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Notre Dame vs Stanford: There's Something They Are NOT Telling About This Game... · College Football Addiction: A Show About All Things College Football

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  Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to College Football Addiction. Notre Dame
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  Speaker 1: and Stanford, a rivalry that's been fun for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how fun it'll be this.
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  Speaker 2: Week, but we will see.
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  Speaker 2: Tom, Notre Dame and Stanford.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about the Notre Dame UNC game on the
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  Speaker 1: live show this week, and it wasn't the most overwhelming win,
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  Speaker 1: but you and Cole were pretty impressed with Notre Dame
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  Speaker 1: regardless in, in the way that they went out and
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  Speaker 1: got the win. Some things had gone UNC's way without
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  Speaker 1: a doubt. The weather was bad, but still pretty impressed
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  Speaker 1: with where Notre Dame is right now. We've talked about
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  Speaker 1: complete teams. How close is Notre Dame to being one
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  Speaker 1: of the five ish most complete teams in the country?
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  Speaker 1: Are you, are they solidly in there for you?
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  Speaker 3: I think they're solidly in there. And I, a thousand
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  Speaker 3: percent understand the people that are looking at Notre Dame's
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  Speaker 3: strength of schedule and who they face so far and
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  Speaker 3: saying like, Hey, you know, have they really faced some
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  Speaker 3: elite competition? And the answer is no. And unfortunately Stanford
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  Speaker 3: is not going to present elite competition in this game,
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  Speaker 3: but for Notre Dame, you want to see them continue
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  Speaker 3: to do the things that they've been successful with so
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  Speaker 3: far this season. You're the number three undefeated team at
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  Speaker 3: home facing Stanford, who has struggled so far this year.
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  Speaker 3: against some of the better teams in the ACC. Three
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  Speaker 3: teams that you, myself, and Cole have said on The
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  Speaker 3: Power 2 we think could wind up in Charlotte for
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  Speaker 3: the ACC title. Their losses are to Miami, Duke, and
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  Speaker 3: Wake Forest. All three of those teams we think will
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  Speaker 3: be in the mix potentially. So no shame in those losses,
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  Speaker 3: but they were ugly losses. They were losses by a
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  Speaker 3: substantial gap. So I struggle to identify a way that
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  Speaker 3: Stanford would be able to pull off the upset against
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  Speaker 3: Notre Dame. The spread right now is 37.5 in favor
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  Speaker 3: of the Fighting Irish with an over-under of 53.5. I
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  Speaker 3: look at it this way. Davis Warren has had a
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  Speaker 3: few instances this season where he's gone off in the
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  Speaker 3: passing game. I just don't see Notre Dame allowing him
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  Speaker 3: those opportunities. I think they're going to be able to
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  Speaker 3: get to him. I think they're going to be able
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  Speaker 3: to speed up his process. And yes, there could be
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  Speaker 3: some explosives that occur here and there that maybe lead
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  Speaker 3: to a score for Stanford, but nothing necessarily sustainable. Offensively
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  Speaker 3: for Notre Dame, CJ Carr has been as advertised. Is
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  Speaker 3: he putting up the otherworldly statistics week in and week
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  Speaker 3: out that really make you say, oh, this guy should
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  Speaker 3: be number one in terms of Heisman voting, something like that?
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  Speaker 3: Not necessarily, but he was super efficient and consistent this
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  Speaker 3: past weekend against UNC. Right now, Notre Dame is tied
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  Speaker 3: for 54th in the country in passing yards per game
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  Speaker 3: and 65th in the country in rushing yards per game.
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  Speaker 3: 266 and 161, respectively. Now, you might look at those
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  Speaker 3: and be like, ah, those aren't really elite numbers, and
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  Speaker 3: you would like them to be doing better, I guess,
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  Speaker 3: against lesser competition. But there's balance there. They can kill
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  Speaker 3: you in so many different ways. Notre Dame has enough
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  Speaker 3: playmakers in terms of pass catchers that you can't just
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  Speaker 3: focus on one guy, nor are they average enough to
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  Speaker 3: the point that you can blanket cover them. There are
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  Speaker 3: enough options in the passing game for C.J. Carr to
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  Speaker 3: work through his progressions and just work to.
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  Speaker 2: The open man.
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  Speaker 3: It's not like you have to work to an alpha
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  Speaker 3: wide receiver that you have to feed a la Jeremiah Smith.
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  Speaker 3: He's got options everywhere he looks. And the encouraging thing
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  Speaker 3: that we have talked about on The Power 2 is
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  Speaker 3: that week over week, the Notre Dame rushing attack gets better.
