Getting into part three of the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to you by our friends over at Fandul.

It's a Friday free-for-all mailbag.

And Michael S is getting us kicked off with a super chat.

Appreciate the super chat, Michael.

Didn't Notre Dame lose their best opportunity for a national championship this year

because of powerful running and adequate

passing game.

Didn't Notre Dame lose their best opportunity for national championship this year because

of powerful running game?

No.

I think they had more than that.

Michael, I love you, man, but good Lord, you can turn almost anything into a negative.

Their quarterback ranked in the top five in yards per attempt and passer rating this year.

Dude, I don't know what you want for me at this point in time.

He was a second team freshman All-American, the guy that was in front of him,

team was ranked number one going into the Big Ten championship

their running game is not powerful

it's explosive it's not powerful

they lost their best opportunity because they couldn't stop

Texas A&M they couldn't tackle

and because their powerful

running game was not there the only reason they were even in the first game of the year was because their powerful running game was not there.

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