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Just go to indeed.com/bluewire right now and support our show by saying that you heard about Indeed on this podcast, that's indeed.com/bluewire, terms and conditions applied. Add to hire, you need Indeed. I'm doing well. I don't know if I told you, but I took a sick day at work yesterday. Oh, you didn't tell me. Today was my first actual day back at work, but it's the last week. So I was like, 3-2 flu? 3-2 flu. Yeah, exactly. I never heard it called that. I still call it that. So I was like, I did my best Ferris Bueller's day off yesterday and it was a day off, but it wasn't because did a lot of cleaning, did a lot of chores, did some birthday shopping, did some grocery shopping, got a new propane tank, drove Naomi around to a bunch of different places. We got a lot done and then ended up playing some sand volleyball yesterday evening and then, oh, we took the dogs on a really long, like four mile walk as well. So it's like, we got a lot done yesterday, even though we can see them. I guess they don't blame them. You got to use that sick day. I mean, this is your last week at your current employer, you roll over to the new address next week. So what are they going to do? Fire you? That's what I said. I texted my friend and I was like, yeah, I think I'm going to take today off. I'm feeling pretty sick. I was like, what's the worst they're going to do, fire me? That's right. I mean, you could be Bryce Young. You know, I guess I have to clarify which Bryce Young, because I guess it's officially better to be defensive end Notre Dame freshman Bryce Young than it is Carolina Panthers, former number one overall draft pick Bryce Young, benched for Andy Dalton, man, I mean. That's tough news right there. What kind of life is that? You got, you got benched for Andy Dalton. Like people want to talk about how bad Jerry Jones is as an owner and there's, there's a great argument that, that he is a bad owner, but he doesn't hold a candle to that guy in Carolina. I will tell you that. Mr. Tapper? Yes. I mean, the guy wanted Bryce Young to begin with, all they traded, you know, traded away to the Bears to move up to the number one pick because he had to have Bryce Young. He couldn't have, have waited and then they get Bryce Young and here it is, what? Two years later, they've already benched him and Andy Dalton is the best quarterback in Dallas in the last 20 years. He was there four years ago and I bet, you know, it's like, I, I didn't realize he still had a pulse coming out of Dallas. I will tell you that. Anything is, is Carolina tried Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield at, at quarterback and now both of those guys are on two and O teams, the, the Minnesota Vikings and how about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers? How about Sam Darnold, by the way, beating our old boy, Brent's, uh, Brock Purdy in Minneapolis. A lot of upset, this last weekend in the NFL was, I knew it was fishy when I, I was looking at the lines before the game started on Sunday and I was like, man, there's just a lot on a favorites going on here. I was like, this, this just had that feeling that there was going to be a lot of upsets. And to me, it's like, I don't even really call them upsets because it's, it's weak. You don't, you don't know what a team is weak to it. It goes back to my age old argument of why I hate preseason college football rankings. You just don't know, right? And so it's like, let me get them the first month of football before we see, you know, before we call these games upsets. Like for all we know, the Saints could be the best team, you know, in the NFC this year. I mean, they've looked like it with, with Cooby Act at often, so far. So far. So I don't feel nearly as bad about what happened in Dallas after seeing Sam Darnold and the boys beat the 49ers. Oh, man, watching, and then last night, last night, I mean, full glory, full glory, Jalen hurts. How overrated can you be? You just found out watching that garbage last night, prime time, interception when you need him the most. Yeah, there are little blitz on him and interception is, uh, in, or all buddy, I mean, you know, that's the way it goes. A lot of people love it when Dallas loses. That's fine. Chris checking in to remind us that he said Notre Dame was going to beat the breaks off Purdue. And I remember him chiming in with that didn't see it coming. I mean, Chris, you are one of the 1% who saw that coming. Like if you release that coming, I mean, man, I think I had the closest prediction. I was 30 to six. I was one. You did it. You did. Of the one I think I had. Yeah. You were the most loved side. I think I gave Notre Dame the most points. Obviously I didn't think they'd get 66, but, you know, I was right on the, I, I, I thought the Notre Dame defense would show up and I, I, I thought they did it in a tremendous way. Um, and I just didn't expect that offensive output, but I also didn't expect Notre Dame to just run at will on Purdue. And that was really the, the entire difference in the game. Yeah. We're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about what the offense looks like all that on today's show. I did rewatch the first half when all the starters were in today and we started off yesterday. And I talking a little bit about Brad Nestler and Gary Danielson calling the game for CBS. I actually, you know, again, like there were some things I could pick more about the second half about how prepared they were, you know, in the event that, you know, because like, you never know messing up on a lot of names. Yeah. You never know what game is going to turn into a blowout and that's, you know, preparation. You're doing a network TV game. You got to be ready to go. First half, I actually thought they did a good job, you know, like with the exception of when they once they threw out the Gary Danielson package and talked about, you know, him being a former Purdue quarterback. I mean, all you're doing is setting yourself up for everyone to just think of him as a Purdue guy from then on and everyone's going to assume bias from for the rest of the day. Well, and it didn't help that they went into the back story that he was 0 and 3 against Notre Dame and they showed the footage of kind of how they blew the one game that Purdue probably should have won and, um, yeah, I mean, it was. I liked. I like how he took it in swing though, you know, it's like, what, what are you supposed to talk about when it's like, you know, 30 something to zero or whatever the halftime score was, right? I thought overall was it wasn't a bad brought. I mean, there are two guys have been doing it forever. I feel like they're, they're pretty good. They're pretty good. Well, I like, I like listening to Nestler. You usually don't get to listen to him because, you know, the, the SEC dominates the CBS network. It's very infrequent that Notre Dame ends up on the CBS network. And so to hear kind of those SEC voices is what I would call them, um, it's pretty cool. It's just, it's a switch up from kind of the same old, you know, names and voices that, that we hear from Notre Dame football. I'm not saying those are bad. I'm just saying it's nice to hear some of those other guys every now and then. Sure. Absolutely. TD4 indeed, we are going to see the whiteboard today. Jesse will be bringing that out as we go on through the conversation as we kind of look at this Notre Dame offense because that is the topic of conversation. Tommy says, does anyone, did anyone else have a small issue with how Freeman wanted to close out the first tap? Well, I mean, he handed the ball off and it turned into a 70 yard touchdown. So like, are you like, I realize maybe he just wanted to run out the clock, but I mean, that's a Freeman thing. Do you feel like when you're up 35 to nothing, that's the time to start winging it with, with Riley Leonard out there to close the half, you know, like, I don't know, I mean, I guess you could quibble either way. Tommy says before that, I mean, what happened