Today's Rapid Fire topics include:
* On a scale of 1 to 10...How much differently do you feel about Notre Dame’s quarterback situation heading into this year compared to a year ago?
* Desmond Howard said today that if Notre Dame beats Texas A&M this week you can write them in ink to be in the College Football Playoff. Do you Buy or Sell that?
* Fill-in the blank...It’s BLANK that Paul Finebaum said today that he thinks Notre Dame will lose to the Aggies because of the A&M home field advantage and because Mike Elko has the upper hand because he knows Riley Leonard’s shortcomings.
We have some questions posted by a subscriber recently on our New Champion's Lounge:
* Who's the first Notre Dame player you were a huge fan of?
* What was your first big moment you remember from a ND Game?
* Who is your most under appreciated ND player of all time?
* What one single play would you change from a ND game?
* Who is on your Mt. Rushmore of ND Football?
* There’s always talk about which college coaches have the hottest seats heading into the season. But, which college football coach has the coldest seat heading into this season?
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And now you can use both positive and negative numbers on your scale of one to ten. So if you feel good, it's a positive number. If you feel negative, it's a negative number. Yeah, so at the beginning of last season, I was... We were all kind of scared about Sam Hartman playing in a offense that wasn't prototypical to what he was running at Wake Forest, new offensive coordinator. I would say in comparison, I feel like a six out of ten because I feel more positive about the quarterback situation this year than I did last year. I think Riley Leonard, while he might not be as good as a pastor as Sam Hartman yet, I still think he has incredible arm strength. I think with the proper kind of guidance and mentoring from, you know, Geno Goodoulli, Mike Dembrock, we're going to see kind of some passing unlocked between Riley Leonard. But again, the main thing that I like with Riley Leonard is the stress that he's going to put on the defense with his legs. He's not a one-dimensional quarterback. He doesn't need to rely solely on his run game. He can get into the RPO game. He can get into the quarterback counter game, quarterback power game. I just think that he provides another dimension to this offense where, again, you don't have to rely solely on the past and the past isn't working. You know, things aren't ultimately going well. So that's why I have to say I'm more positive about the quarterback situation this year. And cherry on top, again, we can't forget that Riley Leonard was on a lot of people's big boards before some of the injuries happened. Sam Hartman, not on a lot of people's big boards. So that's why I would say I'm more confident this season. See, when I did this, what I was trying to do was put myself like, how did I actually feel a year ago? Obviously not knowing, you know, a year ago that there was going to be Mike, then Brock and Riley Leonard. You know what I'm saying? So it's like not trying to take myself out of knowing what the result of last year ended up being. How did I actually feel going in? So that's kind of where I'm putting it. And I do think you can separate it since we do have hindsight being able to kind of look back on how things did work out. But my true number, just in comparison to where I was a year ago with Sam Hartman versus where I am right now with Riley Leonard, it's probably a four. Like I feel a four better. Like I've seen a lot of, you know, nines and tens and stuff like that. Now again, we had a pretty inflated opinion of what the receivers were going to be last year. We've got a pretty inflated opinion of what they're going to be this year. But the biggest difference is you've got three guys who have transferred in, who we expect to be able to make pretty immediate impact on this group, not to mention you've got guys like Faison and, you know, Great House and Thomas, who are going to have their own impact. And then like you mentioned, Riley Leonard's legs. Like I think, so I think looking back like if I was just like knowing what I knew then versus knowing what I know now, it would probably like my number is up closer to a seven because I think that the biggest thing with Sam Hartman wasn't coming out of that slow mesh offense and, you know, coming into a more traditional pro offense and all those different things. I feel like for a guy who had already played five years of college football, like he had reached his ceiling, you know, like he had pretty much maxed out on his ceiling. There's still a ton of potential left. I don't think we see the best version of Riley Leonard yet. No quarterback. Exactly. And when you combine that with a much, much different offensive coordinator and a much more imaginative offensive system and, you know, all the experience that he's going to have with these wide receivers that Sam Hartman also didn't have last year, you know, again, my number goes up knowing now what I didn't, you know, knowing now what I didn't know that my number is up to about a seven. That's how much better I feel going into this season with Riley Leonard. Kind of the last thing I would say for this is, you know, Riley Leonard's ability to run the run the ball also masks, you know, maybe some of the deficiencies that you would see in the passing game because the passing game doesn't become