Nolan James Jr.

You can look at the box score and you can say, oh, they rushed for a bunch of yards.

Nolan James was great.

When you watch it, it's just, man, it feels like – and it's odd because they have the talent.

It's almost like nothing kind of pairs together.

There's going to be some negative plays and some times where they're not getting many yards, which I think goes back to the point about Walton is that he's a good guy.

And with the contact balance of Nolan James, are they getting some yards after contact and things like that? Because there's going to be times where they just don't have a lot of room to run.

Yeah, Clemson, 1.8 yards per carry.

Pittsburgh had a field day against them, 2.7 yards per carry.

If they are not used in Congress...

And I don't think they will be, unfortunately.

Jonas Walton and Nolan James.

I want more of a tag team than this is your series, this is his series.

But there was another one where Jerome Bettis Jr. got suplexed out of bounds early on that they didn't call.

And then another situation on Nolan James' 52-yard run where he gets shoved in the back after he's already in the end zone.

I'm not saying they play dirty or whatever, but there were...

The announcers throughout the game were talking about how uncharacteristic it is for Navy to do the things they were doing, but they were doing them, and they weren't getting called.

One, Luke Talich, Notre Dame's most consistent safety right now, was awesome in this game, flying around all over the field, making plays.

The running back rotation became a lot more clear in this game.

It is the Nolan James and Jonas Welton show.

Aeneas Williams only getting backup time in this game and mop-up duty in the fourth quarter of this.

And so they'll think it's cold, but Notre Dame will be out there in short sleeves.

You think Nolan James will have his on, or you think he'll have two on? I mean, he had it on last week.

He wears

it every game.

So it was nice to see Jerome Bettis get some action in.

I think my biggest complaint offensively is – Unless they were working on something, I was surprised, scratching my head, why they don't want to run the ball.

And as soon as they do run the ball, you know, Nolan James rips off a 50-some yard touchdown right before the half.

And it's like, oh.

Navy recap.

There's a few things I want to touch on, but I want to give you the floor to kind of expand on all this stuff uh the good nolan james jr and jerome bettis jr uh sanders uh in the secondary again i don't think he gets talked about enough but he's come in and made plays and then injuries so i hand you the floor phil

yeah definitely a scary first half and i was having a flashback um when what navy goes on well first of all the most remarkable number um They controlled the clock for 22 minutes and 33 seconds in that first half out of the 30 minutes played.

That is the most time of possession of any team in the country for a half of football this season.

Probably the most pleasant, not really a surprise, but most pleasant development was the game that we saw Notre jerome bettis jr have in that second half what were his numbers his numbers were uh 78 yards on six catches he had like five catches in a row it was like four straight plays five straight plays he caught the ball on every play and then they even that one of the targets that he got he missed and they came right back to him and and he caught the ball in the next pass i think that was the touchdown uh 31 yard td for all the

second half so it was great production

And and that and and also we saw Nolan James do some good things.

We had some explosive plays out of him.

Very big.

And a lot of guys who are highly rated, they, um, they have a couple, a couple of solid backs and Nolan James, Jonas Walton, um, But it's not like their run game has been absolutely dominant.

As Phil said here a little while ago, he said that people are concerned.

He's my Boston Notre Dame fan and was very concerned about their run defense.

it's it's it's not first but that's what next year's for i'll be training up until then oh right um some news some sports news some real news for you guys uh won't bore you anymore uh notre dame took down navy um this past saturday 35 to 13 it was a gritty first half it was honestly difficult to watch as some navy games are because they they run the ball a lot they take up a lot of the clock um But overall, we pulled away in the second half.

Navy was up 13-7 late in the first before Nolan James Jr. completely changed the game.

He had a 52-yard rushing touchdown near the end of the first half, which gave us the lead.

Finished the game with 170 yards and two touchdowns on only nine carries.

And I expect Miami to play the run really well.

We know with Nolan James, Jonas Walton, those two young backs that they have in South Bend, those guys have been playing some good football too, but I still think Notre Dame is going to have to prove that they're going to be able to move the ball consistently against that front.

And the secondary just really has to tighten up because I think there is a lot of faith and trust in the way Miami is going to be able to defend the run.

All right.

But will you be able to rectify something like that when you have a team like Miami coming into the building? which opens up a whole other bag of issues.

52-yard touchdown at the end of the half by Nolan James was the reason Notre Dame went into the break up one.

And that different defensive approach coupled with the really solid play of CJ Carr, who again, you go back and watch a lot of instances of that BYU game, not nearly as bad as people love to hammer him in that press because you probably just expect greatness after greatness all the time.

And I think we saw Just what makes CJ Carr so damn talented.