Coming off the Bye
The Shamrock: A show about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish
The Athletic
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The guys are back after an early bye week for Notre Dame to discuss the state of the program. Pete has an update on the running back position. Matt takes a look at how future Notre Dame opponents fared over the weekend. The Irish have New Mexico this weekend but it's hard not to think about Notre Dame's trip to Athens, GA next week.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Shamrock. |
| 0:21.3 | I'm Pete Sampson from South Bend, Matt Fortuna in Chicago. |
| 0:25.0 | This is our free episode of the week. |
| 0:27.5 | Getting into a little bit of New Mexico, but I think more interesting is sort of the state of affairs with Notre Dame right now. |
| 0:34.1 | You know, a little bit worse for wear coming out of Louisville and a physical week of practices. |
| 0:38.7 | And then, you know, we'll spend some time talking about the bigger picture as well because, Matt, you were sort of behind the scenes with Army at Michigan. |
| 0:45.2 | That was so, so close to being really one of the most incredible stories of the college football season. |
| 0:51.7 | But before we get in that, let's talk a little bit about Notre Dame. |
| 0:54.3 | And before we talk a little bit, Notre Dame, again, you're listening to the Shamrock, subscribe. You can go to theathletic.com, backslash to Shamrock. This is our free show for the week. We have bonus episodes at the end of the week. If you missed last week's bonus episode for athletic subscribers, we had Brady Quinn on, without a really sharp analysis of Ian Book, |
| 1:13.5 | what went right, what didn't. bonus episode for athletic subscribers. We had Brady Quinn on without a really sharp analysis of |
| 1:13.0 | Ian Book, what went right, what didn't, and how much needs to get better for Notre Dame to, |
| 1:18.3 | I think, hit its goals the rest of the season. I mean, and frankly, Matt, one of those things |
| 1:22.2 | that has to improve is Notre Dame needs to get a lot healthier at running back because |
| 1:25.9 | I think that was sort of the news since our last podcast. |
| 1:29.2 | Jafar Armstrong has reported out anywhere from five to eight weeks. |
| 1:33.2 | Back against Michigan is what I'm told would be optimistic. |
| 1:36.8 | Now, Jemir Smith has a sprained toe as well. |
| 1:39.1 | His status, I think, is a little bit murky for New Mexico. |
| 1:42.3 | They moved Avery Davis from cornerback back to running back |
| 1:46.1 | after moving them from running back to cornerback a year ago. So it's, I mean, |
| 1:51.8 | like everyone's got problems short of Clemson and Alabama, I think, but Nortem has its own |
| 1:56.8 | now with the running back situation. I think that's, if they're going to play the kind of offense that offensive |
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