enough offensively to win that game.
And there was some, you know, I think I saw Tim Priester had an
article and, you know, he talkedto Gino Goddouli the other day
and Goddouli said like, we left 21 points on the board.
So I mean, you know, they offensively we played well and
well enough. Defensively, we almost played
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well enough. And there's a lot of people
going back and forth about, you know, calls and there's calls
both ways every game. Not one call, not one player,
not one play. I mean, there's there's if I
were going to summarize the game, there's a lot of almost or
what could have swung the tide or, you know, things that could
have gone slightly different. I mean, we could have.
We could have blown A&M out and A&M probably thinks they could
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have blown us out. I was going to say, obviously
something we talked about the other day that didn't get didn't
get out there, but there's a play in the first half.
We got him in 3rd and eight withabout 8 minutes to go in that
first half where we're up 10 points.
It's like if we get a stop there, make it a 17 point game,
A&M might get the ball right before the half, maybe with a
couple minutes left. And then we get the ball right
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out of half. And it's like all of a sudden
it's a 24 point game where then if you go back and watch it
where it's they get a third and eight and then by they're
beating us at half time, all of a sudden like it just a crazy
turn of events. So yeah, definitely a game where
it just feels like you let one go.
But also how do we stay that close at times?
You know what I mean? It's just one.
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Of those things that and and. It was a game of so many
emotions. Yeah, it it was gut wrenching
it. I'd rather get blown out than
lose a close game like that at the end and come down to the
last second and just. Yeah, and guys, guys dropping
picks miss. Picks.
Yeah, just, you know, and I one of the things I thought about in
real time was, you know, they, they we scored and they took
that kick off back and they scored and it's like it would
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have been nice if they'd have scored.
We got the ball back with that last two minutes to drive.
Feels like our offense would have probably got at least a
field goal there with that much time. 3 timeouts.
Yeah, we, yeah, we've declined that penalty and let them have
the score. Who knows?
Which in in the moment would have felt crazy.
If you lose, that game seems even crazier.
But you gotta trust the defense,right?
Hindsight, it's easier to say that.
It's hard to say that, you know,And yeah, so I don't think
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there's a whole lot we need to say about it.
It's been all over social media,you know, the whole, I've heard
criticism of every player, everycoach, every blade of grass,
every official 1 is like, it sucks, but we lost 4140.
If we'd have scored 42, we'd have won.
You know, if we'd have gave up 39, we would have won.
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So when you, when you score 40, you feel like you ought to win.
And when you give up 41, you feel like you ought to lose.
So it is what it is. And it's not exciting.
So anyway, any Jeremiah love looked good.
Didn't look, didn't love what I.Think between him and Price, 35
carries. Yeah, I didn't love the Wildcat
as much as it didn't get blockedas well as it could have.
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It was effective. And maybe we'll get into that a
little bit in the what we're going to do this week.
But I'm I'm on the opposite side.
I don't hate it as much as you would.
I've got some tweaks for it. Yeah.
All right. Well, yeah, I think there's some
tweaks. I there's some things they could
do better. But anyway, that's A&M, that's
the review. That's all you get.
That's all you probably want. Now I was gonna say, you're
probably tired. Tired of it I am at this point.
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And then yeah, we'll get we reached out to him on X, but
Congrats to at Real Irish Fan, our contest winner last week.
Got the closest yards without going over well we had.
People not following us. And being a follower.
Yeah, I was gonna say we had some people not following us, so
that kind of took them out of it.
So make sure you're following he's I realized friends about to
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get his shirt shipped to him andour winner from week 1, which
I'm blanking on the name right now.
Shirts are in the mill. Yep, Dino Bambino 23 we we had
some shipping delays with the shirts, but we got them now.
They should be coming to you. They're they're in route.
So good, good news. They should be here in the next
couple days. So yeah, obviously, thanks for
that. We'll get into the contest at
the end, so don't you guys worry.
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But yeah, let's get ready for Interstate rivalry, right?
That's what we're going to call it, right?
It's not quite the state championship, but it's close.
I mean, they did beat Indiana State.
No, no, that was last year. They beat Indiana State.
That was the one. With IU beat Indiana State.
IU beat them this year, OK, yeah.
But yeah, we got Purdue. They just came off interested
game versus USC. More competitive than I expected
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them. To be very competitive, yeah,
their defense will get into them, but look pretty solid.
They we're down 20 to 3 and kindof made it interesting and
obviously we didn't watch the game.
It was supposed to be a 330 kickand then got delayed and I don't
think kicked off till 6:00. Yeah, because of weather.
Weather, so that obviously always sucks, but yeah, had some
Purdue fans I've been talking toget picking their brains, but
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the consensus is they did some couple dumb picks, couple dumb
plays that cost them, which is not out of the question for
Purdue, right? Yeah, but I mean, there was the
turnover for USC pick whatever that turned into the touchdown
for Purdue that. Yeah, It was an interesting.
It was like a double pass play that then got intercepted on the
first. There was a triple pass play,
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right? I think it was was tight enough
to be where quarterback throws it behind him to a wide
receiver, then just going to throw it back to the quarterback
across the field. USC intercepts it, I guess
recovers the fumble. I don't know what you'd call it.
Yeah, it's backwards, but I think he's still caught it out
of the air. So picks up the fumble, then
fumbles it, and then the Purdue's quarterback picks it up
and runs for a touchdown. Yeah, it's like what?
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Huh. I mean that.
What in the EA college football video game is this?
Yeah. Exactly.
So I know that was all over social, or at least I see it in
social multiple different places.
So anyway, let's let's get into it.
Purdue. What?
What? What do you know about Purdue?
They've got all new coaching staff this year, 82 new players,
only 82, only 82. OK, so that's that's a lot even
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for modern college football. That's almost what I I you did
last. Year, yeah.
I mean, this is a team that's completely different from last
year. They looks like they're
competing out on the field. You're not just going to go and
walk all over them. They look like they have a
little pride this year, which I think is definitely something
you felt like they lacked last year.
Not not just losing games, but just in like, OK, what are we,
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what are we doing here? Jeff Brahm was definitely their
coach for a long time where theywere just there.
There weren't a national championship team.
But if you didn't take them seriously, they're going to go
out and they're going to beat you.
They can sneak on you. Yeah, exactly.
And it's a team that that just can compete, and it sounds like
they're kind of getting back to that.
Yeah, I've got some friends. Christian Peyton, shout out to
you guys for all the info on Purdue because I'm going to be
honest, I haven't watched a lickhave pretty football this year.
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I guess I watched like 1/4 when they're playing Ball State
right? I guess I saw some pre season
highlights which they were dropping balls and I thought is
that all the media is that I sawa little bit of them playing
Ball State. And then, yeah, I saw the
highlight from the game last weekend where the USC, whatever
that was, debacle that turned into a Purdue touchdown.
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Yeah, So what? So what I've got on him is
Browns, their quarterback 56 for88.5 touchdowns, 4 interceptions
this year. Yeah, that's their guy.
Sounds like he when he's got time, can hurt you, which is
most quarterbacks, let's be honest.
But when he's got time, he can. But he's been sacked 6 times
through three games. He's played USC, both State and
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I'm forgetting who they played in the first week, but it wasn't
a wasn't necessary was, was not a group of it was a group of
five team. It was not an Power Four team.
She has sacks, 6 * 2 sacks a game and then gets pressured
quite a bit. So yeah, that's going to be the
biggest question for Notre Dame.We've got one sack through two
games. Yeah.
So the question is, how many of those six sacks came from USC?
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Yeah, I don't know if we can find that real quick, but I'll
look here in a minute. But yeah, definitely.
The thing is, how many, how can we get pressure on him?
That's been the biggest questionfor Notre Dame's defense.
If we get pressure on anyone, that's going to fix a lot of
defensive problems, in my opinion.
I mean, if you get pressure, corners don't have to be in
coverage as long. All that stuff, man, zone
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doesn't matter if you're sackingthe quarterback, right?
Well, if you can get pressure, you can play man, yeah, a lot
easier. And if you play man with
pressure, even zone. But yeah, you want to ideal.
You want to be able to play man and get pressure and force
throws early. Same thing with zone.
To some degree you want, but zone's supposed to be a little
bit better depending on who you talk to.
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Most cultures will tell you zone's better if you're having a
hard time getting home because you don't have to cover people
as much as you have to cover thean area.
And but we found it's been easy enough for our opponents to find
holes in our zone. Yeah, and that's the thing.
Actually some of our man coverage has has not been great
either. If you look at the statistics,
it's not just zone, it's there'ssome man coverage breaks.
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Zone's been better for us, but it's not like oh man's been
perfect either. USC had five of the sacks.
OK, so. Tells you what you need to know
when they play an axe because their first game was Southern
Illinois and then or Ball State,then Southern Illinois and then
lost to USC last weekend. So, but also Brown had three
interceptions last week for his USC and I'm assuming with
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pressure and all those things, but he also did go 24 for 39 and
three O 5. Not not a bad.
