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Ep. 8 - The Exisistential Crisis Episode aka BYU Recap · Domer & Sons

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  Welcome back to another episode of Domer and Sons.
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  It's a family podcast on Notre Dame football.
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  I'm Calvin Rose, the son of prestigious swimmer Matthew Rose- Ah and the older brother of William Rose.
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  It is Thursday, October 22nd, and this is episode eight of this 2026-27 Notre Dame football season.
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  It's our BYU review and nothing else.
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  It's gonna be pretty short, but we have a lot to say- Yeah to say the least.
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  Um- Thanks for the intro.
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  Of course.
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  Of course.
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  How are you doing?
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  I'm doing good.
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  How about y'all?
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  I'm doing better than I was on Saturday night.
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  How about you, William?
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  How are you doing?
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  I'm still recovering, but I'm getting better.
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  Yeah.
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  Better and better each day.
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  I gotta make sure that people know that, one Regina Rose, my mother, is actually in the recording studio right now.
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  You wanna say something, Mom?
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  Say hello.
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  Hello.
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  I love Notre Dame.
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  I love it.
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  Well done.
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  Well done.
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  Yeah.
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  Um- All right, so guys, we're recording on Thursday.
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  We're recording five days after the BYU game?
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  Yeah.
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  Five?
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  Yeah.
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  So let's just go ahead and- Let's- rip off the Band-Aid and get into it.
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  Yeah.
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  Tal, let's get into some offense here.
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  Look, we had 21 carries between Jonas and, Nolan James nolan James Jr.
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  had a great...
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  A good game.
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  I'm not gonna say great, obviously, but he had a good game.
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  Jonas, he didn't get the ball enough, and Aeneas didn't do anything at all.
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  I...
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  We ran the ball 30 times, which is something that I don't think we do some- I think we're into close to 40 sometimes.
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  Well, I think the distribution somewhere, if we've got 70 plays, it's usually pretty evenly distributed- Yes between pass and run.
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  So- But- 30 isn't abnormal then we had 49 passes attempted, and CJ Carr didn't do great.
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  Shout-out to Jayden Greathouse.
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  He had a good game, but- A good game?
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  He had a great game.
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  He had a great game, but it's the fact that our offense played okay.
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  It wasn't anything special.
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  Dude, talk about the coaches.
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  Talk about the play calling.
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  Well- It's the, it's the re- That's what I'm gonna get into it's, it's red zone.
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  It's red zone.
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  Let's be, let's be honest.
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  It's red zone.
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  It's red zone.
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  It's, um, immaturity almost.
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  I think the CJ Carr thing, goal line, the fumble where you spike the ball and it didn't really- Didn't have possession.
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  Yeah, it's, it's something that's so stupid and that should just never happen, and I don't know why it happened, but, you know, it will happen sometimes.
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  Jack Larson, he played well.
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  I don't...
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  Again, nothing spectacular.
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  Micah Gilbert, asides from that one-handed catch, he did some things good but not a lot.
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  And then Faison did good, but, CJ Carr was pretty inefficient this game, and you could see it on display.
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  He looked nervous.
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  He wasn't as accurate as we've seen him be.
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  The seam play, first drive, Jordan Faison wide open in the seam, and he just overthrew it by a mile.
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  It's just things that we just haven't seen in- I'm just also not impressed with the play calling as well.
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  But to be honest, I don't have a lot of words for the offense.
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  It's mainly for the defense.
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  Like, my biggest concerns are for the defense, but I'm gonna let William do it.
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  Calvin, talk about Mike Denbrock.
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  Mike Denbrock, he played the game, I don't wanna say conservative, but he didn't play very smart either.
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  I just- It was very vanilla.
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  It was.
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  You know, like- There's nothing special there's nothing, there's nothing that we showed BYU that we haven't showed everyone else.
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  And it was almost as if we went in entitled.
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  Yeah.
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  Like, we were gonna win this game just by being who we are.
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  And- And I think if you play a clean football game- We do we probably win that game- It's- by being who we are, but we didn't- Yeah play a clean football game and and yeah, it was vanilla.
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  You know, we didn't play a clean football game and CJ Carr, the thing, he's throwing triple coverage slot fades to the tight ends, to the wide receivers.