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  Speaker 3: They understand what their identity is. They have multiple tailbacks
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  Speaker 3: in that room that can hurt you. But it's not
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  Speaker 3: like the Judkins-Henderson days where they had some really explosive
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  Speaker 3: guys back there. It's relying on the skill of that
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  Speaker 3: offensive line to take advantage and salt away some of
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  Speaker 3: these games. Yeah, I just expect this one to be
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  Speaker 3: a little bit ugly if you're a Stanford Cardinal fan.
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame, you talked about CJ Carr. I think his
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  Speaker 1: talent is off the charts, but you are right. I
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  Speaker 1: kind of expected them to just go crazy this year.
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  Speaker 1: And now they've played, I don't say down, but they've
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  Speaker 1: played closer in a few games than I think we
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  Speaker 1: may be expected. UNC, Wisconsin to open the year up.
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  Speaker 1: Their running game has certainly impacted them. some of his
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  Speaker 1: numbers as well. And I do, when I look at
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  Speaker 1: CJ Carr, you're right, man, the perfect word is efficient
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  Speaker 1: because he's not pulling the, I mean, Mince has been
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  Speaker 1: incredibly efficient too, but I think those guys got linked
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  Speaker 1: in Heisman conversations early in the year because we all
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  Speaker 1: kind of thought, well, they're going to win a lot
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  Speaker 1: of games, which is going to help both of their
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  Speaker 1: stock tremendously for the Heisman. And then one of them
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  Speaker 1: is going to beat the other one, one way or
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  Speaker 1: the other, like when they play each other in South Bend,
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  Speaker 1: and that'll give one of them a leg up in
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  Speaker 1: the Heisman. And you're talking about the winner of that game,
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  Speaker 1: most likely sitting at 12 and Oh, when the regular
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  Speaker 1: season is done.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And so a 12 and Oh quarterback is always going
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  Speaker 1: to be considered for New York, whether he goes or not,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see, but always going to be considered there. And
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  Speaker 1: so that is where I think about, okay, has he,
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  Speaker 1: has he done enough to not be considered at all?
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  Speaker 1: Or if things pick up a little bit and his
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  Speaker 1: numbers pick up, you know, then he maybe could be
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  Speaker 1: considered with a big win against Miami, which is kind
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  Speaker 1: of a Heisman moment. It, it ebbs and flows, right?
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  Speaker 1: You have guys, I mean, Jaden ball.
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  Speaker 2: Was in it last week. He's, not into this week.
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  Speaker 1: So certainly can move around quite a bit, but I
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  Speaker 1: do think the consistency that car has played with has
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  Speaker 1: been really, really impressive this year. He's a good quarterback
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  Speaker 1: and he just doesn't have the eye popping stats of
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  Speaker 1: blowing teams out like Miami's done or throw into a
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith, like saying is done or, you know, doing
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  Speaker 1: what Jeremiah is doing himself or, just whomever Austin Simmons
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  Speaker 1: is up there too. So just more, a couple more
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on, uh, on CJ car and just Notre Dame's up.
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  Speaker 2: Is it a Notre Dame approach thing?
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  Speaker 1: Is it that they just haven't played as well as
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  Speaker 1: maybe we thought from the beginning of the year as
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  Speaker 1: a team?
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  Speaker 2: Is it both those things?
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  Speaker 3: Well, here's the sneaky truth. I think about Notre Dame
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  Speaker 3: is that this is a run first team. They're running
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  Speaker 3: the ball about 60% of the time. So they're not
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  Speaker 3: putting it all on CJ car. He's yet to crack
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  Speaker 3: 300 yards passing this game. this season, excuse me, and
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  Speaker 3: I know people can say, oh, I want to see
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  Speaker 3: the video game numbers for the elite quarterback. Well, he's
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  Speaker 3: going to do that when it comes to touchdowns and
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  Speaker 3: completion percentage. He has three games of three passing touchdowns
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  Speaker 3: or more so far this season, and he's got 71%
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  Speaker 3: completion percentage. If you're a head coach and an offensive coordinator,
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  Speaker 3: you're like, sounds good. Sign me up for that every
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  Speaker 3: single week. That's fantastic. So C.J. Carr's not been put
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  Speaker 3: in a position where he has to put Notre Dame
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  Speaker 3: on his back and win it through the air. That
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  Speaker 3: remains to be seen. For him to be in Heisman contention,
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  Speaker 3: the quote-unquote Heisman moments, he's going to have to deal
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  Speaker 3: with BYU and Provo. He's going to have to deal
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  Speaker 3: with Miami later on this season. Those are the games
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  Speaker 3: where we're really going to learn who is CJ Carr
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  Speaker 3: when the chips are down and Notre Dame is potentially
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  Speaker 3: struggling to run the football effectively. But right now, you're
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  Speaker 3: confident lining up Williams, James Jr., and Walton and getting
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  Speaker 3: a good amount on the ground. As a team, you're
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  Speaker 3: averaging 4.5 yards per carry. You've got to be ecstatic
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  Speaker 3: about what you're doing as a running team game. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: is it blowing people away? Is it 300, 400 yards
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  Speaker 3: per game? No, but it's effective and it's efficient. You're
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  Speaker 3: able to hurt the defense in multiple ways, and it
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  Speaker 3: makes it very difficult to stop. So I think if
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  Speaker 3: you're Marcus Freeman and company, you're real happy with what
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  Speaker 3: you got, and it's just working on this week over week.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about working on this week over week. What do
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  Speaker 2: you want to see?
