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Ep. 6 - Carolina Recap / Stanford Preview (with Special Guests Uncle Rob & Aunt Gabrielle!) · Domer & Sons

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Welcome to Domer and Sons, a family podcast on Notre Dame football.
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I'm Matthew Rose, the Domer, and I'm joined by my two sons and co-hosts, William Rose.
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Hey, William.
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Hi, Dad.
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And Calvin Rose.
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Hey, Cal.
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Hi, Dad.
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Today is Sunday, October 4th, and this is episode six, our UNC recap and Stanford preview.
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We'll be joined later on in the pod by Uncle Rob and Aunt Gabrielle, who will talk Stanford and give us their game prediction.
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Before we go and get into UNC, let's do a quick college football rundown from yesterday, Cal.
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Yeah.
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A few good notes.
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Penn State, they lost.
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That's not good.
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I mean, I could care less.
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It's Penn State.
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They kinda deserve it.
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They lost.
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They got their butts kicked by Northwestern.
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I don't think we were really expecting it to be that bad.
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Michigan, they lost again.
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First time since 1997, but, maybe if they had a couple more seconds added on, they could've, squeezed by a win, but they couldn't.
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Who'd they lose to?
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Minnesota.
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Minnesota, yeah.
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Yep,'cause they're, they're so good.
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Yeah, a little bit of karma.
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Karma coming back pretty strong for the Wolverines.
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Yep.
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Love to see it.
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Minnesota's head coach is pretty awesome.
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Yeah, he's kind of performative.
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Well- That's my take.
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I take Marcus seven days out of the week and twice on Sunday.
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Yeah, and then Mississippi State lost.
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I don't know.
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Kamario Taylor- They didn't just lose.
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They got their, their butt kicked.
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Correct.
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Florida- Also got their butt kicked they, number eight, got the tar beaten out of them.
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BYU barely won.
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I wanna talk about the Florida game.
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I think this really shows how deep the SEC is.
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You, you're trying to troll me.
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So my take on the SEC, for anybody who cares, is the SEC has several good teams.
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Not great teams, good teams.
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To be a national championship caliber team, you need a great quarterback, and you need a great defense.
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SEC only has maybe one or two of those teams that meet that criteria.
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Name them.
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Georgia and- Georgia, 100% Georgia I think Texas might be the second one.
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Texas is the second one.
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I'm- Texas has a good quarterback you're saying that, that Trinidad Chambless and Ky- Kywin Lacy?
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No.
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What about their defense?
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Their defense.
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Exactly.
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Defense is the most important part of the game.
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They gave up 200 plus yards, 300 yards to, on the ground to Florida.
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How many yards did they give on the ground to Florida?
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Everyone has their off days.
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This was more than an off day.
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This was 52 points scored on them after they just, they beat LSU.
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Okay Keep on going Yeah, and then big thing, USC barely won.
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Sad.
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And, Boston College, it seems every single time they play a ranked team they cast a spell on them and they don't do well.
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The ranked team does, but SMU won.
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That's good for us.
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And then Kentucky with Kenny Minchie won in overtime.
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We love to see that.
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But that's the recap for today.
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Yeah, so not that much movement.
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Uh, polls came out earlier this afternoon.
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We're still ranked three in both of them.
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I would have actually have preferred if we had moved- Went down a little.
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Yeah.
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That wouldn't be bad down, as a consequence for our play.
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So let's get into the North Carolina-Notre Dame game from yesterday.
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Cal, let's walk through the offense please.
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Yeah.
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First drive, what I love to see in the first drive is that- Two things is that we got our first play was a run for six against this good D-line, not a great D-line.
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Speaking of their D-line, Anthony Knapp completely shut down Xavier Lewis.
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Yeah.
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I think there's one play, I just don't remember, but he like pancaked him and then he like sat on him- just for kicks and that was just- oh, it was fun to see.
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Faizon had a great game.
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I think you could kinda tell after the first drive he was gonna have a great game.
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C.J.
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carr played great.
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Our running game was amazing.
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Jonas Walton performed excellent, excellent.
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Like, Jadarian Price, Kyren Williams, but man, he's a unit.
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Yep.
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He's a unit, but he's also fast.
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Like I said, Jadarian Price vibes from him.
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Mikey Gilbert, he didn't have the excellent game that we might think might happen.
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And Jayden Greathouse, first touchdown of the year.
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I think it's his first touchdown since the Ohio State game in the national championship.
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I think that's right.
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It's kinda crazy.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Nice To see him get on the board.
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Definitely.
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Yeah, but our rush- our rushing looked great.
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I mean, yeah, I don't really have complaints.
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Jonas Walton averaged 5.2 yards a carry.
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Yeah, 240 on the yards rushing, 5.4 on average on 45 attempts.
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So clearly, especially in the second half when the rain started coming, we switched our play call mix to run heavy, which was great'cause a variety of things.
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It chewed up clock as well as, gave,, Jonas an opportunity- Definitely to showcase himself.
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Yeah, and it just shows like I feel so much better about our running game now because we were talking about their D-line, like it's something that is just gonna be hard to run against, but we ran really well, and I was very impressed.
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I don't have much complaints.
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C.J.
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Carr played great.
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Yeah.
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faizon, amazing.
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Awesome.
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Awesome.
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All right.
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William, let's walk through some defense.
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What did you think about our defensive performance?
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Think this is a tough game definitely for the defense.
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Our worst performance yet, but I also think this is the most high-powered offense we've played yet I don't agree with that take I don't agree with that either Who, who has a better offense?
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I think Wisconsin and- Dude, oh my God Purdue are a better offense than- Purdue has a better offense?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Statistically they do.
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Oh my God.
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All right, agree to disagree.
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I think this is the highest powered offense with, um, Will Ship.
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When's the last time a receiver had 100 yards on us?
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It's been a while.
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I'm not saying that we played I, I That's what I want to hear about your defense.
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I think the defense was- I think the- really poor yesterday I think it was, I think it was poor but I also think it was the Uh, there's a, a tiny exception because it's a pretty So it's a decent offense.
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It's the best offense we've played in my opinion.
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Okay?
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I think Luke Talich played great even with one hand.
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He looked great out there.
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Our pass rush.
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We were getting pressures.
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We weren't really sacking the quarterback.
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Brew with our only, sack of the game.
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Bubacar got home on the KVA pick.
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He kinda knocked the quarterback and made him make that throw.
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Bryce Young, kind of a ghost game from him.
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Definitely, a Step down from the last game.
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And our linebackers did not look very impressive.
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Drayk Bowen had a bit of a stinker.
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Osberry and Sneed weren't present.
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Um, Shuler also had a bad game.
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Tryory Letter.
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I said Shuler had a bad game.
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Yeah, no.
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No, we're agreeing with you.
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We're agreeing with you.
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We're just looking up the- I'm looking it up offensive rankings of the year- I'm looking it up and Purdue's 44 and North Carolina's 77.
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So it's a 33 team difference so I guess that- Wait, where are we?
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Yeah, North Carolina.
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Where are we?
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We're fifth.
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We're fifth.
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We're fifth.
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Yeah.
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We're looking at the FEI- USC's- offensive rankings USC's one?
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That's- So, so you're saying So hold on.
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No, no, no.