before that? What am I missing? Like, remind me. Not taking the time. Oh, not taking the time out. Well, yeah. I mean, again, it's just that Freeman, he's that's kind of the way he's done thing. That's kind of the way. Yeah. He's done things. He is, he is, he has taken a more defensive approach in a lot of different ways. Like, well, I mean, listen to his comments every time you ask him about the quarterback, takes care of the ball, doesn't turn over the ball. Marcus Truman doesn't want to give the other team an extra possession before half. And even, even if they don't score, I still find turnovers to be, you know, a big momentum shift, a big confidence kind of shift of, okay, yeah, we're kind of getting beat down right now. But if we can find a way to, you know, have a bright spot right before the half, I think those are oftentimes big momentum plays. So not allowing the other team to feel any sort of momentum, I think plays into it as well. Me personally, what I like to see a little bit more aggressiveness, yeah, especially when your quarterback can run the ball like he does, teams are going to get over aggressive, you know, in the box. And I think it is an opportunity to kind of hit maybe some of those, you know, quick passes essentially. He is a bit too conservative for my taste, but I understand why he is like that. 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. 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The passing game, at this point it is what it is, I think, because I posted this story up on irishbreakdown.com and when we post the stories at irishbreakdown.com we also put them on the new champions lounge and the title of the story is Old School Notre Dame offense moving forward. What would you call this offense that we saw Saturday besides old school? When you run for 362 yards, the quarterback runs for 100 yards, another running back runs for 100 yards, and the other running back runs for 86 yards. That seems like a pretty old school look, at least an old school result to me the way things turned out. Yeah, I think you could call it old school or I like to call it the modern triple option is really the best way that I'm gonna say it because it still is a triple option offense. It's just not your standard typical under the center, navy, army, full back, wing, tight triple option offense. It's a very modern, in my opinion, triple option offense. Effective, crisp. People are obviously a lot more happy with it after seeing it responsible for 59 points, not all 66, because obviously, Boba Cartre, or he scored one of the touchdowns. But still, 59 points is what they are responsible for. There are still plays to be made in the passing game, but I guess I would cut, you know, we played the comments from Marcus Freeman yesterday. I asked him about, you know, getting on the same page with Riley Leonard, obviously they got there, but I asked him if the offense that we saw Saturday is the offense that we're going to see moving forward, I played this yesterday, but just kind of as a refresher, here's his response to that about is this the offense going forward? Yeah, that was the offense that we felt gave us the best chance to succeed versus Purdue, you know, in that fit his skill set and what we thought he did best. This week, we have to continue to do that in terms of what we feel will give the best chance for offense to succeed, including Riley versus this defense. It's a different defense than what we saw last week and every week as you go into preparation, you have to take into consideration what your guys can do well, but also what's going to help you have success versus the defense you're going against. So what do you think? Yeah, I think that, you know, what did we talk about, you know, after they got done with Northern Illinois is they didn't stick to what they were doing best and that was running the ball. I thought that it was known that Purdue has a stinky run defense and the best thing that this team can do right now is run the ball. So I think you'd be doing a disservice to your team and your quarterback if you didn't effectively run the ball. And I think the most important thing that Marcus Freeman said is, you know, this isn't, this isn't the amount of run, I think, will vary week to week, but again, since Purdue is so bad in the run defense, and I mean, we saw that they had like 200 combined rushing yards by halftime, right? And so I like the way that he said, you know, this is a game plan. Every week is a new game plan. And they're going to find the best way that they think to attack these opposing defenses. And then even furthermore, what they're going to do is have plays that Riley Leonard is really good at executing and I don't think that was the case against Northern Illinois. I think they maybe had a game plan, but obviously there were plays in there that Riley Leonard might not be comfortable with or he might not be the best at yet. And so when it came down to Purdue, it says, okay, let's just get rid of all that extra, you know, the clutter and just weed this thing down to the things that Riley Leonard is really good at doing. And that's what they did. They did it. And they couldn't be stopped. So I don't understand how you could potentially be upset about a team. You know, I had a friend text me and say, you know, oh, of course we could run all over these teams. I don't, I don't agree with that. If that's the case, then why didn't they run all over Texas A&M, right? And they run all over Northern Illinois when they wanted to. I mean, it's, this is still a big 10 defense. They still have 11 guys out there and to dominate them the way that Notre Dame did in the run game is impressive to me. And until they could stop it, I don't see why you'd want to go away from it. Well, and look, there were some of those Riley Leonard runs where the, the original design of the play was for it to be a pass. He drops back and, you know, there was a reference to, to older than dirt with the comment that he, that he made on that Champions Lounge post that I was talking about. He says, one thing nobody brings up is as opposed to Ian book, for example, Riley Leonard has taken throws down the field, not a huge number and not very well yet, however, a couple or more a game hit one of those or two and things will loosen up. You know, we talked yesterday about he hit Jaden Greathouse in the hands. Greathouse has got to make that catch. Obviously the interception was wildly underthrown. So two extremes in terms of what happened with some of the shots downfield, but not every time that Leonard has run, you know, was it necessarily designed to be a pass play? Well, kind of, I'll, I'll play this for my other lender than I saw a comment that Jeremy made and we'll get to that and, and any others as well. But Leonard, this is from after the game as post game press conference at Purdue about the meeting that he had with offensive coordinator Mike Denbrock, what they talked about leading up to the game. The biggest thing is, you know, he all week just constantly reminded me, you know, I trust you. I trust you. I got all the confidence in you like today before the game. You send me a Bible verse. Those little things go a long way in a player coach relationship. I think that we sat down multiple times and I was open with them. What plays do I love? What plays? They got to go. You call that, you know, I'm running it or something. So you know, just being honest with each other, being vulnerable and having open, open conversations is something that every offense coordinator quarterback have to have. And this week we nailed it. He called the game perfectly in my opinion. And you know, that's what gives me and the guys, you know, Thomas in the world. So Riley Leonard says Mike Denbrock called the game perfectly and I listened to his entire post game from Saturday. Jeremy says Leonard said he told Ben Denbrock if he calls something he didn't like he will just run the ball. What are our thoughts on that? He didn't say that in that comment. And again, I listened to the whole