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The combination of Jadarion price and Jeremiah level end up being the best back field combo that Irish have had since 2000. First I can remember up, that's an easy buy for me to be honest with you. I mean, they've had some pretty good back field combinations in the past. Obviously the one they had two years ago was really good, but I'm gonna go with that one. I'm gonna go with that one. Yeah, yeah, I think this, I think by the end of the year, yeah, I think it will be. Look, they've done well so far, they gotta do more so than what we've seen so far. But they're on track to be that, absolutely, absolutely. Bicehold Jordan Faison will score a receiving touchdown this week. I'd love to see that. I don't know that it'll definitely happen. He's first week back, I don't know how much he's gonna play, but for me, he's kind of like Josh Burnham. I would play Jordan Faison this week, but I wouldn't play him a lot. I think it's good to get him back in the offense. And hopefully him and Riley can connect a little bit and those type of things. But I wouldn't play him a lot, but if he scores a touchdown, that'd be a good sign. It means he's back to good health. Bicehold the player in the roster, most like Riley Leonard from a style of play standpoint is Tyler Buckner. Yeah, buy that. They're very similar from a style of play standpoint. Double bogey, Bicehold, the offense looks completely different again this week, leaving people wondering what the identity actually is. I'm gonna sell that. I think we're gonna see an offense that does look more like last week, just built on a little bit. So I don't think we're gonna see them regress back. They might be high or anything like that. That's maybe that's wishful thinking, but that's, that's what I see. Bicehold whilst both starting running backs have played very well. Jeremiah Love has pulled ahead and is clearly RB one at this point. I don't know why this even matters. I know that this is an obsession that some of us have with who's RB one, who's RB two. Here's what Notre Dame has. They have two dynamic running backs. They're both going to continue to play. They're both going to continue to make huge plays. Jeremiah Love has started the first three games. I expect him to continue start the first three games, but there's no reason to continue. There's no reason to change what's working right now. If one of those two is has a hot hand, then you ride that a little bit. But guys, there's going to be a time this season when Jadarion Price is the one with the hot hand and he's going to play more in that game. And that's how it should be. Right now, Jeremiah is playing better and he's getting more touches. And that's how it should be. But I kind of like the split we saw this weekend, 10 and eight, I'm, I'm good with that. I'm good with that. And so, yeah, I just, there's no, there's no need to, they're both great backs and they're both going to play a lot. And when one of whoever's hottest in that game is going to get the bulk of the carries, no matter like, let's just say I granted the premise like Jeremiah Love's RB one. Well, of course he starts. He's the starter. He's the first guy out there. But if they go into a game and Jadarion Price is just ripping the other and he's just feeling it, then guess who's going to get more carries that game. It's, it's Jadarion Price. And so I think Jeremiah Love needs more carries. He's averaging eight yards a carry. He's averaging 7.97, 7.97 yards per carry, which is eight yards a carry. Well, Jadarion Price is averaging 7.7 yards a carry. There's no need to change what you're doing right now, folks. Like the Miami game was a problem. The first game in this game, it's not a problem. They're both going to play. They're both getting touches. You know, Jeremiah Love had, what was it, 11 carries this weekend, had 11 carries and also caught two passes, 13 touches, got over 100 yards, played two and a half quarters of football. I'm totally fine with that. Jadarion Price had eight touches or was eight catches. Totally fine with that. Look, this is a 16 game season, folks. 16 game season, if Notre Dame's the team, we hope they're going to be. I do not care about Jadarion Price or Jeremiah Love getting 20 touches in a game right now. Use both of them. And then if you get to the postseason and you've got to ramp up Jeremiah to beat a team or Jadarion beat a team, then you ramp it up then, but right now it's working. Roll with it. And that way you don't wear either one of these guys out and you keep them fresh all here to me. That's like, and again, I don't even disagree with the premise that you're saying Andrew about how Jeremiah needs to be a focal point of the offense. There's some things I would do maybe to get him a couple of past game touches in the game, perhaps. But I'm comfortable with 12 to 15 touches per game right now with where they are. And then the case you happen to ramp it up and maybe you're playing some different opponents. So, you know, again, Notre Dame didn't throw the ball a whole lot last week and you're going to split carries between the two running backs and Riley Leonard. I mean, you just, you'd be foolish not to still continue to break it up that way, just because you have other playmakers. You say, oh, you've got to put Jeremiah Love me and well, every time he's in a game, he's a threat to hit a home run. So it's a darn price. And of course, you're still going to have your quarterback getting a decent amount of carries as well. So I think what they're doing is working. The only thing I would say is maybe a couple of more throws to Jeremiah. That's about the only thing that I would really look at at this point time. 