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So it's important for him, but, you know, from another name standpoint, Marcus Freeman, man, you better come out with something here because if it's the same old, same old, you think the critics are out now, they're going to be out in full force if you can't get this thing done. I just feel like, you know, Riley Leonard's playing career had an ending at some point. If you can coach into your 70s, okay, this, this could be a make or break thing for Marcus Freeman's career. If you asked Jim Harbaugh, he's trying to coach until he dies. So, you know, that's, that's kind of, he said, he said in an interview, I played football as long as I could. And then I knew I wanted to coach football as long as I could. And then I'm going to die essentially. So this is an easy answer and there's only one answer. It's Marcus Freeman. He's already preheating in the oven like we were talking about. And this thing is just like a ticking bomb. If they can't, if they can't get this, they're like a sinking boat right now, just grasping, you know, for air, essentially, if they can't get this thing figured out, you know, Marcus Freeman falls to one and two and that cascades into, you know, maybe a nine and three, eight and four season after that, it's just simply not good enough knowing that you're in year three with the schedule that they had this season and all of this other talent that you're bringing in around Marcus Freeman as well. So, you know, it's sad because I do want Marcus Freeman to do well and I know it is a lot on his shoulders for our first time head coach, but that's what you signed up for, right? And again, there's just really, there's really no margin for air at this point. I do agree that it's Marcus Freeman, I'll just give a couple points on him and then I will give the Riley Leonard side of things since, you know, I mean, you guys covered it very well. I mean, Marcus Freeman is still young. He's only 38 years old. So like he'll have a chance to at the very least go be a defensive coordinator for somebody if he does end up getting fired here. But like when you look at how things have worked out for other Notre Dame head coaches after they have been dismissed, you know, whether it's Bob Davy, Tyrone Willingham, Charlie Weiss, things didn't work out for any of those guys after they were fired by Notre Dame. So just from a pure head coaching perspective there, it's all on the line. I think for Marcus Freeman, you know, again, I think he can go on and what, you know, even if it's just being a defensive coordinator someplace, I think he'll be fine from that perspective. Again, I'm going to give the Riley Leonard side of things because like if, if Riley Leonard has a horrible game and he ends up getting benched in this game, it could literally be the end of his football career. And you know, the kid is what, 20 years old, 21 years old, whatever he is right now. So, you know, again, like Marcus Freeman is going to go on and keep coaching in some aspect, most likely someplace, even if it's just being a defensive coordinator. But for Riley Leonard, you get benched in this game, there's probably no return at any point this season. And you were a hired gun. You were a one year, you were a guy who was, you know, in like your NFL prospects and all these different things are writing on how this season goes for Riley Leonard. So, you know, again, you tank it, you get benched, that could very well be the end of the football career of Riley Leonard. Again, I do still think Marcus Freeman has more on the line, but, yeah, you're right, as well. To be the beginning of the end for Riley Leonard, too. Yep. Bill in the blank, it's blanked at Notre Dame is one of five FBS teams without a touchdown pass so far this season. It is absolutely unacceptable. You are the University of Notre Dame. You are, you know, held to really a higher standard of, you know, in this sort of blue blood conversation. And so to be one of only one in five teams to not have in passing touchdown, it's just simply unacceptable. I don't care, you know, if Riley Leonard is a dual threat quarterback and he's better with his legs and whatever, you had to find a way to get a passing touchdown against NIU last week. I can maybe. He had at least two against NIU. Yeah, I can maybe understand Texas A&M because of the game plan and needing to get the ball out quick and, you know, how good that defense was, sure. But it's just, it's completely unacceptable, in my opinion. Embarrassing was the word I was looking at. I mean, it's, you know, with the teams that they're lumped in with and not having thrown a touchdown pass, embarrassing man, like, you got to do better. You got to be better. Well, embarrassing. Air Force is one of the other four that don't have one. Okay, you can take it because it's Air Force, right? Right. Option and all that different kind of stuff. Northwestern and Miami, Ohio are two of the others. And those two teams just played each other. If it wasn't last week, it was week one. Those two teams have played each other and they're on the list and Western Michigan is the other. How about that, Army and Navy, triple option teams, both have more touchdown passes than Notre Dame right now. Very unacceptable. It is completely. I just saw Vince's art sink there a little bit. Completely unacceptable. I'm, you just, that has got to change. That has got to change. It's got to change fast. Prize picks is America's number one daily fantasy sports app with over five million active members. Prize picks is the easiest and most exciting way to play daily fantasy sports. Unlike other apps on prize picks, it's just you against the numbers. All you do is pick more or less on two to six player stat projections and watch the winnings roll in. 