thing. I never heard him say anything like that. So I'm not sure where like who is saying Leonard says that that's what he told Mike Denbrock, but I never heard him say anything like that in his comments. But just what Leonard said seems pretty basic to me. Use what the quarterback likes, weed out what he doesn't like slash what doesn't work. I mean, doesn't that seem to just be pretty common sense? I do think that that is a lot of common sense and oh my God, are you kidding me? I'm going to play this comment again. Okay. I'm going to play this one more time. And the biggest thing is, you know, he all week just constantly reminded me, you know, I trust you. I trust you. I got all the confidence in you like today before the game he sent me a Bible verse. Those little things go a long way in a player coach relationship. I think that we sat down multiple times and I was open with them. What plays do I love? What plays they got to go. You call that, you know, I'm running it or something. So you know, just being honest with each other, being vulnerable and having open open conversations is something that every offense coordinator quarterback have to have. And this week, we nailed it. He called the game perfectly in my opinion. And you know, that's what gives me and the guys, you know, Thomas and. I mean, it sounded like he was joking when he said that, but he did. He did say it. You call that I'm running or something, you know? But I mean, I think, you know, again, I think it was basically like, let's not put that in. Otherwise, I'm just running the ball. Yeah, I think he basically was saying, here's the place I do and don't like. And then he's saying if he calls something he doesn't like and he knows he doesn't like it, then it's like, well, what am I going to do? Just, you know, I'm going to run the ball or something. So, you know, I honestly don't mind that mindset either, to be honest with you because if Riley Leonard goes through his one and two progression and it's not there and you've got the legs that Riley Leonard does, I mean, I would rather him pick up two, three yards than force an incomplete pass that he's not confident in throwing at the end of the day, right? And I think that's the overall advantage that you have with Riley Leonard is, yeah, he's not going to be extra crisp in the passing game and he's not going to have the prettiest throws and, you know, all of those things. But, you know, like Gary Danielson said on Saturday, there's not a lot of guys who can run the ball like Riley Leonard, NBA True, you know, dual threat quarterback, essentially. And so, rather than, you know, take a sack or force a bad incompletion, I'm okay with Riley Leonard pulling that thing down and at least getting two to three yards and staying ahead of the chains. No, absolutely. I mean, when you look at what he did and the way he was able to do it, he, and they mentioned it during the broadcast and we've said it before, he's such a deceptive runner because like this, the way he runs and those long strides that he has, it doesn't look like he's running as fast as he is, but like he could say, like he covers ground in a, in such a, a quick amount of time for a guy who doesn't look like a, a gazelle by any means out there. But I mean, he, again, he ends up with 100 yards and three touchdowns, efficient anyway, throwing the ball out of 16 for 112 yards. And this is something that I noted that Anthony said the nap collision cost a deep touchdown. Yeah. I mean, that was when he was throwing for, for Bo Collins, I mean, it was just a few feet away from Collins. And if he doesn't run into nap, then, you know, there's a deep shot right there that would have been six easy points. So I mean, I, I think, I think the thing is there's still a lot of room to grow from a, from a passing situation, you know, because even there was a pass that he hit to Jaden Greathouse that would have been a nice gain of like 20 plus yards that ended up being called back. I think now got flagged for holding on that one, but like even on that one, there was a, an easy crossing pattern where Eli reardon is just dragging across the middle and man to man coverage and everyone else has cleared out to the near side of the field where Greathouse is. If he just, you know, makes that in, it was right in front of him, but he never looks at him. He was locked in on Greathouse. I mean, that, that probably would have went for at least 30 or 40 yards if not a touchdown. Had he hit that instead, and that was right in front of him, but it's just, he just got up, just the vision has got to get there a little bit more as, as just part of it. How do you feel about this comment, uh, Riley Leonard is not a true dual threat because he is not a threat to throw it. I mean, right now he's not because even, even the passes that he's completing are all within five yards of the line of scrimmage for the most part, you know, again, like he would have had a completion to Jaden Greathouse that got called back. So like that, but you know, it did get called back. So it doesn't count, but he did, he's done just enough with the past game and the bottom line is if you can't stop the run game, it doesn't matter at this point, right? I mean, that's ultimately how I feel at the end of the day is I, is he the, the best top to your passer in college will all know, uh, does he have the ability to be an average passer? Yeah. I mean, he's not going to be an extraordinary guy, but listen, I guarantee my only Miami of Ohio is going to watch that tape from this past week and say, how the hell do we get a extra hat in the box on Riley Leonard? Because he is not going to burn us this entire game. And so the more that the people come into the box, the more that that passing game is going to open and become easier for Notre Dame. And that's the thing is that's why I don't mind them running the ball and having the way that they dominated the Purdue game is because so many teams are going to get over worried about the run and if they can establish the run early on, Notre Dame is going to be able to start dropping those passes, you know, over the top, across the middle in some nice man to man coverage because they have to commit that extra defender to the box, pass defender to the box and account for Riley Leonard because, I mean, it's, it's obvious Riley Leonard can burn you with his legs. So the, the more that they can run the ball efficiently, the easier the passing game is going to get. So two different things. Andre says, would you rather him throw down the field and get interception and custom points or just run the ball and throw a checkdowns because the ladder is working right now. Run the ball and, and throw the checkdowns. Absolutely. I mean, this is a fair point that, that go Irish native saying it'll matter when they start playing real teams, but when do the real teams show up? My point would be they can win with this style of football basically against anyone the rest of the way on the schedule. That's anyone the rest of the way on the schedule. And what you would obviously hope is that you see a progression in the passing game along the way. I mean, obviously, if you're talking about the, you know, the only reason if you're talking about a, like a college football playoff game, which is a long way away at this point. Like in, in no world, should that be what they're thinking about right now? Like their focus, obviously, they found it out against Northern Illinois has to be week to week. And as Marcus Freeman was saying, how do we beat this opponent this week? That's what the game plan is, is about because they found out the hard way that you can't overlook anybody, but there's nobody on the schedule that the exact same game plan that they had against Purdue shouldn't work against. I don't think do you? I think no, I don't. I think that not every run defense will be as bad as Purdue's. But again, if I'm Notre Dame, I know, I know I'm a good running team. I know I'm a better running team than a passing team. So I'm going to come out and be run