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I'll buy that. I think they're going to be pretty disruptive this week. I do. I think they're going to build again, we need to see it. But if you're asking me my prediction, I predicted the front seven will be a lot more disruptive this week, even than it was last week. I think they're going to build on what they did last weekend. Absolutely. And that'll be a number to get there. Bice a hole. The offense. Great house has over a hundred yards receiving due to nap not holding when he gets the ball this week. I mean, I was only one throw. I get it, but it worked out well for Notre Dame because they went 70 on the very next play. But no, I would be okay if he did that. I mean, I hope by because it'd be good to get him rolling, be good to get Jaden right house rolling. There's no doubt about that. I don't know that he'd be my first prediction for a hundred yards, but it would be nice. So I'll hope by that. I'll hope by that one. I didn't banami by so hold the season is early. It takes time for a new quarterback and offensive coordinator to gel. You're absolutely correct. I mean, there's no doubt about that. I pointed this out in a thread the other day. And when you look at Jaden Daniels numbers in his first three games with Mike Denbrock in 2022, they had some early season struggles as well. I'm actually going to see if I can find. I don't remember the post that I made that in, but he was a guy that early in the season, I think he was averaging something like, I think four yards per pass attempt, something along those lines and wasn't they weren't had a game under a hundred yards. I think his first three games against FBS opponents or power five opponents wasn't very good. And then after about the fourth game in the offense, he started to play a lot better. The offense got better, even though the competition was was ramped up and he was more effective. And so you're you're going to see, I think you're going to see something along those lines from Riley Leonard. And he was a more, I would argue a more effective quarterback and Duke than Jaden Daniels was at Arizona State, not saying better, more talent. I'm not making that point. I'm just saying he was more, in my opinion, more effective. And I cannot find that breakdown, but I put this stat up the other day. And basically it was like it took, it took Jaden Daniels a little bit to get rolling in that offense. Because it's not just about learning the new law offense, you're also learning new teammates. And so like, let's see here, let's just pull it up real fast. So go to 2022, like against Florida State. He went, he averaged 6.1 yards per attempt, 209 yards against Mississippi State, 5.7 yards per attempt. Did have 9.6 against New Mexico, but then against Auburn, he was 4.0 and then 6.7 against Tennessee. And then outside of a, you know, a bad game against Arkansas, where I think he got banged up after that, he was a lot better for most of the season had a, you know, he, he threw for 80, he went eight of 20 for 80 yards and 4.0 yards per attempt and a four point win over an Auburn team that was bad. And an Auburn team that, that had already lost by, got blown up by Penn State. And the next week against Tennessee, number six, Tennessee, a loss, but he went out throws for 300 yards. And then the next week on the road against Florida, he goes out and throws for 349 yards in a win and three touchdowns. So do I expect Riley to do that? Well, I mean, I, I don't want to see him get to 200 yards first before, you know, before he gets, before he gets to 300. But I think he will certainly get better by so hold, but for my Demenome, you are content with our new coach starting offensive line lineup, all things considered. For now I'm content with it because like I would have done some things probably a little bit differently in the fall camp. But now that you're here, you need to get this group rolling. I would make sure that, that you're still getting Gerby Lambert some snaps and, and practice and making sure he's ready to go in case there's another injury. You've got to really make sure that Sullivan Abscher is ready to go anywhere but center. You know, I would be ramping up a lot of reps to get him ready to go. But for now I'm content, but I would also be willing that if a Sullivan Abscher or if a Gerby Lambert to the question earlier about, you know, predicting the future offensive line, I'm not going to predict that there's a change. But I would absolutely do what I could to make sure that Sullivan Abscher and Gerby Lambert continue to get pushed. So that way if there is a faltering that those guys are ready to play. And I would do the same thing with Joe Otting at center in case Pat Coogan struggles. That will, by so hold, Tennessee covers the minus seven in Oklahoma and USC covers minus five and a half at Michigan. I mean, right now, again, I kind of gave some preferences earlier about, I need to watch more of Oklahoma. So I haven't made my prediction yet, but right now I think that, like I said, I think Tennessee wins and wins convincingly for sure. And then as far as Michigan beating USC, I would, I would be surprised if USC doesn't win by at least a touchdown, I'd be very surprised. So I'm going to buy both of those. I would be very surprised that both of those aren't covers. I had an immanami also says running back wise, only Jeremiah Love and January Price should be touching the ball, the majority of the time in meaningful minutes. Well, I mean, that's a buy because that's, that's what's already happening. So I mean, just keep doing what you're doing. I would still say, you know, look, you get into some goal line situations down the road if Kydron Young continues to develop, I would say that I thought the third and third night, third and eight draw to Aneas Williams is a great call because a Aneas Williams is a, is a more than competent running back. But you're not thinking he's going to run a draw there. Like in that particular instance, if Jeremiah Love, Brighedarian Price is in the game, you're thinking that guy might get the football, right? When Aneas Williams comes in the game, you're not thinking he's going to get the football for a host of reasons. Number one, he's not one of those first two guys. And then the other thing is he's your pass blocker guy, pass game guy. So majority of the time, yeah, but I'm also okay sneaking in a couple of things in certain situations. You know, third and one, you know, maybe Kydron might be your guy for that. Remember, I'm watching him carry Purdue's defensive line for a 10 yard gain or, you know, so like, I think there's opportunities to use some of those other guys in certain situations, but the majority should certainly of the running back touches should certainly go to those two guys. By so hold of Riley and then her struggles passing in the next two games, Mike Marcus Freeman will keep Riley Leonard in the game. I mean, it depends on how the team plays. I mean, I need more content if he struggles the next two games throwing the ball in Notre Dame struggles against my Ohio and loses to Louisville, I