Notre Dame vs Navy: Can the Fighting Irish Cover?
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00:02 Across the pond in Dublin, a Dublin debut for the Irish against Navy.
00:08 Kevin Walsh, Notre Dame booked as a 20 and a half point favorite.
00:11 The over understands at 49 in a hook.
00:14 Now if you've watched any college football today,
00:17 if you listen to old K dubs break down Notre Dame,
00:20 the saying often goes Notre Dame plus the points.
00:23 When the Irish is booked as an underdog in big time spots.
00:27 Kevin Walsh, what about Notre Dame minus 20 and
00:30 a half points to start off 2023 against Navy?
00:33 >> Yeah, that's not a strategy, that's not the model, that's not what we live by.
00:38 Now you flip this line around, I'd love to get 20 and a half with the Irish.
00:41 That's a good piece of business, all right?
00:43 I'd like to see the Bugdads man enough to offer that up here.
00:47 Look, what we know is last year, now it was some early season stuff, but
00:51 Notre Dame was struggling to cover some of those big numbers.
00:53 The outright loss to Marshall that I think put Marcus Freeman on the hot seat
00:57 two games in his Notre Dame tenure.
01:00 But I know it's gonna sound crazy, it's kind of has nothing to do with Notre Dame.
01:07 And I know that's like, hold on a minute, they're playing Navy and
01:09 Navy's the story?
01:10 Yeah, Navy's the story.
01:11 The triple option team, all they do is cover.
01:14 When they get these kind of points, and the numbers move a little bit in Navy's
01:17 direction, it's hard to cover against these teams.
01:21 They don't really give you enough time.
01:24 If Navy's able to grab 14 points for themselves,
01:27 Notre Dame can look much, much better, right?
01:30 And Notre Dame's gonna wanna run the football themselves, by the way.
01:32 I know they have Sam Hartman, but they have a good running back room.
01:36 And also, they probably are gonna wanna slow play this a little bit.
01:39 You don't need to empty the catalog right away if you are the fighting Irish.
01:44 Not like it's a daunting task the following week against Tennessee State.
01:48 But look, the point still remains here for the Irish.
01:51 It's very difficult to lay those kind of points, Ben.
01:53 Against an academy team.
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