Episodes

  • Instant Reaction: Notre Dame 28 Miami (OH) 3
    Sep 22 2024

    Sam Werner of the Three-Point Jesus podcast joins to talk about the victory over the RedHawks. Topics include The Riley Leonard Discourse, a dominant defense (except for second and long), an assessment of special teams and how playing a big game against Louisville changes the tenor of the week/gameday experience.

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    42 mins
  • Instant Reaction: Notre Dame 66 Purdue 7
    Sep 15 2024

    Jessica Smetana joins to discuss the Fighting Irish's demolition of the Boilermakers in West Lafayette. Topics include a dominant run game, dominant defense, concerning injuries, if there's a quarterback controversy and some (well, maybe more than some) lingering thoughts from last weekend.

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    44 mins
  • Northern Illinois Take-Pocalypse and Wellness Check
    Sep 9 2024

    Jessica Smetana joins to examine the wide world of takes — including fair critiques, honest questions, sizzlers and some creative fan-fiction — that resulted from Notre Dame's loss to Northern Illinois. Understand if you auto-delete this but it's not overly gloomy or whiny.

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • College Station Field Report and Next Steps for Notre Dame
    Sep 6 2024

    Michael Bryan of 18 Stripes joins to recap his Saturday at Texas A&M. Also included: Marcus Freeman's fourth down decisions, what one game affirmed/undercut as far as preseason expectations and what we're looking for in Week 2.

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    45 mins
  • Instant Reaction: Notre Dame 23 Texas A&M 13
    Sep 1 2024

    Jessica Smetana joins to discuss the monster win in College Station. Sorry this is very loopy and rambly and not edited, we'll be more coherent next time. Buy Golden-Denbrock 2024 merch here.

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    52 mins
  • 2024 Notre Dame Football Excitement Draft
    Aug 29 2024

    Jessica Smetana joins to select the things we're most excited to see this Fighting Irish football season. Also: Big-picture thoughts, predictions, advice for Notre Dame fans traveling to College Station and the debut of campus' newest statue, Hot Dog Jesus.

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    1 hr
  • 2024 Notre Dame Football Schedule Preview
    Aug 26 2024

    Alex Herrmann and Andrew Smith of Notre Dame, Our Blogger join to preview all 12 opponents on this fall's Fighting Irish schedule.

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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Freshman Orientation: 2024 Defense
    Aug 21 2024

    Jamie Uyeyama of Irish Sports Daily returns for Part Two of this year's Frosh O series to talk about every scholarship freshman on the Notre Dame defense. Included:

    • Can Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa really be Manti 2.0?
    • Tae Johnston has upside at safety, but Kennedy Urlacher could be in the mix on special teams from the jump.
    • Leonard Moore's stock continues to rise as he appears to in the cornerback rotation.
    • Bryce Young is a monster at defensive end.
    • Jamie's overall thoughts on a big 2024 season for Marcus Freeman and the Fighting Irish, including a thin margin for error.

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    1 hr and 4 mins