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Okay, if it's catch and run, I'd like to say both in this answer, but I'll say the passing touchdown because I think it's such a point of emphasis and everyone it's on everyone's mind. I think you have to find a way to get Riley Leonard again. He needs to see someone catch a touchdown as well. It goes kind of, you know, both ways I think right now. So I'm going to say both, but if I had to pick between one or the other, I'd go with passing touchdown. I'm fairly confident in the passing touchdown one as well. I think they're going to finally get off the Schneider on the passing touchdown. So yep, that's what I'm going to take passing touchdown. Passing touchdown is my answer, but I think both are going to happen on the same play. If they do what we, what we've been saying that they should be able to do, Jeremiah Love takes a little screen pass and houses that thing for like 40 plus 30, 40 plus yards. That's what I'm going with. I like it. I'm down. All right. Never touched on making muster, but anyway, it doesn't matter how it's going to happen. So back to the quarterbacks. If they go to Steve and Jelly this week, scale of one to 10, what's your confidence he would make a difference like a one and a half. I mean, I was going to go negative numbers, but I don't want to be that guy. I just don't think they're there. Like I said, there is nothing that Steve and Jelly can do that Riley Leonard can't do. He's not going to make a difference. I'd go a two out of 10, maybe a three out of 10. It's definitely less than a 50/50 toss up, but, but like Vince said, like these, these coaches, no matter what style of offense they want to play or, you know, they, they have this vision for Riley Leonard is still better at it than Stephen and Jelly because he would be in if that wasn't the case, and these guys see them every single practice, like they're not just, you know, trying to purposely sabotage themselves by putting a lesser of a quarterback on the field at the end of the day. So if, if Riley Leonard can't get it done, then what's to say a quarterback that's less talented and has less confidence is just going to come in and, and, and just sweep things in a different direction. So again, I'm a two or three out of 10. I think they think that Riley Leonard is the better quarterback for the offense. They allegedly want to run. But again, we haven't seen that so far. And that's, I go back to my point that I was making earlier in the show, Riley Leonard's not even willing to take the checkdowns right now and just make those easy passes. That's why as we talked about just, just hitting some screen passes, just getting something to get his confidence going early. My answer to this is a four. I honestly don't think it would be any worse than what Angeli did against Oregon State in the sun bowl produced defense might be slightly better than that. But what did they do in that game? They ran the fricking football. They didn't put all the pressure on the quarterback. That's what they need to do anyways. We talked about earlier in the show, they need to get price and love involved. Those are, they're, they're two best offensive players and they're two most explosive offensive players. They've got to get them. They've got to be a bigger part of the game plan, no matter who the quarterback is. But my, my confidence and Angeli, I'd put it at a four. So just a little bit higher than you guys. He's the most confident one here. Good. Proud of you. Scale of one to 10. I never thought that that would happen, by the way, like my scale of one to 10. How confident are you? Leonard will be the only Notre Dame quarterback to play against Purdue. Playing injury, 10 out of 10, if he's a healthy Riley Leonard, then he's playing the entire injury factors into this though. You have to factor in. We did see him get hurt last week. So everything considered, what's your confidence seven out of 10, I give him a 70, 70% chance of finishing this game if injury is considered. I'm going the complete other direction. I'm going to say it one. Wow. This is a glass half full approach because I think one is glass half full. Listen. Okay. They're going to be winning by so much. They're going to bring in and tell me, wow, that really is glass. Now full. Yes, man. But, and I also think they're going to get him out as soon as they possibly can. It won't be like a normal, like