I mean, obviously take away the interceptions, it's a lot
different story. I'm sure 'cause it's 3317 pick
late, I'm pretty sure is what I've heard.
But yeah, Purdue's got some, Purdue's got some wide receivers
this year. Let's get it.
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Let's see if I get their names right.
So their big running back is Maccabee I, which I remember him
from last year, I believe is oneof the returners.
Yep, 4 good receivers, Branch, Tuggle, Horton Junior and
Michael Jackson. He he, he, Yep.
So that's their that's their playmakers on the offensive side
of the ball. Defensively, I think it's their
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primary guy is a transfer from UNLV.
Right. I mean, yeah, I think a lot of
transfers in there, yeah, 'causethis coach came from UNLV, yeah.
Yeah, and he brought a few guys with him.
I know there's an offensive lineman that's a starter they're
really high on. And then there's a, like I said,
the linebacker. I don't remember who else from
you LV. Yeah.
So the biggest thing I'm gathered on Purdue is they're
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going to compete with us. I mean, they're going to compete
the whole 60 minutes, no matter if it's 50, nothing or it's 4 to
950. It's a team that definitely can
tell is they're they've got experience, but not experience
playing together. Yeah.
So, yeah, what what's that look like?
When when do they gel? And yeah, hopefully it's not
week 3, right. I mean, it's a team that could
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be scary, could could upset someone.
I mean, I think that was always the fun part about Purdue.
They they would go upset A-Team a year.
Luckily, it wasn't us too often.But they can't do it.
They. They can do it so.
So, yeah, And you know, I talkedto Purdue fans and it's kind of
the same thing. They they just want the team to
be competitive and they don't want to be entertain them,
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entertain them to a. Basketball season, yeah, they
don't want to be the national embarrassment.
Yeah, like that's they don't want to be one.
They don't want to have one win against Indiana State.
Like they need to be middle of the pack Big 10 and they'll be
thrilled. Yeah, be competitive.
Get us, get us some. Entertainment.
Yeah, they're being IU. Life's good, yeah?
And and beat IU if you can. Obviously IU is really good
right now, so that'll be interesting, but they had a
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match up with Illinois this week, which I'll be intrigued to
follow along. So yeah, you got anything else
on the Purdue offense? That's kind of it.
On the offense, I think they're going to try and be more
prostyle. I think is is the only way I can
describe it. Yep.
All right. So then on their defense, I've
been told they're actually been a pretty, pretty solid defensive
team. Interesting thing for you,
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opponents haven't scored in the second-half against them.
And I find that very interesting.
That's good coaching adjustments.
Yeah, that's, that's making, making, figuring out what's
going on. Obviously you're watching film
before the game, but everyone's got a different game plan,
especially earlier in the season.
You, you think they're going to do something and then they they
go do something else, right? And you got to figure it out on
the fly. She has zero second-half points
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is pretty, pretty impressive, even with two bad games in it.
But USC and USC only scored I think 2 touchdowns on them and
then a couple, I think there's apick 6 as well.
So I mean, that one obviously doesn't count against the
defense. But yeah, they they they do a
lot with Notre Dame last year play a lot of man coverage.
Yeah, so. And so the question I've got at
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this point is, is USC not as good as they think they are or
you think they could be, which scares me because they're ranked
25, we're ranked 24. And so are we that bad?
I believe we're the best O and two team in the country.
I just don't know as an O2 team,are we really top 25 team yet?
If we go O and three, I, I know what we are.
Even if we go 2 and one or one and two, I just still don't know
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or know what we are. But we at least have the
measuring stick against USC. You also know USC never travels
well when they come east to the to the Eastern Time zone.
They just struggle. And I read all kinds of stuff on
USC and they've got a new charter jet and bigger seats and
longer aisles and yadda yadda yadda.
And didn't seem to help him on the Purdue game.
I mean, they won. They won, but they didn't win
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going away. Like, yeah, they thought they
were going to against Purdue. So yeah.
So the question is, you know, how good is this Purdue team and
how good is this Purdue defense?And what we've seen is the
transfer portal where you can take a team that's not very good
to make them pretty good in the pretty quickly course of a
season. If you can figure out how to
gel, yeah. And change one defensive
coordinator and you can take a team that's pretty good and make
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them not so good. All of a.
Sudden, that's what the rumors are on the street.
The things people say, I don't buy it.
But you know what they say, if it's if it's not broke, fix it,
right? Yeah, exactly.
So yeah, I think it's going to be an interesting match up.
And I also think you've got the poor situation for Purdue where
Notre Dame is coming into PurdueWeek 3 and they are irritated.
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They're frustrated. They have underperformed, so are
they going to take it out on Purdue or is this going to
become the new identity? Yeah, and I feel like this was
such an interesting thing last year because I don't remember
what the spread was on this gamecoming in right after the NIU
loss, but I was convinced we might lose.
Yeah, we lost to NIU. How?
How? What?
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And then we went up and put 70 up on them.
Yeah, so I'm really hoping to see some Kenny Minchi time.
I really am against Purdue. I'm hoping we get such a lead
and but I don't know. My score prediction is not going
to be that way, I'll put it thatway.
Yeah, I I'm so back and forth on.
I can see this game's going so many different ways, but we'll
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get into that score predictions a little bit later.
But yeah, it just feels like, isPurdue going to come in and
notice a guy? Well, we're going to get a win
this week because we've seen that with Marcus Freeman at
first year under after Ohio State's like, all right, well,
we lost the Ohio State. That happens.
We're going to beat Marshall though, right?
And lo and behold. Marshall beat us.
Marshall beat us, so yeah. It's kind of one of those things
where it's like, all right, it'sour team, like, all right, well,
we got those two tough ones thatwe'll go beat Purdue and then
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we'll figure out what's next, right?
We'll go figure out Arkansas. So, yeah.
And then so that's going to be the interesting part for me.
What what mindset does Notre Dame have?
I'd like to tell myself it's going to be angry Notre Dame
because I saw some guys playing angry last week, but I didn't
see everyone, Drake Bowen, for example, like I.
Did not see a lack of effort. Yeah, I'm just saying playing
angry, like I feel like last year we played.
Bowen was playing with a chip onhis shoulder for sure.
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And ATM he was, he was letting people know he was there when he
when he tapped him. Yeah.
So, yeah. So if I'm Purdue and I'm going
to attack Notre Dame offensively, you know, I, I'm
just going to try and protect myquarterback and find those spots
in the zone which Notre Dame seems to be prone to and Notre
Dame was struggling to get pressure.
I may, I may go 2 tight end setsat times just Max protect and
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just let my quarterback halftimebecause I'm confident with my
quarterback having time. I don't know what happened that
USC got 5 sacks. I don't know if US CS defensive
line's just that good or Purdue's line's not as good, but
I'm going to, I'm going to try and air it out.
I'm not going to try and run on Notre Dame.
I'm going to run just enough to keep them honest.
And I'm going to try and let my quarterbacks at the back there
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and get, I'm going to find ways to get him time.
And this is 1. Not to forget Don Schuler out
that first half, Yeah. And some of those other
safeties. I thought Tay Tay Johnson looked
pretty solid, talic at his moment, had a couple plays.
And yeah, we had, we had some questions at the younger spots
of the safety, which I'm sure we'll get figured out, but.
But Talich and like Tay Tay, there was a couple times in the
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A&M game where they just, they were just out of position.
It wasn't a lack of effort, it was just out of position.
I think it was two or three plays.
I remember where Tay Tay come upfrom the safety spot and he was
like. Picked up a running back out one
of them and he got burnt right back in his.
He was. Closer to the freaking line than
he was line. Like he was out of the
linebackers. It's like you and he wasn't
blitzing like I thought, was he going to blitz?
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No, didn't blitz so. Yeah, there's one I remember
where, which I don't know what the play call was.
I don't know what his read was. I don't know if he did exactly
what he's supposed to do or justhad a itch, but the running back
came out almost out of the backfield and he just shoots up
the gap right at the running back.
And then quarterback just found right where he was.
You know, I'm going to, I don't know if like if that's who he's
supposed to be on, that's what his play assignment was and he's
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picking up the running back comes out of the backfield and
other guys got his back. But so yeah, it'll be
interesting this week. Produce, produce can throw the
ball. They can put up some numbers
offensively. And they got to feel good about
their chances about going into ashootout with Notre Dame at this
point, Like, OK, if their defense is as good as it has
been the second-half, can they can they, can they run with us?
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Can they score with us? And then can they stop us
second-half. And I feel like our offense is
just getting started. And I feel like our offense is
our offense is going to be as good as our defense was last
year. Unfortunately, our defense isn't
playing to that standard. But if I'm Purdue, that's kind
of my game plan going in offensively, defensively, if I'm
Purdue, I'm going to do what I've been doing at this point
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because I'm going to probably try and take away the I'm going
to probably try and take away the throw and, and they're going
to run man coverage. They're not going to CJ burn you
deep, keep everything in front of you.
Shorten the game by making NotreDame run the ball now.
See if we stay patient. Yeah, problem is, you know, Love
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and Price, we're a couple of shoestring tackles away from
taking big, big freaking runs. So I think it's going to be
tough for Purdue's defense, but it's almost going to have to be
like this. We're going to let you score.
