Marcus Freeman

And then Nolan James ran 52 yards and Navy managed just 56 yards of offense after halftime.

And Marcus Freeman got his 50th win.

And we know what's coming up next week.

Miami will head to South Bend next Saturday.

You're hosting a Halloween party at your house.

Marcus Freeman's talking about panic.

I don't know who was more stressed out today.

You as my co-host or Notre Dame's head football coach when they're up 14-13 at halftime.

He missed a sack and then missed another tackle that turned into big plays.

So it was just not a very buttoned-up performance.

And Marcus Freeman...

I may have, you know, it's like when you use the word panic 10 to 12 times in your post game press conference, that's not a good situation.

You had two weeks post BYU to get this fixed.

I know Freeman said it as presser on Monday, that majority of that, they spent working on two minute, two minute offense, but clearly they didn't spend enough time on, on the defense.

They didn't spend enough time on Navy.

They didn't spend enough time on the triple option.

Guys were out of position.

Looked like guys didn't know where they were supposed to be.

And then it was very concerning when we get to halftime and Freeman goes to the locker room and it says to the reporter, yeah, we got to stop running stuff that our guys don't know how to

do.

Next weekend, we obviously know that massive showdown between Miami and the most disappointing team right now in college football.

I thought today we were going to see Marcus Freeman in Notre Dame dog walk.

Dog walk.

That's how I'm describing it.

Because we know how much better Notre Dame is than Navy as a football program.

You know what I'm saying? No shade to the midshipmen, but it is what it is, right? You had two weeks to prepare for this game.

He had two weeks, Marcus Freeman, two weeks, Notre Dame, to prepare for this very unique offense.

And I'll admit, it is a very difficult group to prepare for when you have that triple option offense.

decision that he's not going to get as many carries as we think he should get.

Then why is Marcus Freeman going out and talking to the media and being like, yeah, we want to figure out a way he should get more attention?

That's what they all say.

It's the hot dog meme of

In general, this is the game that we've had circled for such a long time.

This entire week's been about looking ahead to that game, and that's all that Mario Cristobal and Marcus Freeman were asked about.

There are so many top-tier games next weekend.

Like, it might be, on paper, the best college football Saturday we've had this decade.

And that's what we did with Brian Kelly.

And that's what we're going to do with Marcus Freeman as well.

It's one thing to have an off game.

But when you see patterns of things happening is when it becomes a problem.

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Plants, 1189.

So what the heck is going on with this team? I think what Marcus Freeman has to understand is he's got to remind himself of what it was like being a player and remind himself that trust is a two-way street at this level.

And there is a very clear disconnect on this football team, and it's not just this is what's going on, but then there's no communication as to why it's going on.

It was one of the few mistakes that I thought CJ made today, but...

Navy, as funny as Marcus Freeman halftime was talking about, oh, they showed us some looks they didn't show us.

Navy's defense is the one that did that.

They changed how they defended Notre Dame, and they basically like, we know we can't cover the pass, and we're just going to play our corners off all game.

Why? That's not, see, when you think of, like, sometimes I think we need to understand what terms mean.

And again, I don't mean this disrespectfully, and it's going to sound that way, and I really don't.

But it's kind of like when Marcus Freeman says, leave no doubt, and people take that to mean, well, that means they need to score 70 on everybody.

It's not what it means.