a four touchdown lead or anything like that, but they'll have a lead that they think with their, the way their defense is going to play. They're like, Hey, let's get him the hell out of there because he, you know, we do want to keep him upright this season. So I think they're going to, they're going to pull him quicker when they have a lead to make sure he doesn't get hurt. Man, I can't wait for this prediction score. Man, I'm in Jesse's range because I don't think this is going to be a blowout game at all. Like after what's, what indication is there that, that the offense is just going to make that kind of lead. That's exactly right. There is less than zero, less than zero interesting 80s movie, by the way. But my, my confidence is seven, but I'm, I'm, I'm confident that Riley Leonard is going to be better this week, but I think there are still going to be some growing pains in the offense. I think the defense is going to play well enough. And I am factoring the injuries into that. I still think like if, if everything that they're saying is not just misleading us and they're going to end up starting Steve Angeli because of, you know, whatever non throwing shoulder injury that Riley Leonard has, like if, if everything that they're saying is, is on the up and up, then I think it was just kind of, you know, like a minor little thing with a non throwing shoulder and he'll be all right. He'll play his game. The question is just going to be, you know, to what extent they let him play his game out there. It's, Vince, Vince is like, that's as optimistic as I've heard Vince in a long time. That's right. That's all I got. I'm trying to, I'm just trying to get through the day. This game is Notre Dame per do, of course. So fill in the blank. If Notre Dame was going to schedule a big 10 opponent to play regularly, like annually, or it doesn't even have to be annually regularly. It should be blank. It should be Penn State. I had to get it out there. Had to get it out there. It should be Penn State. We've gone through the Purdue cycle. We've gone through the Michigan, Michigan State cycle. Gimme Penn State. I think it's two relatively equal programs over the last two decades, right? You could say both teams are solid, but haven't done enough to win the big ones, right? Like, that's the biggest knock on James Franklin as a head coach is winning the, you know, the Ohio State. Michigan, the New Year six bowl games, that's kind of more, you know, to me, why I like this matchup because they're two equally, you know, two equal opponents. They're relatively close in geography. And I think it's something new. And I think you could introduce kind of a new tradition, essentially. Penn State doesn't even belong in the big 10, so they're out. The team does belong in the big 10. Well, fair. That's fair. I mean, the number is growing, obviously. They were the first team, I think, that came in when they, when they originally, you know, expanded. It's like, really? And Notre Dame was playing them fairly regularly, up till that point, too. And then they joined the big team kind of like, well, yeah, nope, not play any anymore. Yep. I think this is a, this is a two part answer for me. I think it's a split between Purdue and Michigan State. Those are the two that I would like them to see kind of go back and forth. Maybe, you know, to, to, to, to, to, to, you know, something along those lines. Those are the two teams that I'd like them to see. Jesse and I were talking actually yesterday that it seems like there's a simple way to do it. You play a home and home with Michigan State, you play a home and home with Purdue that, you know, like the next two years and then the next two years, you play a home and home with Michigan and then you just cycle through that. Yeah. All of those teams. All of those teams are showing up, you know, again, not annually, but somewhat regularly on the schedule. So like every cycle you go through and you do it like that, I think, I think that that would be the perfect thing because those are the three most regional big tent, you know, and like Michigan State and Purdue were on the schedule every year for 70 plus years together. And then because like when the big 10 expanded the first time and they expanded their conference game schedule, that's when it was around the same time that Notre Dame had the ACC agreement. That's when they all, you know, went off the schedule. I know everybody talks about Michigan. I would still like to see Michigan more often, even though I know Vince hates him, but I would like to see, you know, because we talked earlier in the show about is Purdue arrival. I would like to see some of these old, more traditional rivals at least show up on the schedule a little bit more regularly over the next several years, whether that happens. I don't know, but I would like to see that happen and, you know, people are, people are bored by the, you know, and I think that it, there's a good chance that it happens because of these new TV contracts as well, you know, like the Sunday night, NBC games and stuff like that. Well, and I would, I would