Notre Dame Pass Offense Needs To Make A Major Leap Forward

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The numbers make it clear, if Notre Dame’s offense is going to play championship football the pass game will need to take a big jump forward.

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0:00.0	All right, Brian, and part two of today's show.
0:07.0	We are diving into the Notre Dame pass game,
0:24.9	which has been a hot topic of conversation so far this off season, between the transfer
0:30.3	portal players coming in, whichever quarterback is expected to step up, whether it's
0:35.6	CJ Carr or Kenny Minchie, the downfield vertical
0:38.5	passing game is expected to take a jump, but they kind of need to this season if they want
0:42.6	to make it back to the championship. Yeah, I mean, you look at Notre Dame building into a title
0:48.0	contender or a team that can win a championship, Trevor, and there's all types of aspects that go
0:52.9	into it. You know, you've got to play defense at a certain level, a certain minimum floor level you have to play. And if you're going to be at that floor, then you've got to be better on the side of the ball. Same thing on offense. You've got to play at a certain level. And then within each of those things, you've got to be able to defend the run into a certain level. You have to defend the pass at a certain level. You have to be able to run the football at a certain level. You have to pass
1:13.4	the football to a certain level. You've got to play special teams at a certain level. And there are
1:17.2	certain things that go into this. And with Notre Dame, I think we could say confidently that there's
1:23.6	been years where the Notre Dame defense has been championship caliber. There have been years where the Notre Dame run defense has been championship caliber,
1:30.7	years where the past defense has been championship caliber,
1:32.7	and then as a whole, the championship caliber.
1:34.8	There have been years where Notre Dame has been able to run the football at a championship level.
1:39.2	And you're going to get, and I'm already seeing it now, you're going to get those lazy takes,
1:43.1	like just run the ball.
1:44.8	Okay, well, how'd that work out for the 2017 team?
1:49.4	When they couldn't throw the football effectively to take the pressure off, how'd that season end?
1:54.5	How did it go in the fourth quarter against Georgia when they needed to throw the football to have a chance to win the game?
2:00.7	How did that look?
2:02.3	So this notion, let's run the ball.
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