Welcome to Irish Illustrated Insider.

I'm Tim O'Malley, joined today by John Bryce, a football scoop,

Tim Priester of Irish Illustrated, and Pete Samson of the Athletic.

And very quickly, Tim, I'm going to turn it over you because Notre Dame started

0 and 1 for just the 12th time in the last 50 years.

And I wanted to see if off the top of your head,

you could think of the most successful season.

There's an argument made for a couple when they were 0 and 1.

There's one famous one, and then there was one more.

I'm going to, I'm going to let you.

The famous one would be the chicken soup season,

chicken soup, uh, Joe Montana.

They started 0 and 1 there and less famous, but probably a loss that went down in infamy until you found out how good the team was 95. They ended up going to the Orange Bowl still after losing as a 28 and a half point favorite to Northwestern. So those are the two biggest comebacks. I was going to say they've never won 10 games after losing the opener, but that's not fair because they used to play 11 years. That was a very atypical Northwestern team. Yeah, yeah, seemed a little different when you watched them for the rest of the season than the beginning did. But O and 2 would be much different, as all of us have discussed now ad nauseum. This is what happens when you have a biweek week, week too. So we will jump right in. Guys just got off with 15 minutes of Marcus Freeman.

Any takeaways from there before we get into the offensive personnel of A&M, which I think will be Tim Priester's eventual takeaway.

Well, like Marcus Freeman said the magic words that I was getting ready to write in the preview is staying in your

rush lanes. You have to stay in your rush lanes with Marcel Reed. And I think you're going

to create some turnovers if you do that. But if you let him run wild, you know, it's crazy.

Because, I mean, Mike Elko said he never considered putting Marcel Reed into the lineup against Notre Dame.

The mindset was completely different with Connor Wigman.

And then, you know, when they did put Marcel Reed in the starting lineup, he was a run first, past, second guy.

And then in the offseason, it was all about getting better, more explosive offensively.

According to Mike Elko, they did it in landing some receivers in the transfer portal,

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