echo this even more because I think I brought this up yesterday as well. If you schedule more of these Purdue, Michigan State, Michigan, maybe Ohio State Penn State, you know, in this kind of, you know, 250, 300 mile radius or diameter, if you drew a, you know, a circle starting at Notre Dame, I think that benefits their name too, because you can stomach a loss to those programs more so than you can to a team like Northern Illinois. You can replace. Exactly. Northern Illinois with, you know, Michigan State, Purdue, Michigan, and you do fall flat on your face in those kind of games. Well, at least it's Purdue, Michigan State, Michigan, it's not the NIU's, you know, of the world. And I was listening to something earlier today, you know, Urban Meyer was on some podcast and he was talking about his time at Notre Dame, you know, they never considered playing any of those Mac programs, right? Like that's something that they never used to do because they wanted to play these, you know, they want to play for the Michigan State. Yeah. Yeah. They want to hit every quadrant of the country against good opponents because they want these Subway fans essentially to come to games and feel like the games that they're going to matter, right? You're not going to just a Mac team or, you know, last year when they played Tennessee State. And so I think, honestly, screw this whole, you know, getting some easier teams on the schedule potentially, I like kind of flushing them out and adding back in more of these maybe traditional rivals because I think it helps in more than one way. Great point, Jess. Vince, do you have your bell where you are right now? Oh, I have no bell here. I know. I got no bell. He's at school and he has no bell. I mean, what is it going on? The bells are over the PA now. It's all this new tech. I like that. I mean, that's a great thought. I like that. You're absolutely right. And you know, the fact that you're playing two Mac teams this year and you lose to the first one and then you, of course, you've got two service academies coming up later this season as well. I mean, we all know what this schedule is and it just makes it even harder to stomach when you lose a game like that last week, especially when it's a home game, obviously. Light it. Hey, Irish breakdown listeners. 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I want to do the props a little differently this week and we're not just going to let go over under. I'm going to throw some questions at you. Well, does he have to go over if the Irish have a chance to win this game against the Boilermakers? Yes. No. It doesn't have to because I also think with the one to punch in the backfield, they're not both always going to have a great game, but I think that they should and will ride the hot hands. So it could be gidarian price that has a hell of a game and then he gets the yards as opposed to Jeremiah Love. So Jeremiah Love doesn't have to, but if he does, then that's obviously a good thing. I think, you know, again, like going back to the screen passes and stuff like that, I think he has to be at least somewhere in the vicinity of 100 total yards. If they're going to have a chance because just flat out, he has to be a much bigger part of the game plan. Yeah. And I think that his success helps take pressure off Riley Leonard that, you know, whatever pressure there is on, on Leonard. So yeah, I don't think he necessarily has to go over the rushing yards, but he definitely needs to be around 100 total yards. I do think that he goes over the 76 and a half rushing yards though. Yeah, I'm really, really, really, really mad that I don't live in Indiana right now because I want, I would, I want to put a large sum of Jesse's, I really wish I could put individual player prop bets on this game. No, but it just, it, he had 79 last week and didn't really play the second half. Like he's, and I think in a game where there's going to be a concerted effort to be like, you know what, running backs are best player on offense right now. Let's find him, you know, a way to get close to 100 yards. Let me throw, you know, that, that question back at you a little bit then over under one and a half receptions for Jeremiah Love on the game. He has three through two games so that I mean, that is the perfect over under right there. To me it seems like a no brainer that it should be over. So I will, I will go with that, you know, again, like if, if Purdue wants to pressure Riley Leonard and do some of that stuff, they have not shown a consistent willingness to try to get Jeremiah Love, the ball in the passing game, which they said they were going to do during training camp. So maybe that says that I should be picking under, but I'm going to go over because it feels like another element that they can work into this game that would be very easy to do that they haven't shown so far. What do you think Vince? Vince was hoping I wasn't going to ask him. Yeah, I'm taking the over as well. If, if that does anything for Vince, yeah, I mean, I don't know, I, I'm so, I don't want to say over this team because that's not