don't think he'll keep them in the game. I don't think he's like, I don't think there's any particular reason right now that Marcus Freeman's keeping Riley Leonard in the game other than the fact he thinks he is the best quarterback for them. Like, that's just, I mean, it's not, there's no NIL contract that requires he start. There's none of that stuff. They think he gives them the best chance to win right now. If that proves to be false, I don't think they'll have any hesitation of making a move. I don't know that we, I would like the move that they would make, but if he struggles the next two games throwing and then the offense struggles and they lose a game, then I absolutely think he'll make a move. So no, I, you know, but, but again, if they, if he quote unquote struggles throwing the ball, the way that some people perceive that to mean, but he's still out there running for a hundred yards and the offense is scoring 40 plus points a game and they go, then yeah, he'll still start and should because they're playing well. I'd like to see him throw the ball better, but if there's, if they do what they did against Purdue and that's all, that's the best he has to own the football, they, well, he won't get benched the next two weeks. Multabious, by so hold, Riley Leonard has more passing touchdowns and rushing touchdowns this season. I'll buy that. It's obviously zero to four right now, but I think in the end of the year, he'll have more passing than he does rushing by so holding their name wins out until the showdown in the Coliseum. I'd definitely buy that as well. I mean, that's a hope by because we don't know if this team is past the, just not shown up and Louisville's capable of beating them. Georgia Tech's capable of beating them, you know, Florida State's capable of beating them. If they figure things out, there's a lot of things that are, could go bad if they play like they did against Northern Illinois. I just, I just am hopeful that it doesn't happen again. So that's a hope by and I do, I do, and I think that they'll, they'll win out. I look, I said before the year, they're going to be 11 and one. There's just going to be, and I didn't know who it was going to be. There's going to be some game. They just didn't play well. And I'm hoping that that's what it is. I have a lot more confidence in that now that they responded the way that they did last week, but they still need to show it on a more consistent basis, certainly. Jalen G, Riley Leonard's, vice a whole Riley Leonard's rushing performance last week reinforced his reluctance to stay in the pocket and make his reads let passing place develop. I'll sell that. I think Riley knows very well that he needs to be better in the pocket. The reality is, is he had 11 carries for 100 yards. Only three of those carries and 21, 20 of those yards were scrambles. His other eight carries and 81 yards were on designed run plays, which has nothing to do with him sitting in the pocket. I think he knows very well that needs to be better thrown to football. No, no question about it. By so holding a critical emphasis of practice this week is getting Leonard comfortable with the complete passing game by I definitely think that'll be a focal point of this week. Now, again, doing it within in the structure of things that he's comfortable with. But yes, yes. ND 2019 by so hold, Michigan will have the worst record of a previous year's national champion in 10 years. Let me go see what LSU's record was in 2020. Give me a second here because I know LSU struggled the next year in 2020. They were five and five. So I'd have to believe that they would have a losing record. And while I think that, look, I'm on record as saying Michigan's offense is going to stink this year. I said it in the off season. I didn't think their offensive line was going to be as good. I still think their defense is good enough for them to have a win record. Could they be worse than five and five sure, but losing to Texas is not something that's a surprise to anybody. I still think they beat Minnesota at home. I still think that they beat Michigan at home. I still think they beat Northwestern at home. That right there gets them to five wins. Now, they've just got to between USC at Washington at Illinois, home against Oregon at Indiana at Ohio State, they just got to win one of those games and they won't have a worse record than LSU. So no, I don't think that they're going to do that. So somebody said Auburn, Auburn won their championship in 2010. The next season was 2011. My math's not the greatest, but I'm pretty sure that's more than 10 years ago. So yeah, I'm going to say LSU because like Florida State was still good the next year. And 10 years would be going back to what, 15, so Bama, Clemson, Alabama, Clemson, LSU. Michigan, Alabama, Georgia, Georgia, Michigan. So yeah, LSU 2020 easily. So I still don't think Michigan's going to have a sub 500 record. I would enjoy it if they did, but I don't think that they will. But as a whole, Purdue will be the most points in our name, scores all season up by I mean that 66 points is a lot of points. It's a lot of points. If they score more than that in another game, this offense is going to be nuts. And I don't know that that's going to, I mean, look, the game this past was a perfect, it was the perfect storm. It really was. I hope I'm wrong on that, but yeah, I think that'll be the most points they score all season. I mean, when was the last time Notre Dame went over 60 period? I mean, they averaged, they said a modern record and a record that hasn't been surpassed since like 1908, oh eight last season scoring almost 40 points a game. And the most points they scored last year was 58 and 22, the most points they scored in the game was 45, 21, it was 40, 55, 2020, I think it was 47, 2019 was 66 against New Mexico. And after that it was 52, 18, it was 45, 17, it was 40, 52, that was against Miami, Ohio, 16, it was 47. And then the in 2015, which would take us back a year, believe the most scored in 62 against UMass, I believe, yes, 62 against UMass. So in the last 10 years, Emily scored over 63 times. And then two of those games against New Mexico and a bad New Mexico team and a bad UMass team. So I don't think that we're going to see them score more than 66 in a game this year. But I hope that they do because that'd be fun to watch. Hey, Irish breakdown listeners, it's Urban Meyer this fall, the game