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There's a dou- a bit of a double standard here, right?
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What's the- Yeah what's the double standard?
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What do you think?
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Tell me.
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Einstein, Einstein, what do you think?
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Tell me.
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The schedule determines the rankings on this.
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This is normalized- Yes based on your opponent.
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Yeah it is normal.
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I- USC does not have the best offense in the country, We don't like USC.
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We're not saying anything about USC.
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Yes you are.
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You're saying that, it doesn't It disproves USC, but it doesn't disprove the Purdue and North Carolina.
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The- It's a 33 team- That's the double standard, Einstein I Look- Um- this is what the computer says What does, what does Wisconsin say?
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'Cause y'all were saying Wisconsin had better offense.
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I think that Wisconsin was better.
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Also, two quarterbacks played in the Purdue game.
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67th.
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So there It's like this, there's two teams.
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Oh, there was also week one.
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So- No this is from- Still this is from before Saturday.
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This is with, four data points.
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Okay?
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All right.
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Get back to the defense.
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Shuler did not have a good game.
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Traore led our team in tackles which is never a good look at all.
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Um, yeah, KVA, Talich had They both had a picks.
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Leonard Moore I think played really well.
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He had a couple pass deflections and breakups.
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McKenney didn't get any, a lot of snaps which was a bit concerning.
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We saw Sanders on the field a lot and he didn't look impressive.
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Yeah.
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W- so why do you think, we gave up the most yards we have given up all season long?
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Our pass defense was really poor.
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Yeah, their tight end- And I know it's only 208 yards total offense on passing still it's like that shouldn't be the standard.
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If you look at our secondary, a team like North Carolina should not be getting, 208 passing yards How many first downs did they have?
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Especially with Billy Edwards as the quarterback.
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Yeah, Billy Edwards.
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I mean you can give them some grace as in Bobby Petrino's their offensive coordinator.
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Like that's a good offensive coordinator but I think their tight end just killed us and- Yeah, our safeties, Shuler didn't look impressive.
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Talich did.
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Talich's interception, the exact same as Michigan State's.
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I read something that said, uh, C.J.
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Carr knows exactly what it feels like to be that Michigan State QB because it happens to him almost every single practice.
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He gets, that same kind of pick off.
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He gets picked off by Luke Talich exactly like that.
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Yeah, look, you know, for me, guys, it was...
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We had the ball, I believe, first and 10, or first and goal from around the 10, with about 12 minutes left in the first half.
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We're up 21-7.
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We get it down to the two-yard line two downs, we don't punch it in.
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So we turn over the ball.
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It could have been 28 to seven.
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If it's 28 to seven, I think this game just turns into an absolute bloodbath.
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I think Carolina is probably considering firing Bill Belichick today.
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But instead, what happens is we turn the ball over.
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Fine, let's get the defense on the field, who up to that point was playing decently, and we give up a 98-yard drive, which this defense should not allow against this level of opponent.
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So- I think on the drive, I'd actually blame Chris Ash.
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I think that when we were on the goal line, we aren't, we weren't playing tight enough man coverage.
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I think with our secondary, we should r- be running press man every single time when it's within the 10-yard line.
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I, I'm not disagreeing with you.
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William made a comment earlier today about how we just played way too much zone and we didn't blitz enough.
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Yeah.
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I think that we were sending four, weren't getting any sacks, and Chris Ash didn't recognize that, and they were throwing it to their tight end over the middle every time.
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I think if we bring the pressure and force him to get hit, good things happen, like on the KVA pick.
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I think it's more the coordinators' poor performance than the players, in my opinion.
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Well, coordinators put the players in the position, yes.
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But I, I- It's a little bit of both.
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It was a little bit of both.
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Shuler was uncharacteristically sloppy yesterday, and he is a bellwether for this team.
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Drayk Bowen, I, I mean, he was off.
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He was average.
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I think our defense just looked average.
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It didn't look anything special today.
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Very...
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We got snippets of above average, but not anything that was like,"Man, this is a great defense." And then mixed bag from special teams.
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Yeah, yeah.
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The first, that punt thing just annoyed me so much because hits you directly in the chest, like I don't know why you're dropping it.
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We got to see some of his rugby skills, though.
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Yeah.
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That was kind of cool.
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That was cool.
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Um, yeah, and then special teams, but four for four on PATs.
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He had a 31-yarder.
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Didn't he miss one?
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Did I see that right?
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Did he miss one?
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No.
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No Fourth and a missile?
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All right.
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Yeah, so- Well, and but we have the drop punt which- Yeah fortunately Scaife was able to get it off.
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Yeah.
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Coming out of the second half the first thing we do is we give up a 98-yard kickoff return.
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We had two blocks on the day but between the drop punt and then giving off the giving up the kickoff return, yeah, it's just all around, guys, it was an all around just sloppy game.
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Maybe it was our version of the BC game last year where we were just a little bit asleep.
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And I- Yeah credit to Bebe.
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Bebe had kinda called this in the sense that it's a noon game, sometimes we're slow to start.
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Carolina did exactly what he said they were gonna do which was, Run the ball and try to find their tight end.
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He also said that with scripted plays, like the first series which were all scripted plays, um they were able to march on us.
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Yeah.
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So I don't know.
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Hopefully it's a bunch of 18, 22-year-old young men who have been hearing a little bit too much about how good they were coming off that Purdue game and switched off a little bit.
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Plus the early start, plus, the, the weather conditions.
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Anyways, a win's a win.
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We'll take it.
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Time to move on.
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Yeah.
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Um, let's go over game balls, guys.
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So offense cal who you got?
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I have, for my game ball I have Jonas Walton on the offense.
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I think we already went over it, 23 carries, 120 yards, 5.2 car- yards per carry.
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And then he also had 20 receiving yards.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, all around good game.
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It's what we like to see.
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Like I said, looks like Jadarian Price in card.
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So.
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Yeah.
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He had a nice coming out party which was great to see.
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William, who you got offensive game ball?
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C.J.
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Carr, five total touchdowns.
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Pretty impressive, right?
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I like the way that we're using C.J.
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Carr running the, doing the designed run on the goal line.
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I forgot to mention that.
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I really- You like that?
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I like that.
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No, he's fra- Ah he, he looks fragile doing it.
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I don't like that.
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I, if we're gonna- We, we have running backs that can do the same thing.
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What's the point?
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I read today that he checked into that play.
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He audibled to, into it?
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Yeah, he audibled to it.
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So he wants to do it?
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Yes.
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Okay.
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That's what I read.
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Dad, who's your game ball?
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My game ball is gonna go to Jordan Faizon.
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I thought Faizon was exceptional.
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He was unbelievable the first half.
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Over 100 yards receiving in the first half.
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Again, he tends just to be everywhere in the right place, the right time.
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Obviously C.J.
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wants to find him.
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So really, really, impressive performance from him.
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Defense, who you got?
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William, game ball.
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Luke Talich, couple of CFLs.
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The pick, which was great.
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I can't remember, who was he covering when he made that interception?
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He wasn't covering anybody, but- Who Yeah, he was it was D.J.
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McKinnie was the guy who got burned.
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He didn't get burned.
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Yeah, I think he just let him.
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He- Yeah he knew he had Talich behind him.
