Look as a Notre Dame fan I’ve been very critical of the Offense this season but even I have to give credit where it’s due It seems like they are starting to put things together I think Freeman and Denbrock had a heart to heart Cause if you look at the play calling from the first few games of the year to these last few they are night and day And also Lenard has look Great love it keep doing whatever it is y’all are doing NIU is a blip on the radar Freeman is figuring it out and now the country will see ND is so back baby
Part of the reason Riley Leonard didn’t have more passing yards is because of all the turnovers that gave ND great field position. Can’t get many passing when you’re starting inside the opponent’s 40.
Yep. I will never understand why he was so stubborn in that game. Bring Angeli in and they win going away. Not that it really matters anymore in fact you could say it helped in the long run but still you can never outlive that loss unless you win a championship.
@joshblubaugh6050 I agree, but there is something weird about the transfer QBs under MF. Sam Hartman played horrible and didn't get replaced. I went to the Clemson game, and SH play and body language were horrible. Now, fans have to suffer through RL growing pains. I wonder at times if MF has no decision but to play them since ND spent so much NIL money. It's a weird situation when the fan base is calling for the backup QB.
@ it is frustrating . It’s one thing to stick with your guy through tough periods but great coaches don’t have any problems making moves for one game. Especially when you have an excellent backup. No doubt though that RL is improving in the passing game now.
ND plays the most underclassmen of any ranked team, that running game will be really dangerous in 2 years and if CJ Carr is half as good as we think then I think Notre Dame could really compete
The playoff committee looks at how teams improve and they have responded with gusto also Leanord a transfer QB really no off-season to work with players he came to South Bend off tore ACL
For the last few weeks, you're finally seeing what Notre Dame can be, but they're still evolving. And what they're end up. Being is a menace in the CPF this year.
If ND hopes to beat any SEC or Big Ten in playoffs, they will have to score points also in the air (especially if they fall behind). Riley Leonard has to do more than just 5 yard passes. He needs to attack down the field in order to open running game (their strength).
ND has given every team they've beat their worst loss of the season. Except the Louisville game, they have 3 losses, all by 7 points. Look at teams ranked higher than ND, then look at common opponents....ND's wins are more dominant.
Notre Dame fan here. No, we're not. Defense is fantastic, offense is alright. We're not national championship caliber. If we win it all though, you beat believe I'll change my tune and eat my hat. It'd be one of the happiest days of my life.
Finally, an ND fan that can call a spade a spade. I'm an ND fan and a realistic. Before we play a top defense. The OL needs to keep improving. ND needs to build on running between the tackles. RL needs to feel comfortable in the pocket and improve his accuracy to beat the top defenses. The high school playbook will not keep working against top defenses.
I don’t think they will win multiple games in the playoff. That being said I do think they can beat most teams in the country if they play their best with the exception of Oregon and Georgia.
You think the year Michigan lost to App St makes playoff(if applicable)with 11-1 season. You keep Michigan out of playoff. Your answer would match Notre Dames scenario
Norte Dame has a Strength of Record behind BYU, Iowa State & KState …… Norte Dane Strength of Schedule #60 is also behind BYU, Iowa State & Kstate, so why are they ranked ahead of?
ND would handle all three of those teams by two scores or more. The big 12 stinks .NDs defense is top 3 and may very well be the best in the country and that's with multiple starters out
Army and Navy are two free wins for anybody, they never beat Ohio State (Why ND stopped playing them), and USC hasn't been great in years. Wow, insane schedule.@@GW_1Boss
Never saw this take coming from Greg considering the way he was talking on the broadcast of the navy game Saturday. Dude was basically new age Mark May
@@kapla2004 not sure how you mean. It started because the Big ten wouldn't allow them in. Which enabled them to travel the country when it was more a geography type game. It was more of.... Well play anyone anywhere... It might happen over a span of years but they get top teams every yr .. at least to start. Then somehow those teams fall. They should have an independent bowl...or an extra game to make up for it if that's the conference they're in... And only hurts them.... And each team they do play ... Independently have top either players.. offenses defenses...or certain aspects of when ND plays them .. for the most part . EVERY team has smaller schools on their schedule as the sec and big ten get a couple fcs schools ..
