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I'm Tim O'Malley with Tim Priester of Irish Illustrated.

John Bryce of the Football Scoop and Irish Illustrated.

And today, we talked to Marcus Freeman after a,

not a signature win, but one of his more complete wins

of the season, certainly along with the Purdue game a few months

back, and he mentioned perfection was not attained.

They got pretty darn close.

Defensively, obviously, a little bit of push we've talked about against the defensive line.

Freeman even brought that up, I found interesting, and also trying to become more balanced offensively.

But they look very good, and I want to start with the UJB because confidence is obvious,

but protecting against complacency was one of the final questions he handled.

It was, and they did it.

And we've talked last week, we talked leading into the game and the maturity of this team is so much better.

It's so much more on display.

I think there's really good leadership.

I know from talking with people in the program, they're very pleased with the end-season leadership and the ownership. And I think there's really good leadership. I know from talking with people in the program, they're very pleased with the end season leadership and the ownership.

And I think obviously you have a number of guys leading that on the defensive side of the ball,

X-Wats and Howard Cross and especially at Riley Mills as well.

Offensively, Riley Leonard is a leader.

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