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Rapid Fire: Marcus Freeman Or CJ Carr, Tommy Rees Interviews With Browns, Braden Atkinson, Lane Kiffin

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Irish Breakdown

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

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Irish Breakdown discusses several Notre Dame football and other topics

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0:00.0

It is our number two of the show. The 6 o'clock hour number two of the show. The 6 o'clock hour is here.

0:21.8

And Vince, are you ready for rapid fire?

0:24.4

Little Wednesday version, ready to rock and roll.

0:27.8

Here we go.

0:29.3

With all this talk about Marcus Freeman in the NFL this off season, which would you rather have?

0:36.7

Freeman, as the head coach for the next five years,

0:40.0

or C.J. Carr at quarterback for the next two years?

0:44.6

This one, I had to really kind of think about, to be honest with you,

0:49.0

because C.J. Carr is a generational quarterback, in my opinion, at least at Notre Dame. And I think he's going to, not only has he already proved it, but I think he's going to continue to prove it and get better and better. And wouldn't you love to have that for the next two years? You know what I mean? Like, that would be awesome. And I'm not sure there's another C.J. Carr on the roster. I'm just not sure. And so that was a very tempting one to take.

1:13.2

But I'm going to go with the head coach because I'd rather have five years of stability and his recruiting and everything that Marcus Freeman brings to the table.

1:23.7

I think I'd rather have that, and I hate to say it, over another year of C.J. Carr.

1:30.2

I mean, if I said four years, would it change it at all?

1:37.8

Because I'm in the same boat, because I look at it this way.

1:41.5

Jeremiah Love and Leonard Moore both received unanimous All-American

1:48.5

status a few weeks ago. It's just the second time since 1990 that Notre Dame has had two

1:55.7

unanimous All-Americans in the same season. You know, the only other time in the last 35 years?

2:02.5

Two years ago, 2023, when Joe Alt and Xavier Watts did it.

2:08.0

So you go 1990, Rocket Ismail, Chris Zorich, Michael Stonebreaker,

2:14.9

1990, three unanimous All-Americans.

2:18.6

The next time Notre Dame even had two unanimous

2:20.3

All-Americans was 2023 when

2:23.1

Alt and Watts did it. And then this year

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