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And that's a great play by Talich, so I just Talich knows what he's doing and it's nice.
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Yeah, he looks i, I mean, I haven't watched the footage of Tay Johnson last year, but like this is very impressive.
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Yeah, he's not nearly the athlete that Tay is, but he is a ball hawk.
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He knows where that ball is going.
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Yeah, he, he was getting picks last year as a second string.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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He had like, what, three, four interceptions?
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Yeah, three, but if I'm gonna be honest, he got three in garbage time.
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He's got more picks than both Moore and Hamilton.
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Well, obviously because no one's throwing Moore's way.
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I understand.
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What do you mean?
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Well Yeah.
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People aren't throwing Moore's way.
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Moore had two picks his freshman year.
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Yeah.
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And I think five or six his sophomore year.
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I don't think he had that much.
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Yeah.
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He did.
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I'm talking about, I'm talking about career picks.
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Talich has got more- Talich is- He's also a senior okay.
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No, no, all right, it's fine.
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He's also a walk-on Yeah, that's fair.
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Wow.
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Okay.
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My defensive game ball goes to Leonard Moore.
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They threw to him a good amount and Jordan Shipp had that one one-handed snag in the beginning of UNC's first drive where I was like,"I'd let them throw that a lot because he, one, he's not making that play every single time and two, Leonard Moore's guarding him." Two passes broken up, couple tackles.
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He gets my game ball.
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Okay.
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And then I'm gonna go with Bubacar Traore.
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Um- I like that.
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Traore had six tackles like William said.
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He had four QB hurries w- the most important of which was maybe the first or second play from scrimmage where he murdered Billy Edwards.
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That was the, that was their first or second play af- in their second drive.
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In the second drive, correct.
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Yeah.
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And KVA was on that ball, which was nice to see.
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Which was awesome.
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Yeah.
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Which was awesome.
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I have a bit of a question there.
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Yeah.
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I think it's kinda weird that you're giving a game ball to a defensive player who didn't, or a defensive end who didn't get a single sack.
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Don't you think that's a little strange?
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He had five, he had four QB hurries.
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He bas- First of all- He was in their backfield most of the day.
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Yeah.
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And- Well, that's a, a rusher's job speaking of which, getting into the backfield, I noticed frequently our D-line was getting to their backfield on runs.
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Carolina did not run the ball well, guys.
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No.
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They had 77 total yards rushing.
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Yeah.
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That's six games in a row we've held the opponent to less than 100 yards rushing.
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If you're doing that, particularly with this pass defense prior to yesterday- we should be killing teams.
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We- And we have up to this point.
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No, no, no, no.
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This is a wake-up call.
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This is exactly what it is.
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It's a wake-up call.
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We're playing Stanford this week.
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It's gonna be a bloodbath.
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It's gonna be a bloodbath.
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I hope so.
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I hope so.
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Hey Calvin, wild card.
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Who you got?
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Uh, my wild card is Anthony Knapp.
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I thought he completely shut down Xavier Lewis.
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There was just a play where he just completely destroyed him.
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He, he was violent out there.
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He literally he sat on him a couple times.
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He, pancaked him, and then he decided to belly flop right onto him.
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It was nice to see great blocking out of him.
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Yeah, I, I agree completely.
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You never really heard Xavier Lewis' name called much yesterday, so obviously the interior linemen were doing a good job.
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And hey, kudos to Sullivan Absher.
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Yeah, you also- I think he did a decent job.
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William, wild card, who do you got?
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Yeah, my wild card game ball is the Notre Dame, fan section.
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There was a great turnout.
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There were a lot of people there.
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They were loud and rowdy, arguably louder than the North Carolina fans.
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I thought the turnout for North Carolina was actually horrendous.
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The stadium was half full at best.
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Who'd that remind you of?
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USC.
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Yeah.
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You know, your mom made a great point, after the game yesterday.
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She goes,"You know, the more I think about it, I think USC and North Carolina are two very similar schools." I like that.
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It was a great point by Mom Bear.
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Yeah, I agree.
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Yeah.
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And as Bebe said, both are soft as Charmin.
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Yeah, and my wild card, uh, I'm gonna go really unconventional this week.
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I'm gonna give my wild card to Game Ball to Bebe.
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I thought Bebe's points last week were extremely relevant, and I think they showed up in the game yesterday.
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He had mentioned how Belichick and Petrino would have two weeks to prepare, and they came out and they, executed on what they wanted to do.
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He specifically warned about scripted opening drive, and sure enough, that's what Carolina looked really, really good then too.
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So Beebs, if you're listening, congrats man.
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You get a game ball.
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All right.
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On to our next section, the Stanford preview Matthew I'm doing Stanford this week.
20:53
You're doing Stanford this week.
20:54
Yeah, so hey, for everybody who doesn't know this, I worked at Stanford University for two years directly out of college as a swim coach for their women's swimming team.
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And while I was there, we played Stanford twice, and we lost both games.
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Not great.
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And another fun fact, my relationship with Stanford University is when I was a senior in high school and was getting recruited by Notre Dame, initially they wanted me to come up on my recruiting trip for the Stanford-Notre Dame game, and unfortunately some things happened with scheduling, and I couldn't make it up to that game.
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And what was interesting about that game that was the fall of'92, in the'92 season, Notre Dame was stacked.
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Rick Mirer was the quarterback.
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Reggie Brooks was on the team.
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Bryant, BY, Bryant Young, was on the team.
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Aaron Taylor.
21:52
We were just stacked all over the place.
21:55
We went into that game.
21:56
We went up 16-nothing really quickly, and then we conceded like 32 straight points.
22:03
So I'm glad I didn't go up to that game for my recruiting trip, and instead had gone up to see Boston College-Notre Dame, which we completely annihilated them.
22:14
Mm.
22:14
Which was a lot more fun.
22:16
Yeah.
22:16
And I got to be in a crowd scene for Rudy, which was kind of fun, too.
22:21
Yeah.
22:21
Anyway, a long way of saying I've got history with Stanford.
22:24
I root for Stanford when they're not playing Notre Dame, mostly'cause of that history and because our two guest pickers that will be coming on here shortly, Uncle Rob and Aunt Gabrielle, they both went to Stanford, so There's a lot of love for the Stanford Cardinal.
22:41
It's a unique university that really, really appreciate.
22:45
Uh, the football team at one point in the mid-2010s Was good They were good.
22:53
They had Christian McCaffrey, Andrew Luck.
22:56
They had Richard Sherman.
22:58
They suck now.
22:59
They're awful.
22:59
They are really not good right now.
23:02
They went and hired Andrew Luck to be their GM, and that's a great hire, on paper, but I think executing in this NIL world is a completely different deal, and they have a harder time recruiting than we do with equally as hard, if not a little bit harder, academic standards to get through, and they're just not doing what they have been able to do in the past from a recruiting perspective.
23:29
How they're doing right now, Stanford is two and three, all right?
23:33
One and three in the ACC under first-year head coach Tavita Pritchard, who also played with Luck back in the day.
23:39
Their only wins are against Hawaii in the first game of the season, and then Georgia Tech from two weeks ago, which is kind of a head-scratcher, to be honest with you.
23:50
And then they've got some really bad losses.
23:52
Mensah just chewed them up with Miami.