dominant until a team shows me that they can stop me in the run game. That's the part that I get so mad about. So what if Notre Dame's a run team right now? Like, do you remember when, when, what is his name? Not McCoy. The Alabama quarterback that won a national championship, he did another game game last season. I can't think of his name. Not a great passer, but they had a tremendous offensive line, a tremendous running game. They can quote their, sorry, they controlled, you know, time of possession, you know, those sort of things. And they, somebody brought up Michigan, somebody brought up last year's Michigan team. I mean, the key is you can't fall behind by a couple of touchdowns. Otherwise it, that's, that's where you get burned, but, and that also means you have to sustain drives and you can't be three and out and stuff like that. But look at the defense that Notre Dame has. And again, when you pair that defense against anyone on the schedule the rest of the way, that shouldn't be an issue with, you know, so that again, that just means you can play this style and look at what Purdue was doing the other day with, you know, drop, they had one safety back and then they were, you know, doing all the kinds of crazy stuff with him where he'd run up to the line of scrimmage and all that kind of stuff. But I mean, you know, Jeremy says it worked against Purdue, it didn't even work against Northern Illinois. Well, the problem with your argument there, Jeremy, is the offense they ran against, yeah, the offensive game plan they had against Northern Illinois was not the same offensive game plan they had against Purdue. Against Northern Illinois, it was very restrictive, very prohibitive and it led to these conversations that Marcus Freeman has talked about in Riley Leonard. We just heard him talk about, you know, like figuring out, okay, what do you like? What do you not like? Get rid of the stuff that you don't like do the stuff that, you know, like they were, they were obviously trying to make Riley Leonard stay in the pocket as much as possible and work on, you know, some of this stuff in the passing game and his comfort is not standing in the pocket and being a passing, you know, true pocket passing quarterback. That's not his game. His game is what we saw Saturday against Purdue, two completely different game plans and that's why it worked against Purdue and part of why it didn't work against Northern Illinois. There's some other things that, you know, happen against Northern Illinois. So Jason asked, well, what happens if a team stops your run game and you have to throw what happens then? This is kind of what I was going to because in order for a team to stop the run, they're going to have to load the box with an extra defender. So at that point, at that point, I would trust nerd and wide receivers, man to man and allowing Riley Leonard. It doesn't have to be deep shots either and what we'll get into more into the whiteboard a little bit later too is, you know, in this style of offense, I don't know why it just hit me. Their name's best receiver should be its tight ends. You know, short, big guys who Riley Leonard has, you know, the ability to just kind of, you know, throw it to a space and allow a bigger, bigger body tied into wall off, you know, some some defensive backs, safeties, linebackers and use a big catch radius in order to get the ball. But you know, if a team truly shuts down Notre Dame's run game, I would be willing to bet it's because they're committing an extra defender to the box and then you're allowing younger wide receivers and tied in to play man to man. And at that point, if you can't beat them man to man, then you don't deserve to win. And then I would say it would be a serious issue at that point. But I think what frustrates me the most is a lot of nerd aim fans are speaking on hypotheticals. I mean, what if nerd aim just runs the ball like this the rest of the year? You're going to get mad at them for having one of the most dominant run games in all of college football that they, you know, should be utilizing essentially. And so, you know, I think where I'm at is continue to run the ball and make teams stop you. And then we'll have the conversation if the passing game is really that bad, right? Because I understand NIU happen, but I think everyone learned from NIU players and coaches alike. And I think if they get in that situation again, they'll have some some pass plays that are better suited for Riley Leonard. So let's wait until we get to that situation where a team actually stops in their name's run game and maybe Riley Leonard is starting to crack in the passing game a little bit before we start talking about all these hypotheticals. Yeah, I'm going to play another cut here from Marcus Freeman. And again, we played this yesterday and I know not everyone was was here yesterday. So let me see if I can find it well, I don't seem to have it right now. But basically, you know, Aunt VR is asking about, you know, what kind of development have we, he says, the pass game is developing question mark. I don't think we ever said that he says, what sort of downfield development have you seen? Obviously, that's what still has to be worked on again, even though like, a near miss here, a near miss there, it's not like they have never tried to throw the ball downfield in someone. Okay, here it is. Cage Kelly. I guess I'm confused on how we want to beef up the wide receiver room, but then bring in a non-throwing quarterback and try to recruit top receiver seems counterintuitive. Well, but your argument is also there's a false narrative there because all you have to do is look at who Riley Leonard was two years ago at Duke, he was not a non-throwing quarterback. 3000 yard passer. Yes, he's. 20 passing touchdowns. Yes. He can throw the ball downfield more than 15 yards. I'm sorry that some of your favorite, you know, reporters have, have joked and mocked about Riley Leonard not being able to throw the ball 15 yards down the field, but he's a college quarterback. He won the deep ball competition at Peyton Manning's camp over the summer. He can throw the ball downfield. It's a matter of finding a mesh between Dembrock, Riley Leonard and the running game and figuring out how everything synchronizes well together. Yes. He, he is a dual threat quarterback. He's a true dual threat quarterback for whatever reason what's going on right now is not translating to what he has already shown he can be in the past. This was not a guy who was just a runner who they brought in here to run this offense. He was a guy who did both at Duke, but right now he's not doing it. And as we played with the comment from, you know, with, with Riley Leonard there and, you know, as we played with some of the comments for Marcus Freeman yesterday, they're all getting on the same page and trying to figure out what Riley Leonard is most comfortable with and letting him use that in the offense. And I do think that as he gains more confidence and part of that comes with his ability to use his legs and not just stand in the pocket. He's got to be able to use his legs as well. I think that we'll start to see the passing game develop as the season goes on. And, you know, and again, like, does that answer the question today on September 17th? What the offense is going to be at the end of November when they go to USC to take on the Trojans to end the regular season and potentially what comes after that, possibly what comes after that in terms of the college football playoff and what they would be against the better team? No, but, you know, again, the, the, I don't think the goal is for them to remain stagnant and just be what they were out there against Purdue the other day. They found out that can work. They obviously want to be able to throw the ball better. They showed against Northern Illinois that that's what they were trying to be. They've got to find the right balance and, and Riley, you know, again, like Leonard just has to find it between the years and see it better on the field so that