@ they were ranked because ap just look at school and then record. They were undefeated because they didn’t play no good teams. We both know Navy is not one of the best 25 teams in college football.
Oh come on. Only Notre dame could beat a third tier military academy and jump 4 places in the top 10! With their soft schedule, most of the top 12 teams are praying for a first round game with ND!
I guess you are too ignorant to know Notre Dame moved down in the rankings while doing nothing but winning big before they moved up. Also, Texas A&M moved up 4 spots too. Ya'll are some weak minded people with ND living rent free in your head.
How many rushing yards did A&M get against Notre Dame? They couldn’t run the ball so how do you expect him to run the ball? And Notre Dame had it’s two best edge rushers at that point and their best cornerback plus you would’ve had a true freshman in the first game of the season. I don’t think so.
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My many teams can survive their 2 best pass rushers 3 out of 5 starting Olinemen and a first round cornerback being out for the season
The pass rushers hurt the most because That's Notre Dame biggest weakness right now. Getting after the QB
@@MattBooher-ng4qithey still get after the QB pretty good. The interior DL is amazing. The injuries at DE do hurt tho
@@MattBooher-ng4qithat was more the weakness at the start of the season but it has been getting better exponentially
ND has improved the last 4 games very well! A good combination of defensive and a better offense
Look as a Notre Dame fan I’ve been very critical of the Offense this season but even I have to give credit where it’s due
It seems like they are starting to put things together I think Freeman and Denbrock had a heart to heart
Cause if you look at the play calling from the first few games of the year to these last few they are night and day
And also Lenard has look Great love it keep doing whatever it is y’all are doing
NIU is a blip on the radar Freeman is figuring it out and now the country will see
ND is so back baby
Part of the reason Riley Leonard didn’t have more passing yards is because of all the turnovers that gave ND great field position. Can’t get many passing when you’re starting inside the opponent’s 40.
Riley Leonard was hurt at the NIU game and Marcus Freeman refused to take him out.
Excuses!
Yep. I will never understand why he was so stubborn in that game. Bring Angeli in and they win going away. Not that it really matters anymore in fact you could say it helped in the long run but still you can never outlive that loss unless you win a championship.
@joshblubaugh6050
I agree, but there is something weird about the transfer QBs under MF. Sam Hartman played horrible and didn't get replaced. I went to the Clemson game, and SH play and body language were horrible. Now, fans have to suffer through RL growing pains. I wonder at times if MF has no decision but to play them since ND spent so much NIL money. It's a weird situation when the fan base is calling for the backup QB.
@ it is frustrating . It’s one thing to stick with your guy through tough periods but great coaches don’t have any problems making moves for one game. Especially when you have an excellent backup. No doubt though that RL is improving in the passing game now.
Who cares now?
ND plays the most underclassmen of any ranked team, that running game will be really dangerous in 2 years and if CJ Carr is half as good as we think then I think Notre Dame could really compete
cj carr is very good
The playoff committee looks at how teams improve and they have responded with gusto also Leanord a transfer QB really no off-season to work with players he came to South Bend off tore ACL
It was a broken ankle sir.
Jermiyah Love is the best RB in the nation! (Not named Jeanty) hahahahaha
Thank you Greg for being an honest objective analyst. Rare and hard to come by these days.
Great take on why Lennard started slow because of injury is now starting to really learn the offense.
For the last few weeks, you're finally seeing what Notre Dame can be, but they're still evolving. And what they're end up. Being is a menace in the CPF this year.
Better "then"? Our country is doomed.
You beat me to it. 🤣
it’s the editor that sucks trust me
You think the USA is doomed because someone made a grammatical mistake?
The internet might be too much for you....
Arguably
Notre Dame is finally playing an RPO style offense which is basically the modern version of the classic option. It fits their personnel perfectly.