changes. And me, Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram and broadcaster Rob Stone as we bring you a new perspective on football and culture every week. We will be joined by the biggest name in sports and talk about everything inside and outside of the lines. Let us guide you through a new era of college football. Watch Triple Option on YouTube or listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts. Hey, Irish breakdown listeners, it's Matt Liner. I've got a podcast called Throwbacks with actor Jay Farar, where we'll be talking all things sports, but also so much more. We'll give you the behind the scenes stories from my days as the quarterback on an iconic college football team to Jerry's days as a star on an iconic TV series. So subscribe to throwbacks on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcast. 2019 also asks or buys out submits, buys a hold, their names tight ends will end the year with more receptions than the receivers sell by so hold, Riley Leonard ends the year with less passing TDS than the service academies combined sell me, let's let's look here real quick. Where's army and Air Force at so far? So army has Air Force and Navy. So right now army has one passing touchdown on this in two games, they're a triple team. Air Force this year has no passing touchdowns through three games and Navy this season, let's see here, I get the shot you're trying to take at them, I understand that, I don't agree with it. Four, so that's five, you know, maybe Navy's change in offense allows them to get to 15, but you're talking about them as combined maybe getting around 20 to 25, it may be but I'm selling that J. G. Y. Town by so hold, you know, I'm price will be the leading rusher in five games this season five games now by that I'll buy that I could see that by so hold Riley Leonard will have three games with 350 passing or just season excluding the playoffs up sell. I don't think I'll have more than three with 350. No, I think you may have one, two, but not not that many Texas will just to kind of point that on me, we've seen Riley have some games in the past where he is not throwing the ball great and then bounce back with big performances, we've certainly seen that you go back to 2022 his first year as a starter. He had 155 yards and against A&T in a blowout win where he didn't play much much on behalf and then goes out and that's 324 the next week against Kansas had 154 on the road against Boston College comes out the next week goes for 262 and then 290 to 391. So I mean, we've seen him do it. It just I mean, I just don't think he's going to be a quarterback that's going for 350 a game. So I'm going to sell that by so hold, Texas will lose two or more games this season. Let me let me look up Texas to schedule real quick because it's a good schedule, but it's not a brutal schedule and I like this Texas football team. So they've got here's wins that I think are pretty much locks. Louisiana and row, Mississippi State, Florida, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, all right. So that's five locks, they've already got three wins. So they got four games left. So Oklahoma on a neutral field, I think that's a win. We've got at Arkansas, that'll be a tougher game, but I think that's a win. I have them losing at Texas A&M. I predicted that and then you got home against Georgia. So the Georgia game to me will be the key if they lose that game, then they'll lose. I think they have a shot to lose to, but I have Texas being 11 in one team this year. So we're talking regular season. Then I'm going to say sell. Now, if we're talking all year, including the postseason, then I would say two because I don't have Texas winning the championship. I sell hold from burnout 85, it's slightly panic time for the O line depth with both starters and backups injured at this point. I'm going to sell that it's slightly panic time. I think they're still an injury away from that, especially since the news that they expect Billy Shrout to be back. The reality is this Notre Dame is in a great position depth wise. Not only are you, you lose two starters and you insert two former starters, you still have Gerby Lambert, you still have Tosh Baker, who's back, you still have Chris Tarrick, you still have Sullivan abs, you still have Joe wadding, you're, you're in a pretty good place there. You are. So one more end. And then of course, when you get Billy Shrout back, that's even better. So no, I'm not in that panic mode yet. If you lose another guy, then I might get into a slightly panic time. But for now, I'm still okay with it because like, for now, I still think there's even with the moves they made this weekend, there's still three guys on the bench this weekend that I think could step in and start for Notre Dame right now and survive. I mean, Tosh Baker obviously, Sullivan, Abscher, and I, and I think Gerby Lambert could as well he could step in and he's going to have some rookie moments, but he, he's an impressive looking player and press. So I still feel pretty good about that. And a guy like Sullivan, Abscher can play both guard spots and tackle. So he provides you some flexibility as well. Greg Nielsen by so hold with the chains that allows analysts to coach on the field. The analyst position will become a lot more desirable to some veteran coaches who don't necessarily want to deal with the recruiting transfer portal and I outside of the business, but still want to coach ball and work with young people. I think that's true of some veteran coaches. Yeah. I'll buy that. Now, keep in mind, you're, you're most likely not getting paid as an analyst as much. But like, like, for example, if, if I was Notre Dame, this is just me and I don't know that, that this would be even to be at all, but I'm just telling you what I would do. I would absolutely call Harry Eastan and say, Hey, look, we wouldn't hire you as an analyst. And we want you to help us out with this, this, this, and this. You're not a full-time coach, but this is what you're going to, and let's say this pretend for a second, Joe Rudolph is on board with that. And coach, he says, I would absolutely do that and I pay him handsomely to do so. But you can't do that with a lot of guys. You know, but some veteran guys like, Hey, look, you want to pay me a couple hundred grand and I'm 60 something and, and yeah, do that, absolutely do that. And, you know, guys were doing that in the