actually comes to fruition. I just, I enjoy that Notre Dame established them, the, the identity in this game, you know, we knew that they were going to be able to run the ball and they ran the ball. They could have ran the ball every play in my opinion and probably still won, you know, 60 something to, to seven at the end of the day, right? Like, and that's my point, I guess, is until the team proves that they can stop your run, why do you, like, why do you care what other people think or if you're one dimensional? Like, you can win the game if they're not going to stop your running backs, right? Like, and that's like, gidarian price, Jeremiah, I love these, like we're talking about, and definitely Jeremiah, I love we're talking about a top 10 running back and a lot of major, you know, statistics right now. And I know it's only, you know, three games into the season, but he checks off, you know, just about every box and it's like, you know, I saw something this weekend where there was some NFL, at least an NFL scout in attendance and, you know, they were asked, who are you here to see? And he said, simple, one player, number four for Notre Dame, right? And so it's like, everyone in the stadium knows where the ball is going sometimes and they still can't stop it. That just shows, you know, how good Jeremiah love is and, and, and do I think that against some of these better teams will the passing game have to open up for sure, but it needs to be a passing game that, that can do just enough because the running game is going to be the strong, the strong point of this offense the entire season. So to me, all they need to do is develop a passing game that's good enough situationally where they can pick up some, you know, some first downs here or there or get out of, you know, maybe a bad situation essentially. Jeff, I don't completely disagree with what you're saying. He says the goal is not just to get to the playoff, but to win a game or two. And this current style will not get it done, you know, again, they found out against Northern Illinois that their focus can't be on getting to the playoff and winning playoff games in September. Right now, it has to be about what Marcus Freeman was talking about because I, I did ask Freeman and I can't find the cut. I apologize because again, I played it yesterday, but I asked him about how they can coax more of what they saw from Riley Leonard as a passer when he was at Duke out of him right now. And his basic answer was, you know, what I said a couple of times last week, stats are for losers. We're trying to win the game and we're not going to worry about if, you know, Riley Leonard is a great passer. All we want to do is win the game, you know, that's, that's what it comes down to. And if this style can win, you know, again, like look at what Michigan did last year and how many, like, do you have to complete some passes over the course of a game? Of course you do. But look at what Michigan did, Michigan took a bruising, you know, again, if you want to call it old school, run it down your throat, ram it down your throat passing game and turn that into a national championship last year. So I'm not going to sit here and see, you know, one, the offensive line has got to get better as well. But when you've got the kind of dynamic running backs that they have and you have a dynamic, you know, I would still call him a dual threat quarterback, even though he hasn't shown the dual as in the passing side of it, nearly as consistently as anyone wants to. But when you have two dynamic running backs like that and a quarterback like Riley Leonard, again, just look at what Michigan did last year. I think you can win with that style of football. I do. You still have to, you still have to be able to hit key throws every now and then do those kind of things. But I think you can and, you know, again, will the passing game get better over the course of the season? I would hope so. There's no guarantee that it will, but I would hope so. I mean, didn't, didn't Michigan, when they played Penn State last season, literally run the ball zero times in the second half, or sorry, pass the ball zero times in the second half. And I get it that like, that's a different, different machine, a lot of good, you know, offensive lineman and running backs in that room. But I mean, I would take, I can honestly say, I think Notre Dame's running backs are more talented than what they had. I think Notre Dame's offensive line has the ability to be, you know, as physical as that Michigan offensive line. And so again, if it's working and they can't stop it, you know, I don't care how you score or move the ball, it's, it's, it's a matter of winning games. And I think the passing game will continue to get better and develop as Riley Leonard gets confidence as a winner, first of all. And I think him running the ball is a big part of his confidence. I think it allows him to compete naturally and not worry as much at the end of the day. Look, you've got three guys who can basically take it to the house on any play. They scored on, on runs of 70, 48, 34 and 28 yards offensively Saturday, you know, Brian. I guess Brian, I realize there's, you know, Brian and Sarah James way sarcasm dripping off this comment. We lost to NIU, but don't worry, we're dominating. We're not sitting here telling you the sky's not falling. You know, we're not, we're not playing bag, dad, Bob here. That's, that's not what we're doing, you know, like does the offense need to get better? Yeah. But look at who they're going to play. They're going to play Miami, Ohio this week. Are you going to tell me that Miami, Ohio should be any better defensively than Purdue was last week, Louisville next week, Louisville should be at least slightly better. They're not as good as they were last year though. And I think Louisville's going to come up with some stuff, you know, to make Notre Dame have to counter punch a little bit better, but Louisville and Georgia Tech are playing this weekend. I'm really, that's a good game for Notre Dame to see that Stanford has been decent. So far defensively against the run. I, so I am kind of curious to see what that looks like when they play at least a little bit better teams over the next couple of weeks, but there's like, again, there's just nobody on the schedule that you lay it out and go, this team has a definite advantage with anything they're going to do defensively against what Notre Dame can offer offensively. Again, as the, the past game, hopefully improves and progresses over the course of the season. Um, Leonard or a love rather, by the way, right now, sixth in the nation, eight yards a carry, Leonard, 5.3 yards per carry, price, seven yards a carry right now. So you've got two running backs, eight yards a carry, seven yards a carry. And a quarterback at 5.3 yards a carry. And if you adjust that for sacks, he's only been sacked three times, but learned is really probably around six and a half yards per carry. If you adjust that and take the sacks, you know, the, the, the yardage lost for sacks out of there. So like eight, seven, six. So anytime they, you know, again, and think of all the, the explosive touchdowns that they've had so far. Yeah. And, you know, I see a lot of people talking in the chat, well, and I used to stop the run game. No, they did it. No, they did it. Notre Dame didn't run the ball enough against NIU. That was their issue. They were afraid. Right. To continuously run the ball. They threw the ball and they obviously didn't run Riley Leonard with the exception of the first drive of the game when they scored a touchdown. Right. And so against Northern Illinois, Jeremiah Love, averaging 7.2, Jadarion Price, averaging 6.0. Both those guys only had 11 carries. So again, why are you, or sorry, Love had 11 price had had four. So between the two, they only had 15 carries. Come on. Now that's what I was talking about. Like if you, if you take that game plan from Purdue and you copy and paste it into Northern Illinois, Notre Dame wins that game at the end of the