All right, guys.

All right, guys.

And what is, I think, a little bit odd with the season that Notre Dame had overall.

It's time to dive into the defense, which was the struggling side of the ball, I would say, more often than not tonight.

And I'm putting that lightly because I know we're kind of about to talk about everything that went down tonight.

So I'm going to leave it open to the floor.

Brian, if you want to take it, go ahead.

Overall thoughts on the defense, man.

I think kind of big pictures is if this is Al Golden's last game at Notre Dame,

it's a really heartbreaking and disappointing way for his tenure to end.

And if the report's coming out after the game and these are things that,

you know, Treve, I told you earlier today that, you know,

I heard from a couple people that I'm hearing that this is likely.

It's disappointing because he's done so many great things the last two

years. And I almost feel like I need to preface what we're about to say with that because I'm not

happy about what I saw tonight. But it doesn't take away from the tremendous things that Al

Golden has done to get them on this stage.

So I want to make sure that, that, that, you know, look, and we're not going to be childish and we're not going to, we're not going to, no, we're not going to do that, bro.

But tonight, like, I know people say, like, well, he was too focused on the Bengals and blah.

I don't know that. I don't know that you don't know that I can I know what I can I know what I can see right and what I can see was

tonight Sean was the first time I felt like Al Golden coached like he didn't have confidence in his

kids tonight he coached like he knew he didn't have better players than Ohio State and he coached

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