23:56
Uh, they went on the road, lost to Duke, and then went on the road this past weekend and got annihilated by a decent Wake team.
24:04
Wake's...
24:04
No, Wake's, Wake's good.
24:06
Wake's, Wake's...
24:07
Yeah, Wake's solid.
24:08
They're, they're, like it's, it's a decent team.
24:10
They're good.
24:11
But they just got killed.
24:12
So Stanford's lost 13 straight road games.
24:16
They were in Wake F- they were at Wake Forest this past week.
24:20
They gotta go back to s- to Palo Alto, go back now to South Bend for a 3:30 kick, which is 12:30 their time.
24:29
I, you know, I...
24:31
This is one of the issues with conference realignment.
24:34
These guys' body clocks are probably all over the place.
24:37
I think it'll be really rough for these guys.
24:39
They're, they are awful.
24:42
Um, they are awful rushing team.
24:45
They average 88 yards A game rushing, so they have to rely totally on passing Yeah, and I saw something that said last week they rushed the ball 34 times and got 49 rushing yards That's not good That's awful and- At all if they're gonna meet KVA in the A gap, then they're just gonna get killed.
25:09
Yeah, I just, you know, this one again just screams of complete bloodbath.
25:17
I don't know what else to say about these guys.
25:19
They, these They've got players who ag- against like opponents can play well, but- Yeah I think this is a massive talent gap here.
25:31
Mm-hmm.
25:32
Definitely.
25:32
And hopefully it's nothing like the game from 2023- Oh my God when we went up there- That's- and one of us- That might have been the worst game I've ever experienced.
25:45
Where at NIU?
25:46
No.
25:47
No, in person.
25:48
No, no, no.
25:49
Oh.
25:49
Just in general.
25:50
It was freezing cold, raining, and that was probably some of the worst football I've seen there at any point.
25:55
That might've been the worst game I've seen ever.
25:57
We had Michael Mayer, though.
25:59
And?
26:00
He didn't do- It was awful.
26:01
There- Tobias Merriweather played good.
26:04
Yeah.
26:04
It was, it was a bad game.
26:06
But that was fun because, we got to take your cousins up to the game and especially your cousin Luke got to witness Stanford winning, so there was some silver linings there I guess for somebody in our family.
26:17
Um, but yeah, it, it, I hope this is how these games have gone in the past, the past several years where we're throwing up 50 or 60 on them.
26:28
Um- We will and I, I...
26:31
For me, guys, what I wanna see out of this game is I wanna see the passing defense show back up.
26:38
Let's get back to who we are.
26:40
Let's be ferocious.
26:43
Let's be really aggressive.
26:46
Show me what you did against Purdue.
26:49
Show me what you did against all the other teams except Carolina, and let's get after these guys and go into the week preparing for BYU after this weekend.
27:00
But let's take care of this Stanford team now.
27:04
Yeah.
27:05
This is the first game where we didn't score more than 40.
27:09
Uh, I don't know.
27:12
We're just gonna kill them.
27:14
Uh, my score prediction- I think the only reason we didn't score more than 40 was because we had 37 minutes of possession time.
27:22
That's a lot of possession.
27:23
Yeah, that's what I'm saying, that, like, the clock was running so fast we didn't have time to score 40.
27:28
Well, we were running like- That's part of the deal.
27:29
Yeah, it was'cause we had chosen to, in the second half, to run, and that's what we were gonna do.
27:34
Well, we, we should- By the way, we scored 27 against Michigan State.
27:38
My fault.
27:39
It's all good.
27:40
It's, it's not as bad as Riley Mills and Howard Cross, but- Yeah, it's, it's no problem.
27:45
No problem.
27:46
It- that's worse than Riley Mills and Howard Cross.
27:48
No, it wasn't because you completely forgot about them.
27:53
I think Michigan State might have been in the back of my mind.
27:56
Riley Mills and Howard Cross were just out of your mind.
28:00
All right, guys, let's get Uncle Rob and Aunt Gabrielle on the phone.
28:06
National, national champion Aunt Gabrielle.
28:09
Yeah.
28:10
Olympian Aunt Gabrielle, and tried to walk on Robert Barker Jr.
28:18
Tried to walk on.
28:19
All right, uh, let's get these guys on.
28:24
All right, let's get Uncle Rob and Aunt Gabrielle on the phone.
28:29
All right.
28:31
Yeah.
28:32
Hi, guys.
28:33
What's going on?
28:34
Hey, y'all.
28:36
Can you say hi?
28:37
Hi, Robert.
28:38
Get your- get your guys- Where are the nephews?
28:39
Get in.
28:41
Yeah, let me get those guys on screen.
28:42
Hey, guys.
28:46
Thanks for, making time, y'all.
28:48
This is a true treat.
28:50
Do we get any nieces or nephews?
28:52
Do we get any cousins joining?
28:54
I, I might get Luke to make a little, cameo here.
28:57
It kind of depends how this conversation goes.
29:01
Well, we spared you guys from the, Stanford scouting report.
29:04
You guys are, like, you guys are terrible.
29:07
That game- Terrible yesterday was awful.
29:10
49 rushing yards on 34 attempts.
29:14
That is terrible.
29:16
That is awful.
29:18
Houston Christian- You- the School of Blind and Deaf could've done better.
29:23
They can't even see their blocks.
29:25
I like the, the, I like the coaching staff stuck to their game plan.
29:28
Like, the 34th time they ran it at all.
29:30
But yeah.
29:31
The beatings will persist until, until, everybody's attitude improves, right?
29:39
I gotta, like, introduce you guys really quickly.
29:41
Okay?
29:43
Okay.
29:43
All right.
29:44
Hey, joining us today are two of some of our favorite people in the world, Uncle Rob, Rob Barger, and Aunt Gabrielle, Gabrielle Rose, my sister.
29:56
Rob's my, my brother-in-law.
29:58
And Rob is a graduate of Stanford University in 1996.
30:04
Correct?
30:04
Yes, sir.
30:05
And Gabrielle is a former swimming national champion, two-time Olympian, and, World record holder for Olympic trials at 45, and Rob tried to walk onto the Stanford basketball team as a freshman, so- I don't think he tried.
30:22
I think he did.
30:22
No, I, I was unsuccessful, to set the record fully straight.
30:25
Unsuccessful.
30:26
Okay.
30:27
Well, you know.
30:28
Hey, we like the effort, though.
30:29
What about high, what about high school record holder?
30:35
Yeah.
30:35
Well, yeah.
30:37
I think it's, I think, I mean, I don't know about Gabrielle, but I think, I think it's all a very strategic move by, by the mighty Cardinal.
30:44
And, you know, the, the first-year coach, Tavita Pritchard, is really trying to catch the Irish snoozing.
30:49
You know, there was a, there was a time- just a few years ago where Stanford- Be quiet came to South Bend.
30:55
Big underdogs.
30:56
You know, so...
30:57
I mean, what do you think, Gabrielle?
30:58
What do you, what do you, what do you, what do you think is going- Yeah through the coaching staff's mind?
31:00
Let's, I think they're just trying to relive...
31:02
What was that year again?
31:04
Well, I don't wanna talk about it.
31:05
Not too, too long ago.
31:06
2023?
31:07
Or are you talking about the- 2022 the Harbaugh- Yeah the Harbaugh era?