more crucial. There is more margin of air in terms of maybe the wide receiver doesn't run the most precise route or maybe he's off his landmark by, you know, a yard or two. But again, with Riley Leonard's threat to run the ball, that also means that the DB's, the linebackers are off their landmark by a step or two, right? So I think it allows for more of a margin of air in the passing game. Absolutely. Desmond Howard said today on ESPN that if Notre Dame beats Texas A&M this week, you can write them in ink to be in the college football playoff. Do you buy or sell that? I buy that 100% and I'm glad that Desmond Howard finally uttered some nice words about Notre Dame. But, you know, I think at the national level, everyone's just writing off this schedule for Notre Dame. I'm not quite there yet. I'm always a guy. You know, you got to wait for the season to play out to really understand how good these teams are. I mean, look at Georgia Tech and Florida State this past week. Like everyone thought Florida State would be a sleeper. And I know some people are like, "Oh, I picked them to be Florida State." A lot of people did. And Florida State was a lot better on paper. But what happened? Georgia Tech won. That's what you have to see. Some of these teams, like Louisville of last year, no one thought Louisville was going to be that great, right? Like maybe a person or two. But when you look at this schedule on paper, there's three games in my opinion that are super influential. Texas A&M, Florida State, USC. If Notre Dame wins against Texas A&M, I believe their bottom floor should only be one loss after that. And an 11-in-one team, Notre Dame team is getting into the playoffs no matter what. We know an undefeated team is getting in. I think if you go 10 and two somehow, that's where you're kind of 50-50 on whether or not Notre Dame is going to make it. But one of those two losses, I think, would come against Texas A&M. So if you take care of Texas A&M, I really only see a one-loss team after that at worst. I think so as well. Like is Georgia Tech going to be better than we thought? I know a lot of people think Georgia Tech is going to be, as I said yesterday, I've been saying all along, don't overlook Georgia Tech. Like they were going to be better, you know, Haynes King and the whole thing. But also, as I said yesterday, you're not just going to be able to play this, you know, run control, control the clock running offense against Notre Dame. Haynes King to beat Notre Dame is going to have to make some throws. So, I mean, it'll still be, I think, a pretty well-contested game, but I still think that Notre Dame has the edge in that game. But I think you're absolutely right. Like you beat Texas A&M, the rest of your schedule absolutely lays out that worst-case scenario, you've got one loss and you should make it in. But the other question, Marcus, you know, a big question, I should say, a big question Marcus Freeman has to answer this season is, are these inexplicable, inexplicable losses, inexplicable performances? A thing of the past. You had Marshall and Stanford in year one, they got better as the season went on. It upped our expectations going into last year, but then you had Louisville and Clemson. Now, the common denominator is they're both on the road and the toughest parts of your schedule with the exception of USC are either going to be in a neutral site, Georgia Tech or, you know, home games, Louisville and Florida State, depending on what those teams end up being. But are they past the inexplicable losses? I think that's the biggest thing left for Marcus Freeman to prove in year three. Can he have a team that's going to be favored to win most of the games that they play this season? Really, probably all but this opener, they're going to be favored the rest of the season. Can they win all those games? Can they handle their business weekend and week out? I think that's the biggest thing that he has to answer this year. But I do think that Notre Dame will be in the playoff if they win this game. 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He hypes up the ICC and he finds ways to belittle or cut down Notre Dame at the end of the day, right. I get there is some legitimacy to what he's saying. But Riley Leonard is the more experienced quarterback and you could flip the coin and say, you know, Riley Leonard has a good idea of the Mike Elko defense. He understands what they're trying to accomplish. I'm sure him and Mike Dembrok have talked about some of this stuff before is the home field going to play into it. Sure, but it's not going to play into it if Notre Dame comes out and kicks him in the throat and gets up 14 zero right like you got to stun the crowd. He's going to be able to control and be the team that's going to, you know, basically, you know, take charge of this thing right like there's no doubt that it's going to be a tough environment to play in but I think Notre Dame has a better coaching staff. I think Notre Dame has more experience amongst their group of guys together. And I think they ultimately have more talent on the offensive and defensive side of the ball. It's just a matter if it can come together and they can play under composure. You know, you can't tell me that the Texas A&M defense is going to be better than Notre Dame's and Al Goldens and flip side. You know, you could say Leonard and Wegman worst in case scenario or a wash but I'll take what Notre Dame has at