day. Yeah. And, and, and here's the thing. Northern Illinois, when it wouldn't have been able to gouge Notre Dame on first and second down on the run game, because now they got to play catch up. They got to get into their passing and what's in their name, strong, strongest, you know, position group on defense is their secondary, especially when they know teams have to pass. Marcus Freeman didn't come out and say we made a mistake with game plan. But again, when you hear him talk after the game the other day and some of his comments from yesterday as well about the acknowledging the fact that they had to play more to Riley Leonard's strengths. I mean, that's basically saying that they made a mistaken game plan against Northern Illinois, because they weren't playing enough to Riley Leonard's. I mean, they openly admitted. We all saw it. We all, you know, because again, he didn't, he didn't run the ball with the exception of the opening drive and they didn't, as a team, they didn't get the ball to love and price nearly enough either with the running game. I mean, that's just, and that's where I think I get the most frustrated. And again, I'm not defending everything that they're doing, but there was a, there was just a completely different game plan from Northern Illinois, you know, to Purdue. And I don't think we need to keep revisiting Northern Illinois because everyone knows there were massive mistakes made, you know, from, from mental approach to offensive game plan. There were, you know, mistakes, obviously made in the defensive game plan by allowing those three big explosive plays in the first half that totaled over 150 yards that led to 13 of Northern Illinois's 16 points. You eliminate just one of those explosive plays and Notre Dame wins the game. If Jaden Gray House holds on to that pass, Notre Dame likely gets at least three out of that. They win the game. Yeah. Yeah. Again, I'm not, you know, sweeping everything under the rug, but they were, they were, they were big miscalculations just all over the place, you know, honestly, all they can do is learn from it, which they obviously have, but they have to continue to learn from it and not make the mistake, the same mistake over again this year. The last thing I'll say about Northern Illinois, because I agree, you just got to move on. But the number one thing that should have came out of that game is everyone knows Notre Dame used their mulligan. There's no more opportunities this season to play the way they did against Northern Illinois. What that should do though, is put their backs up against the wall and a chip on the shoulder and light a little fire underneath their, underneath their butt, because a team that has to play knowing that they're fighting for their life every week on top of the embarrassment that they faced in that, in that home game against Northern Illinois should provide enough accountability for the players and coaches to say, you know what, we're not playing like that. Whatever again, and second of all, we're going to come out and show you why that game will never happen again, essentially. So to me, that's the only positive thing that can come out of that NIU game. Joe's ready to move on and talk to Miami, Ohio, we're not necessarily going to talk to Miami, Ohio, but Jesse has whiteboard and we're going to continue to talk about this Notre Dame offense and kind of some good things that we saw on Saturday and some things that they can do moving forward. Do you want to start with the 21 personnel? I think we only see the 21 personnel once the one play. We saw it a sneaky time and that's the one I'm going to go into right now if you don't mind. Yeah, do it. Do it, baby. Bring it on. Oh, there's, I have, the issue is, is I have too many tabs, so I'm going to make sure I have the right one, all right, here we go. Okay, so you can see screen, right? Yeah. Let me hit full screen on this, zoom in just a little bit. I'm going to take us off so it fills it up. Here we go. All right, so this play, I don't know, Riley Lender was still in the game during this. This is a sneaky 21 personnel. You have your, your tied in, sorry, let me, let me set the scene here, right hash, two wide receivers into the boundary, a wide receiver and a tied in to the field side quarterbacks in shotgun and the running back is also to the field side here. So right now it looks like just regular old 11 personnel, but this is 21 personnel because Jeremiah Love is still split out here as, as the wide receiver, or sorry, as the wide receiver and you do have a running back on the field too in the backfield. So technically you have two running backs on the field. So I'm going to call this 21 personnel. So pre snap, Jeremiah Love goes in motion here. That's what this, I don't want that's what this line is right here, Jeremiah Love goes in motion and at the snap of the ball, Riley Lender takes the ball and he just pitches it forward to Jeremiah Love. He ends up going across the, the formation. I think he ends up getting like a 10 yard gain off of this, right? So this is a nice little sneaky 21 personnel. You're getting your, you know, your best playmaker of the ball on the perimeter. Love this play, right? It's, it's basically a run, but again, since he's taken the snap and just kind of pitching it forward. Shovel pass. Yeah. Shovel pass is considered a pass. The reason why I like this kind of play is because there's a lot that you can do to build off of it and they haven't shown anything besides this play or besides what they did on this play. And the reason why I like this is because what you can essentially do is now that you've shown this at the snap of the ball, let's fake, let's fake this little pitch to Jeremiah Love. And now he's running off into the flat, you know, one on one likely with a linebacker or a safety that's going to come downhill. And so this is very reminiscent of that first down that nerd named picked up against Texas A&M late on their last drive. Exactly. Jane Greathouse goes in motion. He gets one of these interior linebackers man to man. All Riley learning has to do is flip it out into the flat and it's an easy yard gain, right? So that's one option off of this. You just have to fake it to love and now love is sprinting across the formation and he's likely going to get a one on one matchup, right? Let's say he fakes it and he looks over here to the left and he doesn't like it. Well, when I went back and watched this on film, guess what? Everyone is flowing this way, this way, this way, this way, this way, this way, this way. All right. Later has to do is fake the pitch, look over to the left like he's going to throw it and then basically just run a counter back this way because who is who is over there to account for him, right? Everything is flowing this way, this way, this way. And then now you can use your running back as also a lead blocker out in front as well. So already we have two plays stemming off of this one play that Notre Dame showed on film and a lot of teams are going to be gearing up for that Jeremiah love, basically jet sweep, shovel pass across the formation. But if you fake it to him, well, now you have a ton of options coming off of it. And the last one that I would do here, let me hit undo a bunch of times. And again, when I was doing whiteboard today, I came up with the realization Notre Dame just needs to find the way to pass to their tight end some more. And so that's where this last concept is going to go. Jeremiah love coming across the formation hike. You fake the shovel pass again, he's sprinting off into the flat. You would likely have this wide receiver run off the corner. So this flat stays nice and wide open. And then off of that, I would have, you know, Jadarion price, you know, basically sneak off into this flat, you're going to have this wide receiver run a streak as well. So that should leave this area open. But oh, what do we do? Again, we're showing everything flowing to the left to the left to the field side. Why not sneak our tide in, you know, basically into a flood concept