31:10
How many games had they lost before that?
31:13
They were on quite a losing streak.
31:16
11 games, 11-game losing streak, and then what was the final score in that game?
31:20
I don't wanna talk about it.
31:21
I think it was, like, 17 to 14, right?
31:23
I don't wanna talk about it.
31:24
17 to 14, yep.
31:25
Stanford.
31:26
I don't wanna talk about it.
31:27
It's possible, people.
31:29
That might have been my worst experience in Notre Dame Stadium, ever.
31:34
It was cold, it was rainy, and it was awful football.
31:39
It was terrible.
31:40
Hey, but your cousins were happy.
31:42
I don't care.
31:43
It was awful.
31:46
You're right.
31:47
You're right.
31:48
Well, yep.
31:49
And then on the other end of the spectrum, I think there's a real chance for a shutout.
31:54
So I'm gonna ask, ask you, Matthew, but I'm gonna ask the boys this.
32:00
So true or false, did Notre Dame have a two-game shutout or more, when your mom and dad were in school?
32:08
No.
32:10
False.
32:11
False.
32:12
False.
32:13
True.
32:14
True.
32:14
True.
32:15
Most recent one was 2002, but back in 1996- Against Rutgers and Purdue.
32:25
Wow.
32:26
Mm.
32:26
Mm.
32:26
That Rutgers game would've been my last home game- As a senior.
32:31
Oh.
32:31
And I remember that.
32:32
Yeah.
32:32
Wow.
32:33
Yeah.
32:34
Okay.
32:34
I wonder why I don't remember it.
32:37
It's possible.
32:37
They could be on their way.
32:37
When, when was, when was, uh, Stanford's last shutout?
32:42
When was that?
32:42
No, we don't talk about that.
32:43
Under Harbaugh.
32:44
Look, guys, under Harbaugh- Yeah, the...
32:46
I watched the Iowa CMC highlights.
32:49
Yeah.
32:49
No, no, no, I'm actually interested.
32:50
It- When was, when was Stanford's last shutout?
32:52
Let's talk about where this rivalry is.
32:54
Yes, in the past 16 years, where are we at here?
33:00
Rob, what do you think it is?
33:00
Let me think about this I'm guessing it's 10-6 Irish in the last 16 games.
33:06
I think it's 12-4.
33:08
I think it's 9-7 Irish I think it's 11 to 5 Irish.
33:15
Of course you do, William.
33:19
What is it?
33:21
It's 8-8.
33:22
8-8.
33:23
Really?
33:23
Ooh.
33:23
Over the last 16 years.
33:25
That's, that's wild.
33:26
Yeah.
33:26
That's interesting.
33:28
Yeah.
33:29
Yeah.
33:29
Well, boy, Gabrielle, thank you for doing your homework,'cause I was planning to just show up here.
33:34
Like, my main question is, do you think that they'll go running clock in this game?
33:42
Whip out the high school rules.
33:44
Yeah.
33:45
Will there be a fourth quarter?
33:46
I mean, I, I don't know.
33:47
Oh.
33:47
There might not.
33:48
We were just saying how I think it's awful that all this conference realignment's just ridiculous, right?
33:55
But- You guys shouldn't be in the ACC.
33:57
Yeah.
33:57
I don't know what you guys are doing.
33:58
It's the Atlantic Coast Conference, not the- Yeah, Stanford goes out to Wake.
34:02
Was it a 3:30 kick?
34:04
I don't even know.
34:04
Was it a noon kick?
34:05
I don't know.
34:06
I don't know.
34:07
So they go all the way out to Wake.
34:08
They play Wake.
34:09
They fly back home, and now they gotta come back out to the Midwest.
34:12
Yeah.
34:12
Yeah.
34:12
No one knows what time it is.
34:15
This is insane.
34:16
It's insane.
34:16
I think it does work both ways.
34:18
I'll say I don't know what your take on this is, Gabrielle, but didn't, didn't Georgia Tech get a little case of up past our bedtime-itis last, last week?
34:27
Did you see that game?
34:27
Well, I, I, I would've liked that to have been the case, but what I read actually happens, they, they had eight injured players, at least eight.
34:34
Like- Tech did?
34:35
could be potentially affected.
34:36
But yeah.
34:36
I was trying to make the case for myself that Stanford's not due for a shutout here, um, after- You guys are- yesterday let's do score predictions real quick.
34:47
We'll, we'll do score predictions.
34:48
I'd love Stanford to be good.
34:50
Right.
34:50
Another- Hold on a second.
34:51
Hold on.
34:51
Oh, thank you, William.
34:53
I don't.
34:54
Stanford's really good about overall athletics.
34:57
Yeah, I was at- Yes, we are.
34:58
William, you'll appreciate this one.
35:00
Mm-hmm.
35:00
I was, I was at this event.
35:01
I, I know Gabrielle will definitely appreciate this.
35:03
I was at this Stanford did this event in Atlanta, a couple weeks ago.
35:06
The new president, coming out to the different metropolitan areas and engaging with alumni.
35:11
It's called Open Minds.
35:12
Hmm.
35:13
They did it at the High Museum.
35:14
It was actually a really cool event.
35:15
Nice.
35:15
They had some professors come out and talk about different topics.
35:18
It was actually really- Hmm fun for nerds like myself.
35:21
But one of the Q&A from the audience, you know, after, after they asked all the Trump questions, one of the Q&A questions- was,"Hey, uh, what's going on with the football team?" And I think the president handled it really well.
35:35
He was"You know," at, at that point at least, the entire athletic department had only lost one game all fall.
35:42
Hmm.
35:42
And it was the football team.
35:43
He's like,"You know, you're asking the wrong question, guys." That was his first deflection.
35:46
Mm-hmm.
35:47
And then his second deflection was,"I would like to talk about where our football program's gonna be two to three years from now." So I think that's nice.
35:54
Still garbage.
35:57
You know, I think- Still garbage I think that's what we stick with I, if you- I think it depends how much money they wanna put into the sport.
36:03
I think that's all, that's all it depends.
36:05
The university clearly has the money to devote to it.
36:08
It- And they've got alumni who they can call on.
36:10
If you clean dog poop, it's still dog poop.
36:13
It's not gonna be- any different.
36:15
It's just gonna look better and still smell the same, so.
36:18
Hey, guys, I You don't remember those Harbaugh teams.
36:21
Calvin, why don't you want Stanford to succeed?
36:23
Yeah.
36:23
It'd be nice to have another- Because they're our rivals.
36:26
It'd be nice to have another- Oh, man academically- Yeah, bro, we- Wait, wait they still think of them as rivals.
36:31
I thought they were about to drop us from their schedule.
36:36
Yeah, just like you did USC?
36:38
Oh my God.
36:39
Oh my gosh.
36:40
I thought that's the one thing that all of us could unite on.
36:43
Oh, I'm not keeping the Stanford family going.
36:45
I feel like I'm being@'d, Calvin.
36:46
How dare you?
36:49
USC.
36:51
Come on.
36:52
What, how did my- What'd you do?
36:52
No, Cal, Cal, Cal, Cal, don't say it.
36:55
Don't say it.
36:56
Calvin, I think that's a great research question, though,'cause it w- it was William that said we just gotta decide to spend some money on football, right?
