Rapid Fire: CJ Carr Success Mentality, Notre Dame's Fake Punt, Sam Pittman Fired, Mike Elko
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🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We're here for our number two. |
| 0:16.0 | Glad to have you with us. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Sean Stiers along with Vince Diderio. |
| 0:23.5 | The 6 o'clock hour, Vince means one thing and one thing, only it's rapid fire time. Let's go, babe. It's my first rapid fire in quite some |
| 0:28.9 | time. It is. I feel like I'm ready. I feel like I'm excited. All right. So the Irish led 42 to 13 |
| 0:37.1 | at halftime Saturday. They had the ball to start the second half. They were about to go three and out, but they used the fake punt that saw Jordan Faison throw to Malachi Fields for a 40-yard completion. Marcus Freeman talked about that decision today. In terms of the fake punt, I didn't want to relax. |
| 0:56.0 | Like we had to come out of locker room with an aggression, no different than the first half. |
| 1:02.0 | There's no lead that's comfortable. |
| 1:04.0 | There's no lead that's comfortable. |
| 1:05.0 | And so when we went three and out, I think on that first drive, |
| 1:10.0 | I felt like it was the right time to send a message to our team. This was about our team that, hey, this is something we've worked on, let's go execute it. And that also is something on film for the next opponents, right? I'm not even thinking about this opponent, but I'm thinking about I want to make sure the next couple opponents see that. And it could really make them think deeply about how they want to attack our punt unit. |
| 1:33.3 | So that's what went into that decision making. We didn't get any points off of it, but it was a mindset that we have to be aggressive. |
| 1:42.3 | There is no take your foot off the accelerator. This is |
| 1:45.9 | what we're doing and they executed it well. All right. So there's Marcus Freeman on that fake |
| 1:50.9 | punt Saturday. He was asked the question in the context of did it come up with Sam Pittman? Did |
| 1:56.3 | Pittman say anything afterwards since the score? Again, it was 42 to 13 at the time. |
| 2:03.0 | Freeman did say that Pittman didn't say anything about it. |
| 2:06.0 | What did you think of the whole thing, Vince, the decision to go with that fake punt there |
| 2:11.7 | early in the second half up by so much? |
| 2:14.2 | It was surprising. |
| 2:15.5 | I'm not going to lie. |
| 2:16.1 | I was a little bit taken aback with the fact |
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