the wide receiver running back in tight end room over whatever else Texas A&M has offensively. It's, it's a very SEC myopic statement by Paul Feynbaum which is obviously not very surprising because he thinks that the, you know, the SEC runs the world that did home field advantage do anything for Texas A&M a couple of years ago and Appalachian state went in there. And beat Texas A&M no and I mean that was only a couple years ago that it hasn't been that long and they're just as much talent in that you know on that roster at Texas A&M as there is right now so it didn't do A&M any favors in that game. And in terms of, you know, like the Elco advantage and all this stuff look he can know Riley Leonard's tendencies and he can design some things that he thinks will counter whatever Riley Leonard is going to do but Mike Elco can't go out there on the field, you know, like, well, he's still the first coach who's trying to go up against a former player Riley Leonard is still going to make place like Mike Elco is not going to stop everything just because there's some familiarity there. So the biggest difference in that and I neglected to or kind of failed to say this as well as, there's a difference between Riley Leonard and whoever was the offensive coordinator at Duke last year, and Riley Leonard and a Mike Dembrock offense. I've never seen that yet. No one knows what a Mike did Brock offense designed around Riley Leonard and his skills looks like. So, again until that's actually out there on full display. You can't tell me that Mike Elco knows exactly how Riley Leonard is going to be screened, you know, in this offense by Mike Dembrock. It's not going to look the same for whatever the Duke offensive coordinator was doing. That's a great point and like even though Mike Elco coached against Notre Dame. Last year, he coached against Sam Hartman and a completely different offensive coordinator and that's what I was saying earlier, a completely different set of personnel. This year I mean, right down to the offensive line. I mean there's not going to be an offensive lineman starting for Notre Dame Saturday night that started against Duke at Duke when Mike Elco was the head coach there. And like you said, he's not gone up against Mike Dembrock, even though LSU and am or obviously now. Well, no, he wouldn't have even gone against Mike Dembrock when he was the defensive coordinator there before, because Dembrock was still at Cincinnati. So, completely different set of circumstances. And I just, I don't think there's any real advantage one way or the other. And again, I think maybe there's even more advantage because you can pick RJ opens brain a little bit. Just in terms, Notre Dame defensive and nutrient also transferred from Duke pick his brain a little bit about Mike Elco's defense and I don't think that's a huge advantage, but I think that there is some advantage to that. I did want to throw this one up Scott said he said he's fired up for Saturday and he hereby gives his permission to fill in any of the show's content with some of his 37 bold and optimistic predictions that Notre Dame season on the boards right now. And I think I remember seeing that, that headline right before the show started I hadn't had a chance to look at that that is on my list of, of things to look at. So, we might be doing that but speaking of the boards. I thought this would be kind of a fun one heading into the season he had a list of five questions that he put up there for Notre Dame fans. So number one, who's the first Notre Dame player that you were a huge fan of. That's a combination Brady Quinn and Jeff Samarza. Really, that's not who I was expecting you to say I thought you were going to say Manti. Because yeah but that was a connection. I guess that was a different era. If you asked me kind of in that era. Yeah. I would say Manti tail for short but when I first became a Notre Dame fan and started going to games. It's no doubt I love seeing Brady Quinn throw that deep ball to Jeff Samarza. You were you were you were probably king of the Samarza fan club. I had a jersey out of Samarza jersey. Yeah between you know like football and going to all the Notre Dame baseball games and all that kind of stuff. You know that's that's true I didn't think about that I didn't think that far back for you. This male and Chris Zorich both together on that 1988 team you know rocket basically the most electrifying athlete ever to suit up for Notre Dame and I just love Chris Zorich you know like a little bit undersized but just chewing up the interior. You know playing playing nose guard for Notre Dame and just a key part of that national championship team in 1988 so those were the first two that I was a fan of. Question number two. Question number two. The question actually disappeared. I have a question do. Yeah the question disappeared from my list. Is it like your your your greatest early memory of Notre Dame football. That was your first big moment you remember from a Notre Dame game. Okay. All right go ahead. I would say the Bush push is up there and then I mean I always go back to this play and I know it wasn't crazy but Jeff Samarza catching that pass against UCLA in the two minute drive to go on and win the game. That's what happened with like 10 seconds left in the game Notre Dame was getting outplayed UCLA was definitely the underdog I just remember sitting in the stands so mad and so sad because I was like they're going to ruin