We're going to try and score with you and we're going to try
and make just enough adjustments, you know, because
what are we going to, what are we going to get from Notre
Dame's offense? We're going to, we didn't see
any RPOI, don't really think against A&M, we saw lots of the
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Wildcat. So are we going to see some
Wildcats, some RPO mixed in? We're going to see something
completely new that we're going to run 15 times, you know, that
no one anticipated. And I think that's the
interesting thing. Yeah, I I'm kind of different
with you. I think Purdue's going to throw
a lot of pressure at Notre Dame and try to make us throw the
ball and just get pressure on CGI mean he's shown that he can
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make the plays, but he's also going to do one or two.
He's going. To make I say I say freshman,
but he's not a freshman. Red shirt.
Yeah, red shirt like he's going to do something freshman.
So if Purdue feels like their offense could keep them in this
game, if you just say, all right, let's sell out on the run
because the odds of nerd and fumbling.
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Yeah, I just don't know that they have the the defensive
lineman to get pressure. I, I, I mean, they just might
throw linebacker blitzes, everything is what I'm saying.
They might. They might just sit in the house
if I'm. Bringing 5 or 6 and trying to do
it maybe? Yeah, that's just because it
sounds like they're going to play man.
So that's what I'm saying. If they if they want to play man
and just bring 5 or 6 guys, that'd be interesting.
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Now, I think what a big match for Notre Dame is Jeremiah Love
and Jeremiah Bryce. A very good pass pick up
blockers. But then when they have to do
that, they're not weapons out inthe field, right?
Yeah. I mean, yes, it's fantastic.
Jeremiah Love can pick up a great pass block.
That just means he's not gettingthe ball in his hands that play.
Yeah, he's well as a defense. That's kind of a win, right?
That's right, I'd rather have him blocking linebackers and
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running past them. Yeah.
So, so yeah, just an interestingthing.
I you think they're going to, you think Perdue's going to try
to force us to run or I think it's going to be.
I think they're going to try andtake away the pass and and keep.
Keep everything in front, which makes sense.
But yeah, I don't know. I, I think CJCJS going to make a
mistake or two again, they capitalize on it will be the
question we got Notre Dame's offensive line was a lot better
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last week than it did against Miami, which obviously helps.
Playing at home, having a game of film to go back and watch and
say OK. But also helps that we were
trying to get a lot more like the RPO is the hardest to block
for. Oh yeah, because you have to,
you have to pass block because you can't go down field.
You have to pass block, but you also have to open up lanes.
And it's it's the RPO is the hardest to block for.
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And run blocking is always easier.
So the more run blocking you're doing, you're firing off because
when you're run blocking, you can just hit the guy and take
him down the field 40 yards and no one's going to throw a flag
on you. You don't have to worry about
that kind of a thing. So I think getting more run
place helped the offensive line and then it was easier to pass
block because you were you got your mojo going.
So from the Notre Dame perspective, I expect us to try
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and run a lot anyway. I, I think we will, I think
that'll be the big thing. I think we'll use the, I think
we'll see the quarterback draw show its head a little bit.
I think we're going to see Jeremiah Love and Price getting
the ball a lot because I think that's going to be something
that I don't think the Purdue's front is going to be.
So they got a good linebacker, but I don't think they're going
to be so stout that we won't feel like we can't just rub the
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ball on them. And then and if they do suck up,
then we can, we can try and throw the ball over the top, you
know, but CJ, throw sparingly. And I'll say maybe, maybe 1/3 of
our past our plays are past pace.
I don't think, I don't think we're going to be balanced.
I think we're going to be 2/3 run, 1/3 pass, and now 2/3 will
include a few designed quarterback draws.
OK, that's a fair, fair thing. So, yeah, let's get in the
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Wildcat. Let's I It'll be interesting if
we see it again this week. But here's my big thing.
I know a lot of people hated that.
Why we keep doing this? Why we keep doing this, But we
got a couple big 7-8 yard plays on it.
My thing is I want to see it with CJ Carr out of the game.
I know people were like, well, when CJS over there, like no one
thinks Jeremiah loves going to throw the ball.
I understand. I don't think Jeremiah was going
to throw the ball either. But my take was with Riley
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Leonard last year, how many third and ones 4th and ones.
It seemed like 95% of the time when we got in that it was a QB
draw, Right. Yeah, like it was a very
predictable, but I'm now rather than it did have the threat to
throw it. I hear you.
But if we just put an extra blocker in or put price in
instead and just go just sell out on the Wildcat, we're going
to do it. I think a lot more people would
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we'd have a lot more success if you put extra tight in the block
and just have love go up the gut, get the yard or two.
I love it, pun intended. Or you get price in there and do
a little option play. You'd pay for that.
You'd pay that price, Yeah. OK, that's what I'm saying.
But could you imagine Love taking a snap and either
figuring out if the defense endscoming in and if he's if he's
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not, they're giving it the priceof the gut or if he is, then
Love just takes around the edge.Yeah, yeah, I I would like that,
but I don't see that happening. I'm just saying I just don't
want to see CJ Carr. I'm not expecting my starting
quarterback to go be blocking a corner out there, but that's
that's how we got stopped a couple.
Times, if I were going to do anything different, I would just
send CJ to the to the boundary. I would send him wide out.
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Yeah, get. Yeah, OK, I'm fine with that.
Just get him not where it's likeif it's so if the.
Corner, If the corner wants to blitz, you know, off because he
doesn't respect CJ. He's going to get there pretty
quick and Jeremiah Love's not going to have a chance to throw
the ball but get CJ way out there on the boundary.
And if that guy wants to leave CJ on an island, then Jeremiah
Love doesn't have to be real accurate at all.
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And I don't know how good Jeremiah can throw a ball.
I've never seen him throw a balla dart or even a tantrum.
I've I've seen him throw an opposing would be tackler onto
the ground, but that's that's it.
But then you got a situation where he could literally heave
the ball 30 yards in the air to a wide open CJ car and look like
a punt to run underneath it and get you 5 or 6 yards even in the
worst case scenario. So if they're going to run the
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Wildcat and keep CJ on, get him in that white out, not in the
slot position because I think him in the slot, like you said,
the corner blitz would just comeand just destroy the play.
Yeah, before like because Jeremiah Love gets that first
down that gets stopped on 4th and one, but CJ just doesn't
even. Yeah, which and I'm not, I'm not
like, oh, why is CJ not blocked?Like obviously you you want a
quarterback too, but if he gets hurt there, then everyone's
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like, what the heck are we doing?
Yeah. Like did you, did you want to
get him? Hurt.
Yeah, exactly. So it's one of those things
where. I think we'll see it again.
I don't think we'll see it against Purdue, though.
Yeah, I think against Purdue, I I'll be surprised if we see
Wildcat and I think maybe RPO makes a appearance, but.
So do you what? Yeah.
What what do you think we do on short plays?
Do you think we're just going back to hand offs or doing the
QB drawl? Are we going tight end or
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center? We did that a couple years back
because I mean, we got we're going to have to have a third
because because week one it was the QB drawl was our and short
play and that didn't go great. I think the wild wild guy was
our and short play this week. It went better than the QB draw
in my opinion. Yeah, I, I don't know if I were
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I, if I were going to change anything in the short yardage
play, I'd put quarterback under center and I would hand off to
Jeremiah Love traditional formator price just I don't.
Like I don't. Like the shotgun hand off
because it it's not second and one, it's 2nd and 6th.
At that point. I, I would, I would just soon
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see us play traditional quarterback under center and but
that's the way I would do it. And I tend to more like Price in
the short yardage situations because I think he'll run
through someone if he like. Obviously Love has that Penn
state-run, so I can't say anything about his short
yardage, like not being there. But I just think Price is going
to run through. So if he gets hit the line,
there's a better chance he fallsforward than Jeremiah Love is my
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opinion. You're not going to go wrong
with either of them. No, I don't think, I think, I
think it's A1A1B situation. If, if price is in there, I'm
not worried about it. I mean, even Aeneas Williams,
Yeah, I'm not worried about it in A1C situation.
Which we haven't talked about that much.
We haven't seen much of Aeneas. Like it's definitely been more 2
back. Yeah, just a lot more. 2 back,
not 3-4 this year. And I'm, I'm hoping to see, see
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CJ Carr sitting on the bench, Love sitting on the bench,
probably sitting on the bench byfourth quarter and and he is
getting some playing time along with Kenny Minche.
I'm hoping to see some of that. So yeah, maybe that's one of the
weeks we we we hit some of thoselittle farther guys down for
touchdown scores, huh? Yeah.
I'm hoping, but we'll see. All right, well, let's get into
Yeah, I think that covers up ourNotre Dame.
What nerd's going to try to do, what Purdue's going to try to
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do? Defensively if on Notre Dame,
though, we haven't talked about that.
Haven't got that? I'm going to figure out some way
to get pressure, some way to getpressure and we.
Can't figure it out this week. And yeah, that that's.