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame emphasize in a, in a game where they're
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  Speaker 1: a massive favorite, but with a trip to Provo on
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  Speaker 1: the horizon, just next week, a night game on ABC
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  Speaker 1: that got announced today here on Monday afternoon, as we
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  Speaker 1: record this, is there, are there specific things you want
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  Speaker 1: to see them work on that you would like to
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  Speaker 1: see a little bit cleaner in this game where you
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  Speaker 1: probably have an opportunity to work on it against an
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  Speaker 1: inferior opponent?
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  Speaker 3: I think you want to see, like I mentioned, maybe
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  Speaker 3: the running game be a little bit more explosive than
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  Speaker 3: they've been thus far. If you're Notre Dame, you want
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  Speaker 3: to have a little bit more separation from your opponent
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  Speaker 3: than you did, for instance, against UNC, where that was
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  Speaker 3: 21-14 at half. UNC was able to make that 21-20
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  Speaker 3: in the third quarter, and then they got a late
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  Speaker 3: touchdown when they were down 15. you know, 37 to
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  Speaker 3: 20 to make it 37, 26. So I think you'd
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  Speaker 3: like to see that gap be a little bit more,
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  Speaker 3: maybe a little faster start offensively, but I still think
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  Speaker 3: the defense is really what you're looking at and saying, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: if we're going to be going to BYU, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to have to play the proverbial four quarters of football.
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  Speaker 3: And we can't give them any opportunities to come back
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  Speaker 3: at home with a team that likes to run the football.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to be able to get the early lead
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  Speaker 3: against a team like that. You've got to be able
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  Speaker 3: to play defense consistently throughout the game. And I'd say
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  Speaker 3: the same thing when they play Miami. We've seen Miami's firepower, granted,
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  Speaker 3: against some lesser competition. They're going to be able to
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  Speaker 3: put points on the board. But does Notre Dame have
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  Speaker 3: the ability offensively to put one, two, maybe three scores?
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  Speaker 3: on the board early in the game and make the
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  Speaker 3: other team play from behind? And then defensively, can you
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  Speaker 3: prevent those lapses and prevent the other team from coming
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  Speaker 3: back in what would be considered garbage time and making
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  Speaker 3: something competitive? That's what you've got to worry about with
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  Speaker 3: your two biggest opponents later on this season. So you're
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  Speaker 3: just preparing yourself for that. And then you're preparing yourself
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  Speaker 3: mentally and physically for the heavyweight slugfest that you could
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  Speaker 3: deal with in the college football playoff because that's what
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  Speaker 3: this season is all about for Notre Dame. It's the
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  Speaker 3: vindication tour.
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  Speaker 2: Nearly a 40-point spread. Is this one they cover if
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  Speaker 2: they want to? Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I am going to take the under because Notre Dame
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  Speaker 3: is not trying to put points on the board just
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  Speaker 3: to run up the score by any means. They're playing
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  Speaker 3: within the offense. They're playing effective football offensively. great in
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  Speaker 3: all three phases, but I don't expect them to try
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  Speaker 3: and hang 60 on Stanford for any reason. I think
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  Speaker 3: this is a game where they could wind up leaving,
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  Speaker 3: it's 42 to 10, something like that, or even in
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  Speaker 3: the 30s, because they don't need a ton to beat Stanford.
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  Speaker 3: I think Stanford, if they get lucky, they get a
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  Speaker 3: couple of instances where if there's a lapse and a
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  Speaker 3: turnover or something like that, can you turn that into
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  Speaker 3: a fumble return for a touchdown or a pick six.
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  Speaker 3: Can you get a special team score? Can Davis Warren
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  Speaker 3: come up with an explosive? Somebody slips a tackle. Like
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  Speaker 3: you're going to need some, you know, no pun intended,
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  Speaker 3: some luck against the Irish. If you're Stanford, meanwhile, Notre Dame,
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  Speaker 3: take care of business. That's all this is. That's all
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  Speaker 3: this is about. This is a maintenance game.
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  Speaker 1: Cannot wait until we get past this game for Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not wishing the college football weeks away, but I
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  Speaker 1: can't wait till we get past this game and see
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame BYU next week. Cause That's where I think
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  Speaker 1: we get a lot more fun.
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