this season to a team. Like UCLA and somehow they whip off that that drive Jeff Samarza breaks a tackle and he goes in to win the to win the game and score a touchdown. Absolutely right. Christopher Hardy says Catholics versus convicts and that's where I'm going with mine. Now this wasn't in person. And like this question didn't specify that it had to be in person. Like most distinct like big memory is Pat Terrell's pass breakup on the two point try against Miami at the end of the game to seal the win for Notre Dame and the Catholics versus convicts as they went on to win the 1988 national championship. Obviously like those weren't my first man like that season was not like the first thing I remember of Notre Dame football because I was a little bit older at that point but basically most of the 80s up until that point were very forgettable You know not nearly as many like actual memories in the moment during the 70s when I was younger watching Notre Dame football like I was very anti Joe Montana for a long time if that tells you anything You know because I remember the more for who he was as a 49er than a Notre Dame quarterback. Who is your most under appreciated Notre Dame player of all time But this was a little bit tough personally in your speechless. Yeah, I was accidentally on you. Oh were you talking I just saw I thought you're kind of doing it. What's yours I kind of want to I went with Cavari Russell. I think underappreciated is hard but I went with Cavari Russell because this is a convert this was a converted high school running back who came in and started as a cornerback as a freshman and as a result, you know, not all because of him but if he doesn't play to the level that he played at they don't end up going undefeated in the 2012 season and getting to the BCS championship game but he was a freshman as a converted high school running back playing cornerback that season. So I went with Russell You know, I wanted to say like golden golden tape because of it was an undersized wide receiver. He ended up going on to the NFL but I don't think people realize in the moment. You know like how how good of a wide receiver he was like yeah he was good but you know the I don't think that they've had a golden tape, you know, since then but I don't really like my answer to be honest with you I just had to put someone out there He's pretty appreciated personally, but like I said I think the underappreciated are harder ones. What one single play would you change from a past Notre Dame game. I would have to go back to the Bush push game. I think that was Notre Dame had they won that game. It potentially goes on, you know Brady Quinn, Charlie Weiser are going to play for a national championship so you can't really say, you can't really say that Notre Dame, again the playoff appearances, you know against Alabama in the championship they got crushed. They didn't really bode well against Clemson or Alabama like you can't boil that down to say like one play kind of changed the outcome of the game. I think you could because my play is that same game I'm going the Matt liner to Dwayne Jarrett pass. Yeah that those are kind of like twofold in my opinion like you could pick either one of those. It was fourth and long though you know if that pass isn't complete it's game over right there. I'm going liner to Jarrett. And then I would say second would be the the illegal pick play that was called against Florida State for personal reasons because that was my freshman year of college. We were at a house party all watching this game together I was like the singular Notre Dame fan in the room and everyone knew it and when Notre Dame got that play off the entire room went dead dead silent. And I frickin you know went nuts and then the play gets called back and then everyone's looking at me like oh that you know like it's easy to make fun of the guy that literally just went nuts you know because his team did something good. And I think another one would be the last year against Ohio State not handing the ball off to estimate on second or third down and the ball that went through the defensive backs hands browns hands. I think those are also up there. Well that's still a much tougher play than the still photo makes that look on the the you know the the. Oh yeah I think the photo makes it look like it's supposed to be this easy intercept. If that's Kyle Hamilton it's it's easy but it's not it's DJ Brown you know there's there's a few and like you look at that photo and his fingertips are barely touching that ball and he is reaching up and obviously you know intercept that pass and. But still not an easy play by any means even though the photo makes it look easy. Light it. Hey Irish Breakdown listeners it's Urban Meyer this fall the game changes join me Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram and broadcaster Rob Stone as we bring you a new perspective on football and culture every week. 