Safety blitz, Corner blitz. Yeah, we need 3 sacks minimum.
And I, I don't know if you got achance to go back and watch A&M,
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but our defensive ends were doing the same thing they were
doing against Miami and they were just.
Trying to contain. Like they weren't trying to get
pressure, so it's like you. Would you call it containment?
Maybe I I don't. Know it's not even.
It's not effective and it's likeTreyori Young.
Like we got some dudes that likejust let them freaking pin their
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ears back and go. Yeah, don't actually.
If Purdue's quarterback is goingto be it is worst under
pressure, at least get have it getting under distress.
Don't let me just. Throw some linebacker, Yeah, so
something. Yeah.
So I think we, I think we got to, we got to do something to
get creative, to get pressure. And obviously it's not a talent,
it's not an effort thing in our secondary or even our defense.
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It's a communication and it's a play call.
Maybe. I don't know.
Yeah. A play call.
So I think if there's anything they've got to do, they've got
to get the play calling and maybe they got to just simplify
it so the guys play fast becausethey're not playing fast because
they're not sure what they're supposed to do.
They got to get that squared away because we lost some
talent, but we haven't dropped off that much.
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This defense should be playing so much better.
I'll just say this, if Al Goldenwas still here and not in
Cincinnati, this team is 2 and Oand we're talking national
championship run and we're not there right now.
And it's not because of a freshman red shirt, freshman
quarterback. It's because of a poor secondary
play, which was should have beenthe strength going into the
defense this year. All right, that's that.
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All right, well, let's get into the gambling side of this before
we get into score predictions. Notre Dame opens up or I think
opened up his 27 1/2 point favorites, the Lions down to 25
1/2, which is a very large number for an O12 team and over
under 54 1/2. I will take the over but I will
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not take the points. I would not take Notre Dame on
the points. No, I think Purdue covers.
Yeah, I said stay away from it last week.
Obviously we lost so good call on that one.
But yeah, if we won that game was I literally was talking to
Maddie and Kate and I was like, this is a really big extra point
where we kicked to go up 7. I had no idea what I meant by
that, that we're going to lose the game because of it, but the.
You thought was covering the spread I.
Thought I was covering the spread.
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I was like, oh, we're not going to cover.
And I was like, oh crap, we can still lose that.
I was so worried about that. And I was like, well, I didn't
even have it. And I was just like, OK.
But yeah, 25 1/2 right now as wesit here on Wednesday night,
over under 54 1/2 feels way too easy right now because I can see
this going two ways. This game could either be a
shootout or Notre Dame wins by 60.
Like could put up 60 points, youknow what I mean?
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I will be, I will be surprised if Notre Dame doesn't put up 35.
That's what I'm saying I by. Itself, Yeah, I mean that that
to me, that's the floor for Notre Dame.
Thinking Notre Dame's defense led up less than 20 points.
Yeah. It is a very, very big question
right now, but yeah, I'm with you.
I'll be surprised that I yeah, if Nerdin doesn't put up, 35
would definitely be the bar for me. 31 I'd say is the absolute
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bar. 4 touchdowns and a field goal.
Yeah. So I you want to get, I've got
some score predictions from somePurdue peeps.
Christian Payne, I shot him out earlier.
We'll get another score. Christian's got 3327 Irish and
then Peyton Produce season ticket holder 3117 Irish.
I don't think they're way off from what I'm thinking.
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I'm feeling I'm in. The ballpark of them.
Yeah, I say I'm I'm feeling 3821Irish.
I think Purdue gets 3 touchdowns.
And I've got 4527. I'm around where you're at with
late score, like for Purdue. Yeah, I can see that.
I mean, I I can see that. I my hope is the Irish get
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somewhere in the 35 range. I think it's 282810287 at the
half. It's kind of what I'm thinking.
Schuler comes in. It's helping out.
Yeah. I I'm, I'm kind of hoping it's,
you know, 3114 at half and maybethen, you know, kind of a
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sluggish third quarter and then we get to the fourth quarter and
we throw in some second third string guys.
Maybe Purdue gets a score or twoin there.
Maybe we get one score, but you know, not the game.
I don't I'm hoping to see a gamethat's not in doubt.
Now I say that coming off of thegut wrenching game was never
put. It felt early at A&M like Notre
Dame was going to put the game away and it just never did.
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And I'm a little nervous and butI.
Just hey, we're ready to be hurtagain, aren't we?
Hey, hey, what's the point? What's the point of loving if
you If you're afraid to be hurt,there's no point in loving.
So you have to experience pain to experience joy.
If you've never experienced joy,you've never experienced pain.
So. Anyway, I that's kind of where
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I'm at on the score and I think it'll be interesting.
I could see a scenario where Purdue was much better than we
anticipate. We're looking past Purdue and
thinking Arkansas and we go O and three.
But I cannot believe with all the scrutiny, Notre Dame has got
to be in this US against the world mentality right now.
Here's my Here's my thing. If you listen to the national
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media about Notre Dame right now, it's not as bad as it
should be. Like you talk about having all
that, like outside noise, outside noise.
What's all the national media? This is the best O12 team I've
ever seen. Yeah.
Like, and that's not just one ortwo people.
There's a lot. ESPN, Fox, all.
You're on three. It's kind.
Of weird. Yeah.
And you're like, Oh my God, why are we getting this good
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publicity? We're owing 2.
Like we've lost two games, obviously.
Well, it's A&M, Miami, like 2-2 potential playoff teams, but
it's like we're still owing 2. Like we haven't won a football
game like this season. So that that that's what makes
me really nervous about this game is because there's still
too much positivity, because if it was like slash against NIU,
it was like everyone's again nerd.
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They're done. Don't have a chance back.
Like not just back since the wall, they're buried right?
Like nothing. No, we, we, we beat A&M last
year. We're going to go undefeated and
win the national championship. And we got buried after we lost
NIU fire. Coach Freeman, you.
Know and now it's like, well we're going to figure it out it
they're the best own two team I've ever seen.
So the question is, can the Notre Dame coaching staff get
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these guys in the right mindset that you know, and, and it's a
fine line. I think you got to, you got to
destroy their confidence, but not destroy their confidence,
right? It's like, I want to bring you
down and get you focused, hyper focused, but I don't want to
destroy you. You don't play well.
And I think that's going to be a, it's going to be a, it'll be
interesting. I, I could see it going.
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I think there's a 10% chance, but it wouldn't shock me.
Completely if we're if we're sitting here Sunday talking
about nerd, NB and O and three, which scares me.
I don't because I know what's going to happen.
I'm going to get the knock, knock.
Who's there? Owen?
Three. Yeah, I'm going to I'm going to
get all kinds of trash talk thrown my way if we lose to
Purdue and just and go O and three.
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But and maybe I'm a little pessimistic still.
I didn't feel like we're going to.
I didn't feel like we're going to win it against A and MI
didn't feel good about A and M at kickoff.
I started feeling really good about A&M through the game and
then I got my heart broke again and it's like, so I.
We need to go get you a Freeman cookie.
I think is what we need. Yeah.
Need some red velvet? Yeah, I I had one pre game.
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Oh. Shoot, I didn't know that.
Yeah, I had a pre, but they screwed it up.
They give me just the cookie with the frosting.
They didn't give me the sandwich, so I'm going to play
one. I should have saved it till half
time. Yeah, that's on you then.
That's on me. But I feel I don't feel like
Notre Dame by a million in this game.
I think, I think we're still going to have some struggles,
but I think we're going to have a chance to figure some things
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out. I do feel like this is a game
Notre Dame's going to get is going to right the ship.
Purdue's not going to be a walk in the park.
But like I thought they were three weeks, 4 weeks ago because
we're not playing at the level we should be.
But I think we get some things figured out so.
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right. Well, anything else?
I think we're running short on time, so.
Sounds like we're running out. Did we have a caller?
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Irish 365 Podcast Welcome into the Irish 365 Podcast.
We're back here with the Purdue Pregame show.
Now let's just get right into it.
I've had a couple people reach out to me.
I'm sure you've had a couple people reach out to you.
Where? Where's the ANM post game show?
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Hey, it was a good one. It yeah, that's on me.
Technical difficulties. Carter was doing a remote.
I kind of forgot to turn his micon.
So we had a great conversation, but it was all one sided and and
it was long periods of pause where I'm just waiting on him to
finish talking and it so it wasn't very entertaining in that
respect to playback, but. And we've had quite the hectic
week where we haven't been able to reshoot it and it's just one
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of those things that we're goingto.
Get we'll just, let's wrap it up.
I mean, real quick. We'll take 5 minutes.
We'll hit the review of A&M. There's a lot on social media, a
lot's been said. I will say this pregame
atmosphere was really good. Yep, Crowd was hype.
The campus vibe was good. Notre Dame showed up for a night
game in all kinds of ways, shapes and forms.
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So I thought it was really good in that respect.
Get into the game couldn't have started much better.
First quarter we got a pump block, I mean scoop and score
things were going well. So felt good about that.
A and MI think was was solid in a lot of different ways that
they were as expected with they played well.