37:03
Yeah.
37:04
Mm-hmm.
37:04
Yeah, so Calvin, y- that might be a good follow-up, or maybe you can even do it live, is if you could just poll what is Notre Dame spending on football and what is Stanford spending on football?
37:14
I know Notre Dame has close to a 40 million roster right now.
37:19
I know that right now.
37:20
Yeah, The Athletic did an article on this a couple weeks ago, and I can't remember where Stanford was.
37:23
Oh, yeah.
37:24
Yeah.
37:24
Yeah.
37:25
Stanford- Because they were, they were so far down the page- that you didn't, you didn't make it that far down Wait, 40 million- They were definitely, yeah, left corner quadrant 40 million on the entire roster?
37:34
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
37:35
We spend, like, 40 million.
37:35
What was the top one, 100 mil?
37:37
No.
37:38
No.
37:38
No, no, no, no, no.
37:39
Like- It's, like, 45, 50.
37:41
There's- And what was it, Oregon?
37:43
No.
37:44
It might've been, like, USC or something.
37:46
No.
37:46
No, no, no.
37:47
No, USC.
37:47
It was, uh I think it was, like, LSU.
37:49
This is bad radio, by the way.
37:51
Um- It's gotta be LSU.
37:52
Yeah, I think it was LSU.
37:53
Yeah.
37:54
LSU or Ohio State, you know.
37:57
Can we talk about some other fun Stanford things?
37:59
Gabrielle, you got some Stanford knowledge you wanna share?
38:03
I do.
38:04
Guys, what do you know about the Stanford band?
38:10
Nothing.
38:11
Here we go.
38:13
Nothing.
38:15
Okay.
38:15
So you can't explain to me why the Stanford band will not be allowed to be in the Notre Dame stadium- Did they like- this Saturday?
38:24
Did they play Tribute to Troy against us one time and we just kicked them out or something?
38:29
What'd they do?
38:30
Oh, did they play during the alma mater?
38:33
No.
38:33
No.
38:34
It's even better.
38:35
Nope.
38:36
Oh.
38:36
So- Paint the, paint the picture this did not get them banned.
38:39
This did not get them banned, but in the early'90s the Stanford band leader, drum leader wore a nun's costume- and conducted things holding a crucifix.
38:53
Rob was there probably.
38:55
I was.
38:56
If I remember correctly, they had some people dressed up as cardinals as well, like church cardinals.
39:02
Which, yes.
39:06
But- And guys, this was a, like this is the Stanford band.
39:09
This is what they do.
39:09
When they played East Carolina at the Liberty Bowl- when I was in high school- Uh-huh and the whole halftime show was about how East Carolina was the 51st state.
39:21
And they were dest- they were destroyed in the Civil War.
39:26
And that's the reason we have 50 states as opposed to 51.
39:30
So this is, this is the Stanford band.
39:32
All right.
39:32
Sorry, continue.
39:33
Yeah.
39:33
And so yes, just yes, to give you a little more context, they are not a typical marching band that goes around doing things in formation.
39:40
That is not important.
39:41
They're what you'd call a scatter band, so they love to be irreverent and focus on satire.
39:46
So they tried a, another tactic in the 1997 game when I was at school.
39:51
I think they were visiting Notre Dame.
39:54
And this one was the famous one called, These Irish, Why Must You Fight?
40:05
So I just wanted, before I tell you what happened during that, guys, why are you the Fighting Irish?
40:11
Um, because some random dude from Ireland came over and he was like,"Fighting Irish." Like that's perfect name.
40:19
He founded the university based on, um, Catholic- No, it was- culture, right?
40:23
two f- two French priests founded the university.
40:25
Two French priests.
40:26
Founded the university.
40:27
Huh.
40:27
Well, bonjour.
40:29
Why are we the Fighting Irish, Gabrielle?
40:31
I thought you guys were gonna say, because you're brave and take on challenges and you don't give up.
40:37
Mm.
40:37
Right?
40:37
Mm-hmm.
40:38
'Cause we love potatoes and we drink beer.
40:42
So interestingly enough, and I'm gonna have to be careful here, this was a negative stereotype about the Irish, right?
40:49
That they were drunkards, and they would get into fights.
40:52
Mm-hmm.
40:53
Right?
40:53
So they took this narra- negative stereotype about the Irish people, and Notre Dame pointed, said,"Fine, you're gonna have that?
41:01
We're gonna, we're gonna take it and make it into a positive thing." So they fully embraced it, and now we think of Fighting Irish, and we only think of it as a positive thing.
41:09
The Stanford Band was just trying to bring to attention that, this whole journey of co-opting the negative stereotype.
41:18
That's all they were doing, just trying to make a, a really good point there about history.
41:22
What...
41:23
Wasn't the halftime show based on, like, the potato famine?
41:27
Or di- didn't they also have some priests doing some non-priesty things?
41:33
They brought everything, everything into that show.
41:34
Yeah.
41:34
Yeah.
41:34
They brought it all, okay.
41:35
Yeah.
41:35
Oh, oh, that was all one show?
41:38
Yeah.
41:38
I remember them saying something- Usually it's spread out over a few years.
41:41
Yeah.
41:41
I remember them saying something like,"The only thing that the Irish are good for are starving." It was, it was awesome satire.
41:52
It's like- It was satire they...
41:54
Yeah, it was satire.
41:54
Can we just...
41:55
Can we joke about some stuff?
41:56
So'97 was the last time the band went to South Bend, Gabrielle?
42:00
Mm-hmm.
42:01
Yeah.
42:01
That would be another good trivia question.
42:02
I, actually, it was the, it was the game, was the g- I think the game was at Stanford.
42:06
I think I said it was at Notre Dame.
42:07
But anyways, the, the president got involved, the athletic director, they had to apologize, and ever since Stanford Band has been banned, so including when I went to swim there my senior year in 2000.
42:21
No band and no band since.
42:24
Nice.
42:25
No.
42:26
Yeah.
42:26
Can you guys name every place that the Stanford Band is banned from?
42:32
This bed is not long enough.
42:34
I'm pretty sure the State of Oregon is on the list.
42:37
I'm pretty sure United Airlines is on the list.
42:40
I'm pretty sure Disneyland's on the list.
42:43
I would have to go look it up to, to get current.
42:45
But yeah, okay.
42:46
All right, so our band is undefeated.
42:48
Yes.
42:49
Nice.
42:49
Yeah.
42:49
Yes.
42:50
I love the band.
42:51
The band's fantastic.
42:52
All right.
42:53
All right, guys, let's get into some scores.
42:54
Who wants to go first on scores?
42:56
I'll go first.
42:57
I'll go first.
42:57
Oh, yeah, you're gonna lead this off?
42:59
No, I'll go...
42:59
Make it so simple.
43:01
56 to six.
43:03
It's gonna be a 50-point blowout.
43:05
I'm gonna...
43:06
You guys might score a touchdown, and then you'll get blocked or you'll try to go for two or something and you'll just get denied.
43:15
All right.
43:16
Yeah.
43:16
All right.
43:17
William, you have a score prediction?
43:20
54 to 10.
43:21
54-10, okay.
43:23
Whoa.
43:24
That's a lot of points there, William.
43:27
Uncle Rob, what do you, who do you got?