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  Denbrock doesn't call a great game.
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  He just calls something basic and I think- Or, l- look, i- it's easy to go after Denbrock.
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  I think the, the vanilla play calling is absolutely on him, but CJ was doing stuff that we hadn't seen him do for the prior six games- Yeah which was these, uh, these slot fades- He's not that we throw to tight ends.
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  And speaking of which, our best tight end, Cooper Flanagan, was not playing because of an injured hamstring.
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  So all of a sudden we're gonna start chucking it around slot fades to our tight ends?
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  It's just, it was, it was weird.
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  It doesn't make sense in a way.
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  And, you know, I'm not trying...
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  It's something that just is annoying and we try not to hate on them because it's a tough game.
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  But, we didn't play to our best ability- No at all.
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  And our best, our best game, I think we win this by one score, but I'm just not impressed.
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  I don't think we were very good on third down.
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  Yeah, we were 8 for 19.
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  And our, like, we did good on fourth down, four for four, but that doesn't mean anything.
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  Our offense did good, but, 5.3 yards per pass, that's not very good, and 3.8, yards per rush.
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  I, I don't have a lot to say about our offensive performance, but, yeah.
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  No, if you're, if you're gonna get over 70 snaps in a game, you're probably winning that game just be- with the way football's played, especially the way...
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  We don't play up-tempo.
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  BYU doesn't play up-tempo.
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  70 some odd, plays in the game, we should be able to win this game handily.
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  But again, when you are as inefficient as we were in the red zone, and if you just push out the red zone to the 30-yard line, we're even worse.
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  I think the worst sequence for us, which was kind of the nail in the coffin in the sense of it kept the door open, was when Sanders intercepts the ball, we have the ball on our 24 and we not only go three and out, but we lose yardage.
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  'Cause we call a quarterback draw- Well, as- instead of running the ball the first, we did run the ball on the first play, but kudos- But- to BYU.
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  The linebacker came around the edge and got James.
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  And then we called the screen the second play, and that's just not a good thing if I'm- No, no.
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  We called the screen the last play.
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  It was a quarterback draw with CJ on the second.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, it's- It's, it's just like, it, it, it, again, CJ against Wisconsin when the wide receivers had a seven, eight-yard cushion, he was just taking what the defense gave him.
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  But this game, he was forcing stuff, and, it was so out of character.
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  It's unsettling.
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  Even five days later, it's still unsettling as we verbalize all this.
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  William, what was your most fru- frus- I mean, what was the thing you were most frustrated with on offense?
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  Just the play calling, you know?
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  If it's second and eight, don't throw like a short route.
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  Maybe run the ball.
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  Nolan James was averaging four or five yards a carry.
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  Run the ball.
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  Go for it on a shorter third and two, third and three.
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  And also here four for four on fourth downs, so we have the ability- To convert to, to run the ball fr- on second and third down.
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  Yeah.
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  Again, we showed especially in the second quarter an ability to run the ball on a very strong defensive line.
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  So guys, it's frustrating.
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  376 yards total offense for Notre Dame.
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  261 passing from CJ, 27 of 49, which is not great.
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  His yards per pass 5.3, and that was mostly because again, the incompletions.
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  Flat out he got outplayed by his counterpart.
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  It's a little bit concerning when you look at the games he's played against top 20 opponents and his output.
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  Now granted, this is his first top 20 game in the first full year as a starter, so we'll give him that.
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  Um, but you know- His second full year.
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  Or first...
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  Oh, I'm sorry, second full year.
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  Thank you.
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  If we're gonna beat Miami, which at this point in time seems like- We have to the only way we're gonna make the playoff, if we're gonna beat Miami, we have to be significantly better than we were against BYU.
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  Yeah.
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  Not, not a little bit better, significantly better.
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  And say what you want about the last play of the game, PI, one second left, but that's not the play call.
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  It's not the throw that we should have had, to be honest.
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  I- No.
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  The glance play that we did against Georgia and Indiana, what you called the Notre Dame special, where they basically do that crossing route, right?
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  They were blitzing their linebackers.
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  It's straight man on man.
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  Jordan Faizon had to come out of the game on the last play'cause he was so tired.
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  No, it wasn't, he wasn't, he was a decoy.
