I.B.Nation. welcome back to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to by our friends over at Fandu.

Happy Thursday, everybody.

Weekend is almost here, and we have another loaded show coming to your guys' way today.

So, spirit of today's show, we're going over the 2025 season and taking a look back. And part one of today's show, we're going to sit down and we're going to just talk about it as a whole. We're going to break it down, quarter by quarter, and kind of just talk through the evolution of what we've seen from this team. And then at the very end, we're going to talk about, you know, was it successful or not? We're going to give our thoughts on those. And then part two of today's show, we're giving out grades. And we're giving this up between offense and defense. Talk about the coaches, the individual position groups. And then overall, we're also talking about special teams as well. And then in part three, we are talking about the 2025 season awards, which is also going to be a lot of fun today

then if we have time at the end we are also going to do a mailbag i believe we're also going to do

one tomorrow as well so been a crazy week i know everybody has a lot of questions so if you do

have a mailback question you want to get that in today go ahead and then of course we are going to

do one i believe tomorrow as well so brian loaded show today man and where we're going to start is

the 2025 season and review just kind of a look back and at a season that really ended a little bit

quicker than what we what we thought in no world did i envision that that Notre Dame season would end after the Stanford game.

And if you'd have told me that before the season started, I probably would have been like,

well, that's not good.

That means Notre Dame had a bad year.

You know, it went six and six, seven and five, or Marcus Freeman left, or something along

those lines.

Never would I have dreamed that NotreIRN would be 10 and 2,

fighting for a playoff spot,

and then the season's over after Stanford.

And it's really kind of, I mean, for us personally,

bone a giant wrinkle into our entire off-season plans.

So, I mean, this is a show that last year we did around, you know, close to February.

Now we're still two weeks away from Christmas and we're having the show.

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