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You're going like all guys who are not 40 yet basically right around 40 is that. Oh I'm going in my era too. I don't like to pick players that I didn't personally get to watching you know how to come up with and watching stuff like that like yeah I could say Joe Montana but I never saw him play quarterback for Notre Dame. Right. If I had to go with one more after that. I honestly. I'm trying to think of someone. Oh I know who I would say. I would say. Either Steph onto it or. I can't think of his name he actually ended up passing away. The next Lewis next would also be up there for me as well I think Golden Tate could be up there. Yeah that's kind of like my group I would say. Interesting very. Recent group that Jesse has on the Mount Rushmore. Of Notre Dame football as if nothing happened before the year 2000. Yeah okay. That's a good list that's a very Vince like list to be quite honest like I feel Vince would cop out with a list like that I don't want to think too far back. We can make fun of Vince because he's not going to be until the end of the week now so. All right the NCAA good good good answers by the way for the most part till that last one. The NCAA is giving serious consideration to eliminating the spring transfer portal and only having a December transfer portal window for college football. The portal would last 30 days in the winter it would go into effect this year if they approve it a subcommittee just passed it. And so they're they're looking at it. This year's window would open on December 9th and it would close on January 7th so do you buy or sell one portal window. I buy it and I don't have a lot of rationale to back it but. I think that here's what I think with the current state of NIL and you know the transfer portal. I think that there's nothing wrong to kind of holding these guys to a commitment of at least a year. Right like I don't like the idea of you know because basically you have the second window for you know maybe guys at the end of the what is because the second one is like at the end of the spring right. You basically go through spring ball and a guy's like oh I kind of you know down the depth chart a little bit and he wants to leave. I think that you've made your commitment. And I think that you basically should kind of have to honor it for that full year I don't think you should just be able to kind of get out of it. Yeah in the middle of the year and I like there's still to me something to you know fighting your way up to a depth chart like I think that should motivate you and kind of you know inspire you to kind of work harder because you're not necessarily seeing the immediate results that you want and again I don't know the implications of maybe you know the recruiting and you know the ins and out of different aspects of it but to me I just I don't understand why there is multiple windows. I think once you should make your decision you should be set in that decision and kind of go through a full year before being able to decide you know what I think I'm going to transfer out now. Yeah. Like Stymie and somebody else just said Anthony basically saying the same thing move the December back until after the playoffs. If they have only one. The problem with that is the spring semester starts in the middle of January. So if you let the playoffs aren't going to be done until around that time. So you can't open the transfer portal in the middle of January because there's actually going to class that's part of the deal when it comes to college football because I've seen some other people kind of say this as well like you've got to have that. You've either got to do it one of two ways you've either got to do it like they're going to do it in December and early January before the spring semester starts or you do it all at the end of the spring but obviously what that prohibits is getting on campus. You know getting with their new team being able to go through spring practice with their new team and stuff like that I hesitately buy it. I can at least buy it until I see you know what it looks like and what kind of impact you know my initial reaction is I think that you're probably going to see greater numbers go into the portal in December. And you know maybe they pull their name back out if they don't you know find the destinations that they're looking for and stuff like that. But you know if you're not going to do it at the end of the spring. Like what I don't know I guess the only option for these players who don't find a home right away in December is just to stay where you are. And obviously that's you know kind of an awkward situation as well. I'm not completely opposed to the one window though but I do still see some benefit to having the spring window because then guys get to you know you get to practice in the spring you get to find out where you stand on the team. If things aren't where they need to be then you enter the portal at that point so maybe I'm selling because I feel like you still need the spring portal. That like some people get anxious and you feel like oh we're going to lose more guys at the end of spring and everybody thought that this year and they didn't lose nearly as many as they thought they were going to other than the punter. But I feel like you need to have that at the end of spring so that so that guys can kind of you know find out where they are you know like in the depth chart and that kind of thing in the spring and then enter the portal if that's what they. Ultimately want to do. All right Jess we will end it with that a lot of great stuff that we had tonight Carter Carl's appreciate his input early in the show. Great whiteboard breakdowns from you Jesse as we get ready for this opener four days from now Notre Dame in Texas A&M Saturday nights as we continue to count down we've got more shows of course coming up over the course of the week. 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