43:29
Well, Vegas has us as 36 and a half point dogs, I believe, which I think is I just don't think there's anyone even close to that.
43:38
I'm not sure if there's even a 20-point spread on any- Mm of the games other than that.
43:41
So like between Vegas and the boys, I really, you know, I can't say 80 to nothing.
43:46
Like, th- that's just not fun, right?
43:48
So- I'll go, I'll g- I'll go with the very brave prediction of Irish 34, Cardinal 13.
43:55
34, okay.
43:56
That's not bad.
43:57
Yeah.
43:57
Wow.
43:58
What do you mean that's not bad?
43:59
That's- That's not awful.
44:00
I hear you.
44:01
He, uh- We would consider that to be one of the greatest- He's gotta be a little biased.
44:03
He's gotta be a little bit biased blows.
44:04
He's gotta think that our offense is gonna stop.
44:07
All right.
44:07
Well, was that wrong?
44:09
No, I'm just saying like, I think your third string against our starters, we can score 13 points.
44:14
So.
44:15
That's, that's fair.
44:16
That's fair.
44:17
That is completely fair.
44:17
That's fair.
44:18
Yeah.
44:18
Oh, see, this is why he went to Stanford.
44:20
He's thinking about all these different permutations.
44:22
Mm-hmm.
44:23
All right.
44:24
Gabriella.
44:26
What do you got?
44:27
Okay.
44:28
I'm big fans of your podcast.
44:30
I listen every week and know a lot more about Notre Dame football now than Stanford football, and I'm just convinced, Calvin, that your defense is something just insurmountable.
44:42
So I'm gonna go with Irish 49, Stanford 3.
44:49
Oh, wow.
44:49
Ooh.
44:50
And I'm gonna call it a big win for Stanford for not having a- Oh, yeah shutout.
44:55
Yeah.
44:55
I like that.
44:56
Yeah.
44:56
You, you have me convinced, Calvin.
44:58
Yep.
45:00
All right.
45:01
You've already gone, William?
45:02
I already went.
45:03
What is yours?
45:04
Yeah, he went- I'm, I'm not telling you'cause you're gonna lowball me.
45:06
No, He likes to do that to me.
45:08
I've been the one who's been overzealous the last couple weeks.
45:10
Okay.
45:11
So let's hear it.
45:12
And I think I'm gonna be overzealous again.
45:15
I think it's gonna be 52 to 0.
45:19
I'm just gonna- So, so Freeman's not bringing in the, the walk-ons is what you're saying.
45:27
I think they're gonna bring in the walk-ons.
45:28
I think these guys are gonna get crushed at practice this week- Yeah after this last weekend.
45:35
So I don't know what to say.
45:38
This is a...
45:39
William, before the, the last several calls, William's been the aggressive one.
45:43
I know I've been super aggressive.
45:45
So- Mm maybe I'm just trying to manifest.
45:48
But I'm winning right now.
45:50
Anything else, guys?
45:51
I've missed a couple of the podcasts, so I didn't, I have not had a chance to hear the Rever- like, who's, who's been your most popular guest picker so- Well, well, Bebe, Bebe two minutes in of him talking started talking about slavery.
46:05
So I said the wrong name of the stadium.
46:07
He goes,"No, no, no.
46:08
It's, it's, like, Joseph Keenan Stadium." He goes,"Named after a notorious slave owner." I'm like,"And we're off." Here we go.
46:19
No, one of my, one of my good friends, BJ, out in Seattle, they listen, and his wife listens very religiously.
46:26
Shout out to you, Honey.
46:28
She texted us this week.
46:29
She's like,"You gotta make sure that Bebe is on every week.
46:34
He rocks." So he got a lot of fans.
46:38
And then afterwards he was like,"Hey, if you guys wanna have me on again, I'd love to be on again." He loved it.
46:44
Yeah.
46:44
He had a good time.
46:45
And he was great.
46:46
That's good.
46:46
Yeah.
46:47
I gave him my wildcard game ball this week.
46:49
He, he might be your Stanford Steve.
46:51
Exactly.
46:52
Exactly.
46:53
Yeah.
46:53
Yeah.
46:54
He's awesome.
46:55
Nice.
46:55
So I'm sure we'll get, you know, everybody wanting to get you guys on for Suspect- Right.
47:00
Suspect Parts.
47:03
The band Historians.
47:04
The band Historians.
47:06
Hey, don't forget to tell- Gabrielle, true or false, you must be able to play at least one musical instrument to be in the Stanford band?
47:14
Ask the guys.
47:16
Is that true?
47:18
No.
47:19
Nope.
47:19
Do you have to be able to play any band, any musical instrument?
47:22
No.
47:22
You can play the kazoo?
47:24
No.
47:25
No.
47:25
I mean, no.
47:26
You can play nothing.
47:26
Nothing.
47:27
You can just act.
47:28
You can play nothing.
47:29
Are you serious?
47:29
You can dance.
47:30
Oh, okay.
47:31
Dead serious.
47:32
Stanford.
47:33
Dance.
47:33
That's very cool.
47:33
Write, write really funny jokes.
47:35
Just know how to scatter.
47:36
You gotta know how to scatter.
47:38
Yeah.
47:39
Yeah.
47:39
Who knew that I was sending- And then- you to the high school version of Stanford?
47:49
Calvin and William, I d- I, I'm letting you off easy though,'cause we didn't talk about all the ranked teams that you guys have beaten so far to earn the number three ranking in the country.
47:59
Come on.
48:01
Cal, I'm gonna tell you, Gabrielle and I were actually planning to try to take over this whole Domer cast- and just, just, like convert your whole fan base to be Cardinal fans.
48:10
Like, our game plan, we were gonna come in swinging, and then the Wake Forest game happened- Yeah, yeah and, like, this is us waving the white flag.
48:18
Mm-hmm.
48:19
I mean, at this point we just, we just have to agree with you.
48:21
Yeah, I, I actually thought- We should yeah.
48:23
Ah, man.
48:24
And then- Yeah.
48:27
I was tell, I was giving these guys a little bit of- You haven't thought this through, have you?
48:29
Yeah.
48:29
I, I root for Stanford every game besides this game.
48:33
And it's- Even NC State Stanford?
48:36
Uh...
48:37
I think NC State Stanford- Yeah, even NC State Stanford.
48:40
Aw.
48:40
Robert, do, do you root for NC State if Stanford plays them or no?
48:44
Be honest.
48:46
Hmm.
48:48
Probably not, but I, you know, I'm finally reaching a point where I don't care a whole lot about college athletics,'cause I've just had my heart broken.
48:55
You know, NC State plus Stanford as your rooting interests.
48:59
I mean, there's only so much a man's heart can take.
49:03
It's like being an Atlanta sports fan.
49:07
Yeah.
49:07
Is it?
49:08
It is.
49:08
Yeah.
49:09
Yeah, it is.
49:11
Well, Stanford, they throw some money at this.
49:14
I think they're gonna be okay.
49:16
That's a great piece of insider information on the Stanford president.
49:21
Yeah.
49:22
Yeah.
49:22
Yeah.
49:22
Yeah.
49:23
Yeah.
49:23
They get that payroll up.
49:26
You have somebody looking at Stanford, someone looking at Notre Dame.
