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I got no fear in the world of getting injured. I think the second you play has it's when things get scary. So I just play my game and trust in the Lord. Like I'm a Lord in my shoulder. I'm gonna get the first down for my guys. I'm just gonna try to protect myself here and there. You know, I need to be on the field, but you know, whatever happens happens. I'm just gonna play my game and I'll play has it's in. So Jesse, are you okay with Riley Leonard being so okay with having no fear of getting hurt when he's running the ball? No, I'm not okay with that because we've seen how this offense can operate when he's his legs aren't, you know, fully healthier or a full option. I guess you could say, you know, I'm all for Riley Leonard run the ball, but you still have to find ways to take the least amount of hits as possible. Whether that's getting, you know, stepping out out of bounds. You know, sliding because they did today. No one is Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson doesn't take hits because he's so damn elusive all the time. It's so hard to tackle him. Riley Leonard's not that elusive. He's a bigger target. I get it. He likes contact and situationally it might call for that sometimes, but also you have to understand the situations where you can just step out and save, you know, some of those hits essentially. Yeah, I mean, like hearing your quarterback talking about, oh, yeah, I've got no fear of any of that. I mean, on the one hand, you can't put him in bubble wrap and you don't want him playing with the hesitant mentality because that's when you are going to get hurt is when you, when you have that for the most part, I mean, it's football. He took some contact for the most part. I'm pretty impressed with the way he's able to avoid contact when he does get out of bounds and doing some of that kind of stuff. We have seen him slide, but you know, there was the play that you talked about where like, he's running in for a touchdown and he could probably just go in on touch, but instead he's going to throw in his shoulder in there and all that kind of stuff. I mean, you know, like I said yesterday, he did not play on Saturday like a quarterback who had any concern about an injured shoulder, which was obviously reported all week last week or, you know, he didn't have any concern about his foot or his ankle or any of that, and he's not running like he has someone. You just want him to be, you want him to be smart. I think that's the biggest thing. But otherwise, you know, I don't want a quarterback taking online backers and safeties one on one. That's the last thing that I would want. So there's a little concern there. But again, you can't play hesitant when you're playing football. You just got to play smart. I think is the best way that I can put it. So here's Marcus Freeman on safety, freshman safety, Kennedy Erlacher, who made his defensive debut against Purdue Saturday. Yeah, he's a man. He's a ball hawk. He finds a way to man find a ball, close space. He's a close space. He's a really good tackler. You know, a challenge or even in special teams, can we get him out there more? You know, I'm going to continue to challenge Kennedy to make sure you're a great practice player too, right? And those are things that are hard as a freshman to learn how to practice at that standard and then perform at the standard that he's performing at. But man, he is a really good player and made some critical plays for us on Saturday and we'll continue to find ways to get him on the field. Really made his presence known when he was able to get out there in the second half against Purdue. And the question that led to that response was, how do you use this guy more? What do you think? How could you use Kennedy Erlacher more? Yeah, I think that the biggest thing, everyone loved them, some Kennedy Erlacher this Saturday. That was definitely noticed, right? But I think the way that you utilize Kennedy Erlacher is, you know, teams like Notre Dame, essentially, right? Teams that run the ball really well. And if you want to bring down a safety into the box, that is fast enough to get to the perimeter, but also physical enough to make some of these tackles that he's making, that's when I think you could warrant Kennedy Erlacher being on the field as early downs, first in 10, kind of some running downs because he's not great in coverage and he'll get better at coverage. So the more you get into second and long, third and long is not really ideal for Kennedy Erlacher right now. But like Marcus Freeman said, I think you have to find a way to get him into as many special teams as possible, because he's a heat-seeking missile. And then when you are playing teams, like maybe even like a triple option type offense, someone that you'd want to be, you know, having there at safety, because, "Save your Watts as good as he is. He's a better coverage safety than he is, attackling safety." And that's when you would want to use somebody like Erlacher. Yeah, and that's what came to mind as well when they go out there against the triple option, because there's always going to be a couple of guys on defense who are going to start in those games against the option who you're not going to see in other games. And when you think about the freshman redshirt rule and all that different kind of stuff, it would make a lot of sense for a guy like Erlacher. That's what they're going to have to balance, because like, you know, Marcus Freeman mentioned special teams. If you just want to go ahead and burn a year of eligibility, then I would have him on every special teams that you