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  I mean, your best receiver is a decoy on the last play.
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  And he's so tired.
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  He...
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  And he's a competitor.
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  He's, he's very well-conditioned.
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  If he gets tired and he becomes a decoy, there has to be something wrong.
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  Yeah.
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  And so let's get into that really quickly before we go on to defense.
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  The personnel usage on offense was pretty abhorrent as well.
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  We had three receivers play 77, I think there were 79 total snaps on offense.
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  I think Faison came out for one or two plays.
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  Gilbert came out for one or two plays.
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  Greathouse came out for one or two plays.
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  Mylan Graham came in only because Faison needed a blow, um,'cause he was so wiped out.
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  Pause.
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  Mega pause.
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  But- So anyways, let's not get into the whole Jonazz Walton thing.
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  He stands up the m- the middle linebacker on his touchdown run.
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  Literally stands the guy up.
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  This 18-year-old kid stands a guy up.
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  The next series coming out, you just assume that Walton's gonna be the back in the backfield.
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  It was James.
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  I get it.
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  Again, this is- He had a good game, yes, but he's also, like Jonaz needs to get snaps.
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  He needs to get meaningful snaps.
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  He's proven that he is a good running back.
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  He's the breakaway guy.
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  Y'all are, y'all are confusing it.
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  It's not, it's not or, it's and.
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  Yes, it's and.
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  It's not, it's not or.
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  You're absolutely right.
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  It's not or.
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  Also- So yeah, the personnel usage, again, I, just confounding.
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  It makes you question how useful and how important Cooper Flanagan is because before this game it seemed like our tight ends were almost irrelevant in this offense.
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  They were there for blocking and not much for receiving.
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  And then Cooper Flanagan comes out and now something weird happens.
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  Yeah.
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  I don't, I don't get it.
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  I don't know if this is Denbrock.
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  I don't know if this is CJ audibling into different plays.
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  It's just the whole thing's confounding.
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  All right.
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  Look, there are certain bright spots, as in JD Greathouse's good game, Nolan James' good game.
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  Let's end on this positive of this part of the, you know, the recap.
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  Let's go to defense where there's gonna be a lot of negative.
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  Let's get it out of the way.
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  William, defense.
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  So defensively, I think the biggest takeaway here is, one, what were we doing in the first half?
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  21 points is unacceptable.
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  It felt like they were unstoppable.
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  It felt like every third down you were just praying that something crazy happened so we could just get the defense off the field.
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  Eight of 12- Eight of 12 on third down on third down.
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  BYU, who going into the game, I don't know if they were 50%.
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  That is Yeah, no.
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  They were like, they were like 52 maybe.
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  It was terrible.
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  And second, probably the biggest thing, why the hell are you running zones?
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  So much though.
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  Why?
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  Why?
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  Our man coverage, we have the best secondary in the nation.
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  When we were playing them in man, it was actually really efficient and we were playing great defense.
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  I think the only chunk play was that little slant with the 6'6" tight end on DJ McKinnie, but that was a tough catch and it was solid defense.
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  And a good pass by Bear.
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  Yeah.
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  Yes.
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  So we're not blitzing, we're playing zone.
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  Leonard Moore clearly shaken up from Still sh- still- The concussion still shaken up from the concussion.
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  A Don Schuler Now w- when, when you play zone with a guy like Leonard Moore and he's sitting eight yards off the line, you've completely negated this guy's skillset.
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  You've got the best corner in the country, and this is what you choose to do, Chris Ash?
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  It's, it's a choice Yeah.
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  Also K- the KVA, the way he used him was also horrendous.
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  I saw them blitzing him against the center.
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  What are we doing?
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  He wasn't in coverage a lot.
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  He wasn't doing the KVA things.
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  He wasn't tackling behind the line.
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  And honestly, I don't think it's Maybe some of it's on him.
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  I think it's Chris Ash though mostly.
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  What are we doing?
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  We're not using our players.
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  We're not putting Leonard Moore in man coverage.
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  We're not, we're not bringing Shuler down in the box.
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  We're not bringing Talich down in the box.
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  Everything that we talked about in the preview the prior week we did not do.
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  Yes.
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  And also Adon Shuler, you know, our mom mentioned this, he l- something looks wrong with him.
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  He's hurt.
