10/12: How did Notre Dame become such a trainwreck with John Walters of Newsweek
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 12 October 2016
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Bruce and Stew are joined by John Walters of Newsweek to chat about this week’s upcoming Notre Dame-Stanford matchup and start by asking how did Notre Dame become such a train wreck this season? (3:15); Have Notre Dame fans finally turned on Brian Kelly? (5:30); Is Brian Kelly’s job actually in danger? (8:30); What has happened to Stanford stud RB Christan McCaffrey? (10:30); Does anyone have a legitimate shot to overtake Lamar Jackson in the Heisman race? (16:00); What makes you mad on Twitter (20:00); What’s going to happen with the LSU-Florida situation? (29:30); Complaints about the length of games (32:00); and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:14.1 | Bruce, we're having on today one of our all-time favorite podcast guests. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, he always delivers. |
| 0:20.7 | He's, I don't know, I feel like he's more than just a college football observer. |
| 0:25.3 | He's an observer of all things. |
| 0:27.9 | Media, sometimes he says some things that he probably, that I think he probably shouldn't |
| 0:32.7 | in his own career best interest. |
| 0:35.2 | You know he's on the phone right now. |
| 0:36.5 | You're saying this right in front of him. |
| 0:37.9 | He knows. |
| 0:38.8 | He knows. |
| 0:39.5 | We're talking about our friend John Walters of Newsweek. |
| 0:43.1 | Let's talk Notre Dame Stanford. |
| 0:44.4 | Obviously, this game is not the heavyweight showdown that we thought it would be before the season. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm wondering, as a Notre Dame fan, when you looked at this Notre Dame team coming into the |
| 0:56.2 | season and who they had coming back and what their concerns were, was it even in your nightmare |
| 1:01.3 | scenario that they would be two and four at this point? No, I didn't think they'd be great, |
| 1:06.7 | but I didn't think they'd be two and four. Everyone could see where they had so many holes. |
| 1:13.1 | You know, I think before the season, you know, I was doing the RTDB, run the damn ball. |
| 1:18.1 | You've got, you've got, you know, supposedly a solid offensive line. |
| 1:23.7 | And you have, you know, Josh Adams, you've got Tarney and Folston. |
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