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Notre Dame Must Thrive In Key Offensive Matchups

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

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Bryan and Trevor break down the key matchups that Notre Dame must perform well in against the Ohio State defense if the Irish are going to win the game.

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0:00.0

All right, Coach, last section.

0:21.1

We're going to be talking about the matchups that matter.

0:24.1

We're going to talk about the areas that Notre Dame's offense has to win.

0:27.3

And the common theme of today is winning can look a little different.

0:31.1

It's not just going through.

0:32.2

Now, I would not be upset if they dominated in all of these areas.

0:35.5

But winning can look a little bit different.

0:37.2

Some of it is just hold your own, right? Hold your water. Make sure that you do your job.

0:41.6

Some of it is, hey, you have to win this matchup. This has to be owned by you. And the first one that

0:47.6

we have down is the offensive tackles. Now, I know there's going to be a little bit of a question mark here, but the

0:54.2

principle still remains the same. We don't know who it's going to be, but regardless of who it is,

0:59.4

the Notre Dame offensive tackles have to win against Jack Sawyer and JT2 and the low out, Brian.

1:06.2

They have to at least hold their own. I mean, that's the key. And I don't know who the tackles are going to be.

1:11.9

I do know one of them. And that's Emil Wagner. And he's going to have to play a lot better this

1:16.0

week than he's played the last two weeks. I thought Emil played better in the second half against

1:19.8

Georgia. He struggled in the first half. And he struggled a lot against Penn State. I mean,

1:24.8

now, in his defense, because of the injury to his arm, they lined up Abdul

1:31.0

Carter against him every single snap that he was like.

1:33.6

Every snap.

1:34.8

You know what I mean?

1:35.4

And so somebody was earlier was like, you know, Tosh and Emil struggled against

1:39.1

Abdul Carter.

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