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So yeah, it was kind of kind of back and forth it longest game
ever, right? Yeah, almost 4 hours. 4 hours.
It was, it was a long game. And I think probably the biggest
thing we noticed about being a long game was it was the first
time alcohol sales were in the stadium.
Yeah. And something I've never seen
was long lines in the men's restroom the entire game.
Usually that's that's reserved for winter time when people are
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trying to warm up. Yeah, it was the entire game.
There was there was lines for for days.
Yeah, the men's bathroom lines are I've.
I've never waited 5 minutes, which I sound like a crybaby
right now waiting 5 minutes to go to the bathroom but just not
something you're used to doing. Yeah, not, not typical, that's
for sure. It was a little different.
So, So yeah, anyway, it was I I thought game wise, Notre Dame
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played well enough offensively to win that game.
And there was some, you know, I think I saw Tim Priester had an
article and, you know, he talkedto Gino Goddouli the other day
and Goddouli said like, we left 21 points on the board.
So I mean, you know, they offensively we played well and
well enough. Defensively, we almost played
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well enough. And there's a lot of people
going back and forth about, you know, calls and there's calls
both ways every game. Not one call, not one player,
not one play. I mean, there's there's if I
were going to summarize the game, there's a lot of almost or
what could have swung the tide or, you know, things that could
have gone slightly different. I mean, we could have.
We could have blown A&M out and A&M probably thinks they could
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have blown us out. I was going to say, obviously
something we talked about the other day that didn't get didn't
get out there, but there's a play in the first half.
We got him in 3rd and eight withabout 8 minutes to go in that
first half where we're up 10 points.
It's like if we get a stop there, make it a 17 point game,
A&M might get the ball right before the half, maybe with a
couple minutes left. And then we get the ball right
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out of half. And it's like all of a sudden
it's a 24 point game where then if you go back and watch it
where it's they get a third and eight and then by they're
beating us at half time, all of a sudden like it just a crazy
turn of events. So yeah, definitely a game where
it just feels like you let one go.
But also how do we stay that close at times?
You know what I mean? It's just one.
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Of those things that and and. It was a game of so many
emotions. Yeah, it it was gut wrenching
it. I'd rather get blown out than
lose a close game like that at the end and come down to the
last second and just. Yeah, and guys, guys dropping
picks miss. Picks.
Yeah, just, you know, and I one of the things I thought about in
real time was, you know, they, they we scored and they took
that kick off back and they scored and it's like it would
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have been nice if they'd have scored.
We got the ball back with that last two minutes to drive.
Feels like our offense would have probably got at least a
field goal there with that much time. 3 timeouts.
Yeah, we, yeah, we've declined that penalty and let them have
the score. Who knows?
Which in in the moment would have felt crazy.
If you lose, that game seems even crazier.
But you gotta trust the defense,right?
Hindsight, it's easier to say that.
It's hard to say that, you know,And yeah, so I don't think
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there's a whole lot we need to say about it.
It's been all over social media,you know, the whole, I've heard
criticism of every player, everycoach, every blade of grass,
every official 1 is like, it sucks, but we lost 4140.
If we'd have scored 42, we'd have won.
You know, if we'd have gave up 39, we would have won.
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So when you, when you score 40, you feel like you ought to win.
And when you give up 41, you feel like you ought to lose.
So it is what it is. And it's not exciting.
So anyway, any Jeremiah love looked good.
Didn't look, didn't love what I.Think between him and Price, 35
carries. Yeah, I didn't love the Wildcat
as much as it didn't get blockedas well as it could have.
(05:06):
It was effective. And maybe we'll get into that a
little bit in the what we're going to do this week.
But I'm I'm on the opposite side.
I don't hate it as much as you would.
I've got some tweaks for it. Yeah.
All right. Well, yeah, I think there's some
tweaks. I there's some things they could
do better. But anyway, that's A&M, that's
the review. That's all you get.
That's all you probably want. Now I was gonna say, you're
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But yeah, let's get ready for Interstate rivalry, right?
That's what we're going to call it, right?
It's not quite the state championship, but it's close.
I mean, they did beat Indiana State.
No, no, that was last year. They beat Indiana State.
That was the one. With IU beat Indiana State.
IU beat them this year, OK, yeah.
But yeah, we got Purdue. They just came off interested
game versus USC. More competitive than I expected
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them. To be very competitive, yeah,
their defense will get into them, but look pretty solid.
They we're down 20 to 3 and kindof made it interesting and
obviously we didn't watch the game.
It was supposed to be a 330 kickand then got delayed and I don't
think kicked off till 6:00. Yeah, because of weather.
Weather, so that obviously always sucks, but yeah, had some
Purdue fans I've been talking toget picking their brains, but
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the consensus is they did some couple dumb picks, couple dumb
plays that cost them, which is not out of the question for
Purdue, right? Yeah, but I mean, there was the
turnover for USC pick whatever that turned into the touchdown
for Purdue that. Yeah, It was an interesting.
It was like a double pass play that then got intercepted on the
first. There was a triple pass play,
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right? I think it was was tight enough
to be where quarterback throws it behind him to a wide
receiver, then just going to throw it back to the quarterback
across the field. USC intercepts it, I guess
recovers the fumble. I don't know what you'd call it.
Yeah, it's backwards, but I think he's still caught it out
of the air. So picks up the fumble, then
fumbles it, and then the Purdue's quarterback picks it up
and runs for a touchdown. Yeah, it's like what?
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Huh. I mean that.
What in the EA college football video game is this?
Yeah. Exactly.
So I know that was all over social, or at least I see it in
social multiple different places.
So anyway, let's let's get into it.
Purdue. What?
What? What do you know about Purdue?
They've got all new coaching staff this year, 82 new players,
only 82, only 82. OK, so that's that's a lot even
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for modern college football. That's almost what I I you did
last. Year, yeah.
I mean, this is a team that's completely different from last
year. They looks like they're
competing out on the field. You're not just going to go and
walk all over them. They look like they have a
little pride this year, which I think is definitely something
you felt like they lacked last year.
Not not just losing games, but just in like, OK, what are we,
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what are we doing here? Jeff Brahm was definitely their
coach for a long time where theywere just there.
There weren't a national championship team.
But if you didn't take them seriously, they're going to go
out and they're going to beat you.
They can sneak on you. Yeah, exactly.
And it's a team that that just can compete, and it sounds like
they're kind of getting back to that.
Yeah, I've got some friends. Christian Peyton, shout out to
you guys for all the info on Purdue because I'm going to be
honest, I haven't watched a lickhave pretty football this year.
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I guess I watched like 1/4 when they're playing Ball State
right? I guess I saw some pre season
highlights which they were dropping balls and I thought is
that all the media is that I sawa little bit of them playing
Ball State. And then, yeah, I saw the
highlight from the game last weekend where the USC, whatever
that was, debacle that turned into a Purdue touchdown.
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Yeah, So what? So what I've got on him is
Browns, their quarterback 56 for88.5 touchdowns, 4 interceptions
this year. Yeah, that's their guy.
Sounds like he when he's got time, can hurt you, which is
most quarterbacks, let's be honest.
But when he's got time, he can. But he's been sacked 6 times
through three games. He's played USC, both State and
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I'm forgetting who they played in the first week, but it wasn't
a wasn't necessary was, was not a group of it was a group of
five team. It was not an Power Four team.
She has sacks, 6 * 2 sacks a game and then gets pressured
quite a bit. So yeah, that's going to be the
biggest question for Notre Dame.We've got one sack through two
games. Yeah.
So the question is, how many of those six sacks came from USC?
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Yeah, I don't know if we can find that real quick, but I'll
look here in a minute. But yeah, definitely.
The thing is, how many, how can we get pressure on him?
That's been the biggest questionfor Notre Dame's defense.
If we get pressure on anyone, that's going to fix a lot of
defensive problems, in my opinion.
I mean, if you get pressure, corners don't have to be in
coverage as long. All that stuff, man, zone
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doesn't matter if you're sackingthe quarterback, right?
Well, if you can get pressure, you can play man, yeah, a lot
easier. And if you play man with
pressure, even zone. But yeah, you want to ideal.
You want to be able to play man and get pressure and force
throws early. Same thing with zone.
To some degree you want, but zone's supposed to be a little
bit better depending on who you talk to.
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Most cultures will tell you zone's better if you're having a
hard time getting home because you don't have to cover people
as much as you have to cover thean area.
And but we found it's been easy enough for our opponents to find
holes in our zone. Yeah, and that's the thing.
Actually some of our man coverage has has not been great
either. If you look at the statistics,
it's not just zone, it's there'ssome man coverage breaks.
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Zone's been better for us, but it's not like oh man's been
perfect either. USC had five of the sacks.
OK, so. Tells you what you need to know
when they play an axe because their first game was Southern
Illinois and then or Ball State,then Southern Illinois and then
lost to USC last weekend. So, but also Brown had three
interceptions last week for his USC and I'm assuming with
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pressure and all those things, but he also did go 24 for 39 and
three O 5. Not not a bad.
