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Irish Breakdown

Rapid Fire: Marcus Freeman's Future, NFL Coaching Openings, Riley Leonard, John Harbaugh

Irish Breakdown

Irish Breakdown

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

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Irish Breakdown discusses several Notre Dame football and NFL topics

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0:00.0

Oh, yeah, hour two, but otherwise there's Weekday Sportsbeat with Irish Breakdown.com.

0:24.0

I'm Sean Stiers.

0:25.1

Jesse Stiers is hiding behind his video wall right now.

0:29.5

Oh, there he is.

0:30.8

It is rapid fire time.

0:32.2

Sir, are you ready for it?

0:35.2

Yeah, there's a lot, lots of juicy topics. We might as well get to it.

0:40.8

I think so as well. I think there's, there's a lot of meat on this bone in rapid fire today.

0:46.0

Fill in the blank. It's blank that Diana Rusini had a weekend report for the athletic that

0:51.4

in addition to the New York Giants, and we all heard about,

0:54.7

the Tennessee Titans, Cleveland Browns, and even the Pittsburgh Steelers all had internal

1:00.3

discussions about Marcus Freeman and that Freeman also, quote, seriously considered, end quote,

1:08.0

making the jump to the NFL before the news of his contract broke last week.

1:13.0

Yeah, to me it's a ticking time bomb, this whole situation. I think Marcus Freeman, if you asked me this a year ago, I would have told you, you know, I don't think Marcus Freeman is going to leave for the NFL for a good, at least six, seven years, I think is what I comfortably

1:30.4

would have said. And now I have no idea. I feel like it could be next year, it could be the year

1:35.2

after. And, you know, I don't know. I don't know how many more of these, these runs that we have

1:43.1

left with Marcus Freeman. and I think that's the

1:46.0

disheartening part is you know like I can't think of Notre Dame football without Marcus Freeman he's

1:52.5

been my favorite coach of my lifetime I don't think anyone's recruited better than him I think the

1:58.3

success obviously on the field speaks volumes. And so,

2:02.8

you know, it's only a matter of time when you coach football at Notre Dame and you're successful

2:06.9

and you recruit super well and you're super young and you're able to relate and connect to players.

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