If ND hopes to beat any SEC or Big Ten in playoffs, they will have to score points also in the air (especially if they fall behind). Riley Leonard has to do more than just 5 yard passes. He needs to attack down the field in order to open running game (their strength).
Ask A&M about Leonard
They will be just fine.
ND is peaking at the right time. If they were completely healthy, they would rightfully be in the championship conversation.
Agreed, the injuries are brutal, but boy has the next man up mentality come to fruition
ND only allowed more than 20pts in one game. All sub 14 for all other teams. And how injured they are. Crazy
Finally some respect ☘️
ND has given every team they've beat their worst loss of the season. Except the Louisville game, they have 3 losses, all by 7 points. Look at teams ranked higher than ND, then look at common opponents....ND's wins are more dominant.
Louisville barely held on in that game. Without good field position and a garbage time touchdown, ND would have blown them out by 2-3 scores
Notre Dame fan here. No, we're not. Defense is fantastic, offense is alright. We're not national championship caliber. If we win it all though, you beat believe I'll change my tune and eat my hat. It'd be one of the happiest days of my life.
Finally, an ND fan that can call a spade a spade. I'm an ND fan and a realistic.
Before we play a top defense. The OL needs to keep improving. ND needs to build on running between the tackles. RL needs to feel comfortable in the pocket and improve his accuracy to beat the top defenses. The high school playbook will not keep working against top defenses.
we steam rolled navy, we can say our THROWING offense is bad but we can say their offense is bad.
@@JJFrye-f9k Dude, it's Navy. Ranked or not, they have weight restrictions and play a schedule that's miraculously weaker than ours.
I think making the playoff would be an achievement itself after that debacle week 2.
Notre Dame is the most injury team in the country.
Than*
I don’t think they will win multiple games in the playoff. That being said I do think they can beat most teams in the country if they play their best with the exception of Oregon and Georgia.
Notre Dame will fall like they always do. Smh 🤦
You think the year Michigan lost to App St makes playoff(if applicable)with 11-1 season. You keep Michigan out of playoff. Your answer would match Notre Dames scenario
Notre Dame could beat ANY team in the SEC. It's a FACT
LSU, Tennesse, Texas, and UGA would beat ND on a neutral field.
Couldn't agree more. There's no elite SEC teams this year. Everyone in the sec has had inconsistencies
@@karldergrosse-333 ND's defense would 1000% shut down Tennessee and LSU weak offense. Texas and UGA are a toss up
UGA will probably win against them
@@karldergrosse-333It's called deductive reasoning. ND beat A&M. A&M beat LSU. This means ND would beat LSU.
Notre Dame is better. Then, you think.....what? What do we think?
The ref cheated for them and they still lost
like like like hope you are correct
Norte Dame has a Strength of Record behind BYU, Iowa State & KState …… Norte Dane Strength of Schedule #60 is also behind BYU, Iowa State & Kstate, so why are they ranked ahead of?
cause they have more NFL caliber players and are winning by wider margins
ND would handle all three of those teams by two scores or more. The big 12 stinks .NDs defense is top 3 and may very well be the best in the country and that's with multiple starters out
because most top 25 voters are as intelligent as a pile of dogshit
They also have the largest margin of victory in all of FBS since the loss in week two. That doesn’t go unnoticed.
I’m an ND fan and can’t argue. This may be the softest schedule I’ve ever seen. It will settle itself out
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Better *than
We’ll never know because of their weak schedule
What?? Littlerally one of the hardest in college football. EVERY SINGLE YEAR. ARMY, NAVY, USC, MICHIGAN(most years) OHIO STATE
Army and Navy are two free wins for anybody, they never beat Ohio State (Why ND stopped playing them), and USC hasn't been great in years. Wow, insane schedule.@@GW_1Boss
I appreciate the love, Greg, but we’re way too injured to beat the 5 best teams in the country. If healthy, we’d still need some luck
But they still lost to N Ill ......yoi cant over look that 😂😂😂😂
Notre dame is never better than I think because they’ll always find ways to lose games they should win easily
Nice to see the media hasn't brainwashed you 😂
Marshall, NIU, 2 losses that will forever live in infamy.