I mean, obviously take away the interceptions, it's a lot
different story. I'm sure 'cause it's 3317 pick
late, I'm pretty sure is what I've heard.
But yeah, Purdue's got some, Purdue's got some wide receivers
this year. Let's get it.
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Let's see if I get their names right.
So their big running back is Maccabee I, which I remember him
from last year, I believe is oneof the returners.
Yep, 4 good receivers, Branch, Tuggle, Horton Junior and
Michael Jackson. He he, he, Yep.
So that's their that's their playmakers on the offensive side
of the ball. Defensively, I think it's their
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primary guy is a transfer from UNLV.
Right. I mean, yeah, I think a lot of
transfers in there, yeah, 'causethis coach came from UNLV, yeah.
Yeah, and he brought a few guys with him.
I know there's an offensive lineman that's a starter they're
really high on. And then there's a, like I said,
the linebacker. I don't remember who else from
you LV. Yeah.
So the biggest thing I'm gathered on Purdue is they're
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going to compete with us. I mean, they're going to compete
the whole 60 minutes, no matter if it's 50, nothing or it's 4 to
950. It's a team that definitely can
tell is they're they've got experience, but not experience
playing together. Yeah.
So, yeah, what what's that look like?
When when do they gel? And yeah, hopefully it's not
week 3, right. I mean, it's a team that could
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be scary, could could upset someone.
I mean, I think that was always the fun part about Purdue.
They they would go upset A-Team a year.
Luckily, it wasn't us too often.But they can't do it.
They. They can do it so.
So, yeah, And you know, I talkedto Purdue fans and it's kind of
the same thing. They they just want the team to
be competitive and they don't want to be entertain them,
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entertain them to a. Basketball season, yeah, they
don't want to be the national embarrassment.
Yeah, like that's they don't want to be one.
They don't want to have one win against Indiana State.
Like they need to be middle of the pack Big 10 and they'll be
thrilled. Yeah, be competitive.
Get us, get us some. Entertainment.
Yeah, they're being IU. Life's good, yeah?
And and beat IU if you can. Obviously IU is really good
right now, so that'll be interesting, but they had a
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match up with Illinois this week, which I'll be intrigued to
follow along. So yeah, you got anything else
on the Purdue offense? That's kind of it.
On the offense, I think they're going to try and be more
prostyle. I think is is the only way I can
describe it. Yep.
All right. So then on their defense, I've
been told they're actually been a pretty, pretty solid defensive
team. Interesting thing for you,
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opponents haven't scored in the second-half against them.
And I find that very interesting.
That's good coaching adjustments.
Yeah, that's, that's making, making, figuring out what's
going on. Obviously you're watching film
before the game, but everyone's got a different game plan,
especially earlier in the season.
You, you think they're going to do something and then they they
go do something else, right? And you got to figure it out on
the fly. She has zero second-half points
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is pretty, pretty impressive, even with two bad games in it.
But USC and USC only scored I think 2 touchdowns on them and
then a couple, I think there's apick 6 as well.
So I mean, that one obviously doesn't count against the
defense. But yeah, they they they do a
lot with Notre Dame last year play a lot of man coverage.
Yeah, so. And so the question I've got at
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this point is, is USC not as good as they think they are or
you think they could be, which scares me because they're ranked
25, we're ranked 24. And so are we that bad?
I believe we're the best O and two team in the country.
I just don't know as an O2 team,are we really top 25 team yet?
If we go O and three, I, I know what we are.
Even if we go 2 and one or one and two, I just still don't know
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or know what we are. But we at least have the
measuring stick against USC. You also know USC never travels
well when they come east to the to the Eastern Time zone.
They just struggle. And I read all kinds of stuff on
USC and they've got a new charter jet and bigger seats and
longer aisles and yadda yadda yadda.
And didn't seem to help him on the Purdue game.
I mean, they won. They won, but they didn't win
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going away. Like, yeah, they thought they
were going to against Purdue. So yeah.
So the question is, you know, how good is this Purdue team and
how good is this Purdue defense?And what we've seen is the
transfer portal where you can take a team that's not very good
to make them pretty good in the pretty quickly course of a
season. If you can figure out how to
gel, yeah. And change one defensive
coordinator and you can take a team that's pretty good and make
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them not so good. All of a.
Sudden, that's what the rumors are on the street.
The things people say, I don't buy it.
But you know what they say, if it's if it's not broke, fix it,
right? Yeah, exactly.
So yeah, I think it's going to be an interesting match up.
And I also think you've got the poor situation for Purdue where
Notre Dame is coming into PurdueWeek 3 and they are irritated.
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They're frustrated. They have underperformed, so are
they going to take it out on Purdue or is this going to
become the new identity? Yeah, and I feel like this was
such an interesting thing last year because I don't remember
what the spread was on this gamecoming in right after the NIU
loss, but I was convinced we might lose.
Yeah, we lost to NIU. How?
How? What?
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And then we went up and put 70 up on them.
Yeah, so I'm really hoping to see some Kenny Minchi time.
I really am against Purdue. I'm hoping we get such a lead
and but I don't know. My score prediction is not going
to be that way, I'll put it thatway.
Yeah, I I'm so back and forth on.
I can see this game's going so many different ways, but we'll
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get into that score predictions a little bit later.
But yeah, it just feels like, isPurdue going to come in and
notice a guy? Well, we're going to get a win
this week because we've seen that with Marcus Freeman at
first year under after Ohio State's like, all right, well,
we lost the Ohio State. That happens.
We're going to beat Marshall though, right?
And lo and behold. Marshall beat us.
Marshall beat us, so yeah. It's kind of one of those things
where it's like, all right, it'sour team, like, all right, well,
we got those two tough ones thatwe'll go beat Purdue and then
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we'll figure out what's next, right?
We'll go figure out Arkansas. So, yeah.
And then so that's going to be the interesting part for me.
What what mindset does Notre Dame have?
I'd like to tell myself it's going to be angry Notre Dame
because I saw some guys playing angry last week, but I didn't
see everyone, Drake Bowen, for example, like I.
Did not see a lack of effort. Yeah, I'm just saying playing
angry, like I feel like last year we played.
Bowen was playing with a chip onhis shoulder for sure.
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And ATM he was, he was letting people know he was there when he
when he tapped him. Yeah.
So, yeah. So if I'm Purdue and I'm going
to attack Notre Dame offensively, you know, I, I'm
just going to try and protect myquarterback and find those spots
in the zone which Notre Dame seems to be prone to and Notre
Dame was struggling to get pressure.
I may, I may go 2 tight end setsat times just Max protect and
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just let my quarterback halftimebecause I'm confident with my
quarterback having time. I don't know what happened that
USC got 5 sacks. I don't know if US CS defensive
line's just that good or Purdue's line's not as good, but
I'm going to, I'm going to try and air it out.
I'm not going to try and run on Notre Dame.
I'm going to run just enough to keep them honest.
And I'm going to try and let my quarterbacks at the back there
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and get, I'm going to find ways to get him time.
And this is 1. Not to forget Don Schuler out
that first half, Yeah. And some of those other
safeties. I thought Tay Tay Johnson looked
pretty solid, talic at his moment, had a couple plays.
And yeah, we had, we had some questions at the younger spots
of the safety, which I'm sure we'll get figured out, but.
But Talich and like Tay Tay, there was a couple times in the
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A&M game where they just, they were just out of position.
It wasn't a lack of effort, it was just out of position.
I think it was two or three plays.
I remember where Tay Tay come upfrom the safety spot and he was
like. Picked up a running back out one
of them and he got burnt right back in his.
He was. Closer to the freaking line than
he was line. Like he was out of the
linebackers. It's like you and he wasn't
blitzing like I thought, was he going to blitz?
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No, didn't blitz so. Yeah, there's one I remember
where, which I don't know what the play call was.
I don't know what his read was. I don't know if he did exactly
what he's supposed to do or justhad a itch, but the running back
came out almost out of the backfield and he just shoots up
the gap right at the running back.
And then quarterback just found right where he was.
You know, I'm going to, I don't know if like if that's who he's
supposed to be on, that's what his play assignment was and he's
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picking up the running back comes out of the backfield and
other guys got his back. But so yeah, it'll be
interesting this week. Produce, produce can throw the
ball. They can put up some numbers
offensively. And they got to feel good about
their chances about going into ashootout with Notre Dame at this
point, Like, OK, if their defense is as good as it has
been the second-half, can they can they, can they run with us?
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Can they score with us? And then can they stop us
second-half. And I feel like our offense is
just getting started. And I feel like our offense is
our offense is going to be as good as our defense was last
year. Unfortunately, our defense isn't
playing to that standard. But if I'm Purdue, that's kind
of my game plan going in offensively, defensively, if I'm
Purdue, I'm going to do what I've been doing at this point
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because I'm going to probably try and take away the I'm going
to probably try and take away the throw and, and they're going
to run man coverage. They're not going to CJ burn you
deep, keep everything in front of you.
Shorten the game by making NotreDame run the ball now.