could, you know, based on the kind of just, you know, that heat-seeking missile kind of approach that he has to the football. The thing is, you know, we saw him give up a big pass play as well out there. So like, how much safety, you know, actual safety he's going to play other than against either option or get out there on special teams, that would be the question. But if you're not worried about using a season of eligibility, it makes sense to have on every special teams out there. But that will be the question that they've got to balance. But you do get the four games during the season and get the bowl game as well. So that's, he definitely made a name for himself pretty quickly, but I think you expect it as well. He's only 5'11", you know, because like, that's part of it as well, like, like, would he potentially be a rover candidate going forward? Would you want a rover? That size, would you want a little bit more length? I mean, his dad should train quilt. They both started off as safeties who... Exactly. You know, basically got... Here's my philosophy on that. If a guy is fast enough to play at that, because, you know, basically play at a beefier position, then all you got to be concerned about is, are they physical enough? And he's definitely physical enough. So if you can combine that physicality and then top to your speed, if you, you know, did end up playing linebacker. So again, that's what his dad did. His dad was a safety in college, right? And so that's the trend to me is you start off as athletic as possible, and then you get molded into a role that might fit you a little bit better. Prize picks is America's number one daily fantasy sports app with over 5 million active members. Prize picks is the easiest and most exciting way to play daily fantasy sports. 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And I think that goes to show, you know, why Notre Dame should continue to progress his workload throughout the season, essentially, right? I know you don't want to give, you know, a guy this heavy workload and wear him down, but you got to find a way I would love to see Jeremiah Love, you know, run the ball 15 times a game, essentially, right? And then price, you know, between price and Leonard, they can split the other 15, essentially, right? And so if you can get to 30 teen carries, I think that's ideal for for Notre Dame. But no matter what number you get to, Jeremiah Love should be the guy that's taking on half of those carries, essentially, just as he needs close to 20 carries a game. And you know, he definitely needs more. And we talked last week, like how many balance though? Yeah, how many combined carries do price and love need? I still think the combined carries need to probably be somewhere between 20 and 25. They probably, like if last week's game was closer, they probably would have ended up there. But don't forget, like, look at Riley Leonard and how he factors into it as well, the fact that Riley Leonard had 10 or 11 carries of his own. I mean, that's, that's going to figure in there as well, it's going to do nothing but kind of save everybody's legs and all that kind of stuff down the stretch. But it's amazing that this is the pace that he already has now, considering really the relative limited number of touches that he's had per game. Like this guy, there's, there's still another level, I think, for this guy to go to, like he could, he could easily approach 2000 yards if you, if you double, you know, not even double as carries, you know, just like one and a half times. Let me ask you a question. It was something I thought about over the weekend. And you have better recall, you've been around longer, you, you know, you can go down the list. Have you ever seen someone make guys miss the way that Jeremiah love, makes guys miss, but you watch that touchdown run. He put that linebacker in skates, man, like, yeah, and it feels like he does that at least want like, if he gets to the second level, defenses are screwed, because he, he just makes, I've never seen a guy who can open field the way he uses that jump cut and that cut to the outside. Right. Every time I'm like, man, this guy's going to get caught because you never want to run horizontal. But he shows so much speed because he never gets caught. He makes that cut and he's just gone. But I, I can't remember a Notre Dame running back that makes guys miss like he does in the open field and still has the speed to accelerate from everyone. I mean, like the, the closest thing that I could think of is like maybe a Darius Walker, but I mean, we're, we're around what 20 years at this point, 18, 20 years, maybe not quite that long, 15 to 18 years since Darius Walker, but even him, it's, it's just not the same. There, there has not been anyone in recent memory. Like Jeremiah Love, Kyron Williams was not that kind of guy. Obviously, Andrick Estimae was not that kind of guy. But love is so like, he's still thick at the same time. Like he's right. He's a big, he's a strong dude, but he still has the speed. Like I just, I've never seen the combination of strength, speed, and just the ability to just juke the hell out of people. It's insane. No, I agree with what people are saying about Darius Walker's speed, but you're talking about the ability to make a miss. And that's, that's all I was, that you know, is like just that, you know, and again, like, you know, Irish AJ Riddick in the open field for sure. But you know, he wasn't always able to get to the open field, even with the pretty good offensive line. So I think the best comparison, and this bodes really well for Jeremiah Love, I think he looks a lot like Bijon Robinson, a