here and, you know, put this linebacker in a bind, is he going to step down to the flat player or is he going to hang out in the hole and wait for the tide in? Either way, you have someone wide open, right? And so again, this is another way of getting the defense to look one way. You've shown this on, you know, on film now they're going to be preparing for it. Okay, maybe let's slip a tide in back screen to the other side, right? Like a boundary screen now where he just, he just releases off into the boundary and we just dump it down into him. And so again, there's just so many concepts that I think you can use off of this one play, but it all starts with the effectiveness of Jeremiah Love coming out of the slot and what you've shown on film already. Yeah, and the other 21 personnel, I think the first one that they, and maybe they slipped another one in, you know, like you said, because Love was in the slot and I didn't see him over there. But they had both backs in the back field on either side of Riley Leonard. They motion price out to the left and then they basically go quarterback counter and Riley Leonard ends up running for 13 yards. And again, like when you've got all three of those guys on the field at the same time, you motion one out of the back field so you lighten up the box a little bit. You're just freeing up bodies and, and all three of those guys are so good in space at making guys miss. But I would say, you know, Riley Leonard is pretty exceptional at that himself at making guys miss in the open field. What else you got? Let me take this one down. Let me stop sharing. I actually, I like that transition you just gave me because that was one of my other favorite plays from this weekend. It was basically, let me add this to the stage, quarterback empty long trap versus bear front. This was when Riley Leonard was out on the five yard line and he goes empty here. And the reason why empty is so important is because you're clearing out the box as much as possible, right? You're trying to get a hat on hat for every offensive player for defensive player, right? So at first I was like, man, why are they going? Why are they going empty, right? Everyone should know basically now that if no name goes empty in the goal line, it's some sort of quarterback run. I think that's also what's going to help Nerd in down the road is because, again, they're going to have to commit an extra defender to the box. And all Riley Leonard has to do is fake a run and hit someone on a quick slam. But the reason why I like this place so much is because, again, this is a bear front. Purdue put seven guys in the box. Nerd in technically only had six guys in the box. So how do you counter that? You leave the end man on the line of scrimmage free and you essentially just run away from him, right? And that's exactly what Nerd in did is, you know, the tie-down here just gets up to the second level and he's going to seal off this linebacker. The right guard is going to pull and kick out this inman of line of scrimmage. And then everyone else is just trying to wash this line the other way. And then Riley Leonard just finds a hole and he just, he finds a way to score. And as simple as it sounds, it's a highly effective play, especially in the goal line when your quarterback can run the way he does. And I would say the only thing that I was confused about with Riley Leonard and it made me understand Riley Leonard more, I think he loves contact. And the reason why I say that is because when he ran through here, all he had to do was keep going this way and he would have walked into the end zone. But instead he tries to cut it inside and he gives this linebacker a little like stiff arm shoulder. I'm like, dude, you must love contact if you had this easy walk-in path this way. But you're like, you know what, I'm going to cut it back towards the middle here and run into, you know, a linebacker. Save that. That's it. That's, that's our lead off rapid fire topic is Riley Leonard with some contact. But this is what I mean, like Notre Dame can get so creative in the run game. And that's, and that's fine because they, one, they block really well and they have a three-headed monster of guys who can all run the ball effectively, right? And so the way that you get creative is you start showing stuff on tape. And now, you know, let's say, for whatever reason, another team brings a guy into the box to counter this because now you have eight guys in the box versus six third aim offensive lineman. Okay. Let's motion that running back, you know, love or price back into the backfield. And then basically get that running back one on one with a linebacker and just throw a ball into the flat or, you know, maybe even, you know, I can't think of the route name, but the running back can also just go into the middle here and sit down essentially, right? But that's, that's the game that Notre Dame is going to be able to play because they are so efficient in the run game. But I love, I loved this, this counter basically against the bear front for a touchdown. It was, it was pretty to see, and it really was unstoppable. When you give someone like Riley Leonard the opportunity to kind of pick and choose, you know, where he wants to run the ball. It's going to be hard, you know, for a lot of defenses, especially in limited space, like the, the goal line. Good stuff there, little Riley Leonard, easy touchdown run. Where are we going next? We are going next. This is going to, this is going to make a lot of people mad, but I'm having a bold statement off of this play. Let me, let me go full screen and let me, let me share this. So, you know, a lot of people are like, you know, coming into the second half, what's the first thing that happens? Of course, Steve Angeli, you know, throws a touchdown, right? Well, the only reason that this play looks so good is because Riley Leonard spent the entire first half setting up this play for Steve Angeli, right? So this is a play that Notre Dame ran in the first half, they ran off of it, but then in the second half, they decided, hang on, where did my, oh, I'm in the wrong mode, just one second. Let me, something's not going right. There it is, tell us straight. Okay. Notre Dame in the first half decided to show, you know, basically, basically this long track type situation here, right? The left tackle is pulling to the, to the boundary side here, and the quarterback is basically, you know, handing it off in a, in a, in a stretch play essentially. This is basically the play that, that Jeremiah Love scored his first touchdown on, right? And so why is this important? Well, Notre Dame noticed the first time that they ran this, what happens? This linebacker is creeping down, and this safety is creeping down, right? And so they said, you know what, Steve Angeli, we're going to let, you know, Riley Leonard set this play up for you. You're going to get an easy, easy touchdown to start the second half here. And that's exactly what they did. They showed this same, same action, left tackle is pulling into the boundary. They hand, they fake a hand off and show the, you know, show it like they were going to run it in the first half. And what happens here, Mitchell, or I can't remember who the tight end was. It basically goes. Cooper Flanagan. Cooper Flanagan comes up. He looks like he's going to block this in man, this line of scrimmage. He gets off of that. He gives the linebacker a quick set of hands, he releases there. And what happens? This linebacker is crashing down. This safety is crashing down because they've run the ball. They've run the ball. They've shown this motion in the first half. I mean, I hate to say it, but I could have gone out there and completed this later. Yeah. To Cooper Flanagan. You know, everyone's like, Oh my gosh, Steven, Jelly, your first passing touchdown of the season. Okay. Great. But, you know, my only, my only counter argument to that would be they couldn't let rather Leonard run that play too. And he could have easily, just as easily flipped that ball up there