See if we stay patient. Yeah, problem is, you know, Love
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and Price, we're a couple of shoestring tackles away from
taking big, big freaking runs. So I think it's going to be
tough for Purdue's defense, but it's almost going to have to be
like this. We're going to let you score.
We're going to try and score with you and we're going to try
and make just enough adjustments, you know, because
what are we going to, what are we going to get from Notre
Dame's offense? We're going to, we didn't see
any RPOI, don't really think against A&M, we saw lots of the
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Wildcat. So are we going to see some
Wildcats, some RPO mixed in? We're going to see something
completely new that we're going to run 15 times, you know, that
no one anticipated. And I think that's the
interesting thing. Yeah, I I'm kind of different
with you. I think Purdue's going to throw
a lot of pressure at Notre Dame and try to make us throw the
ball and just get pressure on CGI mean he's shown that he can
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make the plays, but he's also going to do one or two.
He's going. To make I say I say freshman,
but he's not a freshman. Red shirt.
Yeah, red shirt like he's going to do something freshman.
So if Purdue feels like their offense could keep them in this
game, if you just say, all right, let's sell out on the run
because the odds of nerd and fumbling.
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Yeah, I just don't know that they have the the defensive
lineman to get pressure. I, I, I mean, they just might
throw linebacker blitzes, everything is what I'm saying.
They might. They might just sit in the house
if I'm. Bringing 5 or 6 and trying to do
it maybe? Yeah, that's just because it
sounds like they're going to play man.
So that's what I'm saying. If they if they want to play man
and just bring 5 or 6 guys, that'd be interesting.
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Now, I think what a big match for Notre Dame is Jeremiah Love
and Jeremiah Bryce. A very good pass pick up
blockers. But then when they have to do
that, they're not weapons out inthe field, right?
Yeah. I mean, yes, it's fantastic.
Jeremiah Love can pick up a great pass block.
That just means he's not gettingthe ball in his hands that play.
Yeah, he's well as a defense. That's kind of a win, right?
That's right, I'd rather have him blocking linebackers and
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running past them. Yeah.
So, so yeah, just an interestingthing.
I you think they're going to, you think Perdue's going to try
to force us to run or I think it's going to be.
I think they're going to try andtake away the pass and and keep.
Keep everything in front, which makes sense.
But yeah, I don't know. I, I think CJCJS going to make a
mistake or two again, they capitalize on it will be the
question we got Notre Dame's offensive line was a lot better
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last week than it did against Miami, which obviously helps.
Playing at home, having a game of film to go back and watch and
say OK. But also helps that we were
trying to get a lot more like the RPO is the hardest to block
for. Oh yeah, because you have to,
you have to pass block because you can't go down field.
You have to pass block, but you also have to open up lanes.
And it's it's the RPO is the hardest to block for.
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And run blocking is always easier.
So the more run blocking you're doing, you're firing off because
when you're run blocking, you can just hit the guy and take
him down the field 40 yards and no one's going to throw a flag
on you. You don't have to worry about
that kind of a thing. So I think getting more run
place helped the offensive line and then it was easier to pass
block because you were you got your mojo going.
So from the Notre Dame perspective, I expect us to try
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and run a lot anyway. I, I think we will, I think
that'll be the big thing. I think we'll use the, I think
we'll see the quarterback draw show its head a little bit.
I think we're going to see Jeremiah Love and Price getting
the ball a lot because I think that's going to be something
that I don't think the Purdue's front is going to be.
So they got a good linebacker, but I don't think they're going
to be so stout that we won't feel like we can't just rub the
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ball on them. And then and if they do suck up,
then we can, we can try and throw the ball over the top, you
know, but CJ, throw sparingly. And I'll say maybe, maybe 1/3 of
our past our plays are past pace.
I don't think, I don't think we're going to be balanced.
I think we're going to be 2/3 run, 1/3 pass, and now 2/3 will
include a few designed quarterback draws.
OK, that's a fair, fair thing. So, yeah, let's get in the
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Wildcat. Let's I It'll be interesting if
we see it again this week. But here's my big thing.
I know a lot of people hated that.
Why we keep doing this? Why we keep doing this, But we
got a couple big 7-8 yard plays on it.
My thing is I want to see it with CJ Carr out of the game.
I know people were like, well, when CJS over there, like no one
thinks Jeremiah loves going to throw the ball.
I understand. I don't think Jeremiah was going
to throw the ball either. But my take was with Riley
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Leonard last year, how many third and ones 4th and ones.
It seemed like 95% of the time when we got in that it was a QB
draw, Right. Yeah, like it was a very
predictable, but I'm now rather than it did have the threat to
throw it. I hear you.
But if we just put an extra blocker in or put price in
instead and just go just sell out on the Wildcat, we're going
to do it. I think a lot more people would
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we'd have a lot more success if you put extra tight in the block
and just have love go up the gut, get the yard or two.
I love it, pun intended. Or you get price in there and do
a little option play. You'd pay for that.
You'd pay that price, Yeah. OK, that's what I'm saying.
But could you imagine Love taking a snap and either
figuring out if the defense endscoming in and if he's if he's
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not, they're giving it the priceof the gut or if he is, then
Love just takes around the edge.Yeah, yeah, I I would like that,
but I don't see that happening. I'm just saying I just don't
want to see CJ Carr. I'm not expecting my starting
quarterback to go be blocking a corner out there, but that's
that's how we got stopped a couple.
Times, if I were going to do anything different, I would just
send CJ to the to the boundary. I would send him wide out.
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Yeah, get. Yeah, OK, I'm fine with that.
Just get him not where it's likeif it's so if the.
Corner, If the corner wants to blitz, you know, off because he
doesn't respect CJ. He's going to get there pretty
quick and Jeremiah Love's not going to have a chance to throw
the ball but get CJ way out there on the boundary.
And if that guy wants to leave CJ on an island, then Jeremiah
Love doesn't have to be real accurate at all.
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And I don't know how good Jeremiah can throw a ball.
I've never seen him throw a balla dart or even a tantrum.
I've I've seen him throw an opposing would be tackler onto
the ground, but that's that's it.
But then you got a situation where he could literally heave
the ball 30 yards in the air to a wide open CJ car and look like
a punt to run underneath it and get you 5 or 6 yards even in the
worst case scenario. So if they're going to run the
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Wildcat and keep CJ on, get him in that white out, not in the
slot position because I think him in the slot, like you said,
the corner blitz would just comeand just destroy the play.
Yeah, before like because Jeremiah Love gets that first
down that gets stopped on 4th and one, but CJ just doesn't
even. Yeah, which and I'm not, I'm not
like, oh, why is CJ not blocked?Like obviously you you want a
quarterback too, but if he gets hurt there, then everyone's
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like, what the heck are we doing?
Yeah. Like did you, did you want to
get him? Hurt.
Yeah, exactly. So it's one of those things
where. I think we'll see it again.
I don't think we'll see it against Purdue, though.
Yeah, I think against Purdue, I I'll be surprised if we see
Wildcat and I think maybe RPO makes a appearance, but.
So do you what? Yeah.
What what do you think we do on short plays?
Do you think we're just going back to hand offs or doing the
QB drawl? Are we going tight end or
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center? We did that a couple years back
because I mean, we got we're going to have to have a third
because because week one it was the QB drawl was our and short
play and that didn't go great. I think the wild wild guy was
our and short play this week. It went better than the QB draw
in my opinion. Yeah, I, I don't know if I were
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I, if I were going to change anything in the short yardage
play, I'd put quarterback under center and I would hand off to
Jeremiah Love traditional formator price just I don't.
Like I don't. Like the shotgun hand off
because it it's not second and one, it's 2nd and 6th.
At that point. I, I would, I would just soon
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see us play traditional quarterback under center and but
that's the way I would do it. And I tend to more like Price in
the short yardage situations because I think he'll run
through someone if he like. Obviously Love has that Penn
state-run, so I can't say anything about his short
yardage, like not being there. But I just think Price is going
to run through. So if he gets hit the line,
there's a better chance he fallsforward than Jeremiah Love is my
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opinion. You're not going to go wrong
with either of them. No, I don't think, I think, I
think it's A1A1B situation. If, if price is in there, I'm
not worried about it. I mean, even Aeneas Williams,
Yeah, I'm not worried about it in A1C situation.
Which we haven't talked about that much.
We haven't seen much of Aeneas. Like it's definitely been more 2
back. Yeah, just a lot more. 2 back,
not 3-4 this year. And I'm, I'm hoping to see, see
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CJ Carr sitting on the bench, Love sitting on the bench,
probably sitting on the bench byfourth quarter and and he is
getting some playing time along with Kenny Minche.
I'm hoping to see some of that. So yeah, maybe that's one of the
weeks we we we hit some of thoselittle farther guys down for
touchdown scores, huh? Yeah.
I'm hoping, but we'll see. All right, well, let's get into
Yeah, I think that covers up ourNotre Dame.
What nerd's going to try to do, what Purdue's going to try to
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do? Defensively if on Notre Dame,
though, we haven't talked about that.
Haven't got that? I'm going to figure out some way
to get pressure, some way to getpressure and we.