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  He's- It is, is, is clear he's playing hurt and- He's been that way for the last three games.
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  He's not playing- He doesn't look like- with any sort of- a Don Shuler.
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  He doesn't look like- acceleration the heart of the defense basically.
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  He doesn't look like that guy.
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  And it's not good because you see the defense also gets shaken up.
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  And she also said this, is that we're looking to the sideline too much.
• 14:01
  Yeah.
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  It was- It's like- It was the first two and a h- what we saw in that game was the first two and a half games of last year And it was awful Guys not knowing where they're supposed to be and who they're supposed to covering.
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  We can't even sub correctly.
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  It's just, guys, if the play calling or if the scheme is too complex, then what happens is you can't play with any cl- sort of Al G- I'm gonna employ Al Golden's name.
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  Al Golden used to call it clarity.
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  Clarity allows speed.
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  And the team's not playing with any sort of speed because they don't know where they're supposed to be.
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  You saw a lot of miscommunications on third down.
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  Like,"Hey, go get this guy.
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  What are we doing?" You n- honestly, make it simple.
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  Play man.
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  I don't know why we're doing all this fancy shmancy zone stuff.
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  Make it simple.
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  That's your man.
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  Guard him.
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  I'd rather get beat trying to play our best players the way they're supposed to play than to play not to lose.
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  And on both sides of the ball, I think the coordinators chose to play not to lose, but particularly Chris Ash.
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  And Bubacar, that play, you know, that happens but also we still need to get pressure.
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  There still needs to be other things happening.
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  You know, zero sacks isn't very acceptable to say the least.
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  Especially when they're starting a freshman tackle.
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  Yes.
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  And I wanna point back to the USC game last year is- Basically what we did was we run, we ran man most of the game.
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  We blitzed some of our linebackers, and Leonard Moore was on Malachi Lemon, and that's probably, that's probably one of the best wide receiver groups that we've faced in the past couple years.
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  And it was simple, and our defense performed very well And then we get into this game, and what you, you don't need to Littlemore doesn't need to be on the best receiver, but he just has to be playing man with the entire team.
• 16:03
  The linebackers need to blitz a little, maybe even a little safety blitz, a few stunts here and there, and it just doesn't happen.
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  We play zone most of the game, and we get killed, and it's unacceptable.
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  And we think we've taken away Bear Bachmeier's running game.
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  Also, he still had a good amount of, like- He didn't.
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  He really didn't.
• 16:27
  Yeah, we No, he did that well.
• 16:28
  Yeah, he did- We did that well, but then- He had 13 carries for 45 yards.
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  That's acceptable.
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  But- He didn't have a rush longer than six yards.
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  So if the whole point of the game plan was to not allow Bear Bach- Bachmeier to kill you with your legs, then clearly, I mean, what, what William showed me on the extended YouTube clips of the Iowa State game the week before, the, the guy can make throws between five and 12 yards.
• 16:57
  Yeah, but we're making it easy on him.
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  Absolutely.
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  With the soft zones.
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  That's what I'm saying.
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  No one's on him.
• 17:01
  That's exactly what I'm saying.
• 17:02
  Like- And- he's clearly accurate in five to 12 yards and that's what we gave him the entire game- That's what I was about to say with zero pressure.
• 17:09
  You take away his running game, which is obviously his strongest attribute, but he's still a division one quarterback at a high level.
• 17:16
  He's gonna be able to throw the football, and I just don't think that we really game planned very well for his pass, and we were literally just playing to stop the, his run, and we just got burned in the pass.
• 17:29
  It was- I think the simple answer here is we made it really easy on him.
• 17:33
  Yeah.
• 17:33
  Yes.
• 17:33
  You can Look, guys, you can play, you can play press man.
• 17:37
  You can even play zone with robbers to play this kind of offense better, but holy cow, to do what we did, I Amazing.
• 17:49
  I think Drayk Bowen, you know, Drayk Bowen said that BYU did some things that they hadn't seen on tape before.
• 17:58
  But BYU's doing some stuff that they had never shown before, and we're completely lost.
• 18:03
  The misdirection stuff, guys, this is what BYU does.
• 18:07
  And to see how unprepared we were for the misdirection stuff, ooh, boy.
• 18:12
  I don't know.
