Notre Dame Defense Needs To Keep Doing What It's Doing

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00:03 Offenses, so as long as you do what you do, you should shut them down.

00:06 But it's beyond that Ryan, and this is what we talked about before.

00:09 It's not just shutting down bad offenses,

00:11 making sure you're not developing bad habits.

00:14 Making sure you're not going away from what is you.

00:18 And this is the ultimate test for what Marcus Freeman says is we can't worry

00:21 about the opponent, we gotta worry about Notre Dame.

00:24 Can Al Golden, Al Washington, Chris O'Leary, Mike Mickens, Max Bulla,

00:28 get these guys locked in and ready to focus on excelling when they know

00:32 the opponent's not good.

00:34 That's part of leadership.

00:36 I think with a veteran team, you're gonna see more of that.

00:41 I'm less concerned about that than I might be next year against some inferior

00:45 opponents when they're gonna be a lot younger on defense, very talented,

00:48 but a lot younger.

00:49 I believe they're gonna be focused, but that's the key.

00:51 That's the biggest question in the second half, Ryan.

00:53 Honestly, guys, we could give you all types of, and

00:56 we've got a couple specific things, Ryan.

00:58 There's one thing I needed to add that I forgot to add to that.

01:03 But there's a couple areas where I'd like to see some improvement.

01:05 But at the end of the day, it's just guys, just do what you're doing, right?

01:09 Cuz these teams aren't good.

01:11 These teams aren't good offensively.

01:13 There's some good defenses now that could create some problems,

01:15 get their offensive short fields and all that.

01:17 But offensively, it's just not good, which kind of gets you fired up, Ryan,

01:21 about maybe where this Notre Dame could end up.

01:23 This Notre Dame defense could end up at the end of the year from a ranking

01:26 standpoint.

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