past and they would do that for a couple years and then get jobs and think like, like, but I think it's something where you're going to be like, okay, I'm going to stick with that. I want to do that is pay me enough money. I'll do that and I'll stick, keep that job because it gives me a chance to coach football and not have to, like you said, deal with all the other stuff. So yeah, I think that is, yeah, I'm with you on that. I think that's going to make it more attractive, especially for schools that are willing to pay well in those gigs. All right. So after Greg Nielsen's comment, which I thought was very well thought out. There's, I don't have a lot to add to it. I think that's going to be a job people want to do bracketed cover three by so whole Jaden Greathouse is the number one receiver for Notre Dame in terms of catches by the end of the year. Hmm. Well, I believe that was my prediction at the beginning of the year, but it's, it's not my prediction now based on how the season's playing out. I mean, he's got right now eight catches, both cons has 12. I think there's a chance that both cons ends up with more. So I'm going to sell that, but it's, I don't feel confident in that because I think there could come a point time where, where Jaden just steps up and he balls out. But I, the reason I say this, there's no established record of him and Riley being on the same page a whole lot. And when Jaden was balling in the spring, he was, he was catching balls from Kenny and Steve and CJ, not, not, not Riley. So that's a bit of a concern for me by so whole from bracketed cover three, given what happened against Northern Illinois, Notre Dame comes out into this weekend's Matt game fired up and focused and rolls Miami, Ohio by 30 plus I buy that. If they don't come out fired up two weeks after losing to a Mac team and you're playing the defending Mac champs, if you're not fired up, you just have an immature football. Team it's as simple as that. I think they're going to come out and I don't think they have an immature football team. I think they had an unfocused football team against Northern Illinois. But yeah, I, I, yeah, I buy that. I'll be very concerned if they don't bracketed cover three. The best team between Indiana, Illinois, Michigan state and Nebraska all currently undefeated earns a 10 win season and a possible chance at a playoff firm. It's possible, but it's more so because I think Nebraska has a shot for that because of their schedule. You know, Nebraska, you know, not they beat Colorado and Nebraska's got, I think, one more game before Ohio State that is a potential. If they just don't blow it, they've got Illinois this weekend and they're at Purdue home against Rutgers and then at Indiana, so we'll see what Indiana does, but, you know, there's a chance that they do that, but I don't think any of them are playoff teams at all. I don't think any of them are playoff teams. I think Illinois is a quality team. We talked about that in the off season. I think they were going to have a bounce back year, but they're not, they're not lights out. They've gotten Nebraska on the road and Penn State on the road and Oregon on the road and they get Michigan at home. That's going to be tough sledding. If you look at Michigan State, they haven't really played anybody yet in there for no. Actually, you know what? That road went over Maryland's looking a whole lot better now after Maryland smacked Virginia this weekend. Maryland blew out UConn and then beat Virginia, but they lost at home to Michigan State. So that, that wins looking a whole lot better now for, for, for Michigan State, but I look at Michigan State's schedule and they still have to play at BC, at Oregon, at Michigan, at Illinois, and they got Ohio State at home and Iowa at home and then Indiana at home and Purdue at home. So, you know, 10 wins might be a little tough, but I keep saying it and I know he's young and he's going to have his ups and downs, but I really like Aiden Shiles. He's got to protect the ball a little bit better, but I mean, you saw his big play ability against Maryland. He didn't get a chance to do a whole lot against Prairie View. He went 12 of 19 for 173 yards in the touchdown. I think he barely played into the second half, if at all. The fact that he's the dynamic quarterback, I think gives, is why I give him, I give Michigan State and their defense has improved as well, Michigan States, but I give Michigan State and Nebraska the two best chances to do that because even though that they both have young quarterbacks, they're very talented quarterbacks and they've got improved defenses. I just don't think Illinois can score enough to be that team and I, I got to see more from Indiana. So I'm just not sold yet on Indiana. I just think UCLA is that bad. I really do. Jim Halloran, by so hold, Jim was not in a good mood today. I don't think when he did his by so holds and he did kind of joke about him being too negative, but by so hold, the Purdue wins is more about Purdue than Notre Dame. I definitely sell that. I, I think Notre Dame played extremely well this weekend and I think only a, only looking at it from a negative standpoint can convince you that it, that, that is true. Notre Dame made plays. They dominated this weekend. They had a great game plan. They executed it. It says a lot about Notre Dame by so hold a dominant win against Miami this weekend still does not tell us who Notre Dame is as a team. It doesn't, I mean, that's a whole, I mean, it's, it's sort of a buy, Jim, because Miami, I don't think it's that good. And if Notre Dame blows them out, it's kind of like, well, that's what you're supposed to do. It doesn't mean that you're going to go beat Louisville. It doesn't mean that you're going to beat Michigan, excuse me, George attack or USC or Florida State. It doesn't mean you're going to have another, another letdown game and another game. It doesn't mean that at all. It just means you had a, you did supposed to do this week. So I somewhat buy that one and then the last one is if Notre Dame loses another game, players start opting out of the rest of the season. Sell that. No, they won't do that. They won't do that. I mean, could a guy do that sure, but it, no, I'll, I'll sell that. All right, SB Irish 25 by so hold, KK Smith out snaps Chris Mitchell by the end of the season. Are you referring? Well, I guess there's two ways of looking at it. If you're