• 18:13
  I, I, it's Here at the end of the day, guys, the waking up on Sunday morning...
• 18:22
  And it's funny, no one's We're not talking about the PI.
• 18:24
  We're not even talking about the one second,'cause it never should've been that way.
• 18:28
  But- We were talking about this at dinner tonight about existentialism.
• 18:35
  If Chris Ash and Mike Denbrock and the person who's their boss, Marcus Freeman, aren't having an existential moment about the 2026 and hopefully 2027 season after the coach's performance on Saturday then it's gonna be a real short season.
• 19:00
  A real short season.
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  On a positive note.
• 19:05
  On a very positive note special teams were good.
• 19:09
  They were.
• 19:10
  Yeah.
• 19:11
  Porath played well.
• 19:12
  Porath played well.
• 19:14
  Uh, Bubba Frazier hopped on that muffed punt.
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  Talich got that TFL on the very bizarre play call to go for it on a fake punt to b- begin the, uh, the third quarter.
• 19:30
  Um, yeah, it just- I was...
• 19:33
  Yeah.
• 19:34
  The, the special teams were a bright spot so let's, let's- Let's end off there.
• 19:39
  Let's end off there.
• 19:40
  Let's give our game balls.
• 19:41
  Okay.
• 19:42
  Game balls.
• 19:42
  Calvin offense.
• 19:43
  Jayden Greathouse.
• 19:45
  Yeah.
• 19:45
  Eight receptions, 125 yards.
• 19:47
  I can't disagree with that.
• 19:49
  William?
• 19:51
  I got Jayden Greathouse and Ashton Craig.
• 19:56
  Okay.
• 19:57
  Um, I am going to just zag and say Go with James Will Black.
• 20:04
  Oh, okay.
• 20:05
  I thought Will Black played really well.
• 20:07
  Yeah, that's good.
• 20:08
  William.
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  Defense game ball I have two.
• 20:14
  I have Jayden Sanders and Christian Gray.
• 20:19
  Oh.
• 20:20
  Yeah.
• 20:21
  Ooh.
• 20:21
  Well- Christian Gray getting his flowers.
• 20:23
  Yeah.
• 20:23
  Well, I- Uh, one thing we didn't mention is DJ McKinney went to the tent and he looked in pain.
• 20:29
  Yeah.
• 20:29
  I don't know if they released news about that yet but- Yeah, what I've read this week is that they're thinking it's a high ankle sprain, so we can assume he's gonna be out for Miami.
• 20:38
  We might not get him for a while.
• 20:40
  Yeah, man, that's pretty bad.
• 20:41
  And me, my defensive game ball is Luke Talich.
• 20:45
  Same with me.
• 20:46
  Oh, sorry.
• 20:47
  I- I don't care stepped on your game ball.
• 20:49
  I don't care.
• 20:50
  We have the same thing.
• 20:51
  Did I deflate your game ball?
• 20:52
  Nope.
• 20:53
  It was g- Wow gonna be Luke Talich.
• 20:54
  All right.
• 20:55
  But yeah, I mean, he played well.
• 20:59
  He r- got played well.
• 20:59
  Yeah.
• 21:00
  You know?
• 21:00
  I like- Um, my wild card is gonna be two people.
• 21:05
  It's gonna be Mom and William.
• 21:07
  William said the game plan perfectly.
• 21:11
  Couldn't have said it- What we should have done.
• 21:12
  Yeah, what we should have done very well.
• 21:15
  And Mom made some very, very good takes after the game that I just thought were very nice, and during the game as well.
• 21:22
  We'll repeat a couple if you can recall.
• 21:25
  "They're looking to the sideline too much.
• 21:27
  Like, Adon Truitt doesn't look good.
• 21:29
  Um, Chris Ash is playing too conservative.
• 21:33
  Mike Denbrock's playing too conservative.
• 21:34
  Just a lot of this negative stuff, but at the same time I was trying to be positive but, I got very upset at at the end of the first half.
• 21:44
  William, wild card.
• 21:46
  My wild card is the fact that nobody mentioned the one second or PI call, From the staff from, from the staff or any of the players in the post-game.
• 21:56
  Yeah.
• 21:57
  That could've been very bad.
• 21:59
  Yeah.