guy that's really fast, really able to cut through the hole and can go out and catch, catch balls as well. I was listening to the Manning cast last night and they were saying before the game, Kirk Cousins was talking to him and said, Bijon could go out there and line up at wide receiver and run routes, just, just like any of the other wide receivers could. And I think that's something that Jeremiah Love can do. And I, I appreciate the coaches for working that into Jeremiah Love's game, because that's only going to help him at the next level. These NFL teams don't want a running back that can just run the ball. They want a guy who can catch the ball out of the backfield as well. Absolutely. Michael Parks, Alvin Kamara is a comparison that I've used just a little bit bigger. Yep. Yep. Exactly. And, you know, this is, Love is still relatively young in his career. But, you know, again, it's, yeah, like, I don't disagree with what Thomas is saying, love the best tailback talent Notre Dame since Pinkett in the early 80s. I mean, I would still put waters in that category in, in the early 90s. And I, I know I saw somebody saying Ricky Waters, but, you know, you're going back 30 plus years even to get to that point. But there's, there's definitely, and I think Ricky Waters was the comparison that Al Golden and some other people were talking about coming out of camp. I mean, he's definitely just a different kind of back than anything we've seen at Notre Dame in a long time, just in terms of the overall athleticism and ability and speed and just the whole package. So my question off of that is, and sorry, not to hijack your whole rapid fire here, but why are people so upset with an offense that could run through someone like Jeremiah Love, right? Like, again, I know we don't need to, like, pass the ball a ton, but like, when you've got someone like Jeremiah Love, we could literally make everyone miss, and he's got top-end speed. Like, I don't know, to me, it seems simple. Run your offense through love, and until that fails, then you got to have a plan B, right? But I agree if plan A is going wrong. I absolutely agree. And I think we've kind of said that you've got to start running this offense through those running backs. And, you know, because the other part of it is still don't forget about Jadarion Price, because he's pretty darn good, too. And he showed it the other day, the way you-- Yeah, that's what's crazy. It's like, oh, Love needs a break. Here we go, Jadarion Price, 55-yard touchdown, right? They relax a little bit, 24 comes in, and the next thing, you know, 70 yards, he's in the end zone. So, yeah. So Notre Dame plays its second Mac opponent, of course, this weekend, and its second Mac opponent of the season. It's the first time Notre Dame has ever played two Mac teams in the same year. My question for you, would you buy or sell Notre Dame just scheduling more mid to lower tier power four teams, like the Purdue's of the world in the future, instead of these Mac level opponents? Oh, I would definitely like that, because I think you can bring back, you know, some old rivalries. I think you can establish some new rivalries if you, you know, do this thing regionally, find, you know, like teams within a certain kind of radius that you want to maybe start, you know, some new traditions, rivalry type situations with. But to me as a fan, the thing that makes me say, you know, just schedule these power four teams is when something like NIU happens, it just doesn't look nearly as bad because you're not losing to a Mac team, you're still losing to a power four team. And even though, you know, the power four team might be worse than the Mac team on paper, it looks better because there's no Mac attached to their name, essentially. And I just got to get this off my chest before I forget too. How about, how about Toledo and what they did to Mississippi State this weekend? You know, everyone wants to talk about what happened to Notre Dame. A Mac team went on the road and completely destroyed an SEC team. Yep. Destroyed an SEC team. But no one will want to talk about it, because I don't know if it was because their name was ranked so high and, you know, Mississippi State is down this year. It doesn't matter to me. Toledo walked in and waxed. When you're the fifth ranked team, when you're the fifth ranked team of the country and you lose to a Mac team at a home, and especially if you're Notre Dame, that's going to get some attention, you know, but you're absolutely right. You know, like it was a blip that Toledo went to Mississippi State and just beat down them the way they did at Mississippi State. You know, this was another buy game. They only made a couple hundred thousand dollars less to go to Mississippi State for that game than Northern Illinois made by coming here to Notre Dame. And again, like, I don't think that you, you know, you're not going to have to do a buy game for a big 10 team or a big 12 team if you're Notre Dame, as long as you're playing a home and home with them. And I think that that, you know, maybe they don't want the home and home. I don't know, but it just feels like it makes a lot more sense. I know that that clip of Urban Meyer talking about the scheduling and all that stuff and playing the, you know, around the quadrants of the country, you know, and that kind of went viral a little bit last week and, you know, some Notre Dame people were talking about it. But it's right. Like Notre Dame didn't used to play Mac teams until Brian Kelly came to town and they kind of softened things up. And that was kind of the response to everybody else was playing FCS. So Notre Dame added these Mac