to Cooper Flanagan. And he walks in for the touchdown. But again, this is something that was set up because Notre Dame was running the ball so efficiently. They show the same pulling motion. They show the same stretch motion. And this tight end essentially just walks in, you know, for a touchdown. And so earlier in the show when I was talking about, you know, they got to get find ways to get defenses to commit an extra player to the box. Well, that's what they did. They got this safety to come down. They got this linebacker to come down because they were so efficient in the run game. Naturally, these safeties and linebackers are going to start creeping forward and forward because their defensive coordinator is yelling in their ear. Why can't you stop the run game? And now all of a sudden you hit a quick play action and you're tied in as wide open down the scene. So, you know, I love, I love this play. I was actually a little bit mad that Dan Brock saved this for Angeli because it would have been a nice, easy layup touchdown for Riley Leonard. Of course, all I had to hear about on, you know, all the social media is that Steve and Jelly threw a touchdown pass before Riley Leonard. But again, I have news for you. 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So subscribe to throwbacks on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get podcasts. So last concept I have here is some 21 personnel, another 21 today. Okay. Yeah, I like this because, again, I think Notre Dame needs to find a way to get their best players on the field at the end of the day, right? And right now, Jadarion Price, Jeremiah Levin, Riley Leonard are your most dynamic players on offense. So what I'd like to see here, and this is kind of a combination, saw this play. I believe this is from Washington this week. Yeah, this is from Washington. But the reason why I like this is because of all the different kinds of variations you can run off of this. So the first one that I'm going to show here is what is considered a pop pass. And the reason why I like this is because, again, you can start to show some of that same, you know, same motion that you've shown the entire game is you can get this left tackle to kind of pull your right tackle is going to block down your tight end is going to hit this in man on the line of scrimmage. And then you can fake, you know, basically fake an RPO, you know, run play here. And then allow your wire deceivers to come back on what look like bubble, sorry, bubble screens. And then you can basically do what we kind of did on that last play, right? You show this kind of bubble screen type action. You have two running backs in the backfield. Everyone thinks you're gearing up for run. All you have to do is now release your tight end, you know, down this seam a little bit. And he's going to be, in my opinion, wide open, because again, these corners are going to crash down on these on these bubble screens. Left tackle pulling here combined with this, you know, read option here is going to pull in a lot of these DB or sorry, these linebackers defense alignment. This tight end should just be able to sneak off past and at worst be in, you know, basically man to man coverage. So again, kind of similar to the concept that we just showed, but on this one, these wide receivers are running kind of bubble screen. So again, it looks like a very kind of everything's at the line of scrimmage. And then your tight end is going to kind of sneak on past it. And that's why it's called, you know, essentially a pop pass. But let me clean this out and kind of show some of the other stuff. I mean, look, if you've got price and love on the field at the same time, like they're obviously going to draw a lot of attention from the defense. There's going to be a lot of other opportunities to make place. Exactly. Let me get rid of these real quick. Sportsman Philly 22 has a question for you, Jesse. Yeah, in the meantime, the difference between a bubble screen and a normal screen play. Bubble screen usually, and this I might be wrong, but my interpretation is bubble screen is, you know, basically he's coming, he's taking one step back and then he's there kind of right now. And in terms of a regular screen, I think those are more so kind of, you know, downfield past the line of scrimmage. And you have on these, these bubble screens, it's essentially just, you know, one on one with the wider receivers on some of these other screens, you usually find ways, you know, to get some of these, these linemen out in front. But I could be, could be wrong on that, but that's always kind of been my interpretation. How would you answer that? No problem with that. Yeah. So I think the main thing is the, the, you're, instead of gaining ground, you're, you're actually running backwards in a sense. And that's why it's a bubble screen. You're not moving towards the line of scrimmage, you're moving away from the line of scrimmage. So that's what I would classify as a bubble screen. Sorry. I'm just trying to still get rid of all these lines. Looks like you're adding more lines. Yeah. It's like undoing my deletes, but I'm almost there. I just need to get rid of a couple more. I think he's talking about the blockers, Tommy, not the, not the guy taking the pass. All right. So we just kind of showed one concept, another fun concept that I would, I would think would be great. You know, you got to find ways to be quick hitting and this offense, essentially, right? Like we all know. We're either Leonard. Is it going to be this, this downfield thrower, right? And so what do you do? Find kind of action that's going to help out rather than Leonard to the best, to the best of its ability, right? And so basically, you know, I was listening to some of these games this week and you just got to find ways to find holes in the field, essentially, right? Find zones in the field for these guys to settle down in. So I, I first like to, you know, basically get rid of a defender, streak out this outside wide receiver, again, probably run, run some, maybe some sort of post route here or, you know, maybe a corner route here. But again, you're taking away both of these defensive backs. So they're out of the picture. And then again, when you're in, in 21 person, you have price and love in the back. So I think you can get, you know, very creative in allowing them to be not only in the run game, but also in the past game. So again, I would show, you know, kind of like this double pole motion again into the boundary, I would release out my tight end, you know, into the flat, or maybe he runs more of a, you know, like an eight yard curl route instead. And then you fake the hand off, let's say this is Jeremiah Love, well, then he goes out and he sinks into the flat, right? Or actually, you know what, let's, let's have a little bit more fun with this. After he fakes the hand off, he also is going to go into the flat, but then he's going to, you know, wheel up the sideline, essentially, right? And so now you have, you have this area in the field uncovered, you have your tight end sitting down on a hook route or a curl route, and then you also have price kind of leaking out here into the flat as well. And so again, nice, easy throws. You show the pulling guard motion, the pulling tackle motion, and you just basically vacate, you know, this entire side of the field, and you allow your running backs to fill it up and make a play in space. But again, I think, I think a lot of what you can do can be accomplished by finding the, the way to incorporate your most explosive players onto the field at the same time. Seems to be the way to do it, we've got to see a little bit of it on Saturday against Purdue. Hopefully, we get to see more of that going forward, a little bit of 21 sprinkled in. It's something that seems like we're teased with all the time, but again, when you got the kind of athletes that you have with both price and love, and it's just like the, the possibilities seem endless and get them on the field together. So, yeah. [Music] [BLANK_AUDIO]