talking about total snaps for the rest of the year, like from here on out, that's possible. That's certainly possible. I know that, I know that KK got a lot of snaps on Saturday, but so far, I mean, looking at the receiver snaps, KK has, where's KK? He's got 46 Chris Mitchell's 105, so I mean, he's got him over doubled up right now. It's possible. I'd still say, I think Chris Mitchell probably plays more. I mean, you've got over 50 snaps to make up, but I think KK is going to, especially if you can get him going this weekend, I think he's, he's talented player. You guys know I liked him coming out of high school. He's a talented player. I could say, I'm going to still say so, but I won't shock me if I'm wrong on that. 13 reasons why, by so hold, we'll see depth chart players in the field again this week by the fourth quarter. Absolutely by that one. Like, I don't think this game's going to be close. I am not advising anyone to bet on this game. I would never bet on a four touchdown game ever. I just, this is me. That's how I look at it, but just my own opinion. I don't think this game's going to be competitive. I really don't. I really don't. JM2362, by so hold, the passing game doesn't evolve and they fully buy into a heavy run game and great D, but they make the playoffs. If the passing game doesn't evolve beyond what we saw against Purdue, I do believe that they'll make the playoff and win with heavy run game and great defense. Yes, I do think they would do that. I'm, I'm selling that that's what's going to happen. And I think you're asking about what is going to happen. And if you're asking me what's going to happen, I'm selling that because I do think the pass game is going to evolve. If you're asking, if you're saying that this is, this is going to happen, the pass game won't evolve and they're going to do that and still make the playoff, I would buy that. So I try to answering it both ways. All right, we've got the next one from Riker Ferg. By so hold, the Tennessee 10% talent fee for tickets will result in more schools to increase ticket prices to quote unquote by players. It's, it's not so much about buying players. It's about preparing for the revenue share that's going to be coming here down the pike. It somewhat goes into buying players, but I think it's also preparing for that. If this works at Tennessee, you're going to see more teams with successful programs do things like this. What I don't understand is why they don't just just raise the prices instead of doing this. It doesn't make any sense. But yeah, you're going to see particular prices are definitely going to go up. There's no doubt. By so hold, the locker room in Florida State is completely gone. I mean, I can't say that Riker because I'm not there. I'm not covering team day to day for all I know, the spirits could be great and they're just struggling and they're trying to find their way and, and they're going to bounce back because they've got great leadership. Maybe that's the case. I don't see it. They certainly don't play that way. I mean, you're talking about a team with three returning starters in the offensive line. That is literally rushed for 156 yards this season and the last two weeks against Boston College in Memphis combined for 58 frickin rushing yards like there's problems there that that go way beyond, you know, oh, let's blame the quarterback for why your offense is rushed for less than two yards of carry in the last two games or why your defense is soft as heck and keeps getting ripped up by team. It's just they have problems that go way and the quarterback's a problem. Don't get me wrong. The quarterback's a problem. They have way more problems in the quarterback. This is a team with no heart is what they see on the field. Is that what's going on locker room? I don't know. I'd have to lean towards buying it, but I'm not there. Brecker Ferg says if Florida loses to Mississippi State, Billy and Napier's buy next paycheck will be his $26 million buyout. I don't know how much his buyout is, but if it's whatever it is, yeah, it's probably right. Yeah. It's probably right. I'll buy that by so whole for said, well, not fire Mike Norvell since they can't afford a $65 million pay buyout. We talked about that earlier. Ryker. So just refer back to that. I don't think it'll be because of that, but I think that would if there was any thinking about firing him, I think that would prevent them. But I think they are not going to fire him because they'd be silly to fire him. Richard the third by so holding their name will lose two quarterbacks of the portal in the off season, making another portal quarterback a necessity. I'm not really touching that one, Richard. I don't really get into projecting who will or won't transfer. I think I'll just say this, no, it's going to be hard pressed to keep all their quarterbacks for next season. But you know, I mean, the reality is that they lose two quarterbacks in the portal. That means only have one quarterback coming back. That would be unfortunate. And I don't, I don't think, you know, I'm just not going to get into that. But if I had to, if I had to answer your question, I would sell it by so old CJ Carr will win the quarterback job in 2025. He's my early favorite to win the job. But I, I don't think Kenny Menchie is going to go down without a fight. And I don't think Steve Angeli's going to go down without a fight. But if you're asked me who's going to be the starting quarterback next year based on what I've seen with my own eyes and some of the things that I've heard from sources I have, I would say that that I would buy that. That would be a good, a good buy bet for me. Fields of gold by so hold, it takes three plus games to really get an idea about a team's identity and how good they are. Not in their name specific, but across all of coach football. Yeah, I'd buy that. I mean, in teams of all, even beyond that, but yeah, I'll buy that. I think it takes time to really, that's why people would say, well, this is, this is who Notre Dame is on offense and that's who they are and that's who they're going to be all year. That's, that's false. They could end up being a lot better on offense, especially throwing a ball. They could end up being worse. I mean, they could go a lot of different directions, but very rarely do teams just kind of maintain a level throughout the season unless they just start off great and maintain greatness. If