Can't figure it out this week. And yeah, that that's.
Safety blitz, Corner blitz. Yeah, we need 3 sacks minimum.
And I, I don't know if you got achance to go back and watch A&M,
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but our defensive ends were doing the same thing they were
doing against Miami and they were just.
Trying to contain. Like they weren't trying to get
pressure, so it's like you. Would you call it containment?
Maybe I I don't. Know it's not even.
It's not effective and it's likeTreyori Young.
Like we got some dudes that likejust let them freaking pin their
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ears back and go. Yeah, don't actually.
If Purdue's quarterback is goingto be it is worst under
pressure, at least get have it getting under distress.
Don't let me just. Throw some linebacker, Yeah, so
something. Yeah.
So I think we, I think we got to, we got to do something to
get creative, to get pressure. And obviously it's not a talent,
it's not an effort thing in our secondary or even our defense.
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It's a communication and it's a play call.
Maybe. I don't know.
Yeah. A play call.
So I think if there's anything they've got to do, they've got
to get the play calling and maybe they got to just simplify
it so the guys play fast becausethey're not playing fast because
they're not sure what they're supposed to do.
They got to get that squared away because we lost some
talent, but we haven't dropped off that much.
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This defense should be playing so much better.
I'll just say this, if Al Goldenwas still here and not in
Cincinnati, this team is 2 and Oand we're talking national
championship run and we're not there right now.
And it's not because of a freshman red shirt, freshman
quarterback. It's because of a poor secondary
play, which was should have beenthe strength going into the
defense this year. All right, that's that.
(30:18):
All right, well, let's get into the gambling side of this before
we get into score predictions. Notre Dame opens up or I think
opened up his 27 1/2 point favorites, the Lions down to 25
1/2, which is a very large number for an O12 team and over
under 54 1/2. I will take the over but I will
(30:45):
not take the points. I would not take Notre Dame on
the points. No, I think Purdue covers.
Yeah, I said stay away from it last week.
Obviously we lost so good call on that one.
But yeah, if we won that game was I literally was talking to
Maddie and Kate and I was like, this is a really big extra point
where we kicked to go up 7. I had no idea what I meant by
that, that we're going to lose the game because of it, but the.
You thought was covering the spread I.
Thought I was covering the spread.
(31:05):
I was like, oh, we're not going to cover.
And I was like, oh crap, we can still lose that.
I was so worried about that. And I was like, well, I didn't
even have it. And I was just like, OK.
But yeah, 25 1/2 right now as wesit here on Wednesday night,
over under 54 1/2 feels way too easy right now because I can see
this going two ways. This game could either be a
shootout or Notre Dame wins by 60.
Like could put up 60 points, youknow what I mean?
(31:27):
I will be, I will be surprised if Notre Dame doesn't put up 35.
That's what I'm saying I by. Itself, Yeah, I mean that that
to me, that's the floor for Notre Dame.
Thinking Notre Dame's defense led up less than 20 points.
Yeah. It is a very, very big question
right now, but yeah, I'm with you.
I'll be surprised that I yeah, if Nerdin doesn't put up, 35
would definitely be the bar for me. 31 I'd say is the absolute
(31:49):
bar. 4 touchdowns and a field goal.
Yeah. So I you want to get, I've got
some score predictions from somePurdue peeps.
Christian Payne, I shot him out earlier.
We'll get another score. Christian's got 3327 Irish and
then Peyton Produce season ticket holder 3117 Irish.
I don't think they're way off from what I'm thinking.
(32:09):
I'm feeling I'm in. The ballpark of them.
Yeah, I say I'm I'm feeling 3821Irish.
I think Purdue gets 3 touchdowns.
And I've got 4527. I'm around where you're at with
late score, like for Purdue. Yeah, I can see that.
I mean, I I can see that. I my hope is the Irish get
(32:32):
somewhere in the 35 range. I think it's 282810287 at the
half. It's kind of what I'm thinking.
Schuler comes in. It's helping out.
Yeah. I I'm, I'm kind of hoping it's,
you know, 3114 at half and maybethen, you know, kind of a
(32:53):
sluggish third quarter and then we get to the fourth quarter and
we throw in some second third string guys.
Maybe Purdue gets a score or twoin there.
Maybe we get one score, but you know, not the game.
I don't I'm hoping to see a gamethat's not in doubt.
Now I say that coming off of thegut wrenching game was never
put. It felt early at A&M like Notre
Dame was going to put the game away and it just never did.
(33:14):
And I'm a little nervous and butI.
Just hey, we're ready to be hurtagain, aren't we?
Hey, hey, what's the point? What's the point of loving if
you If you're afraid to be hurt,there's no point in loving.
So you have to experience pain to experience joy.
If you've never experienced joy,you've never experienced pain.
So. Anyway, I that's kind of where
(33:35):
I'm at on the score and I think it'll be interesting.
I could see a scenario where Purdue was much better than we
anticipate. We're looking past Purdue and
thinking Arkansas and we go O and three.
But I cannot believe with all the scrutiny, Notre Dame has got
to be in this US against the world mentality right now.
Here's my Here's my thing. If you listen to the national
(33:57):
media about Notre Dame right now, it's not as bad as it
should be. Like you talk about having all
that, like outside noise, outside noise.
What's all the national media? This is the best O12 team I've
ever seen. Yeah.
Like, and that's not just one ortwo people.
There's a lot. ESPN, Fox, all.
You're on three. It's kind.
Of weird. Yeah.
And you're like, Oh my God, why are we getting this good
(34:18):
publicity? We're owing 2.
Like we've lost two games, obviously.
Well, it's A&M, Miami, like 2-2 potential playoff teams, but
it's like we're still owing 2. Like we haven't won a football
game like this season. So that that that's what makes
me really nervous about this game is because there's still
too much positivity, because if it was like slash against NIU,
it was like everyone's again nerd.
(34:39):
They're done. Don't have a chance back.
Like not just back since the wall, they're buried right?
Like nothing. No, we, we, we beat A&M last
year. We're going to go undefeated and
win the national championship. And we got buried after we lost
NIU fire. Coach Freeman, you.
Know and now it's like, well we're going to figure it out it
they're the best own two team I've ever seen.
So the question is, can the Notre Dame coaching staff get
(35:02):
these guys in the right mindset that you know, and, and it's a
fine line. I think you got to, you got to
destroy their confidence, but not destroy their confidence,
right? It's like, I want to bring you
down and get you focused, hyper focused, but I don't want to
destroy you. You don't play well.
And I think that's going to be a, it's going to be a, it'll be
interesting. I, I could see it going.
(35:23):
I think there's a 10% chance, but it wouldn't shock me.
Completely if we're if we're sitting here Sunday talking
about nerd, NB and O and three, which scares me.
I don't because I know what's going to happen.
I'm going to get the knock, knock.
Who's there? Owen?
Three. Yeah, I'm going to I'm going to
get all kinds of trash talk thrown my way if we lose to
Purdue and just and go O and three.
(35:45):
But and maybe I'm a little pessimistic still.
I didn't feel like we're going to.
I didn't feel like we're going to win it against A and MI
didn't feel good about A and M at kickoff.
I started feeling really good about A&M through the game and
then I got my heart broke again and it's like, so I.
We need to go get you a Freeman cookie.
I think is what we need. Yeah.
Need some red velvet? Yeah, I I had one pre game.
(36:06):
Oh. Shoot, I didn't know that.
Yeah, I had a pre, but they screwed it up.
They give me just the cookie with the frosting.
They didn't give me the sandwich, so I'm going to play
one. I should have saved it till half
time. Yeah, that's on you then.
That's on me. But I feel I don't feel like
Notre Dame by a million in this game.
I think, I think we're still going to have some struggles,
but I think we're going to have a chance to figure some things
(36:28):
out. I do feel like this is a game
Notre Dame's going to get is going to right the ship.
Purdue's not going to be a walk in the park.
But like I thought they were three weeks, 4 weeks ago because
we're not playing at the level we should be.
But I think we get some things figured out so.
All right. You got anything else on this
one or do you want to get in thecontest?
Let's talk contest. All right, do you want to win
two free tickets to Syracuse? First Notre Dame.
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You mean 2 tickets to the Syracuse game?
Two tickets to. See Steve Angielli, who's
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Him, right? Yeah, Yeah.
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Yeah. So I mean, we wish you all the
best. We wish you could all win, but
you can't. Yeah, well, it's again.
If you don't experience joy, you'll never experience pain.
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(38:19):
By myself. So yeah, get in to win those two
free tickets to Nerd Inverse Syracuse on Senior Day.
And Speaking of pain, maybe he'll get to play against
Purdue. Maybe I would like that.
I'd like to see love, Price and Pain.
Ananias and just. Ananias, everyone, yes, All
right. Well, anything else?
I think we're running short on time, so.
Sounds like we're running out. Did we have a caller?
(38:39):
We're not have time to get to the callers.
So no callers today then? Sorry about that, Coach Freeman.
We'll try and get you on next podcast.
Yeah, we'll try, but schedule isbusy, I'm sure you understand.
Yeah.
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