true. I'm not over the team, but it's like the what you're supposed to like, what's going to do, what am I supposed to think about this team when it comes to the numbers? You know what I'm saying? Like that's the hardest part for me is what am I supposed to think about these offensive numbers that that that's the hardest thing for me, but yeah, I mean, I'll take the over as well. I, I am, I guess I am fairly confident in that so I will take the over. Receiving props. Jaden Greyhouse's number is 28 and a half yards, Bo Collins is 43 and a half. Are you confident that either of them can hit the over? I guess I would say I'm more confident in Greyhouse because his is just the lower number. And I know that these guys are, are supposed to be, you know, basically their premier wide receivers and even more so Jaden Greyhouse and, you know, his ability to play all the different wide receiver spots. So I just got to go with the lower number because no one's really been consistent so far. But if, if he catches that ball that he dropped last week and he hits the over alone on this one. So I would go with Greyhouse is the one I'm more comfortable with. Yeah. I mean, it's a lower number. So you got a better chance of hitting it, obviously, I think that, look, their number one guy has been Bo Collins. I think they are going to try to throw the ball around a little bit more. And I think Bo is going to be the beneficiary of that, but I think Jaden could get that in one catch. So, I mean, am I confident? No, I'm not confident either. But like, they both hit the over once and they both hit the under once in two games. And that's probably why Vegas has the numbers set where they are right now. Like, you know, I'm like, you can say, well, Bo Collins has been their obvious go to guy so far. But that also means Purdue is going to pay more attention to Bo Collins this week. You know, so right, I would probably be a little bit more confident that Greyhouse will help because, as you said, the lumb, the number is lower and he should be the beneficiary of whatever extra attention that Bo Collins gets. Yeah, true, but it's almost flipping a coin at this point. Like you said, Vince, no passing yard prop for Riley Leonard. Good. What does that tell you guys? No one knows close last time or the time before he was under both of the numbers and now Vegas is like, screw it, we don't know what's happening when I can put one out. It means he's been so bad in the passing game that Vegas doesn't even want to put a line out there. Well, I do wonder, you know, like how much the injury comes into play, like they don't even want to touch it with the injury and stuff like that. So Purdue's Hudson cards number is 200.5 yards. So will he get to 201 yards? And he go over against Notre Dame secondary. I'm taking the under on this one. Wigman had 100, Hampton had 198, but if you factor out that 83 yard chunk that came on the touchdown, he's only down, he's out, he's down to 115 himself. So we're talking about, you know, an average of probably around, you know, 110, 120 yards max between two quarterbacks, right? Secondary should do its job. This game is going to be determined by whether or not Purdue can run the ball like NIU did. So I will comfortably take the under on his passing yards. But the secondary did not have a great game last week either. And I think they're going to bounce back and have a shutdown game. So I will gladly take the under on this one. Yeah, he did it in all but three games last year, Nebraska, Ohio State and Michigan. So you know, like Ohio State and Michigan were obviously the two most elite teams and Nebraska was still a decent defense last year. So like you look at that and again, like you look at Notre Dame secondary and produce receivers. The only way he's going to get it is if you have some big fluke play like NIU had last week and I don't think that that's going to happen this week. I don't think there's any way that Mike Mickens and Algolden let that kind of repeat performance happen. So I'm going to go under for card as well. All right, game prediction time, Notre Dame, nine and a half point favorite. The over under is 47 and a half points. It does seem like a generous amount of points to me for this game. I don't know what you guys think. Jesse, do you want to go first with your prediction? No, because I'm still doing numbers in my head right now. All right. Well, I had to submit mine so I have to do kind of what I said. So I'm going to stick with it. You know, I still think Notre Dame can and should and will win this game. I just have no idea at this point how it's going to play out by any and anybody that says they do is lying to you. They have no idea how this is going to play out, okay, based on what we've seen the first two weeks. So for me, I would say Notre Dame 24 produce 10 well under the total points, well under the total points. Okay. I guess I would take, you know, based on my prediction, I guess I would take Notre Dame minus the nine and a half. They should win this game comfortably. They should. And I hope that they will. So that that's the way that