teams and you kind of softened things up a little bit. I think that there would be, yeah, I mean, I think that just from a lot of things, you know, like you said, it's, it's a lot easier to stomach if you're actually playing a power four team and you do happen to lose that game. And it also looks better on your resume, if you're at least playing a power four team and you win that game. So it just feels to me. And then from a TV standpoint, I think it also makes sense having, you know, they are going to play Indiana here in a few years, but whether it's Indiana or Purdue or, you know, like say you go to the big 12 and it's a, it's a Colorado or an Iowa state or, you know, even a Baylor, whoever it happens to be, they tried Cincinnati. So I obviously used that one, but it just, it just seems like it makes more sense to go that route. Like there would be a lot of positives going that direction. Well, also, it's just like you're mentally setting yourself up for failure because look at these teams, Notre Dame's lost to this goes back to when Brian Kelly was still here. You got, you know, Cincinnati, Marshall, NIU, like these are all, I feel like these are preventable situations because, again, you put these teams on the schedule and inevitably you're like, well, we don't got to practice as hard this week. It's NIU, right? It's Marshall. It's, you know, XYZ. And I think that's the other side of it is I think you're mentally letting your team down because they feel like they don't have to prepare as hard at the end of the day. Yeah, that's very true. That's a great point. I mean, look at the trap that they fell into by going through that. And I don't think you have that if you're playing a Power 14 instead of a Mac team. So Colorado's Travis Hunter is averaging around 130 snaps a game playing both cornerback and receiver. That's cornerback, defensive back and wide receiver for the buffaloes. What's more likely Hunter wins the Heisman Trophy this season or he opts out before the season's over? I would say that it's more likely that he wins the Heisman Trophy. I think that Hunter is the Travis Hunter is the ultimate competitor at the end of the day. I think he's a guy that he loves football so much that he's like, coach, I could play both ways for you. I think he's much better defensively than he is offensively. I think that he does enough offensively because they need him essentially some wide receiver depth. But he's a much better corner than he is wide receiver. I think that's where I don't think he'll be a two-way player in the NFL by any means. I think he'll be a corner in the NFL. But his combined offensive and defensive performance, I think, would have him on a faster track to the Heisman than it would him calling it quits by the end of the season. Yeah, but what's going to happen when they're four and six here in a couple of months? Travis Hunter, as great as he is as an athlete, and I agree, Ryan, he is incredible. Is he going to want to continue to play 130 or whatever snaps per game for a team that's got that record and with a team that's 500 or even below by the middle of the season, who's going to vote for him as great as he is? I still think you have to play for a, you have to be on a team that's good enough. Paul Horning is still the last guy to win a Heisman trophy for a team with a losing record. And that's what we're going on 70 years ago or something like that 60 plus years ago that that happened. So I think it's more likely that he opts out. He'll end up playing on a team that's 500 or worse, middle of the season. If he doesn't get injured, he's going to be fatigued. Is he going to be able to keep up that level of play? Why would you want to keep doing that for a 500 team when you probably got a pretty good chance to end up getting drafted in the first round? So I don't think he's going to win the Heisman because I just don't think that he's going to get enough boats playing for Colorado regardless of how great an athlete that he is. Hey Irish Breakdown listeners, it's Urban Meyer. This fall the game changes. Join me, Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram and broadcaster Rob Stone as we bring you a new perspective on football and culture every week. 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Their best win is Michigan. I mean, it's not nearly the same Michigan team as last season. You look at Georgia's schedule, they'd be Clemson, Tennessee, Tech, and Kentucky. I would say that Clemson and Michigan are probably even teams this season, and Georgia dominated that Clemson team at the end of the day. I just think honestly, strength of schedule through three games. Georgia's had a tougher strength of schedule than Texas, right? It just feels very gimmicky, but Georgia plays Alabama this week. They take care of business. I have no problem with them re-basically jumping Texas, essentially, and claiming that number one spot again. That's what should happen, right? You set the precedent that if you don't play as good as football, or you maybe play a lesser opponent, but you still win, you can drop. Well, Georgia beat Alabama this weekend. The number four team in the country, they should jump right back to one. They cast votes for this. It's not like there's some guys sitting in his basement going, "I'm going to make Texas number one instead of Georgia this week." People sent in their votes. They got 22 more votes. I mean, I think it's fair. What did you say earlier in the show? It's still the first couple of weeks of the season, and everybody talks about how much do the polls actually matter at this point in the season. You're essentially jockeying for position right