Examining Notre Dame’s Strengths and Weaknesses For 2025
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🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Sean. |
| 0:31.0 | We are now going to talk about the team portion of today's show, an RTCF, and we are going to focus on, it's actually a piece that Notre Dame, or that ESPN had put out. |
| 0:36.8 | They put it out last week, and they're rolling with their way too early series. |
| 0:43.3 | And ESPN has released a bunch of different potential breakout players for their way too early top 25. |
| 0:45.8 | They put out a way too early top 25 rankings. |
| 0:55.1 | In their latest edition, they put out what are the potential and perceived strengths and weaknesses of all of their way too early top 25 teams. |
| 1:00.7 | Notre Dame and all of these lists has always came in around that four to five range. |
| 1:03.6 | And on this list, they came in at number four. |
| 1:08.4 | And they talked about what some of the potential strengths and weaknesses of this team are. |
| 1:10.4 | Some of it, hot topics of conversation. |
| 1:14.0 | Sean and I are going to break down the strengths and the weaknesses, and what we're going to begin is the weaknesses. |
| 1:15.4 | And in the article itself, the quote was their weakness potentially was quarterback. |
| 1:22.1 | And they went on to say, perhaps weakness is the wrong word here. |
| 1:25.8 | Marcus Freeman likes what he has to work with at the position, |
| 1:28.2 | but after two straight years with veteran quarterbacks from the portal, |
| 1:31.5 | Notre Dame will turn to someone with much, without much, |
| 1:34.4 | playing time under his belt in 2025. |
| 1:36.8 | And the only two quarterbacks that were mentioned in the article were Steve |
| 1:39.8 | Vangelie and C.J. Carr, something that's been typical of what we've seen from the national |
| 1:43.2 | media. But they go on to say, Steve Angelly has a leg up based on experience, even though he doesn't |
| 1:48.0 | have much of it. A redshirt freshman CJ Carr has a chance to be special. The battle to see |
| 1:52.6 | who leads this offense will be among the most watched in all of college football. And finding |
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