And yet they lost to NIU 😂
Which motivates them to fight
Ignorant argument. ND could win the title this season and low IQ goofs like this would still say, "but they lost to NIU".
@@john-wh6mz he’s probably biased towards SEC teams that lose 2 games and are still in the top 10.
@@AncestorEmpire1 I also love their amnesia about ND obliterating the precious SEC team lol.
@ well to be honest, Texas A&M has lost since that game.
They’re motivated
Never saw this take coming from Greg considering the way he was talking on the broadcast of the navy game Saturday. Dude was basically new age Mark May
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Not even the best team in Indiana !!!
Horseshit!
😂😂😂….this is your brain on drugs
Easy there Athens Correctional Bulldogs
Says the guy who's team almost lost to Kentucky.
Notre Dame isn't even the best team in Indiana; that would be IU!
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The undefeated Hoosiers !!!
Has IU played a team with a winning record yet or a ranked team yet lol
@@Apache32D They are good, and I am not an Indiana or Big10 fan.
If ND beat IU, everyone would immediately dismiss IU… “but Paul, they don’t play no body.”
Yea right. The same team that lost to northern Illinois
They need to join a conference before I can respect them. Why are they allowed to play by a different set of rules? Their schedule is a joke
@@kapla2004 not sure how you mean. It started because the Big ten wouldn't allow them in. Which enabled them to travel the country when it was more a geography type game. It was more of.... Well play anyone anywhere... It might happen over a span of years but they get top teams every yr .. at least to start. Then somehow those teams fall. They should have an independent bowl...or an extra game to make up for it if that's the conference they're in... And only hurts them.... And each team they do play ... Independently have top either players.. offenses defenses...or certain aspects of when ND plays them .. for the most part . EVERY team has smaller schools on their schedule as the sec and big ten get a couple fcs schools ..
@@Universalknowledge13 the big ten didn’t allow them in like 70 years ago. If they want to join a conference they can join one.
Coming from this guy. This means absolutely nothing
And you think anything coming from YOU does?
Slow down a little bit. It was navy, ok. I guess when your schedule is that week you have to prop up Norte dame beating Navy.
Leave out the fact they were undefeated and ranked. Cope harder
@ they were ranked because ap just look at school and then record. They were undefeated because they didn’t play no good teams. We both know Navy is not one of the best 25 teams in college football.
Weak, not week.
They also happened to beat the #1 standing SEC team on the road by 10. Did you forget about that?
They beat A&M easily dummy.
@ so look at the average big ten and sec schedule vs notre dame schedule. Then tell me im lying.
Oh come on. Only Notre dame could beat a third tier military academy and jump 4 places in the top 10! With their soft schedule, most of the top 12 teams are praying for a first round game with ND!
ND isn’t worried about any team except maybe Georgia’s defense and Oregon’s offense. Bring it on
I guess you are too ignorant to know Notre Dame moved down in the rankings while doing nothing but winning big before they moved up. Also, Texas A&M moved up 4 spots too. Ya'll are some weak minded people with ND living rent free in your head.
I'll bet they are all hoping to AVOID a first-round game with ND. The schedule doesn't determine what kind of team they are.
AM would’ve beaten ND if Reed was QB.
How many rushing yards did A&M get against Notre Dame? They couldn’t run the ball so how do you expect him to run the ball? And Notre Dame had it’s two best edge rushers at that point and their best cornerback plus you would’ve had a true freshman in the first game of the season. I don’t think so.
Nope. Notre Dames defense is elite unlike LSU
@@raveouscarlias4479 an Elite Defense doesn’t lose to a MAC team 😂
@@Brett-b9c ND literally lost the very next week so a Freshman QB could’ve easily won the game for AM
@@24TtrND beat A&M easily. So I guess NIU could too. My god you sound silly.
No there not 😂
They're. If you're going to be combative at least try to not look like you flunked grade school.
@@raveouscarlias4479 oh ok