• 22:00
  Yeah.
• 22:00
  Well, they didn't mention it because to be honest, they didn't- They knew.
• 22:04
  They- They knew Someone on the staff has to know.
• 22:07
  There's gotta be an analyst where that's almost their job.
• 22:10
  And you said it as well, like, we should never have been in that position, but Correct.
• 22:15
  Correct.
• 22:16
  And I'm gonna go completely out of left field for my game ball.
• 22:20
  My game ball goes to Coach Rich Murphy So William and I were up in Knoxville and Nashville this weekend.
• 22:30
  William had a soccer game in both of those cities.
• 22:34
  In the middle of last week, Rich Murphy, my teammate and associate head coach at the University of Tennessee- UT um he reached out to me and said,"Hey, I've got two tickets for you and William for the Tennessee Bama game." William's game ended right around 4:00.
• 22:52
  We drove 30 minutes.
• 22:54
  We got to Neyland right at the end of the first quarter and watched until Tennessee scored the dagger touchdown.
• 23:02
  That place was rocking, 102,000 maniacal Volunteer fans.
• 23:08
  Just an awesome, beautiful day to watch SEC football, which, you know, everybody's got I got my own opinions on the SEC, but man, they know how to create an environment there.
• 23:20
  And Neyland is really, really cool and can't recommend it enough for anybody who's looking to experience what kinda the best of college football is.
• 23:29
  So- Yeah Rich, thank you very, very much.
• 23:33
  It's awesome.
• 23:34
  Yeah.
• 23:35
  Um- Yeah let's just end on that high note.
• 23:38
  Yeah.
• 23:39
  I think we'll have another episode coming out soon.
• 23:42
  Yeah, so- Recapping Navy, doing a little mid-season stuff.
• 23:45
  Yep.
• 23:46
  And not recapping Navy.
• 23:49
  Is that right?
• 23:49
  Recapping Navy?
• 23:50
  No, we're gonna- Previewing preview Navy.
• 23:51
  Preview Navy, a little mid-seav- mid-season stuff.
• 23:56
  Our listeners, apologize for getting these pods out so late the last several weeks.
• 24:01
  I'm on a crazy weekend travel schedule that started the second weekend in October, and it just is gonna continue all the way through the Miami game.
• 24:12
  So our episodes are probably gonna be coming out- later in the week each week from now through, Miami.
• 24:20
  But hang tight with us.
• 24:22
  We'll get them out.
• 24:23
  I apologize to Mike Driscoll, Driz.
• 24:26
  Driz he's another one of my former teammates.
• 24:28
  Awesome, awesome guy.
• 24:30
  His son Jack was with us at the Wisconsin game.
• 24:33
  Driscoll was supposed to be our guest for this BYU recap, but because we're just so far behind, trying to get some thoughts out to you guys, we decided to go ahead and record without him.
• 24:45
  I'm sure he would have some interesting takes, and probably just mimic a lot of what we were saying here, but I don't wanna speak for him.
• 24:53
  Yep.
• 24:54
  All right, crew.
• 24:55
  Uh, hey, it's, it's time, all right?
• 25:00
  We're gonna go on the win streak that we have gone on the past three seasons.
• 25:04
  It's playoff mode.
• 25:05
  Yep, it is.
• 25:06
  We're, we're- playoff Marcus is great Marcus, so- It is great Marcus he knows how to get these guys ready.
• 25:12
  I am confident that we're gonna turn this thing around- Playoff Marcus- It starts with the coaches, and it starts off with Head Coach Marcus Freeman.
• 25:22
  Playoff Marcus is a good Marcus, and playoff Denbrock is also a good Denbrock.
• 25:27
  And Chris Ash- We don't know yet.
• 25:30
  Not yet, but hopefully- Yeah he's good.
• 25:32
  Let's find out.
• 25:33
  Let's, we're, there's only one way to find out, and that's in three weeks when we play Miami.
• 25:37
  Yep.
• 25:37
  All right, everybody.
• 25:38
  Thanks for listening.
• 25:40
  Keep your heads up.
• 25:41
  We're gonna keep our heads up.
• 25:44
  It's playoff time.
• 25:45
  Go Irish.
• 25:46
  Go Irish.
• 25:47
  Go Irish