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Notre Dame Defense Needs A Harsh Restart

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Sports, Nfl Draft, Football, Ncaa Team, Big Ten, Notre Dame

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Bryan and Trevor discuss the changes - both big and small - that Notre Dame needs to make on defense if its going to right the ship

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, Brian, in the final part of today's show here on the Irish Breakdown podcast, brought to you by Fanduil. We're going to be talking about the Notre Dame defense. And this unit is going to talk about it in a little bit different of a light than what we did on offense. We talked about it before the show. In the offense, it's more adjustments. Things that you can do to, hey, get Jaden Greathouse more involved.

0:39.7

Hey, you know, mix up your run game.

0:40.8

Use more over-it motion.

0:41.7

Those are adjustments.

0:45.5

You know, those are more big, but the defense.

0:47.4

Yeah, O-line, keep getting better.

0:48.1

Yes.

0:52.5

They're fixable things can happen pretty quickly, in my opinion.

0:53.8

None of them are changes, Trev.

0:54.9

They're all adjustments.

0:57.6

Whereas on the defensive side,

1:02.2

there are some things that need to be changed and changed now.

1:07.6

This isn't a, you know, we'll give it one more week to see what happens with this.

1:10.6

There are some things on the defense that needs changed immediately. And one of them begins with the defensive coordinator, somebody that has been talked about quite a bit so far in the first couple weeks of this season, Brian. There are some changes that have to be made. Not necessarily you fire them, get them out of town, the emotional reactions. It's just not going to happen. At least not now. And there are some things that this defense has to do before they prepare for Purdue.

1:30.0

When they play them in, what, four days?

1:33.0

There are some things that have to be changed, Brian.

1:35.9

Well, I mean, because look, we talked about offense, Trev, and we made the point that

1:40.5

offense, it's get better.

1:44.7

Make some adjustments, make some tweaks, get better.

1:46.9

And they did some.

1:47.5

They got better in week two, or game two.

1:49.8

They did.

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