49:29
You do that at the right time of year, it's hard to turn down palm trees- Yeah and a beautiful football stadium.
49:38
Palo Alto is nice most of the time.
49:40
I mean, it wasn't that long ago.
49:43
Yeah.
49:43
It wasn't.
49:43
Yeah.
49:44
Yeah.
49:45
Yeah.
49:45
Yeah.
49:45
10 years ago.
49:47
They were dominant, so.
49:49
I mean, I think we averaged 11 wins over that, like a six-year period or something like that.
49:55
They used to, like, brutalize us.
49:55
And may not have had a below 11 wins since.
49:57
Yeah.
49:58
They, like, out-Notre Dame-ed that.
49:59
Like, their offensive and defensive lines were- I know elite.
50:03
They were good.
50:04
You know, and then they threw in some good skill players, and always, always good tight ends.
50:09
Always.
50:10
Yeah.
50:11
It's good stuff.
50:12
A lot of tight ends.
50:13
And then, you know, every now and then, like an Andrew Luck or somebody.
50:15
Yeah.
50:15
And then you got, you got a football team.
50:17
All right, crew.
50:19
Hey, thank you.
50:21
Really appreciate you all Thank you for the invite.
50:23
Enjoyed it.
50:23
Good seeing you, Gabrielle.
50:24
Yeah, thanks.
50:25
Great seeing you all.
50:26
Love the pod- Mm-hmm podcast.
50:28
It's been fun cheering for you.
50:30
I'm excited for your season, I really, really am.
50:32
William, thanks for your extra support of Stanford, or, like, a little support- Yeah, yeah of Lake Tahoe.
50:36
For sure.
50:37
For sure.
50:38
And we- And we- Hey, where are the bagpipes gonna be playing, for the, for the championship?
50:41
Where, where- We're in Vegas.
50:43
So we've already got our hotel rooms at the Venetian.
50:47
Okay.
50:47
So, maybe we can just get them to hop on a bus with us wherever the Vegas stadium is.
50:53
You guys are g- you're gonna go through a lot of ice luges in Vegas.
50:56
Oh.
50:57
That's all I can say.
50:57
Man.
50:57
You're gonna need more than one.
50:57
Yeah.
50:58
Oh, yeah.
50:59
I, I just, I dream of Vegas ice luges right now.
51:06
Good stuff.
51:07
Good stuff.
51:08
All right, y'all, thank you very, very much.
51:10
Bye.
51:11
Okay.
51:11
Love to you both.
51:12
Thank you.
51:12
Bye.
51:12
Say love to everybody.
51:13
All right?
51:14
Bye.
51:14
Bye.
51:14
See you guys.
51:15
Lots of love.
51:15
Lots of love.
51:16
Bye.
51:16
Good luck.
51:17
Thanks.
51:19
What a special treat, guys.
51:21
Yeah.
51:21
Thanks Uncle Rob and Gabriel.
51:24
Yeah.
51:25
Dropping the knowledge.
51:26
You guys, I never told you the story about the Stanford band?
51:29
No.
51:29
Oh, that's a major dad fail.
51:31
Yep.
51:32
Norwin.
51:33
Yeah.
51:34
I was really surprised.
51:34
That's funny.
51:35
Yeah, it's really funny.
51:36
Makes, makes me like him more.
51:37
Oh, 100%.
51:38
Those guys are really funny guys.
51:40
All right.
51:41
Starting 11, just to recap where we are.
51:45
Here, six pods in, Cal, you've got one win.
51:51
We've all got one.
51:53
William technically has two, I guess.
51:55
I have two.
51:56
I think we, we yeah, we let that fly.
51:58
Anyways, just refresh rules of the game.
52:01
Yeah.
52:01
Two of us select a player on the one or two deep, and the third person has 11 tries or 11 questions to guess who this person is.
52:15
And, this week is me,'cause William, you, you did a great job last week.
52:20
I think you got it in four or five.
52:21
Yeah.
52:22
Four.
52:22
Five.
52:23
Four or five.
52:24
Who was it last week?
52:24
Five.
52:25
Who, who'd you pick?
52:26
It was, the backup quarterback.
52:28
It was Blake Huber.
52:29
Yeah, it was Blake Huber.
52:30
Yeah.
52:30
All right.
52:31
So I guess that's me.
52:32
I get to start guessing.
52:33
Is this player on offense?
52:38
No.
52:38
Yes.
52:39
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
52:40
Oh, yes, yes, yes.
52:41
Sorry.
52:41
Sorry Yes.
52:42
That's one.
52:43
Okay.
52:45
Does this player play on the line as a non-receiving player?
52:56
Yes.
52:57
Yes.
53:00
That includes quarterbacks Is this player's primary position an interior lineman?
53:07
Yes.
53:07
Yes.
53:08
So how many is that?
53:10
That's four or five.
53:11
No.
53:11
Yes.
53:12
It's four.
53:13
Offense.
53:15
Offense, line- Interior interior.
53:18
That's three.
53:19
It's four.
53:22
Okay.
53:23
Is this player a starter?
53:30
No.
53:31
Is this player Devin Houston?
53:34
Yes All right.
53:36
Yeah.
53:36
That's- I think after this week- that's six we should do a, a new depth chart.
53:40
A new depth chart- Yeah or a new, new something.
53:42
Okay.
53:42
All right.
53:43
Hey.
53:43
Well, we can- Yeah.
53:44
Props to Dad.
53:45
Props to Dad.
53:45
Props to Dad.
53:46
That was good.
53:48
Yeah.
53:48
Thank you.
53:49
Yeah.
53:49
Appreciate it.
53:50
Yeah.
53:50
All right, guys.
53:51
Well, week six in the books, for our pod.
53:56
Irish are 5 and 0, heading back home.
53:59
First time in Marcus Freeman's career.
54:01
Yeah, playing Stanford.
54:03
Hey, Cal?
54:04
Yeah.
54:05
You and I are going to the game.
54:07
Yeah, we are.
54:09
Yeah.
54:10
William's gotta stay back home.
54:12
He's got some soccer stuff he has to attend to.
54:15
His sister's coming back home for a little short break from Fordham, so he gets to have a good time.
54:21
Decatur Porchfest, which is always lovely, going on.
54:25
You're gonna have a great time.
54:27
Cal?
54:28
We're gonna have an amazing time.
54:30
You and I, we're gonna go check it out.
54:32
We'll be back next week.
54:34
Just to tease next week's episode, which will be the BYU preview, special guests Elizabeth Rice, Liz Rice, and Ry Beville, two of my teammates from Notre Dame.
54:49
And the reason they're coming on the podcast is the very first swim meets as freshmen that the three of us swam was an away meet against BYU and Utah.
55:03
Did you guys lose?
55:04
Well, that's a spoiler.
55:05
I'm not gonna spoil it.
55:06
We'll just tease it.
55:08
So BYU was our very, very first meet together as teammates.
55:13
We'll recap the Stanford game, And hand out some balls and look forward to an off week, or a bye week thereafter.
55:23
All right?
55:23
Yeah.
55:24
Yep.
55:24
Hey, thanks, guys.
55:25
Yeah, of course.
55:26
Yeah.
55:26
That's it for this week.
55:28
Thanks for listening, and go Irish.