now. Everyone's still figuring out who they are. I was a little surprised. Georgia does always struggle when they go to Kentucky, so I was a little bit surprised that they kind of got knocked off the perch there in the AP. There's still number one in the coaches poll though, so a lot of season to be played. I think it's completely fair for right now. I don't doubt what you're talking about with strength of schedule and all that kind of stuff. It just feels very nitpicky. This is why I don't think that we should have polls the first month of the season. Again, that polls exist because of they can market these matchups of two versus 10 and blah, blah, blah, to get more eyes on the TV and get more viewers and all that stuff. But for it up to me, you just wouldn't rank them until the first four weeks are done because you don't know. You don't know who a truly who a team is until they start going out there and putting data points. Someone said the chat doesn't really matter until the last week of the season and that's kind of how I look at it to all of its just numbers until you get down to the very end. That's what I'm saying. You're jacking for position. DK says they matter because they sway the committee while they're watching the games. I mean, I feel like if they're using the same committee that they've used for the four team playoff, then I feel like that committee has pretty much done what they've wanted. They've completely disregarded the AP and the coaches polls in the past. You've gained a fan in Ryan Roberts, by the way. Me and Ryan Roberts have always been besties. No one just knows. Yeah. You guys need to do your own show. Like come up with the with a catchy, catchy name or something. Swing that. Fill in the blank. It's blank that the ACC is reprimanded pit head coach Pat Narduzzi for saying, "Wow, we beat West Virginia in the backyard brawl and we beat the officials too in one game." It's about damn time because if there's one thing that Pat Narduzzi is good at is whining to the world about how he's at a disadvantage because of the officials and because of the portal and because of the NIL and everyone's against Pat Narduzzi at the end of the day. So, you know, I think it's about time. I mean, $5,000 is nothing to someone like him. Well, they find the school 5,000 bucks too. Right. And so, it's just, I wish it would have an effect and it would get him to shut up, but it's not. He's just going to be continuously the same old Pat Narduzzi at the end of the day. But I think it was funny that he finally got a slap on the wrist or like, "Dude, we've probably given you 10 warnings at this point. Can you just shut up? Like, we're just tired of it." John, our Pittsburgh guy, not happy about Pat Narduzzi getting the fine. I think he's a dual pit fan if I remember right. But, you know, come on, man. Like, if there's one thing we know about Pat Narduzzi is the dude likes to complain out loud to anyone who will listen to him about anything. So, I'm completely not shocked by the fact that Narduzzi finally got slapped around a little bit. It's like, "Look, you can't complain about the officials. How about this, Pat? You won the freaking game. Why are you whining about calls that you didn't get during the game that you won, by the way?" But that's how Pat Narduzzi rolls. He's always got a role in that direction. Did you see the Mike Bray post about it? I didn't. It's time he said he had a great tweet about it. Yeah. So, he says, "Pit football coach gets $5,000 fine from the ACC for talking about the refs. Mine was 20k question mark exclamation for me." And again, I feel like Mike Bray doesn't really complain to the near the level that Pat Narduzzi has always run in his lips. But I think that was after the Florida state game, what three or four years ago, is the one that he's referring to when he got slapped around, smacked around a little bit. And, you know, and Bray, like, you know, but that's a great point. You know, Narduzzi bitches and moans all the time. Bray very rarely would complain about that kind of stuff publicly. And they hit him with 20 grand, which really backs up, you know, what Bray was talking about because it was basically about, "Hey, come on, we're Notre Dame. You know, we're in the league too." You know, that kind of stuff. The thing that I think is, you know, yes, do bad, does bad officiating warrant criticism 100%, right? But to me, it's kind of like the boy who cried wolf because Pat Narduzzi cries wolf every single game. And so it's like, it gets to the point where it's like, "Whoa, was there bad officiating, or is Pat Narduzzi just got a thorn stock up his butt today?" Right. Like, which one is it, you know, like, usually the latter. So now I can't take anything seriously from him, but that's his own fault because he wants to complain every single time. Yes, exactly, exactly. Sloppy Joe says he would have complained if there was a subtle breeze. I don't think you're probably wrong there. All right. Well, I think that's going to do it for tonight. Great whiteboard stuff earlier tonight. Jesse and great conversation, great input from the chat earlier as we were talking about the offense. We'll see where it goes. I mean, not perfect by any means. Better, but if you can't, yeah, I mean, it was better. And if you can't be happy about scoring 66 points against a big 10 team, I don't think you're ever going to be happy. It's just, oh, crack a beer and see how it goes, I guess. Tom, thank you very much for the compliment. We will take them any times. I mean, hit that like button before you leave. And we will talk to you tomorrow on IBASian Sports. [Music] [Music] [Music] [ Silence ]