I say hold, if Notre Dame wins out, they would still likely host a playoff game. If they went out, I definitely think they're hosting a playoff game. The question is, is will they be a five seed or will they be an eight seed? But I do think that they're hosting, yes. Then by so hold, Riley Leonard will average less than 200 yards per game passing over the rest of the season. Well, if he, if he averages less than 200 yards per game, then at some point time he's going to not be your starter anymore, in my opinion. So I'm going to sell that. I think it'll be over 200. Because you said rest of the season. So not including what you've done, but the rest of the season. Wilson, 19 Lucas by so hold, Brian predicted an 11 one season and stated he wasn't sure who would beat Notre Dame, but they would have won loss by so hold and I you loss was just what the coaching staff and players needed in order to reach their potential and the 11 ones season predicted. I'm going to hold on that, but I did talk about this yesterday, Wilson. So if you, if you didn't listen to yesterday's show, I'd encourage you to do so because I did mention that I had a friend of mine. So I don't want to take credit for it, but I have a friend of mine. We were, I was on my way home from the Purdue game when we were talking and he brought up the notion that this could end up being a blessing for Notre Dame because losing this game this early and in the embarrassing fashion that they did was a bit of a wake up call for a team that was feeling itself a little bit and that it's going to give them a big chip on their shoulder the rest of the year. And if they can maintain that chip, they're going to be really hard to beat. And so he posited that and I had a hard time finding any fault fault or flaws in his argument. It's just for me, I need to see that they're going to show up every week. Them being mad doesn't guarantee they're going to be mad the rest of the year. It just means that they were mad for Purdue. Will they be mad against Miami, Ohio, find out? We'll find out. Hopefully it does, but I would lean towards buying it, but I'm just, I'm more in a hold right now just because I need to see how this team responds this weekend against, against Northern and Illinois. And I want to see how this team responds against Louisville because a team that has leadership and pride is not going to forget what Louisville did to them last year. And I don't mean Louisville did anything nefarious, like they ran a score up, they were dirty. They just kicked your butt. And I think that's probably worse than anything is they just kicked your butt. And that's what they did to you last year. And if you're a team that has any pride and leadership and any kind of edge, that's, that's not going to sit well and yeah, you're going to have some form, you're definitely going to have some form. There's no doubt about that. I mean, yeah, I'll buy that Florida Irishman buys a hold of the end of the year, Northern Illinois is undefeated and is in the running for the playoffs. I'm going to sell that because I just don't think they have the firepower to go undefeated, but I hope you're right. I hope you're right. Florida Irishman buys a whole Jordan Gray now scores twice this week. Again, I hope you're right. I don't, I'm not, I mean, I'd like to say yes as a hope by, but we'll see, buy so holding their name, defense scores twice. I'm going to sell that. That's tough to do. They did it last year, but that's tough to do. And then buy so hold, Tennessee wins by 20 plus. I don't know that I would bet 20 plus, but it's going to be convincing. I'm going to sell 20 plus in my prediction most likely, but I do think it'll be a convincing win for Tennessee. I'll probably like 17, 18, something like that. Probably what I'd go with, but, but it's going to be convincing. Hayden OB 21 by so hold, TJ cards already the most capable quarterback on the team when it comes to going through his progressions and reading the defense. See the blue goal game. I'd buy that by that. Him and Kenny mentioned, I think both are probably the best at it and comfortable with it. So I'll buy that definitely buy that salty Virginia peanuts by so hold. Their name should begin its offensive series with running plays for Leonard and the running backs and the first two sets of downs getting Leonard on track and comfortable then switching to a heavy dose of passing to the receivers and tight ends and the subsequent downs. I'm going to sell that because I kind of like what they did this past week, which is you come out with a nice blend early and there's a lot of different ways to get Riley going. Last week it was with, I mean, two passes. One was a jet sweep that's technically considered a pass and then the second down was a pass. I got him going. It depends on who they are. I would say, yeah, you're going to run him and run the backs early, but you're still going to throw the ball early. I would balance as the key. And I wouldn't even mind taking an early shot, especially if you get like, let's say first down you get eight yards and a second and two. I'd take a shot. I'd have that in my game plan. First time we get in second and short, we're taking a shot and it's going to be a simple read. It's here to here. One read. Boom. Throw a bomb. Go make a play. Absolutely. I would do indeed bet and I'm going to bring this up from down here. This is a comment that Tyler Carnes, he says, my new house smart, they will commit to stopping the running. It's never a game. And that's kind of the reason that I'm here on this comment because I do think my new Ohio is going to be coming down early in the game and focusing on stopping the run, which is a great time to try to get something going down the field. Let's agree. And that's why I don't think you come out necessarily just run, run, run, run, run. You got to be balanced. And when you get a chance to take some shots, you take some shots. And he bet, by sehold, right? Leonard doesn't have to be very effective in the vertical passing game to make the offense take off. They only have to show that they're willing to try and occasionally hit on downfield throws to make defenses respect the threat and further open up the running and short passing game. I don't, I don't, I buy the first part when you talk about the remainder of the season. I don't think Notre Dame has to necessarily be a great downfield passing team to be really