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Notre Dame Has Very Important Questions It Must Answer For 2026

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Irish Breakdown

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

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

If Notre Dame is going to improve in 2026, and especially if the Irish are going to compete for a title in 2026, they must answer some very important questions for the team and coaching staff.

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0:00.0

Brian in part two of

0:04.7

Brian in part two of today's show here on the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to by our friends over at Fandul.

0:26.0

We're going to be talking about some of the questions that this team has entering the 2026 season.

0:30.1

Like you talked about, you know, I wrote an article earlier today about, it came out earlier today,

0:36.7

just about what are some of the lessons that

0:38.4

were learned from 2025?

0:39.9

And as we kind of transition and we're kind of starting to close the chapter from a program

0:44.7

view on the 2025 season, there are just some questions that we have that kind of surround

0:51.2

this program.

0:51.9

And we're going to break this down between big picture team view. And we're also going to talk about offense today. And then on Thursday, we're going to talk about defense and special teams. So don't worry, we will be talking about defense and special teams. We're just saving that for Thursday, considering Wednesday's by so hold. Yeah, because we wanted to have like a real good conversation on it, right? Like on all three of the topics. But I felt that if we did all of them, we would have to shorten them because otherwise it's going to be like a fire show. Because there's some good conversation to have here. So that's why we decided like, look, let's do team and offense today. And then we'll do a mail mailbag and then Thursday we'll do defense and special

1:28.4

teams because I do think we need to spend some time on special teams that'll be one of our few

1:32.2

special team segment like it's going to be a whole segment on special teams and I thought it's

1:37.4

worked it because I do think there's some legitimate answers that we need to to discuss when it comes

1:41.6

to the nerd name special teams in a lot of different ways.

1:45.2

And so we'll have those conversations sandwiched right around the Bicea hold.

1:50.4

So, Salty, if you can take a break from distracting the chat from the things we're actually

1:55.2

talking about in the show, Love You, Salty.

1:57.8

We are going to do a Bicea Hold tomorrow.

1:59.9

If you haven't put that on the board yet,

2:01.3

it would be a good time to put that on the board. He may have already done it, but just in case,

2:06.1

I wanted to get that out there. So let's rock and roll and talk about this trip, because I think

2:13.2

when I look at this team, and I think about next year's team,

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