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well including tim o'melly and myself will be joined by john bryce in a bit it is monday august 28th and

notardame comes out smoking 42 Forty-two-three victory

over Navy about as good as you could expect. I know some of the people on irisillistrate.com

expected all 117 snaps to go Notre Dame's way. That didn't happen, but boy, about 90, about 97% of them did both sides of the football.

I guess Tim, who is now, Tim, you're now handling our grades post-game.

And I guess the only one that wasn't an A was special teams because of the missed field goal.

But, man, Norrame did a great job on both sides of the football.

Yeah, it's impressive when everybody asked, you know, just, I don't think we included these

questions.

So I'm going to jump right on them.

What changes from watching that?

You know, does anything happen in week one to change your mind when the opponent's

Navy?

Yeah, the operation was fantastic by the coaching staff. That changes my mind a little bit. I had faith in the coaching staff,

but it was absolutely beautiful. It was tremendous. It was tremendous preparation. I put something

in Monday Musings, the best openers. Look, they beat Texas 38 to 3 under the lights. That's Texas. This is

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