I'm going with this. They should score more than 24, but I don't think I just don't know. So 24 10, that's what I've got. Are you ready? Jess? No, I want yours. Okay. So I've got a low scoring game as well 24 to 16 is my final. So that is 40 total points. So again, I'm under the point total of 47 and a half. And I also would be taking Purdue plus nine and a half in that department, you know, like you Vince, just from a pure talent standpoint, this shouldn't be that close, but we haven't seen any evidence that Notre Dame is going to be the offensive juggernaut that we thought they were going to be coming into the season. Right. A heavy dose of those running backs as we've talked about all game, love and price should go a long way. And maybe that turns into something different. You know, and again, like Notre Dame's defense, the better defense of the two units, but we didn't see them force turnovers last week either against Northern Illinois. So I think that we'll see at least some progress in the offense, but anyone looking for some dramatic turnaround from last week to this week, you probably shouldn't even watch the game. I'll just tell you that. Like, you know, again, I think it'll look better. And if it looks better, it's going to be mostly because of price and love, I think those are the two guys who've got to see the ball more. And even if there is an offensive explosion, that mean that changes nothing. Honestly, unless there's a very clear difference in philosophy that it means nothing. It means nothing. Let's see what they do next week. You know, see what they do with the week after that. So they just need to get a friggin W. That's what they need. That's it. Okay. So my original score was going to be Notre Dame 24 Purdue 13, okay. But after consideration, I've thought about two things. One, this defense is going to be pissed off. And they've only given up, in my opinion, they've given up one touchdown. By the way, I love pissed off Al Golden, just so, just so everyone is aware. That's what I mean. It's not the Al Golden, Al Golden is pissed off this is certainly as you want to be Al. I love it. I think this defense is going to play fired up and I think there's going to be a chip on their shoulder for an already really talented team. And again, gave it one touchdown to Texas A&M, one touchdown to NIU. I think the NIU touchdown was flooky. I don't think they gave up a touchdown this game. My final score, Notre Dame 30 Purdue six. Wow, okay. We're riding, we're sailing those boats right into the end zone. So here's a shiny gold helmets. I think, but it goes back to this is not accomplished unless Notre Dame makes a concerted effort to get Jadarion Price and Jeremiah Love the ball on offense and both the running game and the passing game. Because I think they can set up fuel goals, they can get touchdowns. They can do it all. And I think these running backs can shoulder the weight and if that's the game plan going into this week, I think that you can see a Notre Dame getting three offensive touchdowns, three field goals. That's how I'm getting to six or sorry to 30. And again, I just think this defense is just going to be so fired up on the road. And I don't think they're going to give up a touchdown. That's not sure about that, but you know, just to your point about you run things through those running backs, it sets everything else up if Notre Dame can play with the lead. That's when some of those turnovers, that's when some of those mistakes were do are going to start happening. So all right, Jesse is the most optimistic of the three of us. He's got Notre Dame covering and not quite going over the point. So everyone's under the 47 and again, like 47 and a half is a lot of points. Have you guys not watched these two teams? Like are they basing that off per do beating Indiana state 49 to nothing two weeks ago? Like that is a factor in this like Indiana state anywhere near the defense that they're going to see this week on double a team. I know. I know. All right. Well, that's going to do it for today. Have a great weekend. Hopefully everyone enjoys the game. Stay sane. Vince and the crew will have the post game show afterwards. And of course, we will talk to you next week with a full slate, hopefully more joyous week next week than this week, even though this was a quick week. This week flew by. I don't know. But we're going to try not to break records for the longest step post game show ever if possible. Last week hit, by the way, five and a half hours, five and a half. Yeah. Hey, when Notre Dame puts up a non, a defensive touchdown shutout, I will pop in for five minutes. I told you so and then pop out. All right. That's going to do it. Thanks for joining us. We count down to kick off. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] A king supers pharmacy, care is making it easy to get vaccinated. Care is helping you stay protected from flu, COVID and RSV. Seasonal vaccines are available seven days a week with evening hours. Care is giving you a shot at staying healthy this season. 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