good the rest of the year in the regular season. I don't, however, think that just occasionally hitting a deep shot is going to force teams to do something different than stopping your run. I don't think that's going to be the case at all. I just don't think there's a lot of things. If Riley Leonard is decisive in making smart decisions as a passer in a game plan that looks like last week's, then I don't know that this team is going to lose many games or any games. But for the regular season, and I think they could score a lot of points doing so. But if the goal is what it should be, which is not only making the playoff, but making a run in the playoff, you're going to need to be more effective down the field. Again, it's not a lot of them. You don't need a lot of shots, but they, they, there's got to be more than like occasionally hit it down field throw to make teams respect that because they're just going to say, look, you may occasionally hit one, but we think that if, if we don't give that, then they're just going to keep coming at us and, you know, I just, I don't think that's the way that that plays out with your chest by so hold based on what you, we know what we now know. No now teams three to six, according to how you'd rank them in the big 10 or better than 10 teams three to six in the SEC. Oh, that's a good one. And I, I, that's a good one. All right, let me, let me go to the next one because I'm going to come back to this and we'll finish on that one. Rebel Irish says, bice ahold, Bubacar Traore emerges as one of the most dominant defensive lineman on the roster. Kids of freak just needs to plan a control. I buy that. I think he, I think now that he's especially going to get more playing time, you're going to see him really emerge as one of the most, if not the most dominant offensive lineman that they have. Absolutely. And that's the last one. I want to go back to this one from with your chest. So I want you in the chat to kind of help me out. So here's kind of what I think right now, and this is partly how they played, but also just kind of projecting. I look right now, the basically the way that the, the, the SEC plays is playing right now. I would say that the three best teams in the SEC right now are Tennessee, Texas, and I'd probably lean towards Georgia. I know that Alabama looked better in their most recent game, but against Wisconsin, but I don't think Alabama necessarily looked great against USF. I think it's kind of a coin toss between the two. I think Georgia has a much more impressive win so far beating Clemson on the road. So I'm just going to go with those three. And so then you've got Alabama in my next three. You have Ole Miss in your next three. And then who would you say is the next SEC team? So you could go A&M, you could go LSU, you go Missouri, Oklahoma. Who, who would you guys go with there as the six? I would probably go with, I'd probably go with Texas A&M or LSU as the next one there. Actually, you know what? I probably go Missouri for now, although I think Missouri is going to falter a little bit and it's eventually going to be A&M or LSU, but let's just say Missouri now because they're ranked higher. Okay, let's just go with that for now. And then the big 10 right now, if we're going to say who the three best teams are in the big 10. Obviously, you've got Ohio State, right? So Ohio State, let's say Oregon. And then who would you guys go next Penn State or USC? Let's just go with Penn State just for now. And then go USC is in there. Let's say Nebraska is in that conversation. And let's say that Illinois is in that list. So let's just say we go with that. Here's the deal. This is why I look at it. I've said before and I believe this to be true that the SEC is overrated beyond the top several teams. I think there's this push that the SEC is deep at nine, 10, 11 and 12. And I just think that's a little bit misguided. But I will say this, I think the big 10 is not as deep either. I mean, when I look at the top six, because you said teams three to six. So you say three to six in the SEC is either Bama or Georgia, Ole Miss, and either Missouri or Texas A&M or LSU, one of those. The next three in the SEC are our big 10 are USC, Nebraska and Illinois. So USC recently beat the team that we've gave you as maybe six to eight for the SEC and trailed much of that game. They won it late. Nebraska against Bama Ole Miss or is not going to, they're five. They're not going to, to me, win either those two games. And then Illinois against either Missouri, Texas or LSU is not in advance. I say the SEC is deeper three to six than the big 10. That would be my take. I don't know what you guys think in the chat to be very curious. I think the big 10 is good this year. It's a quality league this year. It's just not as the top of the SEC is better, where I think that the big 10 can compete with the SEC is if you want to go past the top six. I think there's some ascending SEC teams that you go past the top six, you know, six to 12. I think that's where the big 10 could maybe make some noise because there are some bad teams in the SEC this year, in my opinion, some very bad teams in the SEC this year. So anyway, that's going to do it for the show. I hope you guys enjoyed it. I certainly enjoyed it very much. And you guys have a awesome rest of your day. We got Ivy Nation Sports Talk coming up in 18 minutes. The guys are going to be, it's going to be, I believe, Vincent Sean tonight. I'm going to be back tomorrow, 1 o'clock with Ryan. We're going to do our keys to victory and predictions. And then at 2 o'clock, I'm going to be joined by Bill Bender. And he and I are going to preview Tennessee and Oklahoma. We are going to preview Michigan and USC. We are also going to, I'm pulling up all my games right now. We're also going to preview Texas, or I mean, Utah and Oklahoma State. And then, of course, we're going to preview the Friday night Friday night game between Illinois and Nebraska. So join me for that. Lots going on. Hit the like button, folks. Hit the subscribe button. Hit the notification bell, share this podcast, give us a five star review. And as always, if you have not done so, you are missing out. If you have not joined the message board at boards, let us break down.com. We'll talk to you guys again very soon. And thank you for joining me today on the Irish Breakdown podcast. 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